Wormholes

People not being riskaverse ****heads and playing the game for fun and thrills would be the simple solution, but well...
The escalationsystem doesn´t help at all where the best status of your system is "locked down" with all possile doors closed and not even a door back home needed. And crit is pretty much the same as closed unless you are able to pull a suitcase off.

But I really think the big problem is in shipbalancing: dreads with even just one or two lokis can blab anything and armor T3s are just so much better than anything else and with the ewarboni esp on scram and webrange makes them even stonger against most doctrines. Add to that the static nature of wormholefights and maybe triagecarrers and you get what we have now. Armor being better than shields in larger scales outside of a pulsar, shieldbuffer being a joke against dreads and the drawback of slowness not mattering with lots of bonused ewar and static battlegrounds also isn´t helpful.
If dreads had a harder time hitting smaller stuff, maybe even be it via special fittingmods, and battleships with their high mass were able to beat T3s with lower numbers (I´m thinking about things like the NM, Vindi or Bhaal, who on paper have good boni to combat cruisers). You can fit 30+ cruisers through most holes, but not 30+ BS. Ofc this would create problems with BS <> all other ships in k-space where mass doesn´t matter. But if you had some doctrines, maybe other classes of BS, who execll at fighting the ani-cruiser BS-fleets there wouldn´t be a win-it -all fleetcomp but counters for everything. Unless you just bring 2 fleets to fight against one in your homesystem, but there is no way to prevent that. Also eve has more than 3 types of ships so it would not be that easy.

WH generation modules the dream~

Imho this is an important issue. I think many people would engage more readily if they didn't end up in k-space, but in their own POS.

As a compromise, people who choose to set their medical clone to their POS could end up in a sort of stasis (for say half an hour or so) after being podded to balance home advantage ...

A clone swapping POS mod would be pretty awesome too btw :>



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This is only partially true. I would agree that escalations may offer too big of an income overall. This could be easily dealt with by simply removing the ability to escalate them multiple days in a row. However, getting rid of escalations completely would be stupid as potential cap kills actually incentivizes a lot of content.

As for rolling your hole safe, low class inhabitants do it too. Many groups actually collapse the holes in their statics as well, if they're going to run sites there. So much for content^^

Yipp :>

In some cases I'd rather log out and/or wait half an hour than get myself back into system. Wouldn't be surprised if other people felt the same.

I'm also for dual statics, every wormhole should have them to be honest.

Remove capital escalations and adjust regular site ISK so it's at least profitable and worth running in the shiny ships that it would require.

Lower class space income should also be boosted, tried a few C2 sites and 12m/site is pretty awful considering the difficulty.

Make data and relic cans (not talocans) worth something again.

A good first step for improving pve, would be to un-do most of fozzie's changes, such as;
Mass spawn range (chain collapsing is more time consuming)
Shattered WH's (lets be honest, they contribute nothing, besides being a large c5/c6 anom sink)
Frigate WH's (most people think like this: we gonna bear today? nope frig wh. oh cya tomorow then)
It would make bearing even safer, so bringing back npc api statistics would balance it all out.

But that is a carrybear's point of view, and would only increase the number of bears/targets/people who hunt those, and not increase actual pvp.

Again, your powers of selective reading never cease to surprise me.

That's comedy considering they are the first to gang up and evict people with overwhelming numbers. What it needs is the blue donut to disappear. If you clowns would shoot each other, you'd have plenty of PvP opportunities.

Don't know what you're complaining about. You fly together with HKC (and QEX) all the time and then complain there's nothing to shoot and PvP is stagnant. It's pretty straight forward, the more people you add on your buddies list, the less people there are on your enemies list. How about you shoot those buddies instead of holding each others hands and singing Kumbaya around the campfire every other day?

EDIT: You could have easily taken on TDSIN on your own. Instead you call in the whole gang. And then you come in here complaining PVP is stagnant. I'm not sure what kind of answer you were expecting to be honest. It's pretty hard to compete when you rock up with fleets like that, composed out of a bunch of different entities that you claim "aren't blue". Yea OK, whatever dude. Don't complain about the problem you're actively part of.