EVE New Citizens Q&A

Since people live in wormhole space, I'm guessing that dead wormholes regenerate in the same system. Sometimes? Randomly in any system? How do people get back to their POS?

with difficulty

You can't place clones in a POS. Getting podded in a WH sends you back to K-Space. Pretty sure most residents leave an alt capable of scanning inside the hole just in case that happens so they can make their way back home. Or rely on corp mates.

ok.....I was told that you should never log off in space.....not so?

A POS has a large forcefield around it that keeps you safe. You can't actually dock at one like you can a station, although you can store ships and stuff there in modules. So yep, people just log off there usually or at a safe spot somewhere in system and are safe doing so.

Numerous times per day you scan you system and update your bookarks. You keep the newest entries/exits bookmarked so you can travel in and out at leisure. But because the hole can close due to mass passing through it, or expire due to time, it's always a good idea to keep at least one pilot with probes inside at all times.

if you have no timers then no harm in it, infact theirs a great trick that uses it as a mechanic for surprise bum loving ambushing weary targets

Every wormhole system has at least one static connection, meaning if it collapses a new one will spawn that leads to the same class of system. (e.g. to highsec, or a Class 4 wormhole system)
There are 6 different classes of wormhole space systems:
C4-C6 will only have statics that lead to other wormhole space systems - C4 has two statics to w-space
C1-C3 will always have a static that leads to a system in known space (high-, low- or nullsec) - C2 will have second static that leads to w-space

What you will get from this are "chains" of wormhole space systems that generally lead from higher classes to lower classes and from there to known space, so it might look somewhat like this.

On top of that there are "wandering" (or random) wormholes that won't necessarily reappear in the same system once they have collapsed. E.g. in the map I linked you can see that the C2.1 has a connection to highsec even though it only has a lowsec and a C2 static.

Everything you ever wanted to know about wormhole space.

Edit: Although there have been some recent editions - frigate only holes (mass limited), mass based spawning off holes, a second static for C4 systems. After the next patch there will be even more new stuff, shattered wormholes and a WH system with stations called Thera.

Every wormhole has at least one static OUTGOING wormhole that will always respawn to a given class of system (hisec, nulsec, lowsec, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6). Outgoing wormholes don't open until someone is on grid with it.

Wormholes can also have random incoming and outgoing wormhole. These can be from virtually anywhere, or to anywhere.

It is players constantly opening outgoing wormholes that makes traveling through w-space possible. It is very hard to travel through w-space on the test server where there are virtually no players in w-space.

During the first week of Apocrypha, when w-space was released, CCP spawned a huge number of random wormholes to make it easier to enter w-pace.

To ensure you can always return to a certain system, one leaves at least one and preferably more alts in the system that can scan a path out, typically to hisec. On average, it takes traveling through 4 systems to reach hisec.

I lived in w-space for my first ~2.75 years of EVE existence. I had 3 alts in system to ensure I could return. Some were not trained to scan, but were in ship fitted to scan, and had the required skillbooks in their cargo. It doesn't take long to train minimal scanning.

If you have friends in the WH system, they can scout down a new wormhole to k-space (or possibly a new chain). So if you live in a "C6 system with a C4 static", your friend can scan down a path from the home system to a C4 wormhole, then a path to lowsec, then from there a gate to gate route to where you now are.

If you do not have friends in the WH system - time to buy a new POS, and learn an expensive lesson.