Wormholes

Full Metal Jackie, I just went through a similar process myself - so I have some tips, but with the caveat that I'm still learning myself:

(1) On POS set up, jammers are good, but much of the advice suggesting you prioritize them while building a "d1ckstar" is out of date. We're living in the age of drones - if you don't ALSO have a bevy of guns, your POS is exceedingly vulnerable to ishtar and/or dominix fleets. On a related note, advice about POS resistances is also out of date - resist modules suffer from stacking penalties, so there's no point to fitting more than 2 or 3 of any given type.

(2) On location, I've found C4s to be quite quiet and often unoccupied, while C2s with a hisec connection are almost 100% occupied (the last one I found empty, amusingly enough, had a C4 static...). I've also noticed C4s seem to have many fewer random connections to K-space than other wormholes - I find holes to null regularly in C5s and holes to all classes of space regularly in C2/C3s, but C4s seem disproportionately connected to wormholes. If you're planning to hunt elsewhere anyway, low traffic in your home hole might not be the end of the world. Blowing up herons gets old fast.

Yeah, I'm very hopeful and patient that I'll find my new home soon. I have both my main and alt in different wormholes scoping it out. It's glaringly obvious that any good P2 hole with half-decent PI is going to be occupied. Short spending an arm and a leg on mercenaries, I'm wondering how I can chase them out of the hole. I guess I will just play the long-game and harass them.

Found a hole that met all my requirements, but the locals had small towers anchored on each moon. Good way to c*** block smaller corps and solo'ers from setting up shop in there.

I don't mind being hated. I actually prefer playing the villain in most cases.

C2 as the home system is not so useful if you hope to kill the explorers coming from hisec. You will only catch the really dumb ones, because everyone can easily see from the killboard that you live and regularly kill in that system. Then they watch-list you, see that you are online, and it's clear that you are just waiting for them to warp into a site.

Much better is a c4 that has a c2 static, plus a c1 or c3. That way you will also always have access to a c2 and/or c1, but it will be every day a different one so people cannot expect you there.

Security is not lower in a c4 than in a c2, if anything it's higher because for invaders it would be additional hassle to manage logistics into a c4 instead of a c2 with constant easy hisec connection. There are enough empty c4s so the chances that a big corp will come to take your space are miniscule unless you claimed a system with a rare and coveted combination of statics and system effect.

It is however quite likely that one day another solo or very small corp will set up a tower in your system because they think you are no threat. Then it's up to you to prove them wrong. In such situations, it is usually not feasible for either side to destroy the opponent's POS. Instead, you should just camp and harass them until they realize their mistake and retreat. Most such corps are bears so they will pack and leave after you have killed them a couple times. It's of course important to suspend your own bearing ops to not give them kills.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Is there some website that breaks down kills according to wh classification? It would be interesting to see some statistics on that.

I almost fell out of my chair, laughing. Thank you Jack.

Perhaps there should be a guideline that people answering questions about wormholes actually have had to log X amount of time actually playing in them.

Oh, I know you can't upgrade wormholes. What I was talking about was null sec entities using wormholes as shortcuts when using a freighter to bring in an upgrade.