Wormholes

Don't underestimate the warp-acceleration and intercepter changes. Intercepter gangs/roams are gonna be a thing.

Both SoE ships i can see becoming very common in alot of fleets/scouting parties for the people who can't use cloaky t3s. As said before, the frig will become the mainstay frig scanner imo.

What i do like since we do alot of null roams nowdays is that interceptors will be immune to bubbles. This means they're going to be essential in any null roaming fleet to catch all those nullbear systems that they've put like 50 bubbles on the gate to keep themselves "safe"

True enough, most of our guys scout in t3s anyway :P

The inty/warp changes I think are by far the best. No more will a miner beable to hide in an icebelt surrounded by bubbled gates. Will make catching null bears in their fortress systems so much easier to catch. Carrier kills will no longer be limited to afew a day, will be a massacre the first week the expansion gets released. Will also heavily help solo pvp in null sec, will reduce the likely hood you will get blobbed on gates as you make your escape.

That frig looks sweet.
It's not going to replace my main scanner's ship due to lower strength and less mids but I can see myself using it as a cloaky combat ship.
It's certainly replacing every covops tackler on the planet.

at the polarized dude and siggy dude .... FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!! now KISS KISS KISS!!!


Anyway I have "mixed" feelings about Rubicon.

Besides the obvious Rubicon is going to be another Quality of Life Patch but it could also have serious IMPACTS... HODOR!
Earlier this week i saw a veeery interesting blog post about "Selling the Future" and although I was agreeing with most he said, I think i m a little bit to bitter vet and I think to many people have forgotten what bitter vet means.

It's this ... "I was their when shreik died"-thing... even fighting for SirMolles side i enjoyed his loss....
Anyway what i m trying to relay "**** happens" patches come patches go.... What I dont like is this "adhoc" short term community feedbacking. CCP throws meat on the table and the rest is covered in a fog of war. Also that meat isnt meat its fake soy stuff....

Yes all these "updates" will have an impact on us ... fukk of course we are wormholes, we kinda perfected breaking game mechanics.
- The Pioneers setting up Posses
- Two Step and his Tracking Disruptor
- The Eve Unis Triplestatic
- We made the Venture imbalanced
- We can make 80mil in 2 Minutes
- We are victim to theft because Trust became a game mechanic
- We can collapse Wormholes with Bombers......

So yes we will use the stuff proposed in the Patch. But is it really the patch: We need? Those are little steps towards a great goal we are only a part of when they want us to know .. till then fukk ya couch....


Dont get me wrong i like the shiny stuff coming with Rubicon, but I would also enjoy a sufisticated discussion with CCP about THE INTENDED Future of Wormholes. Esspecially since there are two NOTIONS out that are currently conflicting.

Option A. Make "homes" less of an ISK Generators by draining Sidespawning. This is more harmful to small corps then big corps. A big corp can decide to do an Expo while the small corp has just above a little more than an expo crew. So this would convert small corps into nomads putting unesseray strain on their PVP ABILITIES! and after a couple of welps you cripple the small corps so hard that they loose essential players. Which is great for a flurrishing PvP Enviroment where every corp has a ship replacement program running.

Option B: Woud be CCP re-working Wormholes for the Future. This is rather more "complicated" and I guess it will take a couple of ADDONS but we could work on that now. One very dominant feature that has been proposed are the c4 dualstatics.

The Concept (afaik)
In the past months more and more complaints have come to the forums about C2s being all occupied, it started with the c2 with a c4/high and now is trending to c2 with c3/high. For Wormhole newcomers this is a very prosperous region. They can solo and group activity and always have a way out.
The easy access and the oppertunity for solid isk already put these holes on the short list. But many great corps moved on from that Space into the highclass although sometimes this is a big leap of faith esspecially in todays enviroment of Capital Warfare, Log-in Traps, Forum HODOR! and sandcastle kings. So why would a c4 dual static be good and what should it do?

Well since c4 are technicly highclass wormholes a direct "K-Space" shouldn't be an option, it would be rather the intersection between Highclass and Lowclass. So you have one static leading to "Highclass" (C4-C6) and one leading to lowclass (c1-c3). It gets a little bit more advanced for small corps and they can start doing harder group activities in the c5-c6 region, with out being invaded by capitals. (For many corps this is why they already chose c4 space, the solitude of a cap free enviroment calms the mind) It would also lead ca. 500 new daily connections within highclass wormholes. With 1100 systems thats alot more "traffic".



But thats just one of many ideas. Another would be "generating" random sleeper sides. Of course you would have "key figures" but there is a reason c5 dwellers hate the quarintine because of it's unpredictable trigger. Normal convention would suggest we get a couple of new "sites" and chew on our thumb for a few months. But just new Waves of fixed Sleepers don't help unless you can't read... BTW THANKS MESSY for the integrated farming info in Siggy................

The keyword in sleeper pve is RANDOM! I m not suggesting decrease or increase payouts, noooo i m more for a "algorythmic" approach, where Damage and Fleet get taken into account and sleepers respond equally. Not that they should alpha stuff of the field, no damage should be reasonable within the perimeters of the class of wormhole. BUT maybe sometime not 6 / 8 escalation BS appear .. rather 7.. or 9 ... or 3 or 11 ... in the end totaling still 28.



It is true that wormholes is lacking a serious "content" for pve and PVP....esspecially for PvP. There is no real incentive for large scale warfare. No Moongoo or comfy ratterrenting programms, although Blood Union might be up to something. There are some "special" systems but most of them are heavily defended. And this is where another proposal on the forum is spooking around ... I WOULD HATE TO SEE BLACK HOLES FIXED... i rather have more "special holes" WR, PULSAR etc... making PvP more versitile between doctrines, helping with another good home advantage... and maybe some new "effects".

Special effects shouldn't be rare. I look at them like I look at different maps of a shooter... different maps .. different features... noone can play de_dust2 forever...

All I can say after this ... which i wrote in bed .. with pants but no-shirt or socks...
Fukk addons and speculations ...play the game ... enjoy the ride... drop sisters and break shid.

I didn't know that any other wormhole alliances does null sec on a regular basis, i doubt this will encourage people from wormholes to go to null it will only be used by existing alliances that active pvp there.

You can easily avoid being hot dropped right now aslong as you have good intel and know who you are fighting, its only happened to us like once or twice and if so not many of us died :P

SOE ships will be intresting and the mobile refitting thing will be aswell.

Being able to head off slower warp drives will be cool. BC heads for 192, ceptor is waiting.

Ahem.

Face Palms Himself

Sorry dudes! <3