Missions & Complexes

So I have some questions that I can't find decent answers to. If someone can help it would be much appreciated.

1. Are Ladars/Gas clouds in a C1 worth mining in the following cases:
a. Nothing else to do.
b. Could jump to empire, spend 20 mins getting to lvl 4 mission agent, run a few missions, go 20 mins back to WH.
c. Have anoms to run (I reckon I average 25 mil in 20 mins for these plus time to sell stockpiles).

2. If the answer to one of the above is yes, what ship / fitting is recommended, bearing in mind it will occasionally get blown up. As a guide in my opinion I would be mad to use T3 to run anoms but losing my Drake every now and again is no biggie.

3. Although more work usually = more isk, is it worth my while processing the gas or should I just sell it?

Thanks

I also have questions about low sec sites if anyone is feeling really helpful........................

I have never worked a c1, but understand that a C1 w-system will spawn ladar sites up to 'vast'. It will not spawn the higher level two - instrumental and vital. A vast is worth somewhere in the 110-150M range IIRC, the lower ones progressively less.

Whether they're worth it is entirely up to you and how you want to play eve. I let my ladar sites build up for a week or so and then harvest them all when I have a few quiet moments.
I usually run anoms and radar / mag sites as a higher priority tho ... but would be very, very unlikely to head to hisec to run lvl4 missions instead (although in pure isk-per-burp terms you will prolly make more from the missions).

I virtually always process the gas, but am aware of arguments that it may be more profitable to not do so. The resultant polymers take up so much less space in my CHAs and the haulers I use to get them out to market.

Ship-wise I multi-box a pair of dedicated hurricanes with POS-based orca boosts and hauling. Training the skill to lvl5 is well worth it ... running five T2 harvesters gives you almost double (180%) the gas gathering rate over the lvl4 skill.

Thanks. I was worried, as I replied, that vasts may not spawn in C1s.

BTW, ran my first instrumental last session. Those four elite BSs are not a welcoming bunch ... but have now added it to the list of stuff-a-solo-tengu-can-achieve. T2-fit tengu could not tank them but faction / deadspace 6HML MSB setup was fine.

Yes someone recently made a nifty google spreadsheet showing isk/hr of the various wormhole ladar sites. Even pulled data from the eve market. Sadly I did not bookmark it.

Perhaps it was mine:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ani7JiIZRXAidGtvMDR4TmVKNXgwMEMzUWl5SHpzTkE

Thanks for all the replies. In summary, they are better than nothing and use a BC! Links good to have, thanks.

I think it is only really worth it in a C1 if you react the gas.

Except it will be a ***** squeezing that ship into a C1 (which is what the op was asking about)

Personally I use a thorax. 5x harvesters in the nights. Expanded cargo holds in the lows. Cheap small and works fine.

My speadsheet shows on second tab wheter its more profitable to sell raw gas or reacted ones. Prices per eve cenrtral. Also if you notice last column on tab 1 shows which gas is best for isk per m3 as gas harvesters have fixed amount of yield it gives you quick estimate on which sites to do first and which gas to harvest first.

Also, omen for me, t2 harvesters, mwd to zip between clouds, survey scanner to see how muych gas left in cloud and low slots enough co processors to turn everything on, rest nanofibers for mwd as when i slapped it together they were cheaper than overdrives. No rigs. Whole lot cheaper than exotic dancers on friday night.