Wormholes

The above is great if you can afford it, but at min you need a large POS. Mediums just attract the wrong attention as it screams newbie. I recommend either the d*ckstar or a resist POS (remember resists go inside the POS) to start.

Multiple POS owned by the corp are a horrible idea. If people want a POS have them make another corp for their indy alts and create an alliance. Let them manage the POS rather than burn out your guys. At most you want a newbie POS, and trusted POS.

Settle on a T1 low skill scouting frigate, and industrial hauling ship. Require all members to train the couple of days to fly them and the standard T1 modules (probes, cloak, cargo extenders). Keep a couple in the shared array. That way you are never in the position that you have people but they can't probe or haul.

Don't build up a lot of stuff in the POS. Sooner or later a corpmate is going to rob you or you'll get sieged and steam rolled. Every month do a spring cleaning of valuable stuff you haven't used in a month or so. Keep your isk reserves up enough to be able to buy another POS, and basic ships before you start buying T3s, dead space mods, and faction ships.

Be prepared to fight with a set of cheap BCs, Cruisers and Logi. If some challenges you to a fight. Ask for decent terms for a balanced fight and consider your fleet's destruction a learning experience and as well as paying the please don't wipe us off the map tax.

PS- I always want at least one large gun to pop the idiot parking an uncloaked frigate "outside gun range".

I would strongly recommend making your first wh a C1. It won't be permanent, but you should learn the basics before secluding yourself in a c4>c3 wormhole. Or as the previous posters have done, trial for a month in another corporation.

Logistics
I hope you have an orca AND a cloaky hauler.

POS
Have you ever tried setting up a POS? Maintained one for over a month? Some WHs have enough PI to support 70% of POS fuel, but 30% materials must still be hauled into the POS. In addition you need 2-3 characters doing PI to make it work. Also please keep 3+ months of fuel ready to be loaded in case of emergency.

PVE
C4 sites are decent ISK, but the ranges between sleeper spawns are large 150k sometimes. C3 sites can be solo in Legion or Tengu and certainly now Maruaders.

PVP
Always check for new signatures. An incoming wormhole can open at any time. It can come from someone else's static, low or null, etc. If you are less than 5-10 people, get your ships safe in the POS and scan the new signature completely. You need to know who your new neighbors are going to be. Bubble your connections if you want to keep them open. This will slow down an incoming threat. Understand DSCAN and press it every 5 seconds. If you see anything get safe and start scouting.

Alt Characters
1. You'll need at least 1 scanning alt which never leaves. If you leave and your connection behind you collapses for any reason, you are stuck out of your system for good. With 1 alt in system, you'll have to wait for a dynamic kspace connection, preferably high or low sec. This might take a while. Scan daily, if you find nothing log off and try again the next day or 2. You never know who has already scouted you, and if they might be waiting on the other side of your static connection.
2. You'll need a hauler alt, Orca and Cloak transport, should have Cov Ops and scanning skills
3. Your main for PVE/PVP, should have Cov Ops and scanning skills
More alts if desired


Good Luck and Have Fun!

Im considering all the answers i have gotten so far:)
As for member poses, i will do the alliance approach as mentioned.
I am now considering a c3-c3 aswell as a c4-c3, but still i want one wich can make nanite paste, so i can offer a corp buy service:)
Seems nanite paste holes are far between:p uninhabited ones atleast.
I do think im able tofill most roles myself incase i wont get any corpies:p
4 accounts. 2x tengu capable, 2x blockade runner capable. 1 freighter capable. 1 orca capble, and all covops/ scannning skills trained

I would suggest a C4 > C3 for a small new corp (2-10 noobies), I lived in one for about a month by myself and the only limitation I had was lack of play time.


- Easiest logistics without having a static direct high

- Very quiet, few corps pick C4 as their static as they are not the best area to get PVP, solo isk, fleet isk, or logistics

- A small fleet of low sp characters can run C4 sites, and C3's are the best for solo

- Many C3 > Low have solo ratters that don't pay attention to new sigs/dscan giving you some minor pvp

The only pain is rolling the static, but I am used to the ease of rolling C5 holes and was rolling the C3's by myself

Once you get above 10 active noobies or even 5 experienced players the C4 will seem really limited though


C3 > C3 don't exist, all C3's have a kspace static


After your in wormholes for a bit of time running sites, you will probably forget about industry


If you try to do everything yourself you will get burned out really fast

At the mo we have 3 incoming wormholes plus our HS static. Lots of things to do, need to shoot someone with my new Vindicatii

Do you know anything about wh's or you just trolling

Not quite sure I understand the logic to have "second line, third line, and fourth line" POS's. If someone is going to go through the effort of reinforcing a Dickstar or Resistar in a C3/C4, shooting offlined tower's will be trivial. Only way your "Defense in Depth" strategy would work is if all 4 towers were online.

Best thing to do for backup towers is an orca alt with an emergency fit (cloak, probe launcher, mwd, and as much tank as you can fit) at a safe spot. Keep backup scan ships in the ship hangar and two or three towers with the mods you want. This way, if you wake up to a reinforced POS, you can setup a new one the bad guys have no clue about til they log in (assuming you wait to set the tower up until after they've all logged off) giving your corp an extra two or three days to get stuff safe or call in reinforcements.

Ugh my Smartphone failed me, anyways I was trying to tell that I made some rough calc's closing hole with orca, to close one it takes roughly 8 jumps so it takes about that 30-40 mins. (Polarization taken into account.)

You only get polarized on the second jump trough same hole in rapid succession.

Aakkonen