Isidril
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Posted - 2014.08.09 18:17:00 -
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After reading CCP Fozzie's long preamble about how they're not against WH residents, it seems most of the changes they're making are providing incentive for the majority WH residents to move out.
In general the changes they're attempting to make are targeted at increasing WH traffic and PVP. The uncloseable frig WH is a perfect example. As most folks noted above, this doesn't help the WH resident because they're not going to put their 1bil clone in a 50mil frig and even if they could swap clones, most WH residesnts are still unlikely to go frig roaming. It does however enable null corps to blob WH corps.
Before CCP introduces a series of changes that are generally intended to increase the opportunity for PVP encounters, they need to ask themselves who lives in WH space and why (assuming CCP in genuine in wanting to keep players in WH space).
Based on my several years of experience in WH space (I've lived in a C2, C3 & C5), I would argue that most WH corps are small corps who wanted a section of eve they could call their own. With the exception of a few large WH alliances (and I really mean only a few, most who live in WH space know who these large alliances are and have them watchlisted), the average WH corp is not a hardcore PVP corp. Many live in WH for the good PVE and industrial capabilities. That dosen't mean they don't enjoy PVP, they're just not looking for it 24/7. I would argue that for those who live in WH space, it provides the perfect balance of PVE & PVP. They can make decent isk in PVE with an acceptable level of risk and they get PVP on a fairly consistent basis as well.
The proposed changes throw this balance out of whack. None of the small WH corps (the vast majority) are going to mine or run anomalies with these nearly unlimited mass frig holes open (or can't safely close hostile holes). As it stands I almost never see miners in WH space anymore when I'm hunting due to the changes made to grav sigs a while back. Without a consistent flow of isk, these corps will be unable to fuel their POSs and hence will be forced to pack up their bags and leave.
I enjoy WH PVP. I want more of it. If anything, I need CCP to reduce the risk so that more people are willing to move into WH space and give me more targets to kill. As it stands today, it's not difficult to get a fight once you've found a target, the challenge is finding a target. The challenge of finding targets isn't due to a lack of connections (I usually have more in the chain than I have time to scan). It's due to a lack of active players. These changes will push most of the existing WH corps out of their system and there will not be a flood of PVP centric corps to fill the void. Hardcore PVP corps already have vast swaths of space in EVE (all of Nullsec & most of lowsec) and the challenges of living in WH space outweighs the benefits for these folks.
If CCP wants to increase the activity in WH space, I think they're going about it entirely the wrong way. Think about your target segment. Who are they? Why do they live in WH space? How do we entice even more like them to do the same? How do we increase their level of activity? |