Ahost Gceo
Obstergo
Bitten.
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Posted - 2013.10.19 08:29:00 -
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It boils down to the fact that k-space is far easier to live in than w-space. Your entrances and routes are known and never move, you can see everyone in your system, there are stations...the list goes on. This list of things probably deters a good number of newer players from moving in to w-space permanently. Some may do exploration a couple times in C1s and C2s, then find it too time consuming to scan and plan an assault versus the reward for those sites, they most certainly will not ever see C5 or C6 space because why would anyone just wanting to do sites go that deep? Between wormhole life requiring far more commitment than the average new user is willing to put into EVE and the usual boundary for exploration being dropped at C1s and C2s, you can probably imagine why C3s on up are fairly stagnant.
On the same note, because of the same things that make w-space more challenging than k-space and the fact there is (from my observations) very little growth in PvP friendly entities in higher class systems, veterans and older newbies of our beloved w-space burn out. These people do things such as:
1. Go completely inactive. Unwilling to leave their corp or alliance but finding the game far more of a hassle than something to enjoy, they fade into nothingness or merely log on to update training queues. This most notably increases the chances other players in the same entity will go inactive or leave, weakening the w-space community.
2. Leave their corp or alliance for a k-space entity, most likely in nullsec or lowsec. This again lowers the number of players in the w-space community.
To most it would seem as if I was leading into suggesting that w-space be made even easier to live in. I'd rather ask that k-space be made harder to live in. Chances are almost all the things I could possibly suggest like local player lists being hidden and so on and so forth have been cried for umpteen number of times, even by people who don't dwell in w-space. If CCP wants to really rejuvenate w-space there will have to be a silly amount of new content added along with further isk making incentives (as if C5-C6 sites aren't lucrative already) or they could squeeze people slowly out of their comfort zones in k-space, which I hope is the direction they are picking. |