Wormholes

Hi guys

As a supplementary activity, I'm playing with the thought of doing some C1s from time to time.
I don't want to join a WH corp or commit by setting up my own pos.
Instead I want a single ship which is able to scan an entrance and sites, fight the sleepers and salvage them all on its own.
A cloak will be necessary, but it doesn't have to be a cov ops.

Which ship/setup would you recommend me trying out?
I realize T3s are probably best suited, but just for sh*ts and giggles, what other ships are feasible?

I know this is dangerous and probably slow too, but humour me, please :)

Once upon a time we used to hit C1's with drakes.

You can but it sucks.

You don't make any isk killing sleepers. You only make isk from salvaging and looting them. While you can easily clear C1 sites with a drake and a salvager in the utility high, salvaging the wrecks with one salvager sucks.

Not to mention each second you are in a site, you are at risk of getting ganked.

For me, when I first started exploring wormholes, a myrmidon worked quite well. Since the main DPS comes from drones, you can equip a cloak, a salvager, and even a tractor beam without compromising your damage output too much.

Setup looks something like this:

Wyrmidon:
[highs]
1 x Sisters probe launcher
1 x Improved cloaking device II
1 x Salvager
1 x small tractor beam
1 x 250mm compressed coil gun

[mids]
2 x Omnidirectional tracking II
1 x 10mn MWD II
2 x Cap recharger II

[Lows]
2 x medium armor repper II
4 x appropriate armor hardeners that provide an omnitank

Rigs are something like a capacitor control unit, an auxiliary nano pump, and... I don't recall what else. Haven't looked at the fit in awhile. Just started playing again, and I'm not at my computer. :P

Drones: hobgoblin II's and three Garde II's work well. Goblins for the light sleepers, gardes for everything else. The sleeper frigates WILL attack your light drones, so be ready and have an easily accessible hotkey for returning your drones to bay. [mine is ctrl + 'r'] Then you can launch them again. Note that the lower the class of wormhole the less the sleepers tend to attack your drones, so in a C1 this is less common. 

The dealing with the drones has been the only painful part of this setup for me. I'll post a more accurate fitting once I'm at my computer.

EDIT: The two previous posters make a valid point. Wormhole ops through hi-sec are risky and you would be better off searching out wormholes in lowsec. And if you already have a cloak equipped as my above fit does...

Anyway, that just means keep hot on the d-scan. Also, if you don't mind sweating an extra bit of micro, you can in fact salvage WHILE you're killing the sleepers. I start pulling the wrecks in the instant I get my first kill. Sleeper BS wrecks can on occasion take forever to salvage with only one salvager, but I don't think you will encounter any in a c1 wormhole. If you do it right you shouldn't be spending more than a couple minutes salvaging once you've cleared the last wave in a c1 site.

Just my 2 cents and experience. :)

Just to sate my curiosity, I went and refit my Myrm to that old solo WH fit I posted and ran a C1 (Perimeter Camp) solo, with no fleet bonuses. I tractored/salvaged as I went. My results very closely mirrored the other anecdotal reports: it took me 16 minutes to kill everything, and was completely done salvaging after 18m15s. We've been averaging 17mill+ per site for the past few weeks so even solo clearing three sites in an hour is certainly not horrible income.

Now, I would never ever want to go back to taking that long to clear sites. I had to watch my cap very closely, it's nowhere near as profitable as using dedicated site-clearing and salvaging ships, or bouncing out to refit for the task at hand. But every new pilot I introduced to solo WH work as an option was very pleased by the amount of ISK and fun relative to what they had been doing in highsec.

The profit, the challenge, the risk, the pvp... all that is what makes WHs worth doing... and I think like a lot of things in Eve as long as you fly what you can afford to lose you're much better off diving in and experiencing it than waiting on the sidelines until you have some perfect ship/fit.

Hit dscan every 5 seconds, fit a flight of ECM drones, and get out there

Kyros, great reply, much appreciated.
Flakey and other cane proponents, would you care to suggest a cane fit?

Yeah... you're wrong. I'm sorry. You have to consider your scan time, site running time, loot time and hauling to sell time in that isk/hour equation and I assure you, you are not making 45 mil per hour running sites in c1's when you consider it over the long term. If you're interested in doing it because it's "fun" fine, have fun, but I promise it's not better money than minig. ESPECIALLY with an open highsec wh in the system you're running in. Your just waiting to be killed.

And as far as Dscanning, that protects you from the stupid people, but not the ones that really want to kill you.

You are asking for trouble flying solo without a) a probe launcher b) a cloak (if dscan shows other ships and their probes)

I liked to use a Domi, drones for DPS you can use your highs for trackter beams and salvagers + a large remote shield repper/cloak/probe launcher. Fit a nice tank on it and your away.

I don't do this anymore though becasue the odds of being ganked are very high.

Have you lived in a C1? Mining in a C1 is probably the most annoying thing one can do. I lived in a C1 for about 6 months. I tried a little mining and even just 2 retrievers could quickly generate enough ore to be a complete hassle to try and haul out. Yes you can build a rorqual' but given their cost and the fact it will be in there permanently, you'd have to mine a ton to recoup its cost. Also the big mining ship are also ones that will never leave once brought in.

No the big money in a C1 is PI.

The combat sites aren't too shabby. In 6 months I averaged about 500mil a week in combat sites alone. While that doesn't sound great, you have to factor in the isk/hr which was very high, as it takes very little time to clear the sites when they spawn. I did often have to find other activities to do, as a C1 will just barely spawn enough stuff to keep one person happy. But I had moved in for the overall experience, not just sleeper farming.