Wormholes

oh wait

I've done some more reading and there are sleepers at all sites and engage at 350km so scratch that idea.

Such a pitty that new players seem to have so little to do in wormhole space.

You don't know how many wormholes appear in my probe scanner results then.



I'd expected this anyway and planned for it

with the ventures ship bonus you can get 80 M^3 with T2 Gas Harvesters compared to 100 with a BC. But it has a 5K ore hold for gas and it has the 2 stab bonus so it has great GTFO ability. It's also CHEAP.

partly

the venture can fit 2 gas havesters and have a 100% role bonus to them so a venture set up like that can do the work of a normal ship with 4 harvesters.

We also get a 5% reducation in harvesting duration per frigate skill. We also get a 5000m3 ore hold to store the gas.

But of course a battlecruiser can equibe the armour and protection to fight any sleepers in the site. Though the venture only costs 500000ISK or so compared to the 50m ISK battlecruiser.

With Mining Frigate IV, the Venture will harvest as much as a BC with 5 gas harvesters. With Mining Frigate V, you'll harvest about 11% (?) more than a BC. So all in all the Venture is better.

I would also highly recommend gas harvesting V - tech 2 gas harvesters mine at 2x the rate of tech 1, and it's a 1x skill. In my opinion, it's a must have for any serious harvester.

Also, if you're going to be diving into wormholes, don't forget to check out low-sec and null exits that you might find along the way, as those systems can have gas clouds used to make combat boosters that can be quite lucrative - yesterday I mined out a site with 2 ventures in null sec that was worth about 120M isk.

Some no-sec gas sites are unguarded, but the gases themselves are volatile, with random bursts of about 1000 damage in a particular damage flavour.

Knowledge yourself on the nebula in question and dress appropriately:
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Ladar_Site_List

Hmm, point.
EVElopedia's not exactly reknowed for being up to date - it's still calling them LADAR sites, after all.
It's been a while since I was in a null gas site so they may well have changed going by your experience.

Still, OP: give it a go - remember your Venture is double WCS'd and dead cheap - be bold, fill your 5k and gtfo.
(and sell gas to me)

Couple questions in this thread;

1. Harvesting Gas in wormholes is not difficult.
- as has been mentioned doing this in occupied and active systems is inherently more risky (no real surprise)
- C2 sites can be depleted by a single skilled Venture, many times faster than the sleeper rats spawn
- C3 and above will need more than one trip for several sites, and more than one venture/trip for the larger ones
- the rats in those will pop ventures plenty fast, so a combat ship on hand/ready to clear them is adviseable
2. Ventures are far more efficient and economical than battlecruisers setup to harvest gas.
- hands down
- fit a stab in the single low slot on the venture and then people will have to either bring a bubble or a faction point to catch you (and if they expend that level of effort for a very cheap hull and, hopefully, a cheap clone then they deserve the kill no questions asked)

So you thought wormhole space was easy, right?
Come back when your indy toon gets to level 25.