Wormholes

Wormhole Round Table 2 (Post Keynote)

We get too many wormholes, there's much more wormholes than they was and when you start getting a chain going you can end up with loads.?
The devs asked to see if others are having problems with too many and majority said yes. They said they wasn’t a limit on wormholes per system which some thought they was. They said they would have a look to see if they can put a limit in to make things more manageable.

Could you improve scanning, rigs don't do a huge amount, how about reducing the limit for getting the sig group information down from 60% to speed things up?
The dev's was quite happy to do it and would look to reduce the level, you would still need to get it to a high % to get type and 100% to get it warp to it. Also tools like alliance bookmarks would make it easier.

Have you ever thought of making a in game wormhole mapper system?
We could do it but not anytime soon, in any case third party system would do a much better job anyway. We want to be moving away from the use of in game browser. Use of the CREST API would make it so you could use a external browser just as well or even better.

Could you get it so our scan results are saved when we jump out of a system and jump back so we don’t have to rescan?
We could look at getting sigs been persistent if you scanned them at 100%, they would go after time like, say an hour.

Could we have a way to warp back to a hole, if we forgot to save it. It's more help to a new player?
We could look at that it would solve the problem of lost players been able to warp back to the last spot they warped from. However it could be a possible problem as a tactic.

Could we get a drugs for scanning?
There's potential for that, Booster Drugs are been looked at in terms of the drawback and illegality different types of boosters could be added.

Wormhole visuals now make it hard to see what class of wormhole it is since the changes in Oceanus. There are 3 colours for c1/2 c3/4 c5/6.?
We could look at making them clearer but that would be something for the future.

What is the plans for capital escalations in wormhole?
We have been thinking about them, it would be best to go to the PVE presentation.

Could you make it so you can give scanners a fleet role so when you have people scanning we can see that sigs have been scanned. Also could you add sig info to bookmarks ie XXX-123?
That sounds a good idea, however it might be hard to do so it depends on how easy it would be to do. Adding the Sig ID to bookmarks would be a good idea and should be straight forward to do.

Would it be possible to have bookmarks happen automatically when you jump though a wormhole?
The problem is everyone uses a different system for bookmarking and it could be hard to do.

Could we swap implants in w-space?
Implants are been looked at by another team.

Could you have the new structures in Wormholes?

Yes, they will be some restrictions.


Could we have sovereignty in wormhole space but just to get the name?
A lot of people like to plant flags in wormhole space. New structures like the propaganda towers would let you do that instead of TCU's and containers at the sun. We also know a lot of you give your wormholes names.

Could we get more help with industry in wormhole space like building caps?
The new structures will help as you could fit them to get better bonuses to a specific area like building caps.

Could we have a module to help destabilise wormholes rather than having than capitals to do it?
Well the way you do it now has risk and we want to keep that risk.
Well maybe a module that you need to have on 2 ships on each side of the hole that keeps adding mass to the hole?
Hmm we could do something like that in

Thank you for bringing this on :)

Sounds like many dont know how to make proper use of current mechanics and tools.

Imho there shouldn't be a hard limit for #of holes. CCP should def. dial down the number of frig holes and connections to those shattered holes, but other than that I see no problem.

They was talking about in system cyno's so been able to cyno from one spot to another in the same system. Not been able to cyno from one hole to another.

Hehe, the devs thought it was a nice tactic to use. You could have a fleet in a deep safe and use a suicide cyno to drop the fleet on to a fight, rather than warping. Which for big ships would be a quite a difference,

Even better, when said capital looks at sleepers they just roll over and die.

Didn't we get rid of deep safes?
Other than that, there are far too many questions about easier scanning and bookmarking. Wtf?

Anyway, thx for the info!

It's mostly because we all use out of game mappers to track this stuff and have working bookmark setups to helps us go back and forth.

Before siggy, tripwire, pirates, it was much harder with chains. Heck ran into a c2 whose 7 sigs were all wormholes.

I didn't see it as a big issue, just more options for possible pew.

Ccp can increase the mass of c1's to allow hulks and the Nestor in, but continue to deny battleships. That would help with c1 rolling a bit and make those c2, c3's, c5's and c6 wormholes with c1 statics a bit less of a pain in the @ss.

^ what he ranted

A wormhole roundtable and all people could ask about was lame crap like bookmarks and huming sites?

Did no one even pipe up about the structures after the keynote? Did no one ask about the corpse silo? I mean come on, people, priorities!

Thanks for doing this thread.

Wow some very interesting answers to those questions, i don't even know where to begin my raging.