TLDR: I climb on board the CCP KooAid Train and guzzle gallons of the stuff before passing out with each of my dignity holes violated.
And now a completely bias look at the upcoming W-space
changes. This is my personal take on the
changes and how they impact my style of game play and what I deem right/wrong
in my own tiny little mind. If I upset you with my comments and I rail on your
game play style, I guess I’m sorry but not really.
Warning extreme language with immature references to my
genitals. If you don’t mind me talking like a 14 year old please read on.
I am so fucking hard
right now! Let me explain why.
Ship Spew Mechanic
CCPs thumb in the eye toward using capitals as a closing
tool. GOOD! There I said it. Anything that makings this process harder, more
annoying, I’m all for it.
During my time in EVE I have been a part of large, small and
one man corps in wormhole space. One of the things I have always disliked is a
tiny group of pilots (less than 10) harvesting massive isk with little to no
threat to their existence. I can’t stand it. I have been a part of it and I
have actively fought against that form of wormhole meta.
Who does this change hit hardest? The small gang of capitals/pilots. I got words. Fuck those people.
A small group of
players can’t effectively support their capitals being tackled on the other
side. Plan and simple. I couldn’t be happier. Any large group of people can defend
their ambushed capitals. I was once part of them in the past but
I now find the idea of being in a small gang of capital escalation or farming
C5/C6 physically revolting.(its all about me right?)
They are flying around in these massive ships for reasons
other than using those ships in PVE. My proof? Well, if they actually used
those ships in pvp, who fucking cares if they are tackled or not??! See my
point?
If it was s a pvp ship, why would you care if that ship actually got into pvp by this new mechanic? It’s because you can’t possibly hope of supporting that ship with 5 fucking pilots.
If it was s a pvp ship, why would you care if that ship actually got into pvp by this new mechanic? It’s because you can’t possibly hope of supporting that ship with 5 fucking pilots.
Fuck small gang, risk adverse capital PVE
ships. I know this comment might annoy my readers, but o well. The main threat
to this game from day on,e is that a person will think that chasing ISK gain, is
the goal of this game. Lets further punish people for chasing ISK!
Let’s talk about the other crying effect.
Large player groups who use rage rolling to find pew. Fuck
you guys too! Your version of pew is rolling your C5/C6 static multiple times a
night with 4 pilots looking for the random group of capital escalation ships.
During that time, the entirety of your alliance or corp is off playing another
game, derping in coms and bringing 0 to the hunting process. Once those targets
are found, everyone logs in to EVE for 30 minutes of action then logs off and
back into Tanks/LoL. I will tell you
without any hesitation that I fucking hate that kind of game play.
You aren’t contributing to anything in game, you aren’t
interacting with anyone in game, and you are a bottom feeder for content provided
by someone else usually your scouts. I’m ecstatic that this change in mechanic
brings them some measurable pain.
Threaten to quit because you can't sit afk in your POS shield while 4 guys rage roll a static for hours on end? Good Fuck off, leave this game to people who actually play it.
So let’s recap!
Fuck people who run escalations in small player numbers! Fuck
farming holes! Fuck bitter vets who let a gang of 4 people rage roll every 3
minutes and logging in the game whenever it suits them! Fuck bears who defensively
close holes in 2 minutes!
Justification for this hostility and disregard for other
peoples play styles? Nope. I’m just being totally selfish in my opinion this
time. I have had so many negative instances involving the people this change
annoys most, I’m giggling with anticipation.
On to the positive things everyone likes!
Wormhole effect re-balance!
I could care less about tweeks to the existing positive effect
holes. The only thing that’s really worth talking about is BLACK HOLES!
Making these something other than the armpit of wormhole
space is amazing!
