EVE New Citizens Q&A

The wormhole itself doesn't last, but the system it leads to does. Wormholes open up all over the universe, once the wormhole to the system someone lives in closes in one location, it opens up in another. Once they're established they don't venture out of their hole too much, because wherever they pop is completely random. Does this answer your question?

No when the wormhole closes the space inside it stays open, the space will always be open, only the entrance (the wormhole) changes :)

To live in one you typically always have scanning alts in the WH. You find today's exit WHs and see where they lead. The you make a plan for the day on what to do.

So the C2 i just vacated, had a c3 static and a lowsec static. that means there is at least 2 wormholes at all times. One leads for more j-space (systems only accessble via WHs), and one leads to lowsec. When they collapse new ones to different places respawn, but to the same kinds of "space" (ie lowsec).

So one day you could be just a few jumps to highsec and close to trade hubs. Other times you could be many jumps away and nowere near anything useful. That is WH life.

that sounds cool, but i can find out how long the wormhole has left alive and gotta make sure I'm home by then?

I wanna live in a WH! guessing it's dangerous though and getting banked by players all the time

Yes, you can determine where a wormhole leads to some degree without jumping through it.
Without jumping through, you can determine to what type of solarsystem it goes, but not to the exact system.
A `type` of system, in this case is highsec, lowsec, nullsec, or unkown. Incase of unknown, you can also determine wich class (unkown systems come in 6 different classes).

I won't explain all the details, but you might want to read here: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Wormholes

There is also a very good youtube guide to wormholes by adhocracy. It will explain everything about wormholes way better then I can explain it through forums :p
Wormhole fundamentals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6miRA8vCLmE

Wrong

The system itself doesn't collapse, just the entry "gate".

Wormholes are basically just temporary stargates that move around.

So today your exit wormholes is say in Jita, tomorrow it can be in Amarr and the day after it can be in Halaima.

Your system is stable and won't change, just where you surface once you jump out of the wormhole differs.

ok so the big question

why would someone low skilled like myself care about WHs and WS yet?
clearly i can't defeat the rats in the relic sites
i can't build stations or anything, don't know anything about that yet

other than passing through is there any reason why i might want to find a WS to live in?

It sounds cool being in WS and not knowing where my WH will take me tomorrow, that's really cool but no idea

Unless of course, i setup in WS and theres an item where i can dock and store my items


Like could i go to a WS
find a safe spot somewhere
build an item that lets me store items or something
go out exploring
bring it back and store it in my WS and then sell it when I'm close to a trade district one day

how safe is it to store my stuff out there

sorry I'm excited

* i will check guides and videos and stuff when i get home, at work at the moment

Class 1 and 2 wormholes are be doable for low skilled pilots.
Wormholes are (at least i think) way more exiting then `regular` space. There is increased risk of losing your ship, but that balanced by more profits.




You can make a safespot by warping between 2 celestials (planets for exemple) and create a bookmark mid-warp.

Most groups in wormholes have setup a POS (Player Owned Starbase), but I would not recommend it for a new player. Instead, for a temporary `base`, take a look at the Mobile Depot. It has some storage space and you can refit off it.

Class 1 and 2 wormholes typically have a high-sec static. This means that they ALWAYS have atleast 1 wormhole leading to a high-sec system. This isn't always the same highsec system, but it is always a high-sec system.

A word of warning though, while you are in the wormhole, it is possible for people to find and shoot you. It's not a matter of if, but when.

Your confusion stems from a shortcut in terminology. When people say they are "in a wormhole", what they mean is that they are in one of several "unknown" star systems reachable only via unstable wormholes. They're not actually "in" a wormhole. Basically, you see about 5000 star systems on the galaxy map when you open that up. Well, there are also about 2500 unknown systems that don't show up on the map (I think people have calculated they exist in their own cluster some few thousand light years away from new eden, but I don't know much about that). These systems are -1.0 security status (so, nullsec). They have no stations or stargates, and no one can claim sovereignty in them. The only way to get to them is through wormholes. These systems come in 6 classes, with the higher classes having more challenging foes. Many of them will have 1 of 6 possible stellar phenomena going on in them, which will affect your ship's performance in various areas (boosting some, diminishing others), the extent of which scales with the wormhole class. Another really important thing about these systems is that no one shows up in Local chat unless they speak, which means you cannot know who might be in the system with you at any given time unless they show up on grid with you, or they choose to talk in Local.

The rats in wormhole systems are called Sleepers. They are quite dangerous compared to known-space rats. Their loot is essentially useless, but there are NPC buy orders for them in known space that you can sell to if you can get the loot out safely. Their salvage is used in production of T3 ships and components and thus is quite valuable on the market as well.

C1 and C2 wormholes can be soloed by a player in a battlecruiser with decent skills. C3s I've heard can be soloed as well but with more difficulty. Beyond that you definitely need a group of players to participate. In C5's and C6's, high-end wormhole corporations will do capital escalations, where they warp in capital ships (carriers and dreadnoughts) to a combat site, which causes the sleepers to spawn in several very powerful battleships which have valuable loot and salvage. These sites can be extremely lucrative but do require a strong fleet effort to complete successfully.

People who live in wormhole systems rarely tolerate visitors. Don't expect them to be friendly. They will hunt you down and destroy you, so you need to be on your toes when you venture into one. While the lack of a Local player listing makes it difficult to determine if anyone is in the system with you, it doesn't mean there's no way to know if anyone is around. The directional scanner becomes your friend.

This is true in general though not absolute. I have a friend that has been living in w-space with two other people since the end of his first week in the game.