EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've heard a little about worm holes, but not much of it was good. Why do players explore worm holes and to what benifit?

I've never used worm holes, but i believe there are mining opportunities on the other side, but they are also quite dangerous. Be careful for other players.

Sorry, should have said, planetary interaction. http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Planetary_Interaction

Sleepers sites and the awsome salvage !

The high ==> deep sovereign null wormholes are indeed a lot of fun. Makes it even easier than ever before to get cloaked and go AFK deep in someone's prized space.

Works better if your character is named something like "NotACynoAlt IPromise".

beware the holes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bHLdYVELWrQ

You can do a lot of things in wormhole systems that you can do in K-space (Known Space, area shown on the map). Killing rats, salvaging, exploration, PvP, etc, etc. Wormhole systems also allow some some security as the entrances/exits change regularly. This requires a bit of effort for people that want to get into the wormholes and may affect how the security works.

Wormholes operate in different manners:

- Some wormholes will lead directly from one part of K-space to another. This can allow for rapid transport of goods, fleets, etc. Especially handy if you want to get to a market hub from Null sec. It can save you dozens of jumps depending on where the wormholes lead. Or allow you to make surprise attacks on enemies by jumping deep into their territory.

- Other wormholes will lead to Wormhole systems. These systems are like regular K-space systems, however, there are some things noticeably absent. Stations, for example, do not exist in W-space systems. People will live out of a POS (Player owned starbase). As previously mentioned, you can do a lot of things in W-space that you can do in K-space.

- Class 1-3 wormhole systems have connections to K-space, while Class 4-6 wormholes are only connected via wormhole systems.

- Wormhole systems can have different effects on your ship: Shield/Armor modifiers, Cap modifiers, Weapons modifiers. Some are good, some are bad, depending on what you're doing.

Wormholes - EVE Wiki

There's no business like wormhole business!

The best thing about wormholes? The unknown!

Every day you'll never know exactly where your wormhole will connect, who's in it with you, or what resources will spawn for you to harvest. Wormholes aren't simply a location - they're an adventure.

If you like excitement and a sense of the unknown in your daily EVE-life then wormhole space is fantastic.

If you're looking to make good ISK then wormholes are once again a fantastic location.

And of course if you're just looking to murder and gank people using stealthy/sneaky methods then wormholes are once again a fantastic location to find ganks and/or PVP.

Maybe you hate Empire-space, and just want to be left the **** alone. Again, wormholes are for you.

Maybe you just want a chunk of space to call "yours"? Wormholes.

Wormholes are great, my characters would never live anywhere else.

For what it is worth, my corp with 4 members that multi-boxed two-to-four accounts each, would do C5 and C6 sites with one-to-four capital escalations. We typically averaged >700 million to 1.4 billion ISK each, per 4 hour session, largely dependent on luck, and how many wormholes we had to roll to find a decent system.

If memory serves, it took something like 11 minutes to clear a C5 site. We would clear around 14 or more sites per 4 hour session. We didn't like doing C6 sites, as they have a lot more non-battleship Sleepers that rarely dropped ribbons.

As for Planetary Interaction (PI), I was earning just over 3 billion ISK a month doing extraction and P1 processing in w-space, and P2/P3 processing in hisec. I had to use a freighter to haul the P1 out of w-space. Two characters extracting in w-space, one character processing in hisec.

Oh yeah, major pro tip there: bookmark the exit. TMOT.