Wormholes

You do not actually scan down the sigs in the video, you just scan most to >25%, then ignore them. Even those you do scan down you immediately ignore... in a real situation, you'd want to make bookmarks and examine them (in case of wormholes) which takes about as much time as scanning them.

Using DSP's I can for example come into a C3, make one scan and immediately know that 12 of the 24 sigs in the system are no incoming wormholes and with a very high probability no wormholes at all but only mag/radar sites (outgoing wormholes of the same size are very rare unless it's a C3 with nullsec static). Thus if I want to know all open wormholes I can just ignore half the sigs in the system, and the hard-to-scan half at that.

In some classes, the static wormhole even has a unique size, so with one DSP scan I can always find the static's signature at once. Certainly not bad for a skill that only takes two weeks.

edit: I just realized that I misread the word "invaluable" in your post... the technique is not bad although I would combine it with the use of DSP's.

Certainly does the job in class 3s! What sort of wh-types are they then? And that arrangement if for locating wormholes only. I've never found a wh sig that requires as much strength to find as a mag site, every single one was on 4AU range.

Sure your skills are good?

All right, I basically do it the same way. But I do bookmark scanned wormholes at once, because if you get disconnected just before you're done with everything, you lose all of your work




The difficulty of signatures is not directly related to the class of wormhole. There are just different kinds of wormholes and they have different signature sizes. Example: The H296 wormhole (C5 to C5) is very big, same size as a K162 or a C1 to Hisec hole. Whereas C3 to Nullsec (K346) is of the smallest size and as 'hard' to scan as a RAD or MAG site. There is no wormhole signature that is smaller than w-space RAD/MAG sites.

look, you can argue all you like but anyone who cares to can go look up the raw data on sig size for WHs and compare it to mags.
i dont care enough to do it and dont remember the WH type codes so i just listed the connection types I know to be in the same or smaller size category as mags. take it or leave it.

Interesting. I was about to concede that I stand corrected, because I have never encountered most of the wormhole types listed in the one category smaller than mag/rad sites, that is, holes to C6 from C1,3 or 4.

But, according to this list the wormhole M267 from C5 to C3 is also in the smallest 0.02 band, and I can definitely confirm that this is not correct. M267 is the static of the system I've been living in for several months now, and I have scanned down hundreds of them. It is size 0.05 (or rather 0.06 with my skills), just like mag/rad.

So maybe those other exotic wormholes are indeed size 0.02, but if there is one error in that list, I guess there could be more...

edit: At least one more error: C2 to C6 is R474 not R747, and it's not size 0.02 either. I found one of those just a few days ago and it was size 0.05 as well. (It led to TLC's C6 btw and there was a good fight :))

for this you do not need to scann, just use the pod express and selfdestruct !! or call in local and ask for beeing podded

Some very good tips in this thread. Thanks to all you ppl for sharing