EVE New Citizens Q&A

1. You can find wormholes by using a probe launcher + probes preferably on a ship that has a bonus to scanning. You then need to be in space and see if there are any cosmic signatures in your current system. You can see this in space, providing you have the sensor overlay on to show signatures (red).You can also view signatures from the scanning window (which you can open by navigating to the scan button besides the cargo/tactical overlay buttons etc)

Not all systems have wormholes, but if you jump around a bit you will most likely find one in a short amount of time.

2. Getting into a wormhole after you have probed it down and flown to it is as easy as jumping through a stargate, simply use the jump command. Before you jump in however, look at the information of the wormhole, it will give you a rough estimate as to how long is left in its natural cycle and how much mass has been expended. Make sure to bookmark the entrance of the wormhole, and once you jump through, to bookmark the exit. Always carry extra probes to be safe. (I normally run with 16 probes)

You won't be able to tell if there is anyone in the wormhole with you as there is no local channel that displays who is in the system. (unless they talk). You can use the directional scan to see if there is anyone in close proximity, pay attention for other ships, structures, wrecks etc (all signs of player activity).

3. You can hunt other players, run sites, mine gas, do planetary interaction providing you have a base there or simply use it as a means of crossing vast distances quickly. There are usually more wormholes within the wormhole itself, either leading to more wormhole space or high sec, low sec or null.

There are 6 classes of wormholes, Class 1 (C1) being the least challenging and C6 being the most difficult. When you come to read the information of the wormhole it will tell you whats on the other side. If it says it's leading to unknown parts of space then it will be a class 1-3 wormhole, dangerous unknown parts of space = C4 or C5 wormhole and deadly unknown parts of space = class 6. It will tell you otherwise if it's a high, low or null connection. For the time being stick to the low class holes, preferably have a ship that can fit a cloaking device such as a covert ops frigate or Astero etc.

Wormhole space is dangerous, but it's a lot of fun. Always pay attention to Dscan if you're uncloaked and be ready to bail at a moments notice, especially if you suddenly see a new signature appear on your scanner as it could be a wormhole that's opened from a player coming through the other side.

(forgot to mention that you want to use core probes for scanning down signatures and combat probes for scanning other ships/structures ((combat probes can also scan for signatures but they only fit in an expanded probe launcher, which is much harder to fit on to your ship))

No problem, have fun and always assume there is someone watching you from a cloaked ship!

Exploration is the general profession in which you find wormholes among other things. You can search "eve exploration" and add "guide" or "tutorial" or "video" at the end of it. There are also lots of videos out there showing how to use probes and the probe scanner UI.

After that you should be pretty familiar with the use of the directional scanner when playing around inside wormholes. Also be aware that people don't show up in local chat unless they post something there. That means you could be alone in system or there could be 3000 other players cloaked watching you and you'd have no way of knowing which, typically until it was too late.

Next you should know that there are many out of game websites that can help you gather information about wormhole systems from their "J" number. Some of them are less obvious like killboards. Killboards can give you an idea of how active a particular wormhole system is and are not advertised as a wormhole webpage.

There is a lot to learn about life in wormholes and much of it will need to be learned the hard way. You can find corps and communities with public chat channels that can help you get started. At some point you will need to just jump in and learn from your losses.

I recommend flying cheap scanning frigates and learning which hacking sites don't have NPCs and start out by hacking wormhole sites. You will loose ships but if you fly cheap ones then you should be able to make more isk than you loose.

As with all things in Eve friends are the key. If you find wormhole life fun then you should focus on making friends with others that have similar interests. Most Eve vets are more than happy to help out new players even ones that they just blew up.