Wormholes

Haha, oh boy. First experience was when I was barely three weeks old as a pilot. I joined EVE as wormholes hit, all new and shiny.

Day raiding with corp mates in a drake that somehow stayed together, barely fit at all. I think I was doing Level 3 missions or something, so an evening with another drake and getting half the money for that was an awesome pay lift. Nice guys I flew with at that time, consider all I did was get shot at mostly, and warping in and out of sites as fast as I could as my shield was removed for me by sleepers.

I've unfortunately been addicted to wormholes ever since, and done all kinds of random things with them. Living solo (+ alts) in a small POS in a C1 was probably the highlight aside from the above first experience. Particularly as I got visited by a group of very nice capsuleers who proceeded to incap just about everything I brought with me inside an hour of my arriving. Truly epic experience though.

I consider it a point of acheivement that I have never needed to self destruct, despite all the idiotic things I've done in WHs...!

When Apocrypha released my corp was in Initiative Associates and on a steady decline in activity. While ratting one of our directors told us he found a WH in system. A couple of us jumped in and browsed around for a bit, killed some sleepers in a grav site. We immediately grabbed a couple Orcas and filled them with a tower/parts.

We mostly just farmed the Grav sites, because every time we tried to farm a combat site we got rocked. We mined for months in the home hole and statics until billions were made. We left the hole and proceeded to join Vanguard. pushing the rest of our "good" members out of the corp and into other areas of EVE.

I took myself and 2 other members into a C2-c2/lowsec and farmed that for several months. Eventually I was alone in the C2 so I left leaving the PoS an mods behind. Fast forward a little bit, add some more WHing and here I am.

Joined EVE with the aim of living in a wormhole long term (still is, and only successfully been able to do for a month or so before the hangers were empties and corp disbanded), I tried EVE a couple of times previously for about 1-2 weeks max, but wasn't really able to get into it and see now with most people they get hooked after a couple of times as opposed to from the very first time they tried.

Anyway point is I knew how to use the interface and knew basics of combat so I got straight into it and got talking with a guy who was literally just moving into a wormhole with his small corp(3-4 members) so I thought this was the perfect opportunity, got in the corp and flew over to the highsec system with the entrance (I believe it was a C2, can't remember anymore), flew inside my first wormhole and was extremely excited (this was my first day on a new account as this guy also convinced to create a new account through his buddy affiliate for 50m isk......damn him).

Flew over to the guys who were setting up their POS, and got extremely bored sitting there waiting as they were setting it up, decided to warp to one of the things you can warp to in a wormhole which was a anomaly.. needless to say I got destroyed and swear I got podded too (but now I am not sure if sleepers do actually pop pods? So maybe something completely different happened and there were players, I honestly can't remember). Thought okay this is a very bad idea and will be extremely boring for me so done some researching as to what I can aim towards and fly that can at least kill a single sleeper.

Those guys ended up to be pretty bad corp members and I actually ended up being recruited by the guys who war decced them and spied on them and that all in all turned out really great content to keep me busy while I got some basic skills learned and made sure I didn't get hung up on the typical miner missioner experience (although I've gone through that phase too for a very short time).

So all in all a very negative first experience in terms of living in a wormhole, however as soon as I could fly a drake and cov ops I went straight into day tripping and that was very cool and each one was a great experience which was either me being blown up or just getting stuck in random adventures and journeys inside wh's , anyway that turned into a corp I flew with for a month in a C2 C3/HS static before it broke down as described above and sadly never turned into a long term WH experience. I still day trip every now and then when the opportunity arises but it's fairly hard solo without an alt (and still do a lot of cov ops scanning, and love finding chains to null and back so that's keeping my WH fix sorted in some ways), I actually did a couple of C2 sites last night when a nice C2 opened up in my home system and the owners seemed asleep. It was a little better now with the mobile depots as I could refit and keep a cloak/salvager/scanner on me so could do all on just the drake.

I WILL live in a WH one day.. one day.. it's hard to find the right corp in general and finding the right WH corp seems like a hard task, for now low sec is keeping me very satisfied until the day comes.

Eh, just one thing to tell you, you remind me of me.. Anyway, soon or later you WILL live in wormholes but your going to enjoy it if you get into a group of cool people, and the only problem is going to be that you are gonna regret that you didn't actually started living in there before.. Anyway, you can check out the thread Notable wormhole groups..

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=101842&find=unread

Spent a year with a C2 mining corp, which was cool at the start, learning all the basics of wormholes and stuff. They didn't ever explore the chain and kept the statics closed for a typical carebear sense of security though. One day I decided enough was enough and applied to a corp in Transmission Lost called Cold Moon Destruction. That was when I REALLY started to learn about wormholes. And the rest as they say, is history

Was a newbie to eve back then. Couldn't even do lvl 4 missions. A corpmate mentioned a quick way to get isk mining wh gas. I'd already bought a few plex and decided to buy the gas harveting skillbook. Jumped on a dessie and went out to mine some gas. Didn't even have scanning skills, learned how to make a bookmark & always bookmark the exit, got violenced by some sleepers, learned how to spam dscan, etc etc. Ended up making like 10m isk for a short amount of time involved. It didn't take long before I really looked into WH's & moved into one. Started in a C1 after watching how to setup a tower on youtube.

Lived in WH's ever since & I find K-space wierd.

Scanned down a C3 in a buzzard, came back to run the sites in a drake.

Friend logged in some time later and decided to tag along with me. After two hours of killing sleepers we warp back to the wormhole and found it had despawned. Ended up self destructing my drake, my friend's megathron, and almost 300 mil in sleeper loot first time out.

Decided we'd live in wspace from that point forward.

Yeah this thread delivers.

Bumping for more stories :)

First contact with wormholes has been during my second month of eve. Since missions are fun for around 2days into the game, and the officers of my corp (I G) those days just made an introduction to wormholes for us rookies, decided to just hook up with a friend and dive into the firstbest wh we could find.

Shortly afterwards, I found myself in an oracle, together with him in a myrmidon running sites. During those sites, a drake warped to us att 100k... We have been really confused and our two wh-mentors back in the day (aquila and dem) told us to shoot them. So I did.
The drake warped off, and we decide to investigate in local... Stating we're just here for those anoms - and got told that since we're rookies, we'd be free to do so.

Around a week afterwards, a mail was sent out asking who wanted to join the corp-wh-communoty, so I joined them \¤/
Those former IG officers formed blue-fire shortly afterwards, haven't left wormholes ever since.

Also, been playing with a dedicated scanner from day 1, always wondering how people manage without one.