FireFrenzy
Satan's Unicorns
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Posted - 2014.08.07 14:10:00 -
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Okay since Fozzie actually seems to read this thread (and isnGÇÖt just rumored to do so) let me jump on the threadnaught with my own personal experience.
Now I live in a small c4 corp, it isnGÇÖt much but itGÇÖs ours. We like our wormhole, it has a name, "the cardboard box" and it has a pretty skybox and itGÇÖs a big improvement over our old c2 (called Bob, no relation to His Divine Majesty).
Now we're a small corp who has recently had a bunch of brain drain to the bigger corps, but we have 5 guys left who actively play eve and love living in wormholes. Sure we have a few alts but itGÇÖs mostly our 5-7 guys in fleets.
We however live in a wormhole that doesnGÇÖt seem to spawn a lot of sites, we've gone WEEKS without even a single one spawning. So during that time we rolled the static religiously praised HIM when we found something with some good sites (didn't happen often) and the proceeded to burn the wormhole to the ground. Since our static is a c2 we donGÇÖt even really make any good money doing this but itGÇÖs fun to do **** in a group and if you play for a few hours you can make enough money to recoup your ammo money and make something on the side. (I personally sign over my share of the loot over to the corp whenever its less than 50 million which is 95% of the time since the corp needs POS fuel money)
I was talking to Corbexx on the changes to incursions and he seemed adamant wormholes should become MORE popular and hisec incursions needed to stop being (what he felt to be, i for the record do not agree) "risk free isk" so that more people would go wormholing. This however is incredibly likely to move out of the wormhole on a semi-permanent basis as there just isnt any content anymore. I canGÇÖt solo c4 sites without getting something goddamn shiny which would look great on killmails, and while I can afford to build something that shiney that I donGÇÖt want to hog all the sites in "Home". Since then the rest of my corp has no income, no content and no fun. So IGÇÖm reduced to running in our c2 static. Which means that when my buddies in a different timezone log on we have to roll the static, not because we donGÇÖt want to fight people, or because we are afraid of pvp, or for any other reason you might care to come up with. We have to roll the static so we can have some gameplay in a game we pay money to be allowed to play. This seems Goddamn ******** to me to begin with, but I get we were never intended to move into our home and live there long term, so I accept it as the price of doing business and not getting hotdropped by PL or whomever.
Now for myself this status means I spend a fucktonne of time living in high sec running home in a fast interceptor and a jump clone I keep in various spaces around New Eden so I can have all the pvp and wormhole fun I like without actually being bored silly most other times. Which leads to the weird position where someone who ostensibly lives in the most dangerous and lucrative space in eve actually lives in highsec and runs incursions by the dozen sites because, well, wormholes are boring! And Corbexx wonders why no one lives in wormholesGǪ :S
But to circle back around to the topic of this conversation, making it harder to roll the static directly affects my ability to play a game I pay money to play, makes me less likely to spend any time in our wormhole, less likely to want to even open a static, and HELLA more likely to just log in and then either burn straight back to K-Space where there is content to be had I can enjoy or just check the probe scanner go GÇ£Nope, I am not going to go mining since **** that ****GǪ And no combat sites so I guess IGÇÖll go play Skyrim insteadGǪGÇ¥ (and I donGÇÖt even LIKE skyrim)
Of course then thereGÇÖs the PVP side of the coin, we have in the past closed hostile wormholes but mainly because, well, our 10-15 guys (this was before the brain drain I mentioned earlier) really couldnGÇÖt sensibly fight, the name escapes me right now, the 25-45 guys I had on D on the other side. This happened 6 months ago so I might be misremembering, that said we have also quite often picked fights in the static or on our own side of the same connecting wormhole because we actually LIKE shooting people for the lulzies.
TLDR: Love Hyperion, love the new wormhole changes, love the c4 getting a second static, wish i knew what we were getting already, hate this part, will prolly spend less time in WHs will cause content decrease for all, THIS NEEDS TO NOT BE A THING. |