Wormholes

Hello all, I am looking to get into wormholes and would like to know the best course of action for what I am looking for. I have been living the low sec solo for a while now so I know how to get around safely. I have a budget of about 1.1billion ISK and would setup a POS once inside the WH. I would be flying solo with combat skills in mostly Amarr and Caldari. NO I can not fly a Tengu, but what type of WH would you suggest for flying solo. I would also most likely be running 3 PI characters inside the WH with moderate skills.

Basically what setup would you suggest for a solo pilot, and what type of income should I expect from running a moderate amount of sites a day?
Thank you for your time.

A lot of what you know about flying relatively safely in low sec will go out the window once you enter wormhole space.

I highly reccomend that you have alts with atleast bare minimum scanning skills in there as without a few corp mates theres a good chance 1 or more characters end up getting podded out to k-space at some point potentially losing any known connections to your wormhole system if you don't have a backup scanner or 2.

The drake is currently the bread and butter ship for solo pilots in wormhole space as the cost of it is quickly covered and it can handle all the solo doable sites fairly well tho its expected to get some tweaks or even debuffs at some point that might make it less useful.

TBH the income you can make will vary hugely in the spawn rate at any given time of the system you are in, how much effort you put into making ISK i.e. crashing the wormhole system static to find other viable wormholes to run sites in and so on.

As a solo pilot I would reccomend before putting up a POS, etc. that you do a bit of day tripping - either take a stealth bomber or similiar and familiarise yourself with wormhole space a bit or take a cloaky scout and a drake and run a few sites in a quiet wh (not quite sure what level of awareness of wormholes you have).

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This is the best advice.

If you choose to ignore that, just by a pos and plunk it down in a C2 and see how you go. Just make sure you can scan and you'll figure the rest out.

The only truth really.

I don't see why we can't respect his desire to experiment it alone.
If you want to try it alone please do it ! Follow your own vision ! Don't be so damn boring normal !
Then maybe you'll fail and join a corpo, but at least you'll know why, instead of blindly following others' opinions. At least you'll have tried !
And maybe you'll be successful.
Are you a pioneer or not ? Isn't WH all about challenging the mysteries of the deep universe ?
Heck ! A bit of adventure in this too "optimized" world ! Go on and write us an exciting blog !

Part of the fun of w-space is experimenting and challenging the unknown but I'd rather people were a little more sucessful at the early stages and became proper residents of wormhole space than put off from the start when something like this happens (based on a true event tho some of this is assumed and I can't remember all the exact details):

2 man corp with 1 drake pilot, 1 drake/hauler pilot and a covert ops alt with no/little previous experience of wormholes finds an empty C2 with a static highsec and C3 and decides to move in.

Unfortunatly for them a C5 corp looking for an exit to k-space to haul stuff out scans into them via the C3 and finds their hauler and drake sitting unprotected in space beside the onlining control tower and does nasty things to them podding them out to k-space. Their covert ops pilot for whatever reason decides to warp to the highsec and jump out. The C5 corp sets up a camp on the highsec wormhole so their haulers can safely go to and from highsec and despite the covert ops pilot trying to jump in several times hes always forced to jump back out.

Eventually the highsec wormhole is massed and collapses when the final orca jumps with all their characters in highsec - to the best of my knowledge they never found a way back to it. About a month later their control tower is finished off by a 3rd party.

there are corps that have been in WHs since the very beginning, 3+ years now, and they are still learning and evolving new things and tactics about WHs.
If you really want to go solo go for it, but the mere fact that the op posted this thread means he's not interested in going in blind.

joining a corp is by far the best way to learn the WH ropes quickly.

GL

To weigh in one your final point mate, regarding cash income.

If you havent run a WH Sleeper site before, there are a few things you need to know. The lower the class of wormhole, the higher the dependance of the RANDOM drop of MELTED NANORIBBONS. In a c2 site, ive had as little as 5 million loot, up to 150 million. So the income is not something anyone can shoot your way.

We currently farm out a c3 - the sites are harder than c2, and can be hard to solo if you dont have the right ship- and we ran last night, and got between 25mil -> 120mil per site(TOTAL Loot)

Solo wise, you are going to be limited to c3 and below. MAYBE even c2 and below, Depending on ships and skills.

What im trying to say is, don't get all depressed when your first few sites get you sweet sod all.

Hope that helps!

See you in W-Space very soon!

Matt