Wormholes

Hi folks,

This short guide aims to give you a headline and some tips to live alone (or with few friends) in your own C3 wormhole. It adress to neophytes and new players. We'll briefely see what WH and WH-space are, tools and tips to find the right system to set in, the gears you need to be comfortable and make ISK at (and out of) home.

K-Space and WH-Space

First things first, you need to know the thing you're going to live in. K-space is what you see on your map. It regroups high sec, low sec and null sec. WH-space is basically everything that isn't K-space. You access it by jumping trough wormholes. To find a lot of useful information about WH-space, check this.

Wormholes

If you've read the previous part carefully, you know that you need wormholes to access and travel through WH-space. To make it short, a WH is a gate with a limited lifetime. It will vansih after roughly a day, or if too many ships jump trough it. It means that you never know what your system will be linked to. This is why WH are so exciting. Follow this link to learn everything you need to know about wormholes.

Finding your home

Now that you know WH and WH-space specificities, you should have an idea of the WH you want. The cheapest way to find a system that suits you is to randomly probe and jump trough various wormholes, untill you find something good. Staticmapper is a very powerful tool to help you in this task. Enter the J-code (the "name") of the system, and the website displays the system's class, statics and environemental effects, as well as moons and planets.
If you're going to produce your fuel or gather any PI materials, you may want to check planets and CO. To help you in this task, your best friend is eveeye. Again, enter the J-code and let eveeye tell you which PI materials you can craft in this system.
Once you've find the right place, make sure nobody is already living there. First, scan each moon in order to find any active control tower. If there's one, you're almost sure someone is already living there. Look for an other system, or try to bust them out. The choice is yours. An other effective way to measure a system's activity is to check his killboard and the number of cosmic anomalies avalaible. No recent kills and a lot of stacked anomalies probably mean that those who live their are rather inactive.

Setting up your POS

Now that you know where you want to live, you need a POS. Basically, you want a small control tower, a corporate hangar array and a ship maintenance array. If you plan to do some manufacture however, you may need a bigger control tower. Some disuasive ECM and sentry guns may be useful, if not mandatory.
Always, ALWAYS, have at least one alternative probe ship. It would be so sad to be stuck with all your stuff, without anything or anybody to help you find your way out. If you're skilled for it, a HIC is very usefull when it comes to artificially collapse hostiles WH (more on this later). Then an Iteron and any spare parts / ships are always welcome. Don't forget to bring enough fuel to keep your POS online.


[Any constructive critics are welcome. Also, I'm not a native / good english speaker, and if you have any improvement to make on this side, let me know]

EDIT : everything has been shortened, external links to various tutorials or wikis has beend added.

also misnamed. thread title should be 'Mostly useless stuff everyone already knows and associated obvious things'.

(if this part could be moved to be in 2nd, to stick with the 1st part it would be great)

Rolling WH

If you want to cut any bridge with rather unpleasant neighbours, you will have to manually roll a WH with a lot of lifetime remaining. For this purpose, you'll find this guide extremely useful.

Earn ISK : pick your poison

Some people don't need to farm to earn ISK, but if you're like me (and most people in New Eden) you have to grind your ISK. A WH gives you a new door everyday to roam, gank or get ganked, but also a nice income. You can run PI, mine gas and ore, and build things. If it's what you want you'll find usefull informations here and there. However, the most obvious way to earn ISK is to run anomalies.

Some way to efficiently run anomalies

First thing first, I highly recommand to roll any WH you can, and have a scout watching what's jumping trough your static. When you land on site, drop a MTU to collect blue loot. You can also bookmark it and come back with a salvage ship. Here is a list of fits you can use to farm anomalies.

Drake : the basic fit

It'll be incredibly slow to clear anoms, but it works, doesn't require a lot of skills, and is cheap.



Rattlesnake : like a boss

To me it's the best bet to solo anomalies like a boss. It has a good DPS, sentries for killing BS and HM to kill cruisers. However it's quite expensive (750M) and so you want to be really careful about gankers. Scout any entrance to your whole.



Bonus : Domi RR duo

It's the best way to farm if you can dual box. It has a very good cleantime, it's pretty good to stand against a solo ganker and it still doesn't cost as much as a single Rattlesnake.

Definitely needs less cap and probably more boost - if you mention anti-gank.
Also could fit stabs instead of relays, if you dont know what to put in there.

[Dominix, Platinum insured]

Pseudoelectron Containment Field I
Omnidirectional Tracking Enhancer II
Omnidirectional Tracking Enhancer II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
EM Ward Field II
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II

Large S95a Remote Shield Booster
Large S95a Remote Shield Booster
Large 'Regard' Remote Capacitor Transmitter
Large 'Regard' Remote Capacitor Transmitter
Large 'Regard' Remote Capacitor Transmitter
Drone Link Augmentor II

Large Egress Port Maximizer I
Large Egress Port Maximizer I
Large Processor Overclocking Unit I

This runs anything in a c3 comfortably, you need to heat for the last wave in the recursive depot though until you got the first upholder down.

Interesting, but my Curators track pretty well with only 2 omnis - in a Magnetar.

Good amount of info here for beginners. You definately need to add a guide or summing up on ways to ensure security for players things, considering that CCP doesn't seem to give a ****. The divisional system tends to be the most common. Theft is the biggest risk to new corp setups in wh-space, and there are alot of players out there looking to prey on those that aren't fully secure.

It's an other way to do it. I don't like the idea tough, I have enough risks to get killed by gankers without getting owned by sleepers in case of DC ^^