Wormholes

So it looks like 2014 will close with the devs NOT showing us any evidence supporting their sticking to this mechanic,.nor answering to all the people telling them their choice was bad.

At least among those X-mas presents celebrating this year's events it would have been smart to have an "invisible Hyperion threadnought", maybe not as much as an actual answer but at least it would have been... funny? XD

has it been stated what the trend was before? Due to a relative increase in "space junk" in wormhole space, could some of these poses also be offline? I know a lot of people just pack up shop and leave the sticks. Number of poses in space is a very strange way to base activity. Also, they buffed wormhole income with blue loot and t3 destroyers. What this fails to address is that CCP hurt wormholes before trying to sweeten the pot to bring people back/keep people there. The issue still remains how CCP disregarded many of the concerns and well reasoned arguments and pushed it through without the buffs that came later. Done all at once and wormholers might have been rejoicing in mass.

I have very much enjoyed the unpredictability this change has brought to wormhole collapsing. It has brought many good kills.

The next one is on NPC kills. But its having to be checked by a whole load of people.

Players logged off is something they can do how ever a break down in to 7 day cycles per class would more than likely have to be sorted through analytics.

The players logged along with pos numbers are a couple (very basic) ways of looking at growth in w space.

I'll have to ask about holes closed prematurely and see if I can get it broken down by class.

The other thing to remember is I don't always get what I ask for and even askingfor some of this stuff can take weeks (if not months).

I have more info the issue is I have to get it checked by a fair few people (couple in game design, CCP leeloo and then PR) for a couple reasons, firstly to make sure what i say is correct (CCP Fozzie was kind enough to not only check it but helped get me some more data to help clear some stuff up) and secondly to protect myself with the nda, once they ok it i'm totally fine to tell everyone. the down side is it takes a while and I didnt want to type everything up and them say no. hence its in small parts. Just waiting on PR to give the final go ahead for the next one.

Are those POS numbers online or all POSs? Cos there's a difference.

My feeling from C1 to C4 space, and considering I have about 2500 POS bookmarks in about 2,000 systems by now, is that there's a lot of churn (I am deleting a fair few defunct BM's), but active POS's are slightly increasing. This is good because not only is there the requisite 1 POS per system, there's now more and more systems with 2+ active sticks.

There's also, I would say, a slight increase in the number of dead sticks due to placement of blocking towers in more and more holes.

oddly, the Christmas Pinata Season (ie, holiday defuelling season) was delayed to early Feb this year for some reason. No Christmas loot fairy, but it occurred end of January.

When Phoebe dropped there was a definite exodus and maybe 30% of C2's suddenly became empty. Now there's no longer very many, maybe 2-5%, mostly the E545-N062's and some of the lowsec C2's. most U210 C3's are full again.

Part of this exodus was the table flip factor. Part was people switching their holes to adjust to the new meta with C4's. But the disruption is definitely over.

Wow, thought this thread was long dead, clearly not.

The mass spawn change was bad when brought in, is still bad, and had precisely the effect that the players predicted.

Who could guess?

Any good that happened in hyperion, was purely in spite of this change.

Any chance of it ever getting returned to a common sense mechanic?

over a year later and this is still relevant and still wanting to be removed by plenty of those still living in wh space.

I've almost forgotten it was a thing.

Still killed more than we lost and got fights when prior there wouldn't have been any.