Wormholes

Sleeper Heavy Energy Neutralizer, 70km baserange. Probaly not good for the game, but I still want one.

Yeah a heat damage bonus would be good. I especially want to see sleeper large remote reps because there is a gap in the market for them. Also, active hardeners would be well balanced because you can switch them off with neuts.

I would like to see factions/officer sleepers that randomly turn up in sites or at wormholes and there could be multiple variations to make them unpredictable and challenging.

You mean sleeper dreadnaught right? Yes, I definitely read that as sleeper dreadnaught.


I do think that that reduced heat damage for sleeper faction mods coupled with the racial t3 cruiser skill and the heat damage reducing subsystem (and some rebalanced magic)

Give them t2 with stronger overheat buff possibly lower heat damage that way they have their own true niche and would fit more along the lines of asb burst tank. This way your getting a whole line of mods that do something different instead of slightly different armor mod #4. It also might make those horrible overheat subs worth while.

Don't forget the sleeper AoE doomsday.

Wormhole Incentives can come in two ways, one is by loot drops, the other is by creation. Now while it has been suggested to have sleeper equipment drops, I do believe that basing equipment has to come from an industrial standpoint. As much as we may hate it, there are a lot of industrialists in wormhole space. They should be the main backbone of any wormhole based production. So if wormhole space is to get "loot", it should be based on constructing it. While I just said this, I do believe that both loot drops and equipment construction should come in simultaneously. Ones an incentive to get people trekking into wormhole space for loot, incentivizing day tripping, nomading, and general exploration with the hopes of finding that amazingly rare item. the other is the incentive to live in wspace and create a business and foundation in it by constructing sleeper equipment for the player base.

The main core of virtually all our requirement is t2 based. If there is to be a new commodity, it should be something that can be built from beginning to end, in wormhole space, without theoretically importing anything, and comparable to t2 equipment (comparable, not identical). Meaning that to create a industrial business, everything would have to be built solely out of salvage, gas, and minerals. I advocated something like this before.

You build a t1 module out of a basic blueprint (minerals). You modify it by adding sleeper salvage and components (salvage and gas, the cheap stuff not nanoribbons), and turn it into a sleeper module (I originally called this an overclocked module). The module would have two stances of performance. Unheated state, would act as well as its t1 counterpart it was built from (yes it would be a t1 gun). Heated state, would outperform a t2 module when it is overheated (to what degree can be determined, it could be very small, it could be very large).

What you create is a method of burst defense or burst offense that is temporary as it is directly linked to that module being heated. You have temporary significant boost, but will underperform in a sustained engagement, and run the risk of melting your equipment if you do not monitor your own thermal dynamics.

As the base module itself is t1, skills needed to equip it would be minimal (which is the opposite of most t3 ships). Also as it is still essentially t1, it would and could only use t1 ammo or faction ammo.

You differentiate the modules not by how good it is vs another, but how it functions in its core. You influence industry by creating a commodity that comes from active player interaction instead of coalition moon resources.

You create something anybody and everybody would consider using. You also create a manufacturing option in w-space. With that said, if something like that were to happen, there would have to be something along the lines of the thukker factory in w-space in order for people to actually build it in wspace, rather than export it to kspace or lowsec to produce it.

I do love the idea of actual loot, and I would not want to take away from that, but I would definetely want something to be implemented in order to jump start industry inside wormhole space itself.

This is probably a huge undertaking, but for the long term health of wormhole space, something like this may need to be considered.

I actually like the sound of T2 + stronger and longer overheat even better than faction + longer overheat. Makes them more distinct and fun.

Wormholers, Super pilots, Incursion peeps.

Turning the currently worthless non blue/nano sleeper salvage into components needed into making faction sleeper mods sounds awsome. Also the super rare drops sound good too +1

Is it? With all the done and announced changes and the townhall soon.