Wormholes

I've been trying to prep myself for wormhole life for nearly a year now across 3 characters.

My main has dumped a lot of skillpoints into Tengu-related skills and should be ready to rock in the stereotypical cloaky site raider hull soon.

My secondary has specialized heavily into scanning and all of the other exploration skills, covert ops, and will be in a support Proteus and sentry Ishtar soon.

My newest scavenger alt is about to be finished training up into a cloaky orca to act as a mobile base and booster. All 3 of these guys will be ready to go in a couple of weeks.

All the while I've been prepping for wormhole life I've been living very cheaply, raking in slow but comfortable cash with level 4s, throwing in mission mining or grav site mining or other exploration when I got bored. I don't make a lot of money hourly, but if I got around to selling all the excess ships I've built from reprocessed loot and ore, plus faction gear I've harvested from anomalies I probably have around 10-12 billion in assets I could cash out and completely pimp my T3 cruisers and Orca with.

I should have asked this before, but is it worth the risk? I've never been good about spamming Dscan, usually avoid PVP like the plague, and found faction warfare frustrating and lost way too many stealth bombers and cruisers when I tried it.

I've skimmed some of the wormhole guides and know I can make tons of isk, but if I throw all my assets into one basket literally to try to pull this off, how likely will it be I get podded and lose all 3 ships and everything I've spent building up the last year in preparation? Do the risks outweigh the rewards? Am I just asking to get frustrated and lose everything if I try to jump in solo and teach myself to shift gears from high-sec life to wormhole life without a corp or POS or anything to back me up?

WHs are not solo friendly.
Join a WH corp if you want to play in WHs.
That's the best advise I can give you.

You have 10-12 bil in assets, and you want to get rich?

You probably can pull a solo operation off... but EVE is a really ****** and/or boring game for soloing, so in addition to being safer and more profitable, joining or founding a corp is likely to be much more fun as well.

w-space is absolutely worth the risk, but it is also not for everyone. The risk can be managed and minimised with care and experience ... but never goes away and occasionally bad stuff just happens.

W-space is great for 'solo' work, whatever opinions others may hold, but solo w-space work is even more "not for everyone". You can earn the occasional isk, but it's pretty demanding and very unforgiving ... and very satisfying.

Some ppl prefer big gangs and that, others do not. So, yes, w-space has a place for you ... if you're up to it :-)


ofc my 'solo' is semi-solo small-gang of alts all belonging to me.

You'll never be ready for wormholes if you are not ready for PVP. Sounds just like a gank waiting to happen, tbh.

PVP is just an attitude, technically you are ready as soon as you can fit a point and some kind of damage-dealing modules.

Wormhole space is mostly full of people for whom the risk itself is the reward. ISK is just a method to continue enjoying the risk.

This said, you are most warmly welcome to the unknown

Join a corp. Learn all the ins and outs, and mechanics you need to know to survive, before heading out on your own. If you're risk adverse, this is the best way to go.

Read my "wormhole nomad" thread :)

evn with dscan, there's a lot of cloaky bad guys who can pin you long enough for their gang to arrive. imo, the only way to be 'safe enough' in anything more expensive than a drake is to either be in a sufficiently strong gang or to have a scan alt constantly scanning the entire system.

True, but the point I meant to make is that spamming D-Scan is the most basic defense. If someone can't see themselves doing that, then other measures are probably out the window and they'll just be a space piñata.