Wormholes

hey guys


Currently im living in high sec for what seems a pointless act :/

i am looking at moving in to a c1 or c2 with my x3 accounts +1 extra account to run around high sec :)

my players are all indi with 1 orca pilot and 2 hulk pilots altho all 3 can fly barges.
one can fly a decent fitted battlecruiser, oh almost forgot and perfect scan char along with all 3 able to do PI.

i have given almost every game style a go all but WH living and as i am kinda bored i would like to try it for my self.

I suppose my question is:
Can a single player like my self live and survive in this style

my idea is too take a medium pos with hanger, refinery, and some ecm and missile bats and just jump in and give it a go.
mine refine move refined out from WH and sell in high.

Possible ?
or just join a already established WH corp ?.

With 3 you could "solo" a C2. But you will always be better off in a corp.

A C1/C2 isn't going to yeild you a lot (I've seen figures saying between 50 to 150 million, went I solo I tend to hit that low end in C2s). You willl always have to clear sleepers about 15 minutes after you first enter the site (one time deal per site not so bad), they won't be too hard to clear with a bc (read as Drake.) Your number one problem though will be locals and day-trippers. In a C2 you will be fresh meat and either have to run or have a guard. The reason this is, C2's almost always have a hi, low or null static means LOT of traffic. Most starters corps go for a nice C2 with a C1 or C3 static or move into a C1 with a C2 static. They move in put a tower on most the moons to reduce others ablity to move in without asking or using force. So it might be hard to find a spot to call home. On to of all that you have to fuel your POS, not that hard to do but if the POCO tax on your PI is high and you are always facing loses on your mining ops that expenses for fuel to keep you POS powered can feel pretty high.


It is serously better to get into a corp, go to a C3 or C4 mine for the corp and have them invested in keeping you safe, you'll make more and have more fun... plus the solo route is probably why you are getting bored.

If you don't have enough skills to run a nice money making L4 mission group then you don't have enough to run anything in W space beyond maybe a C2. Also a C3 is going to become an intersection of WTFBBQ at some point it seems now days.

I would recommend you a C2 and try your best to close your exits. Also in the morning you will get a list of names on your scanner, they will all be in a logical group like AAZ, ACZ, AFZ, BAZ and those are the hits that were there at downtime. During your day if you never warp to any of those and you never see another odd name like GHJ pop up you are probably fairly safe. But spam your D-Scan to make sure.

Remember that roid sites and sleeper sites can be seen by all with no probes, cloaky fleets can ruin your day.

Also train a basic alt on one of your accounts to a heron with basic scan skills. Log him off in your hole in case you lose all your pods.

Solo work is fun imo, but joining a wh corp is really the best option, or at least create one. :)

How rude :/


Face is hidden to hide my huge CHIN.

You would be fine, except if you intend on mining, make sure to either a) have a scout on all wormhole entrances, or b) collapse all entrances and do not warp to your fresh static connection. Watch for new anomalies and warp if one appears. People can warp directly to ore sites without scanning so you're dead if you afk mine. (Hopefully they change it back to scannable ore sites)

Wormhole space best space!

I've recently taken over a PI-rich C1 with a HS static, J104335, and I'm inviting other corporations with mining/industrial/PI interests to set up shop for purposes of mutual protection (and, frankly, to benefit my corp through passive PI tax, which is set at 4%). At the moment we have two corporations in the wormhole, each with well defended towers and cadres of pilots who can fend off attacks. As such, if you're interested in trying out wormhole life in an autonomous but relatively safe way without huge expenditure, you might want to consider giving my WH a shot.

The downside, of course, to having multiple corps around is a general lack of sites to run, but they would be C1 sites anyway so that's not much of a loss. If you're interested shoot me an email and we can talk.

But yeah I lived solo out there for 2 years almost. Take my advice I know my ****.

1. If you live in c2 I don't recommend using your t3 ships. Your income isn't high enough to cover how often you get ganked potentially.

2. Use a "dickstar" defense. Fit your tower with a shitload of ecm. 6 of each racial ecm and 6-8 hardeners is plenty. You will not be able to defend yourself solo. Its just not happening. So use the dickstar to make it so inconvenient to push you out that nobody bothers.

3. Use a large tower. There's no reason not to. The fuel costs aren't that bad. I felt like a Moran because I started in a med and had to redo everything not 2 months later.

I use to live in a C2 with C5/NS statics. It was a challenge at first but after I got settled down, it was amazing.
I could farm C5 sites{200m in blue each} & run the core gas sites.
Nullsec exits would provide ice, mining, ratting isk, bpc's from ded sites.

That approach is not for the risk averse & moving is a *****.