scorchlikeshiswhiskey
interstellar initiative Incorporated
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Posted - 2014.09.06 20:08:00 -
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My semester started shortly after Hyperion dropped, so I haven't been nearly as active as I was pre-Hyperion, but it seems like more people have frigate holes at any given time than don't. I could be wrong, my sample size is pretty small. I really don't understand what they are supposed to do, besides be an annoyance. I was going to do some mining in my home hole while working on Calculus today, but I logged in and saw that we have a frigate hole so I am cloaked up, with Eve minimized, doing homework instead of doing anything in game. Without someone on each of the 3 other wormholes we have right now, plus the frigate hole, I'm not going to take a mining ship into a belt. So, for the 16 hour lifetime of that damned annoyance I am doing effectively nothing since the only thing that is likely to come through that wormhole is a scout who will likely open any wormholes that aren't already open from whoever first opened it. I'm not concerned with the frigate hole itself, rather what the frigate hole means for all the other wormholes. An associate of mine lost an Exhumer yesterday because a frigate hole opened their static, a ship came in and either cloaked or logged for most of the day, and when he was balls deep in the belt they warped in and popped in. There was no "fun" element to it, no probes to give him warning while spamming D-scan, no new sigs, just the buzzer. The whole point of telling that short story is to point out that, even being proactive and spamming D-scan, he had effectively no chance to prevent the loss of his ship. These holes are, as another associate pointed out, a 16hr "**** block" to people that don't have the online manpower to watch each hole and cloak a Falcon on-grid just to mine or run sites. When you combine that with the extra effort/risk required to close the holes after the frig hole despawns and most of my available backup is unavailable, it really makes me second guess logging on unless an op is going down. Hyperion is "bad" because it's changes, when combined with other things, are bad and not because Hyperion itself is actually bad.
If these holes were inter-Kspace I think there would be a fair amount of content brought about, you could scan one down and jump a gang of frigs deep into low or null and go hunting, but bringing them into wormholes is a big mistake in my opinion.
Fozzie, we have had our differences but, as was stated earlier, you are only the face of the changes and not necessarily the creator of them. So, my take on frigate holes is burn them with fire, get them out of wormholes, they are doing more harm than good. Especially the wormhole-wormhole connections, the only thing that a wormhole group is likely to send through a frig hole is a scout, if they're interested in PvP they'll leave him there and come back through K-space later. This isn't a content creator, it's an ambush tool. |