Khanh'rhh
Sudden Buggery
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Posted - 2011.11.04 12:24:00 -
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Has the CSM seen any figures on WHspace population changes in the last 6-8months?
It seems, both to myself and to many (many) people I speak to, that the number of people running PVE in wormholes (sleeper sites) has gone down drastically. It is my opinion (and the stated preference of people I have spoken to) that this is because you can effectively do the same type of PVE in highsec, earn MORE ISK doing it, with much much less risk. Yep, Incursions. You also don't need to go looking for them, they're just there.
Wormholes that were teaming with life (C2 holes with a highsec static for instance) now seem devoid of anyone in them. We find a lot of towers abandoned, and the corp is still active, but back living in highsec.
The price of melted nanoribbons (sleeper salvage) has been climbing since early this year (up almost 50%), and does not seem to be slowing down.
My point? I believe highsec Incursions are killing WH space by misappropriated risk/reward.
It occurs to me, that highsec incursions are actually about right, income wise, for the reasons you outlined above. What is not right, is that they are exploited (by not completing the mom site) turning them into 23.5/7 ISK factories, rather than as the unique encounters I was lead to believe they were envisaged as. Incursions lack all of the immersion, when content designed to be "fighting back the sansha" are turned into a grind. You may as well remove the mom site, and the incursion constellation effects, since that seems irrelevant now. They were actually fun and engaging when they were first put into the game; they're now just a beacon on the overview and an ISK printing machine.
Would you/the CSM support tweaking the incursion dynamic so you could earn the same ISK/hr, have the same (or better) experience, but not be able to grind them all day, every day?
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