Wormholes

Hello friendly and open-hearted space dwellers! :)

As topic stated, need advice. Currently having corp with one friend, and realy boored of l4 missions.
The questions are.
Is it possible-adviced to station POS with only two of us?
maybe thats imposible? how many ppl is requered?
how much isk is requered to station and hold one?

Playing for about 4 months, wallet balance is stable, can buy mach, but that requers some pimp to shine :)
friend is about 3 months old char, and flys only droneboats.

my skills in gunnery, core, tank related skills are good.


Sorry for bad english, it's not my native(4months studying :D)


Best regards,
Brazys Trumparankis

I would recommend stopping by here Talocan United and have a read around there. It should have the answers to the questions you asked here and some you didn't ask.

Failing that, do as the above poster said and join an established corp.

Jump into it, but do it with a corp. Best way to do it.

I moved into w-space my 7th week in game, with about 2m sp, and haven't looked back; I did it by joining a small C2 corp.

Edit:

I reread your OP.

The most fundamental skills you need for a WH corp is the ability to scan (well) whilst flying around cloaked. I.e. a cheetah, or perhaps even a cloaky Loki. Forget the Mach for now as it is a prime target for us hunters (or....ignore me at your own peril ). As for your friend, he should look at the Helios and Proteus asap.

Good luck.

It's possible to run a POs with just one person, but it just means the cost of fueling the pos cannot be split in many ways. In other words, make sure you can afford the 350m-400m (probably higher now with the ice speculation) a month for a large, or 90mish for a small.

As others have said, you're probably best off joining an existing WH corp.

Good luck!

The most important aspect to living in W-space is having friends. The next most important aspect to W-space is being respectful and living by your word; shoot people, but don't be a jerk about it. Shooting them earns their respect. Smack-talking or back-stabbing can earn you an eviction.

Be prepared for losses. If you can't stomach the very real possibility that you will die, be podded back to hisec (don't forget to upgrade your clone again), and have to scan your way back into your home possibly using a very low skill scan alt, then you may want to wait a while until you can divorce yourself from that attachment to space pixels. We love pods out here; don't be alarmed if your attackers hold your pod a little longer to make sure everyone can get on the killmail.

The thing with W-space is that everything you own is vulnerable, from the moment it leaves K-space until the moment it returns. There is no safety net, no Concord, no save haven, and no docking up in a station to hide. There are bubbles, though. Bubbles are fun. Even your "home" in W-space, your POS, could explode while you watch from the sidelines helpess against a superior force. It happens to all of us though, so don't feel bad. Pick yourself up and keep on going.

If you can handle all of the above, then start looking at the other information. And prepare yourself for a wild ride!

Have balls of steel too

If you can easily run all lvl4 missions you probably have the basic DPS ability to clear most w-space sites up to, and including C3. You would probably have some trouble with the tougher radar / mag onesto start with, and C3 anoms would not be a push-over until you became more familiar with them.

However, being able to clear the sites is such a small part of surviving, enjoying, and prospering in w-space. W-space is a very different environment compared with empire space, and you will have many, many things to learn.

The approach I took was to setup solo initially in a C2 and then, when that got easy, move up to a C3 … and so-on up to C5. In the end I moved back to a C3 because it represented, to me, the best balance of income per effort for a ‘solo’ player (My ‘solo’ here usually involving several alts active at any one time).

I do not agree with those posters who suggest PvP effort as being either beneficial or useful for defense. That is the case for large groups holding high-end w-systems but, IMHO, the best defence in low-end w-systems is to not provide an attractive target. Make your POS ordinary in every way, don’t flaunt shiny / capital ships if you have them, help visitors when you can, don’t make yourself readily available to be killed, and maintain local-silence pretty much all the time. Careful maintenance of your wormholes - static, de novo, and K162s - is a critical element of managing your risks in w-space.
I spent some years as a hermit in w-space. I lost a number of ships there, made squillions of isk, learnt an awful lot, generally enjoyed myself, and never had a POS seriously attacked during the whole time … a few attention-seeking plinks only. I did get a few loudmouths threatening to pop my POSes, but my complete silence tended to have them losing interest pretty quickly.

W-space is not for everyone, but it can be a lot of fun and there is a lot of neat stuff to learn. Go for it, and good luck.