Adarnof
Free Trade Monopoly
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Posted - 2014.08.06 16:09:00 -
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To reiterate my concerns from the other thread,
Due to the nature of w-space, the majority of your content should be coming from the static. An integral part of this content discovery is the ability to roll the static connection on demand and look for something else. The proposed change greatly reduces our ability to do so.
For weeks now my group has starved with a lack of home content. Few incomings and no anomalies mean we've been stuck with content in our static to keep members interested. We've rolled that thing probably 20 times daily now looking for entertainment, and we've been finding it. Sometimes we want to farm, sometimes we want to pew, sometimes we just need to make a run to Jita.
By both greatly increasing the risk associated with doing so and making the process much slower, you've come into direct conflict with your goals of providing players with content. On our off-hours I'm absolutely certain members won't be rolling our static because there's no backup if it hits the fan.
This change only promotes POSing up or merging into a larger group. The whole appeal of w-space has been that smaller groups can have a space of their own; I fear this change discourages these small groups from attempting to do so.
Consider a scenario such as the one that unfolded last week. We were rolled into by a 400-man corp. Being significantly smaller than that, we were stuck with three options: get our faces stomped in by a blobfest, log off and do something else, or combat roll the connection and find other content more suited to us. Can you guess which one we chose? Yeah, we rolled it and went back to stuff we could manage. Now imagine that scenario with your proposed changes. We send the rollers in, and they get absolutely murdered by the other group who catches them 20k off the hole. Which do you suppose provides more "content" in wormholes? Them eating a cap and making us log off, or us rolling them away and staying on to do stuff?
While this change is certainly a shake-up to wormhole space, I fear it will not have the intended effect. If you don't believe me, just watch your pretty activity graphs after this goes live and you'll see. |