Wormholes

I was wondering myself if fighters do any damage to sleeper rats. Assigned fighters would bring 500-600 dps depending on skills, so it may let one tank more and approach harder sites easier. Anyway, sleepers do enjoy killin drones so if i was to use any id go for the caldari or minnie ones who have better shields and might survive more on the battlefield of farming.

Sleepers only kill your fighters if you dont rep them, they can tank a few battleships no problem.

I use caldari ones, they do decent damage, gallante do better damage but they have a smaller optimal so on targets that are moving fairly quickly (ie crusers) the caldari ones are better and i mostly just use fighters for clearing up cruiser sleepers while cap escalating.

really though, if you can use a carrier dont waste time in sub-c5s with it.

1' c3's see the most traffic from systems with a static c3 of their own.
2 you will farm the c3 out quickly and be unable to connect to other wh systems by your own terms you be depending on random spawns.
3 c3's with a static hs is pretty much useless to live in but awesome for people that live in c4'-6's to use as a transit hub getting out ( aka people that can **** 30b into a pvp fleet like nothing)

i could keep going but i think you can get my point that living in a c3 with a static hs is a very very very very bad idea especially if you are going to house rorquals and capitals in it. a c3 with a static null is a good idea as it will detour people from using it as a hub but the point still stands that being a small man operation looking to pve with capitals and god knows what else invested in the operation is going to get you raped like a 80 pound white boy with long hair in prison. if u guys move to c3 space you will be spending many countless hours hiding in your pos (prison cell).

im dead serious about this all, what your trying to do with this c3 is precisely what dozens of corps are setup in wh space to prey on. if you pursue this you will be found you will be killed and you will lose many billions and whom ever finds you will have a sadistic grin on their face as they do it.

what i recommend is a c4 with a static c4, c4's are VERY very good money with minimal risk investment and require only a few people to do sites. do not bother with capitals unless you have a large man corp, do not field any carriers in anything under a c5 due to the fact it is too risky for the isk per hour and a pvpers wet dream. c4's are also relatively quiet so you will be able to mine, the rorqual isnt too heavy a investment and will help you majorly with c4 mining so go with it.
a fleet setup as simple as 2 nightmares setup to cap chain and shield transport each other could run sites in a c4 if you are careful about it.

confirming c4's are so empty that most people interested in PvP wont even check there.

seriously though, whats the point only doing solo PvE in this game? may aswell just play a single player game with no subscription. wormholes offer you the chance to do both. you make so much isk in c5's and c6's isk is rarely a consideration. thats why anyone living in them doesnt care that much when they lose 5bil dreads, there replaceable, dont get trapped in the endless cycle of making isk to make more isk to make more isk etc. is it really fun to just see numbers in your wallet?

If you are leaving null to get away from PvP, w-space is probably not the place for you. I assume whatever area in null you lived in your alliance had every other alliance in a 50 jump radius blued up. W-space is the complete opposite. Everyone is a hostile, and they are just sitting in your system cloaked up waiting.