Wormholes

I'm going to resist the urge to troll. You'll need three things.

Some capital to buy a tower, fuel, stront, sma's, cha's. That'll run you roughly 700,000,000 isk.

Some ships to pew (T1 battlecruisers will do)

A wormhole.

If you don't have the capital to go into a wormhole, I would suggest daytrippin (find a wormhole in highsec, scan it out, jump into it, proceed to pve).

I would base out of a remote highsec area, less traffic the better.

With all of that said.... 4 man corp, c1 through c3 will do for you. A wormhole with a highsec static will have more traffic in it (meaning people will fly in to pew you). A lowsec you should "theoretically" have less traffic.

A C2 is generally considered the PVP hole for subcap pilots. If you just want to make isk and not pvp. Don't do a C2. If you want to make isk AND pvp, do a c2.

You have a VERY open ended question, as one mans trash is another mans treasure.

Well with the recent buff lower class wormholes have improved.

What people don't factor in with moving into wspace is the time and the cost (fuel for towers is fking expensive). expect to spend 600,000,000 isk a month just to fuel your tower.

Unless you make that back, it won't be very isk efficient. You can do it though. Simplest thing is to do a test run (daytrip). If you make good bank doing that, you can move onto whether you want to move in or not.

You could also anchor a tower in a empty wormhole and give it a try for a week. See how it feels.

If you've never gone into a wormhole to begin with, consider joining a wormhole corporation to get your wormhole wings.

For small, new to WHs, corps the best options tend to be C2s due to their kspace and wspace statics.
C4s with dual statics are also sweet but you need to work for your kspace a little more.

i disagree with Mr Jones about your POS. He is coming from the theroy that your POS is your castle, and you need to have a big one in order to be secure, and to thereby secure your wormhole. But let's be Frank (or Ernest).

Frank is more cunning than the average carebear. He realises he is in a 4 man corp (let's assume 4 meatbods, 8 toons, 4 out of corp shopping and probing alts) and that his corporation cannot possibly defend itself against attack, if there is a serious attack mounted.

The utility of a large deathstar is coupled with the cost of maintaining it; the tradeoff here is profitability set off against a day when you actually need to use the defences. However, defences are only as good as those defending it, and since you are noob, i question whether you should sacrifice so much profit for security, or take a bit more risk.

My advice, realistically, is to build two small towers instead of one large. Make sure one tower is online, with a decent show of guns (6 small, one scram, ne web, some ECM's), a couple of hardeners. Repeat the fit for the second POS, but keep it offline. Don't forget the stront. You have 1/4 the fuel bills and equal utility of a large tower.

When logging out of your POS, either do so at a private POS tactical, or do so in a combat battlecruiser and keep a supply of medium MJD's, or in a nullified T3. You can now escape, if smart, from any bubble crepe cage in the unlikely event your online POS is RFéd or stront checked. Remember, people only stront check small POSs of noobs if they are terribly set up.

Secondly, I suggest either a C2 with A239/D382 statics, or E545/N062. The former is a bit better for PVP and PVE, and can be relatively quiet. Lowsec pirates almost never RF POSs. Becuae hisec is via your D382, logistics is not much harder if you aren't completely dimwitted.

The E545/N062 holes are harder to get fuel for, but given the scarcity of active systems in nullsec and the ISK you can get out there even just belt ratting, humping data-relics, etc, it can be very lucrative. The N062 to C5, you can just avoid jumping through it for days at a time if you don't care for PVP. If you don't mind being connected to farmville and get some confidence and a Venture, hello vital and instrumentals and pimp farts.

The other advantage of rolling light on the POSs? You can pack up the whole setup into 2 deep space transports and be out of there inside of 3 hours.

I would recommend a c4 with statics of c4, c3 and or c1. Id avoid c2's if your main goal is isk due to what other people have said lots of pvp traffic. With the last change c1's have gotten a nice boost with null sites plus more isk and can very easily be solo'd in a decently fit cruiser. C3's were fine before buff but are even better now and can solo them in a drake or harbinger. C4's are great and can be solo'd in a marauder or 3 rr domies but will be risking alot more isk on field then a c1 and c3.