EVE New Citizens Q&A

You need an omni-tanked (tanked against all damage types) battlecruiser to do C1 or C2 wormhole sites, higher level wormholes are even harder.

WHs are not really newbie material.

Edit: to see what type of WH it is, take it's J number and look it on on dotlan (or any one of the other WH mapping sites)
eg
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/J114700

Nah, take a cheap ship in, learn d-scan, get a feel for WH space, get familiar with WH space, then when you do take that BC in, you might get it out in one piece.

The sleepers are the lesser danger in WH space....

Thanks all, I had a hunch I was just being too greedy too fast. lol

Looks like I'll be sticking to Low/Null for the foreseeable future which is fine, there's some decent lootz out there.

Get into a covert ops ship with a covert ops cloak and you can fly around wormhole systems with ease, including sites and anomalies. Generally they are far safer than null space due to being so empty. The biggest threat are the sleepers since they target and scram very fast and at very long range so running sites as a noob is probably not recommended.

However, for newer players the advantage of wormholes is in moving around: The best data sites and relic sites are in null space since, unlike wormhole space, they do not have NPCs. Unfortunately, getting to those null sites can be difficult since the gates from low sec to null are very often camped and bubbled, making conventional travel very risky.

Using wormholes you can tunnel directly out of high sec space and sometimes find a route that will let you drop into deep null sec within minutes. Then you've got your own private null system to play with for 12 hours with the added benefit of a quick route back to the trade hubs to sell your booty.

I'm still a noob player - 2 months in - and W-space has been quite playable and lucrative - so far. I'm using a Venture with gas harvesters and a core probe fitted - but no cloak. Wormholes are a tootle to find from hi-sec and I'm finding gas sites - that are worth harvesting - in about half of them.

I can fill the ore bay of my Venture in about 20 mins - I'm watching for spawns and pirates constantly - and probing the rest of the w-space if I hadn't completed when I found the gas site. Making about 4M ISK in 20 mins harvesting (which pretty much clears the worthwhile gas with my T1 harvesters) - then bale when the spawns arrive - its almost exactly 20 each time.

Far more exciting than mining and seems excellent experience. I've taken the view that I don't want to invest heavily in gas skills (or mining) so this fit cost a couple of days training and 10M ISK for the ship (the cost is in the harvesters I). I don't plan on doing this long term, but need the ISK to risk on ships elsewhere.

From the end of the OP's own post:

OP: you remind me of my first tries at wormholes, where I promptly steered back and made the run upon landing at 100 on an anom with my magnate, whose only weapon was a fierce hobgoblin I (whether it died or was soothed back to wildlife by the local sleepers, I don't know, I just hope if he changed into an Awakened Juggernaut and I stumble upon it someday, he'll remember me... or maybe not). The second time was almost as fierce a fight, I warped in my poorly fitted Omen and decided to run away screaming after a couple shots (or maybe it was my hull alarm screaming), I don't remember, but then I decided to err on the side of patience.

There are a few things a new player can do there, but for the most, you will need a bit more experience under your belt to bring it out. In a C1/C2, with a properly sized corp, there is stuff to do for young players, but not alone unless you really know what you're doing as mistakes can quickly become expensive.

Don't bar it from future experiences, take the time to learn more on the game and keep it cheap if you try again, by the time you know it well enough, then you can risk more shiny ships.

1+2 being soloable in a well fit Battlecruiser, 3 can be soloed in a Battlecruiser (slowly) but a Battleship or Strategic Cruiser is the norm, for a 4 bring friends, for a 5 or 6 bring moar friends especially if they can use Carriers (Cap Escalations are lucrative).

Battlecruiser. Omni-tank, resists as high as possible.

Hate you both.

j/k thx for saving me the isk lol