Wormholes

I've been living in various wormholes with two accounts. Two mains and two scanner/PI alts. I'm currently in a C1 and doing just fine. There seems to be a lot of focus around number of combat/data/relic sites but I think folks are missing a LOT of income streams. I'm coming from a 99% PVE perspective while many of the comments/posts come from a PVP perspectives.

I've been a wormholer for over a year.

Let's look at this from a dedicated industrialist:

1. PI. It is a pain in the butt to maintain and people that aren't familiar with it often leave a lot of isk on the table. They try to make robotics on one planet, rocket fuel on another, coolant, etc.. You just cut your profit in half and made your life hell with imbalanced resources. Between my 4 toons, I can run 16 planets with not much skill requirements. I have 1 factory planet (where I run advanced factories). All other are just basics. It lets the harvesters off the chain and I can pull massive amounts of raw/basic. With buy orders in ice belt regions, fuel costs are no where near the hit of Jita hauling blocks. Between that and PI, my fuel is "cheap". Talk to the POCO owners. Most will work with you on a tax rate (can usually talk them into 5%).

2. Research arrays. You need to be cranking out and researching blueprints. If i don't have at least 10 jobs running in the ME/TE/Copy/Invention, that's a personal fail. Hint: Tech II bpc's can be sold outside of Jita. Join the blueprints channel. You can work out a steady buyer.

3. Cloaky Tengu mobile depot multi-fit tengu of dealh blah blah is not needed and is WAY overkill. A tech II frigate is fully capable of running anything that a C1 has to give. One or two combat sites or a decent relic and you are in the green. Anything else is gravy.

4. A tower in a C1 HS static is cheaper to run than a tower in HS.

5. Gas. It's not limited to how much you pull from your hole and the surrounding. There is a time value to money. More often than not you can turn out buy order gas and process it for a 20% profit. With a medium tower, yes, you have to shut off all your arrays to run the cycles but Meh, life doesn't end. Grab a giant secure container and keep going.

6. Manage access/mine away. Crash everything but your HS static. Put your second account cloaked orbit at 20, fire up netflix and mine Bistot for that sweet, sweet zydrine.

7. Oh yeah, combat sites.. Gravy.

Summary:
Putting up a tower in a C1 is WAY cheaper than k-space, much safer ( (wardecs are a memory) and a heck of a lot more profitable. My wallet is Billions with 300 million in buy orders outstanding. If you halfxxx the specific industries, you will lose. Don't just "do some PI", LEARN to do PI (etc). Work your income streams. Most of mine is passive or requires very little effort.

Edit: 7 figures, it's actually billions. Was thinking one thing, typing another...

So you are telling us that after a year in w-space you have less than 10mio in your wallet?
Or was that a typo?

Yes. Anymore than a couple billion in your wallet is a waste of money.

Edit: My bad.. it was billions, not millions...

HA! Went into C5 space alone, made 10b in a day. I win

Lots of research you say... sure would be a shame if anything were to happen to it!

All this from your LS hideaway, you really are becoming SYJ.

For all the newbros and beginners starting out, ye of little wallet, the unwashed un-SRPed downtrodden masses of noobs and newbros....don't listen to the swooning elite above. Do your thing, move into the wormhole, make your first billion or two. Get comfortable making a life in w-space, even if it is (relatively) poverty money.

C1's are entry-level stuff. They are good for people who want to learn POSs (while they are still crappy and overly complicated and simply do. not. work. properly.). They are good to dip your toes in to wormhole life, to work toward your first Archon while training your toon (or, really, while saving to buy a cap sitter alt or out-of-the-box cap pilot.

I think noone will agree with the sentiment that you need 10 active members in a C1. On the contrary everyone will tell you that 10 active members in a C1 will rapidly evolve into 9 bored outlogging members in a C1. C1s are really a solo experience. Learn the ropes and move on to greener pastures.

C1 is great startup wormhole and when you feel bored you can always move up to a higher class of wh and maybe get some friends to join you.
In my experience corps take time to grow and also avoid corps where all active members are RL friends of the ceo and then ceo gets inactive the rest of the bunch follows suit.
Corp life is at its best imo with a diverse range of members all bringing life to the corp in their own little ways.