Phoenix Jones
Concordiat
Spaceship Samurai
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Posted - 2014.06.27 18:59:00 -
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Its a combination of burnout and lack of new innovating features. A TON has been added to null, virtually nothing to wormhole space (in some cases, wormhole space has gone backwards). Wormholes have been both failscading and successful for years. Most in wormholes just don't like cartels, extreme politics, mega meta gaming, etc. Some people just want to be a part of some little universe and to play towards their own freedom.
Fact is I believe wormholes need a new nitch, which should revolve around manufacturing, creation, etc. Right now wormhole gangs can be totally set on the module T3 ships, but all their equipment comes from kspace. It really shouldn't be. I do believe wormholes should have their own wormhole based equipment (guns, resistances, tanks, etc). Built from Basic Weapon Blueprints (or your meta 1 item), then retrofitted with sleeper equipment, turning them into a sleeper module. No T2, no moon goop, no kspace stuff. There would be solely wormhole stuff, comparable to T2, but based off the concept of overheating.
T3's have this great concept of overheating that has never been exploited. I think they should. You create this great wormhole equipment that is onpar with meta 1 stuff, until you overheat it. Then it becomes amazing sauce for as long as it is overheated.
It creates a new dynamic for T3's (such as using their heatsink subsystem), creates a new series of manufactured equipment, and expands on a different type of gameplay, overheating. The stuff would last longer with T3's but could be equipable on any ship. The difference between this and T2 items is that this stuff is unstable. It performs well when heated, and lousy when not heated.
It was an idea I had a while ago, bridging old manufacturers with new manufacturing goods. Its concepts like this (not necessarily this), that CCP should have been thinking about in regards to wormhole space. An entire new tier of manufacturing, new creation, and a whole new area of gameplay. Its the lack of new idea's that has left wormhole space in this kind of limbo.
The potential (I hate that word) of wormholes were never exploited by CCP.
In regard to wormhole groups, they come and they go. There are some that have been for years and don't haunt these forums at all. They like their little area of space.
Stabbers are totally broken
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15116553
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