Affected stat
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Wormhole class
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Missile velocity
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+15%
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+22%
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+29%
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+36%
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+43%
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+50%
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Missile Explosion Velocity
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+30%
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+44%
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+58%
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+72%
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+86%
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+100%
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Ship velocity
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+30%
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+44%
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+58%
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+72%
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+86%
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+100%
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Stasis Webifier Strength
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-15%
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-22%
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-29%
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-36%
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-43%
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-50%
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Inertia
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+15%
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+22%
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+29%
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+36%
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+43%
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+50%
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Targeting range
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+30%
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+44%
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+58%
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+72%
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+86%
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+100%
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This system does so many things and challenges problems with
the meta game in so many ways I feel like the baby Jesus came down and re-gifted
me my car keys! O look! A new CAR! FROM JESUS!? YAY! It’s the car I love, but
with Jesus like flare! /swoon
O dread blapping doesn’t work so good here? PERFECT! Fuck
dread blapping.. Kiting is amazing missiles are amazing! 100mn missile boats
wreck face and can’t be stopped…. *ugghh * I think I just wet my pants AGAIN!
Dread blapping webbing T3/Guardian gangs now made total shit
because anyone with half a brain can now click orbit at 90 and shoot missiles for days! RAWR it’s a totally
new game play. I could kiss you CCP for this.
A second static for
Class 4 wormholes
I live in a c2. The last 3 wormholes I have lived in (the
one I’m in now too) have had a C2 static. Its not because of the epic loots of
C2 space let me tell you. Its entirely because of the pvp and chain length that
occurs in this space. Having two statics even if one of them is a shitty
K-space brings so many possibilities to pvp and pve alike. The most fun I have
ever had in W-space was because of a C2 static.
Now you are telling me, that I can have a C4 with the same
effect, but both the exits will be W-space?!?!?
**8*** uggg I just wet myself AGAIN** If you have a C4/C4 right now.. it
will open to another C4 with 2 statics too! That’s 3 W-space holes side by
side!!!
Each of those will have a hole too, and they won’t end in
some shitty K-space dead hardly ever. The only combination that ends the Wspace
chain length is a C4 static C3/C1. Both of those statics have Kspace exits.
This change to C4’s will make the longest most complex chains in all of EVE
wormhole space history!
More chains, more pew, more W-space! *** uggg my heart.. I
just wet myself again.. Fozzie you are going to be death of me you stud!**
More randomly spawning wormholes – “One way we intend to
reach this goal is to increase the prevalence of random wormhole connections
that appear in W-space systems. We will be significantly increasing the spawn
rate of all the existing wormholes that originate in W-space” – Fozzie
More wandering wormholes that connect dissimilar potential
exits. Sure there will be a static exit.. hell even one more static exits in C4s,
but now there will be more holes originating from W-space at our command. And,
have those extra holes harder to roll.. This essentially makes my style of game
play.. off the mother fucking hook!
New frig/destroyer wormholes that can’t be closed. !!!
– A
new platform of destruction that can only be traversed via tiny ships. It can’t
be closed by mass it rewards scouts and tiny fun ships. HOLY SHIT!! Its
everything I tried to to do in my wormhole as the SUSU CEO. Little ships,
little logi, scouts fights.. no fucks given cheap pvp! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
This is amazing! Wormhole scouting and ship based terrorism unstoppable by
anyone who doesn’t fight. This has my game style written all over it. Its all about me MEMEMEMEMEME !! (its not, but honestly you should all really play like me, I have so much fun!)
K162 appearance only on first jump
– This might be one of the greatest things ever.
Giving no warning to anyone in the game what so ever before I actually enter
the system. Virgin holes, flowering for destruction initiated by me alone. I’m
not sure I could be happier honestly.
This means my potential targets get only as much warning
as I give them by me not able to find them quickly. This rewards aggressive scouts!
People who are quick with the D-scan, and for fucks sake. People who hunt,
people who are good at it and people like me who think this game isn’t about
watching your wallet # rise.
CCP has given us the tools of each other’s undoing and I
honestly couldn’t be happier.
Bravo, and sorry about my front mess, I’m just very
excited.
Haha. Lovely read. Did I see somwhere you had a wet dream about a c4-2/4 ?
ReplyDeleteI'm having trouble visualizing that without levels of temporary blindness induced by a stroke, brought on by pure liquid awesome.
