RioCrokite
The Kairos Syndicate Transmission Lost
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Posted - 2012.08.16 11:40:00 -
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TwoStep,
Do you know what is the end game in w-space after you get iskies and do all the pve content out there?
Yes, it's pvp, it's hardest pvp in the game since to get one encounter you have to scan/watch/wait cloaked for HOURS sometimes for DAYS.
With no local obtaining info about whether system is active is hard enough: residents might be cloaked , be in hs or other hole. One of few valuable tools is directional scanner and people afking in poses so you can dscan pos and check whether someone is active or not. With dockable poses you decrease the time we could spot people in systems for about 90% thus reducing possible pvp encounters by half or more (since most wh corporations don't have many active members it's hard enough to spot them).
Example: now person preparing to do pi or gassing first sits @ pos for x-xx minutes doing remote PI, then refits to industrial and then flies to planet and back, then sits at pos maybe refitting to other ship or just being afk etc etc. With docking we firstly aren't able to see that anyone is active in that system (no ships on dscan, just poses), then undocking warping to planets and docking takes what 1-2min per planet max? So instead of seeing and preparing gank for that person for 1-2hours you decrease possible intel time to 5-10mins. How that could help increase very low number of pvp encounters in w-space i don't know.
2nd thing: bhaalgorn can neut 300cap/s while legion = 200cap/s so I don't really understand problem with caps in lower classes. Regarding deathstar poses: we have been given great tool recently - tier3 bc that can be used effectively in C1 pos bash with logi support - so exactly where battleships cannot enter.
Also having carriers in lower classes =/= knowledge how to use it (people almost never use caps in lower classes, if any they use it to farm sleepers lol) - which is great. It brought me many exciting cap kills and situations when I had to gtfo but could kill a carrier with a few more people in support in c4- w-space. People tend to overestimate capital role in lower class wormholes since they are not mobile and can be neuted by few above mentioned bhaals/legions.
3rd thing: Anchorable poses anywhere in space.
I cannot really see any major advantage of that while seeing many disadvantages and unintended consequences: Bookmarks overload since now every major corporation in w-space and 0.0 starts collecting thousands of bm of scanned poses to have better intel when they encounter that system (w-system or null) again.
Multiply number of corporations (no alliance bm yet) x number of systems with poses x average number of poses (x average requests for that bm in database), that's tens of millions of additional bookmarks that going to push pressure on database and eve performance now handled mostly in out-of-eve tracking applications. This also deepens information inbalance between larger and smaller corps and thus gimps smaller corps further in w-space.
One of the most beautiful thing about w-space is that many many small corps can live there independently. Variety is interesting and guarantee fresh experiences every day especially if you look for pvp. New pos changes and gimping poses / caps in lower classes hinders that beauty. It makes looking for pvping (end goal in w-space) even longer and tougher then what currently experienced.
Finding a good kill is already a full time-job with your fingers hurting from clicks (lots of scanning) . If spending hours bring even less potential ganks I can foresee pvp folks in lower classes logging even rarer than currently and playing other games. Thus w-space getting even less active pvp-wise and being focused more towards few large alliances; godfather dull politics it brings and w-space focused even more towards isk-farm than currently is.
What I find alarming TwoStep is that you don't propose viable solutions that go with proposed changes: - docking? why not but let the ship be visible inside the station with who's piloting it and also on dscan - anchoring anywhere in space? might be viable if poses can be scanned in efficient way i.e. one combat probe will give you 100% scan results on all poses within its scan range
Pvpers are the best folks that you can keep in wspace since they provide risk/reward content and keep pvers there on their toes. Do not destroy that beatiful thing in w-space and prove me that I'm wrong and I haven't wasted my 6 votes on you. |