Lucas Capri
Nuclear Midnight
Initiative Associates
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Posted - 2014.07.05 18:01:00 -
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The WH Community is hurting itself. You have all these groups fail-cascading which is normal. Groups rise and they fall in EVE. However they all seem to be going and joining 3-4 groups. These 3-4 groups are able to drop 40+ t3s in both the major TZs which is great for them because when they find a fight they curbstomp everyone. Then it gets boring as curb stomping is only fun for so long. Finding the other 2-3 groups that can compete is rare so epic fights rarely happen.
Then you have groups on the "evicting is all the rage and oh the content it provides" but your evicting Corps/Alliances that months down the road might be able to put up a good fight. Its hard to build a WH group these days, not many people are looking to move to WH space. Instead of evicting (as eviction only provides content for a few days and then none, while if you had left them alone they would have provided content in the future many times over) all these smaller groups cause they POS up when your 20-40 man fleet of bling t3 show up cause they have 10 actives online and berating them in local cause they won't come suicide into you perhaps you should start to help and cultivate these groups. Sure its not your responsibility to help groups grow, its theirs, but if you want more good content a helping hand will go a long way in getting what you want.
Speaking of the large entities... If the average size of a gang in C5/C6 WH space was 20 across both the main TZs you would have way way more epic fights. Sure this probably will never happen because lets be honest somebody is always going to try to bring the most numbers and win by sheer force. I see a lot of talk about asking CCP to change this and change that which would lead to better WH content. What I don't see much of is the WH Community getting together to enact change that would benefit the content.
If Lazerhawks, No-Ho, Disavowed, Hard Knocks, ect. all got together and made some changes it would be better for the entire WH community. For example.
1. Develop an assistance program for new and developing WHs Corps/Alliances who want to move to C5/C6 space. Provide them with solid doctrines for everyday living in WH space. Help them establish the needed security elements when it comes to POSs, recruitment, ect. Help them setup Jabber, Siggy/Trip Wire, TS3, ect if they need it. Cultivate these young ones. Sure tons of people will say its not our job, which is true, but with a little effort the upcoming groups will get to a point where they can move to C5/C6 and then they provide more pew content for you. Add in that if any of these groups signed up on this "assistance program" get invaded that every WH Group will come to their aid and the evicting party themselves will become targets of the entire community for eviction.
2. Split the larger groups up where they have 20 actives in the main two TZs. Have people with multiple alts split them up. Have Corp/Alliance A and Corp/Alliance B but still have them be part of the same group. For example if we took the bigger groups doing 40 man t3s right now thats what 3-5, lets go with 4, that would then be 8 groups of 20.. there 10+ groups out there right now who would fight a fleet of 20.. All of a sudden you went from having a couple groups not being able to find large enough fleets to fight and only doing dunks once in awhile to tons of 20 man gangs out there roaming through WH space smashing into each other.
These are just a couple things off the top of my head, I didn't really develop the ideas as the actual ways of making WH space better would probably come from the WH Community as a whole instead of one person. Now everyone can come in and tell me how its not their job to help other corps grow into a size big enough to provide content nor their job to change themselves to provide more content which funny enough will be the same people moaning about WH content being lackluster and WHs being dead.
TLDR: The WH Community could do a lot of things to benefit the pew content in C5/C6 WH space if they would only get together out of game and come together to do a few things which would benefit everyone from the big guys to the smaller new comers. |