Wormholes

I agree with you that a lot of times the massive amount of caps that swarm when you roll it can be pretty annoying. there are plenty of good fights to be had though. Note: last sunday Polarized. Vs No Holes barred . Fight took place on both sides of the wormhole (two separate fights) so I took the screenshot. Pure subcap brawl. So, its not always a cap blob. Its getting to the point where people just want fights, and you usually dont get them when you bring all the caps.

Fights like this can happen when both sides dont use caps, but organising fights like

"ok you dont bring caps we wont bring caps"
"how many guardians you bringing and how many ECM?"
"5 guards, 2 ECMgu's"
"ok, we will bring the same"
"meet at the sun in 20 minutes?"
"ok, only if we dont pod each other"

This is super gay

I find it awfully hard to find targets, any targets, in c4-6 space these days. After having scanned hundreds of systems the past few months, my experience is that less than half of systems are even inhabited, and of those inhabited, a tiny fraction has active players in it. Of this tiny fraction, again a small fraction is willing to pvp. The others are only farmers, and they usually don't farm when there are unwatched holes, so even ganks only happen if you enter their system through a new wormhole.

And when I say willing to pvp I don't mean staged fights, which are better than nothing I guess but not by much. I mean players who when they see hostile activity in their home they try to find out who it is and then, if they think they have any chance to kill anything, try to kill the visitors. Instead, 95% of people only pos up or log off.

Now this is how w-space always was in principle, but I feel that is wasn't always this bad. I wonder if all the buffs to first empire PvE (Incursions), then FW, low sec and T1 ships have drawn a lot of people out of w-space and into k-space...? Concentration of pvp players into ever fewer and larger w-space alliances may also play a part.

Those arrangements to produce a roughly even fight are imo the great things originating from the wormhole culture, we want to fight our c5-neighbours as much as we cherish ganking them in a one-sided confrontation.

If you'd create a W-Brodex that is usable to force 'such a fight', like a call to glory, then I guess that could easily insure real good fights instead of 'you're outgunned, you lose'.

Show me on the doll where I hurt you ♥

This. The fact that there are 500 C5 systems and 100 C6 systems gives a limited resource style of play for C6s whereas C5s are so damn empty.

Svo.

After reading this post I am guessing that attempting to solo farm wormholes is suicide for someone that is not pretty well connected? Trying to make money, not lose a ship every other day, know what I mean?

I thought i already replied to this post, maybe it got deleted or something who knows?

But it depends what you mean by solo?

If it means 1 character solo in a drake or something then yes its hard.

But if you have a Tengu + Noctis + Proper to yourself then you can easily roam around low class wormholes and safe the tengu if you're threatened and cloak noctis / prober

Depends on the goal. C4 sites are better than people give them credit in the isk per hour. Otherwise it depends on your goals. C4 are very isolated, which does make logistics more difficult. It also makes finding PVP generally more difficult.

Sad truth is that most EVE players are farmers, bears or just way too small to leave the POS.