EVE New Citizens Q&A

I could write a long-winded explanation about what you're doing wrong and what you need to know, but this type of thing really is best learned from practice, with someone else who knows that they're doing present. If you want to convo or mail me in-game, i'd more than happily spend some time with you and show you how WH connections work, how to find the null connections you're looking for, help teach you how to scan and whatever else tickles your pickle.

Even if you find a WH connection to null, you will have to use a Null gate. Unless you plan on just visiting one system. So just fly there for gosh sakes. Use the star map to find the safest route and go.

sounds like you just had some bad luck.

But as you are already in wormholes, why not just explore those? You get the same sites spawning in c1-3 wormholes as null sec, no local to broadcast your presence and usually far less competition.

You just have to take a few extra precautions.

u want to find sites with pirate names in them like "guristas", "angel" etc

they are the same sites that spawn in null sec and have no npc spawns.

if the site is called like "unsecured frontier" or "forgotten perimeter" that's a sleeper site and they will attack you.

posts like this tickle my pickle.

You may want to consider going to low sec as an intermediate step. Low sec has a lot of wormholes, and I typically find half a dozen leading direct to null near my home system. Look for S199 wormholes, or k162 which say they head to null in their info.

It will also help to read up a little on wormhole classes. C1 - C3 wormholes can have null sec type data and relic sites in them. They have a pirate faction in their name (angel, gurista, serpentis or blood.) I also think (someone correct me if I'm wrong here) that the lower class wormholes connect to known space more often, you certainly do not want to scan out a c4 as they have no k-space connections.

My tactic when I can't go null via a direct wormhole is to find a C1-C3 entrance (Z971, R943 or X702, do not take a k162!) By going in through one of these you know there must still be a different static connection going out the wormhole. Once in the wormhole look up if it has a null sec static (check the system name in various websites which do this, I used to use wormhole.es but that's got a different address now) if so, you scan out the system, if not you head back out and find another hole.

My recommendation is, once you have the skills to do so, fly to null in an interceptor (which is almost impossible for a gatecamp to kill), then probe a chain back to empire. Then, bring your exploration ships through that chain.

I did the WH into null approach when new.

It worked well, don't really need to study borders between sov holders etc, when you exit into Null and see 50 people in local, you simply take your WH back and get a new, figuring you have landed in a camped system and can't use the gates.

When you land in an empty system, you pop up the map and plan a route with no people in it and avoid systems with many /(any if paranoid) jumps.

Hacking sites in WH systems are far more risky than Null, if Null local isn't empty, you cloak up and wait for them to leave / leave yourself. In WH space you might actually get attacked, with just a few seconds warning from D-Scan, which you might not be clicking entirely as often while hacking. On the other hand as mentioned, competition is likely lower.

If you get into WH systems where the residents collapse the WHs (only 1 left in many of them), so its hard to find anything, then take any WH to high / low and scan down a new WH there and get back into WH space a completely different place.

Feel free to convo me as well.

Get out there sooner than later and just try it. I try to use wormholes that lead to unknown space (which are common and have sites like null) or direct to null. In class 1, 2 and 3 wormholes, the relic and data sites with pirate factions in their names are the ones you wanna run. The other kind are sleeper sites.

I used to base in lowsec and daytrip to thsee places, now I live full time in a wh. Both living situations have pros and cons.

OP needs to learn about wormhole regions.

I like to use this old site:
http://staticmapper.com/

There also seems to be a list here:
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/List_of_All_W-Space_Systems

If you know what region a wormhole is a part of, you can gauge how likely it is going to be connected to something useful to you.

As a rule-of-thumb, I use 4 systems as a measure of getting me from A to B. If I can't find a route in that, I may go to 6 or more likely give-up and wait.