Wormholes

I am not in a WH corp.
I am not living inside a WH with a permanent POS
I am spending weeks in a WH at a time, pvp/pve

Maybe i am missing something very obvious here, as i am not part of WH corp, but what's with the 'a', 'b' notation for the WH BMs that everyone seems to use?

First C5 from your root is called "C5a"
Second C5 from your root is called "C5b"
Third C5 from your root is called "C5c"

OK, fair enough, although i'd think "C51", "C52", "C53" makes more sense, but i get the appeal of a letter being more visually distinctive from the WH class. I know that "20" is the 20th system in the chain. I don't remember from the top of my head what sequential number letter "U" belongs to.

Now, what happens when there are 2 C5 WHs in your system? Which one becomes "a", which one becomes "b"? How do i now BM the 2 different "branches"? Do i continue with "C5a", "C5b" into each branch? So now i have 2 "C5bs" in 2 different branches.

Finally, what i really don't get is why will the next C3 become a C3a? "It's 'a' cause it's the first C3 in this chain" what i've been told.

So: C5a, C5b, C5c, C3a, C5d
How does: "a, b, c, a, d" make any kind of sequential sense? Not only do i have to go back and look at how many existing C5s or C3s i have in the chain just to name this, but do i really care that this is the "first C3" after the last 3 C5s?

Which brings me to the important question:
What is the goal of the WH BM naming convention?
- Is it to uniquely identify each system? (In which case, the C5a, C5b doesn't work when you are facing 2 starting branches)
- Or is it to facilitate easy return back to home system? (In which case "a, b, c, a, d" doesn't help at all to identify where in the chain you are)

I must be missing something very obvious here, cause everyone seems to use this, so much so that Tripwire tool is accommodating this naming convention

Its to name each wh uniquely. If you have 2 different branches name them c5a c5b c5c c5d. To denote the way home we use ! i.e. !c5a

You just name the whs as you scan them so theres no rhyme or reason to it other then its easier to say 'get to c2c orca to gank!' then get to J125643

Wormholes leading away from "home" would be bookmarked as:

.[ABC] WH: C5

Wormholes leading to "home" would be bookmarked as:

*[ABC] WH: Home

This way the way back is always at the top. I use the notes in the bookmark to drag the J number from the client into the bookmark.

Ok so the system we use is super simple.
You have a home system, that is the system of your origin and one you always start with. For us its Banana, a c5 system with H296 static (c5).

So the naming convention goes: Banana -> Static
Chain looks like: Banana -> Static
If that static has a c5 connected to it then the bookmark is called: Static ->c5a
But the chain looks like: Banana -> Static -> c5a
If our static has a second c5 connected to it then the bookmark will be: Static ->c5b
But the chain will look like:
Banana ->Static -> c5a
....................V
..................c5b

Basically the second letter in the naming convention of c5 systems is the order in which its found within the chain. Its just keeps on going. Any c5 that opens into Banana (basically we are their static) goes in the reverse order starting with c5z. So if someone on comms yells for people to go to c5x for a fight then they know they need to go into the offchain and not through the static. So a chain can look like this:

...................................................................................c2a
.....................................................................................^
...........c3z..................................................................c5c
.............^......................................................................^
c5y <- c5z <- Banana ->Static -> c5a -> c3a -> c3b - > lowsec
..v........................................................v
.c2z...................................................c5b -> nullsec

The goal of the naming conventions is to give Bookmarks the same unique names as you would to the system in your mapping application. It allows your corp/alliance members to quickly look up which system they need to go to.

Oh and the other concept is return bookmarks. We use a simple self-centered system. All wormholes lead to Banana. Meaning that any and every return bookmark is not named and is simply labeled as "wormhole". If you want to get back you simply warp to all the ones with that name.


P.S. Last bit I want to address towards k-space naming. Follow the idea that laziness is your friend, if the system has one null sec then leave the BM named as c5a -> null, or c5a -> low. If it has more then one exit of same type then you name them with the Region name, if they have more then one exit to the same region then you give system name.

Serious question, is there any benefit or advantage in knowing the distance of the system from your home system?

That system still is too complicated. But it's better than the crazy BS over engineered systems above you.

Your all so so wrong in your naming, your ideas are so over engineering and pron to aberrant readings.

This is the system i highly recommend you adopt:

First of you should dispense with letters and numbers, instead use star signs to indicate the class of a WH that's what there there for right?

♈ - Aries class 1
♉ - Taurus class 2
♊ - Gemini class 3
♋ - Cancer class 4
♌ - Leo class 5
♍ - Virgo class 6

Each chain has its own greek letter, so your static will be α (Alpha chain) and any new WH into home system gets its own designation ß ( beta) Γ (Gamma) you get it.

Then you need a connection so say your new static has a ♌ (leo) (Class5) connection this would be BM as α♌, if there is more than one you should use roman numerals as not to confuse people with the J-numbers of the wh's themselves.

So your second leo hole down your beta chain should read as follows: ß♌Ⅰ --> ß♌Ⅱ, so an Fc would call on comm's for people to meet on Beta / Leo / ii IN Beta / Leo / i.

All WH's leading home should be book marked by a fraction depending how close to home you are, so if your one jump out the return would be ½ if your 4 jumps out the return should be ¼ and so on.

This system us fool proof and you should all adopt it tomorrow.

Sometimes an added layer of complexity is a good thing, if I see that someone can't figure out BM naming and Siggy then its probably time for them to go back to k-space.

Our kinda look like that.

Wormhole (direction for home)
C5
C5-2
C5-3
NS

As for comm, we have a website with mapping, we just use the system name (JXXXXXX) or if the chain isn't very long or complicated we sometime say the C2 after the static or something like that.

This would explain why the parts of the chain Jack scans always seem to have totally random names on the bookmarks rather than the corp's naming scheme.