![]() ![]() This is partly due to current implementation restrictions regarding how we added 46% more solar systems to EVE but mainly because we wanted to design an area of space which, while risky to travel through, is open to all players all the time. "One important point needs to be made: Wormhole space will not be able to be claimed as sovereign space. It shouldn't, Whisper thinks, be supportable to expand Empires into these new regions, but folks will try. Without the super-easy logisitcal support of capital jump-drive ships getting back and forth to these wormhole system becomes a fresh puzzle. I should think people will try to deploy towers out there, too, which will be a massive new challenge. If the wormholes do shift this radically it could mean that players get trapped for a time, or find themselves coming back out in some hostile part of space. And if that new space is 46% the size of Eve's current galaxy then we face no shortage of places to head off to. The idea of getting a gang together not simply to rove about looking for targets, or to run a mission, but to actually go into unknown space, is thrilling. This will be "real" exploration, that offers something like the venture into the unknown that we want from such exploits, quite unlike the those that are possible in the teeming Eve universe at present. ![]() This is hugely exciting because it essentially addresses the disappoint we faced over the original exploration mechanism, which did little more than spawn new missions. But then again the potential rewards are equally great." While it is theoretically possible to move a control tower into wormhole space, set it up and maintain it, the logistical challenge and risks of fueling and defending a tower in a system with no permanent links to known space would be considerable. They will open and close and reopen at random locations throughout New Eden and thus present you with an ever-changing area of space that no-one can control all the choke-points to. Whisper continues: "Wormholes will shift all the time. It will not be moving you to instanced space but rather to one of the thousands of new solar systems we will be adding to the EVE universe." Lots more after the jump. And when I say "new solar system" that is exactly what I mean. ![]() A pilot who stumbles across one of these stellar phenomena can fly through it and travel to unknown space, where there are no stargates or stations, just the unexplored void of a new solar system. Whisper says: "These wormholes are unstable and will spawn and vanish randomly throughout the known universe. The wormholes will be added in the upcoming March expansion, which is timed to coincide with Atari's boxed release. In what will probably be the biggest change to Eve Online in the past three years, developer "CCP Whisper" has announced some details about how the new wormhole system will work. ![]()
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