Wormholes

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and if it already has armor damage while it is offline you can forget about it.

OK, it is real simple. 23/7 watching all holes in a system is a rough task for any group, let alone WH sized groups. If the attackers are a giant alliance then it doesn't really matter because you pretty much lost anyways. If it is a 50 man, 100 man operation, it becomes really hard for the attackers to watch the Static + 1 or 2 k162s. Even if they see someone leave in a Helios, at non-peak times they probably don't have the resources to roll the hole, watch the existing hole and scan a new one.

Now. All it takes to defend a large tower in C4 and below is 3 pos gunners, again unless it is a giant alliance. Your goal isn't even to defend your hole, it is to make it so brutal on the attacker and deny them as much loot as possible. If you have friends, or you hire mercs, you get that WH exit system during non-peak times and get them to come in.

I see your killboard, you do some WH action. I am sure you know how long it takes to roll a U210, that is 3million kg to close. In the 10 minutes it takes 15 BS to roll it, you could have a lot of blockade runners or recons in or out.

This is a story about basically what we are talking about, getting friends, having friends and beating the eviction notice: http://foo-eve.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Industry%20Defence

It is not easy to defend a hole, it is not easy to take a hole, but both become a lot easier the more friends you have.

We've added a Legion and Harbinger pilot to our fold, so we may in fact be running c3s/c4s VERY soon.

Do you do PI in your wspace ?
im doing it. but i find the income awful. I should try making P4 instead of fuel

That is a lot of work for 500mil. You can make 500mil in a couple days running sites in your C3 and splitting them with a buddy.

In a C3, is the majority of income still from Melted Nanoribbons, or something else?

Most of your income will be from blue loot

Some of this will probably have been said.

Wormhole life is entirely possible with a small corp, when I came back to eve and moved into a hole it was just two people working out of a c2-c4/hs.

With very limited numbers you'll have to play it very cautious or you risk getting whelped every time people stumble onto you site running. Starting off is rough but once your setup its a lot easier and then its fun to just throw things into danger. The big things that will really make your life easier.

Learn to scout effectively, This means finding active connections in your chain and having a good idea of where things are.

Develop a good idea of how to vet a system for running pve. Its a little bit of a inexact science but the gist of it is more wh/active pos is bad.

Learn how to tell which sigs are from downtime. At downtime all sigs have their sig id reset and will have similar tags. This is why you see systems with lots of TYU YYU SYU. What this means is any new sigs are a good place to start your scanning as their is a higher chance they will be a k162.

The other side of this coin, the k162 terminating end of a wh doesn't generate until sometime initiates warp to it. What this means is if you jump into a fresh hole that has no active POS with only 2 sigs one will be a new sig, that's your entrance the other is the static its high likely it will have not been opened. All that said though still isn't a 100 percent you will be safe. Your going to need to learn to have everyone mashing d-scan as often as it can be refreshed. Being able to keep scouts in home to watch for incoming k162s will help a lot too.

Familiarize yourself with WH mass limits and what you need to push through in order to collapse or crit a hole. Having a pilot or two able to utilize an orca and a HIC makes this a lot easier. Without a hic expect getting stuck from time to time trying to roll holes. HICs are valuable as the bubbles reduce mass. Throw 3-4 bubbles on and a 100mn prop mod and you can leave a crit hole with low mass and come back with bubbles off and propmod on and usually kill it.

Lastly, most importantly too. Learn to pvp effectively with what you have. While it IS possible to be a strict carebear, this will generally ostracize you from the greater WH community. Worse you'll miss out on some of the great fun that WH life can provide. With 2-3 people you won't be brawling as much but you can still have some nice ganks and fun little fights to be had if you effectively scout your chain and learn to use what you do have.