Wormholes

I've been ninja-gas mining in W-space (loads of fun).

My process has been this:

• Find, bookmark, and enter WH
• Make safe-warp
• Scan and bookmark everything
• When a WH becomes inaccessible (when the only known entrance collapses), delete its corresponding folder

The process is pretty quick, and I've got a system down for all the folders that lets me know which WH is connected to which. If the entrance to a particular WH closes, I delete its folder and the folders of the WHs connected to it.

That being said, I've just recently started looking into things like Siggy and Tripwire, but am having a hard time seeing the benefit. What do these do that is different? The visual map of WHs is nice, but otherwise... is there something I'm missing? The thing that I fear the most is that all this scanning/bookmarking/deleting I'm doing is futile, and these programs save all this data because it stays constant, but I can't see anything from the guides that indicates this.

I just don't know enough about WHs.

Tripwire is the way to go. Easy to learn, and very useful for wormhole adventures.

Personally I see a benefit of Tripwire when you are in a corp/alliance: Your team can see where you are and how you got there. If you are solo it is fine using pen and paper imho.

You still need to scan and make bookmarks if you want to warp to stuff, however websites like Tripwire allow you to share your scanning information (not your bookmarks) with other people. So if you're in a corp and you log in after someone else, you don't have to rescan the signatures they already recorded.

tripwire is horrible, use siggy if you want a map program.
tbh though, you dont need one ever for solo stuff, no point.
just make a 'Wormholes' folder in your bookmarks and bookmark stuff. order it by date/time created and delete anything older than 24 hours.

tripwire is cool, but it's really, really annoying that you can't change a system name manually.

I like our system, because we have a nice history section on pretty much every wh system ingame.

lol quotes from local, old intel on whom lived where, links to battle reports,
some times Hiku's poems or even songs some ones written down.

Pretty much a history of our groups adventures through wspace going back to the beginning.

So even if the chains empty plenty of interesting things to discover / re discover.

I kept using Siggy even after I started to play exclusively solo. The ISK cost of using it is negligible if you are in a solo corp with few characters; I think I pay like 30m per month or so, that's about 5 minutes of bearing.

It just saves a lot of work. I don't need to write anything down, just copy-paste sig lists from the d-scan, and the chain is created automatically just by jumping into a new system. Also it tells me what statics the system I just jumped into has, so I know already if it's worth scanning. And on days when I scan a lot and have long chains, it is really useful to keep track of the geography and not get lost.

Another useful feature is that you always see how old signatures are, so I know when that static is going to go end of life without writing down such excessive details manually.