DeleteThey are even better than you thought :) Just sayin
DeleteSo what you're saying is that you approve of totally hosing small groups in Wh space? Interesting...
ReplyDeleteI find it hugely ironic that you rail against the large WH group lifestyle and yet support this mass/rage spawning garbage that caters only to large groups with massive fleets.
You have mixed up. Small gangs are ok. Small gangs that use capital s for rolling holes. Not ok. It's a distinction I feel is important for this enhancement.
Deletethat isnt a relevant distinction at all, EVERYONE with C5/6 static uses caps to roll them.
Deleteeven hypothetically if it was relevant, it STILL just hoses the small groups living there while merely adding minor inconvenience to the large groups.
Yes.
DeleteLongtime listener to DTP and avid reader of your blog. Being a WH resident myself I am as gitty as you for the up coming changes.I like most of the proposed changes and eagerly await their integration so we can evolve our game plays, styles and new traps...
ReplyDeleteSpear,
ReplyDeleteLove you to death man, but seriously, you need an editor. Between typos, spelling, and using the wrong words (adverse vs. averse, for example), your blog is kinda maddening to read. Not slamming on you, just saying you could use some editing. I mean this in a positive and constructive way, so don't hate me.
I'm bad at writing. I know this. Two things: I view blogging as "public mental diarrhea". Its just some shit that falls out of my head similar to a public diary. I understand it could be written way better.
DeleteLook at this, do you go to Mcdonalds to get a quality hamburger? You go there for quick and cheap, even if they fuck up your order and have mouth breathers for staff, you are going to come back. Could they make a better product? sure, but then it would cost more and take more time.
My blog is that to me. Its fast, its fun, its cheap and I try not to take to too seriously.
2nd I'm not a journalist, I have 0 journalistic integrity. My posts are my own, misspellings and all. They are the slang of my typing style and viewpoints that are ill constructed, wrong and jaded. But fuck it, it gives me an outlet that doesn't annoy my wife when I try and talk about this crap with her.
Thank you for the suggestions though and thank you for muscling through reading it. Makes me happy when people read it and tell me I'm bad. At least you read it and you have just a little bit of Spear floating around in your head.
Btw Penny isn't so enthusiastic about upcoming changes and has some valid points:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tigerears.org/2014/08/19/those-wormhole-changes/#comments
You are one of the very few wormholers that likes the mass-based ship spew. I am an outsider but I love this as well. Anything to reduce the wormhole rolling/lockdown of the high class wormhole sleeper farms.
ReplyDeleteI am very disappointed by the absence of a "Ha ha, Somer Blink!" post on this blog :)
ReplyDeleteI was recently on Podside, they made me rant about it a bit. You can hear it there. But yea, fuck somer blink
DeleteSpear I enjoyed your blog, saved a lot of quotes from it. Though you are ridiculously wrong with cap farmers here. This patch makes octopus cap farming life safer. Most of farms are c5 with lower class static. You don't need to collapse static cuz nothing can harm your 2 loki/2archi/2moros group farming. And if there is a k162 from c5/c6 you just don't farm and manage other stuff or play other games that day.
ReplyDeletewhat kinda shit could rape your cap group - yes, the one ragerolling which you hate that much. No ragerolling = nearly absolete safety for octupus cap farmer.
2 other ppl: its so funny to see other capsuleers judging upon the things they are far from.
Pashko Morgan from Rg.P o/
With bigger entities scouting chains longer instead of rolling you will see a lot more coming up through that lowclass static than before. And trust me, a 20 man subcap ixtab fleet will obliterate that capital fleet.
DeleteFor about 2 years of 3 ppl octopus cap farming we didn't lose a cap group. Mostly because k162 appearance followed with 5-6 more carriers login. Anyway, people realize that after your wallet hits half a trillion isk its time to find some new activities and interests of eve. That scenario happened to us :D
ReplyDeletep.s. Calaretu thanks for that comiled list of c4 statics. Got our books updated