EVE New Citizens Q&A

It's typically a group activity, because living in a wormhole for a long time pretty much requires a POS. Find yourself a wormhole corp and they'll show you the ropes.

This is what happens when newbies go in wormholes: Adventures! My Fleet Is Stuck In A Wormhole! (Complete Story)

bring probes, lest you want to become someone's pet

What do you want to do once you are in w-space?

Especially as a new player your options are somewhat limited, unless you find some people to play with.

The PvE content is quite tough. While it's possible to solo anoms in a C1 for example in a Drake, I wouldn't recommend it unless you can bring a T3 and know how to fly it. Want to do relic and data sites? In WHs they are always guarded and you will need more than a T1 frigate to survive. Ninja mining? Forget about it. Unless you have a POS in the WH you should stay away from grav sites because it's simply not worth it (and even with a POS it's still mining ). That leaves gas harvesting, which can work and even be lucrative afaik. The Venture and it's T2 counterpart are the ships to train for, if you want to do this (you still need to be on lookout for NPCs - sentries can be quite deadly).

PvP content in WHs is a mixed bag. In WHs you'll find people who are very good at PvP and don't mind risking decently pimped ships, but also people who focus on industry. The latter can be easy prey. Although the introduction of the Epithal (a special industrial ship to haul goods produced in planetary interaction) probably made it more difficult as the more versed players will probably fit it with 4 warp stabs and a decent tank which makes it difficult to catch one.

Here a few suggestions to make it easier to survive in a WH:

• Rename your ship. Make sure it doesn't give away your name. And it shouldn't tell others which ship type it is. Renaming your ship to "not bait" is perfectly ok.
• Have a probe launcher and a cloak and know how to use them. You should be able to scan a N110 (C1 gate to HS) or K162 (the "other" side of a WH gate is always a K162) reasonable fast. Always stay cloaked while you are scanning.
• Use dscan and use it often. No, you're not particular paranoid if you refresh dscan every few seconds.
• Make sure your dscan settings include showing combat probes. If you see combat probes on dscan which are not your own, double check that you are cloaked or GTFO. A skilled prober can probe you down in less than 10 seconds - and that's why you should refresh dscan often.
• The very first thing you should do when entering a new WH is checking dscan (assuming no one else is on grid with you).
• After checking dscan you BM the gate you just came through. It's a good idea to BM it at zero (but don't forget that people may use bubbles in WHs).
• You checked the gate status (lifetime and disruption indication) before you came through, right? You should have, but you still have a chance to remedy your mistake.
• Now setup a safe spot. Two safe spots are better. Don't forget to keep an eye on dscan. If at any time you're sitting in your safe spot uncloaked and see combat probes nearby, delete that BM and create a new safe spot.
• Get intel on the WH you are currently in. For example you could use Staticmapper. In the Kronos update CCP removed NPC, pod, and ship kill counts for WH systems, but you might still find useful information.
• Ok, now you're ready to start doing what you came for. Have fun.

Check out this post with wormhole basics. (And keep in mind a few changes are being made to wormhole space in the next patch).

I would definitely encourage you to find a good wormhole corp that allows newer players. I moved into wormhole space when I had been playing less than three months, with my skill points spread in all kinds of useless places. Two things you will need as a new player - patience, and more patience. Most things in wormhole space, from PVE to PVP, require some SP threshold to be very effective. In the meantime you can tag along to fights in something like a blackbird or play the role of the cloaky scout, which is very important.

WH space is one of the best places to learn the game IMO. There's a bit of everything: small gang and solo pvp, fleet ops, group PVE, PI, hauling, a niche for specialty ships like HICS, Logistics, and EWar. Scouting through WH chains demands that you learn how to probe and dscan very efficiently without being spoiled with free intel from local chat. Opening up to a new system every day and having to always be on your toes watching for new neighbors is great fun and will expose you to a lot of facets of the game. There is also plenty of downtime to spin ships and discuss fits and tactics.

Wormhole space is what you make of it, really. The more effort you put in, the more content you get out. Learning the ropes from an experienced WH corp will clear this hurdle for you, so you can start to enjoy it from day one, while learning to create content yourself.

also http://i.imgur.com/NdLDTVL.jpg

Thanks for all the feedback guys

I am currently looking to enjoy the whole "life" experience in wormholes, so I'm expecting to have to skill up for PVP but as I move along that path I will look to scan down wormholes/sites and earn ISK anyway I can (thinking about PI as well as it sounds a good passive income source)

So my current plan is as follows:

Covert Ops Frig/Scanning skills
PI skills
Hauler skills
PVE/PVP (Drake)
PVE/PVP (Tengu)

Does this sound about right?

Thanks

Thanks I'll add you when I log on later

Must sleep now

If you need sleep, Eve may not be for you :)

In all seriousness welcome to Eve and I recommend WH's... Will give you the correct amount of paranoia and balls to succeed whatever you want to do :)

1st you only need industrial 1 to fly any of that racial industrial ship changed about a year ago, and 2 let him train up a single race I will agree that the tengu and drake are not what they used to but if he isn't well skilled in one area what makes you think he'll be better starting from scratch.

Anyway the corp you join as previously said will determine what you should train for, until you find one. And the drake and tengu may not be the best dps ships but they have thier place, so if that is where you want to go train for them despite what people say they are good ships. Just like every oft her ships they don't fit every situation.