Wormholes

Which class of wormhole are you looking for to live in?

Class 1/2:
- Scanning Skills
- PI (for better ISK income and especially in this wormhole classes mandatory for ISK income)
- Covert Ops ship (Stealth Bomber / Scanfrig)
- Battlecruiser T2 Fitting
- Gallente Industrial
- Venture with T2 Gas Harvester (guess you may have that already?)

If you go higher with the classes just add skills and ships in this order to fly:
- Battleships
- T3
- T2 (Recons preferably)
- Capitals

The more you can fly of those the better. Of course all of them could be useful in C1 and C2 as well, but become more important the higher you go. Especially T3 are quite often the number 1 choice to be skilled above class 2. Due to there small signature they can tank sleepers very well. They put out some decent damage and fittet for PvP they are more flexible than any other ship class.

Just my impression and opinion. People from higher classes can help you probably better.

being caldari if you are doing c1-c2 a well fitted drake will serve you well assuming the environmental effects are not against shield tanking.

As for the gal industrial that is no longer race specific since oddesy the badger will be fine if you already have it.

for c4 and above most groups will do combat sites in bs with carrier or logi support c5 and c6 will add dreadnought.

grav sites can be profitable but dangerous use retrievers and coveters not macanaw or hulk unless you have friends and want bait for a trap but remember that you will only be able to refine at 75% efficiency and hauling the ore to hi sec will not be practical without a hi sec static

once your main has the skills you are looking for train the other 2 character on your account for pi and a hauler that will allow you to triple your income

assault frigates interceptor are both worth training as pvp starting ships but coming out of faction warfare I assume you likely have those already.

Living in a C4 has advantages and disadvantages.

Every wormhole system has at least one static wormhole - a wormhole that will always respawn after it collapses and always have the same defining characteristics. And C2s have two statics (which makes C2s a popular place for a wormhole corp to live - reliable connections).

In C1, C2, and C3 - the static will ALWAYS be a wormhole to known space - high, low, or null sec.

A C2 will also have a static to unknown wormhole space, but it could end up being any class. I've seen C2 systems with a static C4 - meaning there will always be a C4 system connected to that C2. This kind of C2 is pretty popular because you always have access to a lucrative C4, and are able to go further into the wormhole pipeline if you want.

C4, C5, and C6 all have 1 static leading to another wormhole. C5s are statistically more likely to have a static linking to another C5, or less often a C6. C6s are statistically more likely to have a static linking to a C6 or a C5.

C4s have an equal chance of having a static that links to any of the wormhole classes.

The key to remember is that only 1-3 are guaranteed a wormhole exit into known space. There are also roaming wormholes that are more random, but I won't get into those. If you're in a C4 or higher, you might not have a connection to known space. Since you can't sell your gas and nanoribbons in wormhole space, and since you can't buy anything out there, this is a logistical problem. Likewise for C5 and C6. It's possible to wind up with the following chain trying to get out of WH space:

C6 > C5 > C4 > C3 > K space.

And it doesn't even have to be neatly descending in order like that. I knew some guys who ran a PvE fleet in a C4 and the wormhole collapsed after only half their fleet had jumped back into the home system. Those guys spent the rest of the evening getting out of there. I think they had to go through something like 8 systems before they FINALLY found a K-space exit. And it was in freaking Arridia of all places - deep lowsec. They had to blockade run their battleships out of there to get to safety. It can happen.

Anyway, that's often a lot of scanning and travel to get to market. And if someone in your chain turns out to be hostile, it becomes a whole new ballgame.

People who want to set up a quiet little POS and mind their own business in peace seem to gravitate to either C1 or C3. People looking for trouble or excitement often go for C2s and up.

C5s are popular amongst the largest and most powerful wormhole alliances, and are often a target of evictions. Since C5s tend to have a static connecting to another C5 - C5s are usually part of a big C5 superhighway where the major wormhole players poke at each other in often fairly large PvP fleets you'd usually only see in null sec. They are hotly contested and if your corporation wants to live in one, they usually need to be pretty competent to stay there.

But consider this as well - the major wormhole alliances like Adhocracy or No Holes Barred usually have high barriers to entry for new recruits. Often you need to basically be flying not only stealth bombers, but a fully skilled Tengu and other high-requirement vessels. Some even have Dreadnaughts as a requirement. So you're welcome to try for a C5 corp. Just realize they may have too high a skill requirement for a new player. C4s are probably a mixed bag in the skill requirements, as are anything lesser - and you're likely to have more success there.

Just remember, it's not just the class of wormhole you live in that matters - it's the class their STATIC connects to that matters - that's were the real action is. Some C2 wormhole corps don't do hardly anything in their own C2 system. They spend most of their activity in their static C4 if they have one, or prowling the wormhole chains looking for fresh prey.

Gallente Industrial is the ultimate hauler hauler skill for WH, much more than before Odyssey in my opinion! Because you can fit them for max agility / Tank without loosing space for their special cargos, which are most important in wormholes: PI Hangar bay and in some cases ORE Hanbare bay (depending on what you are doing in wormholes).
Especially agility is essential and can make the difference if hunters catch you or not!
As soon as you add agility to a badger you are loosing a lot of cargo space with each module / rig you change!

Edit: @Mr. Kidd: Think you forgot Primary Skill No6: Having as much alts as possible.

These are my recommendations:
http://sihwm.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/have-you-got-what-it-takes.html

I can live with that alt.