Wormholes

I thought that was called "creating content"?

from The Mittani himself:

"Ratters are the plankton of the PvP foodchain; they provide targets for gankers, and gankers provide targets for small gangs, etc etc up the scale."

i had a bunch written but the forum site ate my homework. the world will never know the genius ideas i came up with!

Broadly speaking I think that changes to w-space should make things more interesting for both PvE and PvP focused organizations. Note that "more interesting" does not always mean "easier." Anyways, that's not a little thing.

Little things already mentioned:

Sig tags and DT: This seems like a small tweak that makes ruskies/aussies/DT-adjacent TZs a little less miserable. At worst it returns things to how they were before the sig-list became systematic, and while having it be systematic is a minor convenience, I at least could certainly live without.

K162 spawns and sig spawning: My opinion on this has not changed. Delaying it isn't good for anyone except chain-rollers, not even all PvPers. Rather, spawning the sig it before it's scanned, and increasing connectivity, seems like a much more interesting change that might generate more actual fights, and make it more difficult to keep a system safe/know when you are safe.

C4 connectivity: Yes good double statics going up and down. Much more interesting, much easier to live in (since if it always has a down-static, you're never more than two jumps from SOME K-space).

Black holes: Something needs to change. I've had some fun fights in lower-class black holes, but they are really annoying. For reference, WH effects that I like are things like Magnetars and Cat Vars, that change how you have to approach combat situations entirely rather than just making it more difficult for everyone involved. (Magnetars mean you have to expect up to double DPS. Cat vars mean no triage and no local tank in general). Maybe make them inverse cat vars, so no logi 4 u? With marauders for self-tanked PvE that seems viable now, maybe even too viable.

Other little things:

More unknowns: Not necessarily turning all sleeper sites into Quarantine Areas, but at least having spawn trees, so you can get different things at any given wave, e.g., "do we get the neuting wave or the dps wave?" Makes things a little more interesting without being completely unpredictable.

More unknowns: Sleepers where you don't expect them. "decoy" WH sigs that are in fact sleeper traps. Better than sleepers spawning on WHs at random because it doesn't make logistics miserable hell.

More unknowns: Little unexpected behaviors. Random and/or rare pop-ups in some sites. Mysterious ships that appear and then vanish before you can kill them, as some missions have. NPC local broadcasts surrounding some events, like a new hole spawning or a new combat site. Or better yet, things that respond to player kills.

Give us some ******* mysteries, we came here for the unknown.

It doesn't remove the niceness of a clear tags hotkey but till they do, drop a can and use that to cycle through tags.

Why?

Why not? Give something to get something. Most upsides in eve have downsides to balance them. Mayhaps you are too accustomed to having it both ways.

Mostly, when I warp to a wh anom (C5) - I'm all in. Webbed, scrammed, neuted. I have to survive the whole thing and hold the field to loot and salvage. Comparatively the null bear warps in and out as he chooses, has local and gets bounties as he goes.

I've spent my whole eve life hearing how greater risks reap greater rewards and that's the benefit of living in null. Let's be honest - null is pretty much easy mode. Power blocks, blues, local, constellation wide intel channels. It would be nice to see a little risk for your isk.

Anytime I bring up anom rats scramming a ratter null folks are like.... OMG.... that's just dumb, and then a kitchen sink full of reasons that should never happen. You guys crack me up.

This thread is for little things to make wh life better. Null systems w/ the wh upgrade should get sleepers in system scramming them. THAT would make wh life better.

Putting them closer together would be a great start. You shouldn't have to prepare a site perch to warp around and get to all the cans quickly, especially when there often isn't anything useful in them anyway.


Show us on the doll where the evil wormhole pilot touched your ratting fleet.

Instead of crying, you should be thanking that bored wormhole pilot for creating content in Nullsec, improving activity in Nullsec, and boosting the economy (most likely the T2 market, ie, Nullsec).

I'll take your dismissal as a sign of defeat. You have no valid argument. Perhaps you could call me a name or link some spreadsheet showing where eve subscriptions would plummet if null rats scrammed. I've seen all the 'arguments'

It would hurt your tax income, defeat most botting programs and allow WH folks to drop in and do a happy dance all over your bottom line (cuz you can't defend you systems????)

I get it. Believe me - I get it.


I still want what I want. This isn't a debate. I've been dismissed by better.

Canada has an airforce. See my point???

I love Canada btw !!!



I'll recap and let this go.

I want sleepers to get into systems w/ a wh upgrade. Some null sec residents want to argue about it.

I've been really please with most the stuff here.

I'll give it a couple days then start to get it all in 1 post and try to sort out what are attually little things, and is a few things here that while good arent small stuff (but potentially can still be looked at).

Get a few others to look it over then. post the idea's to ccp.