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Wormhole living advice

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Tarunik Raqalth'Qui
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2013-05-29 13:03:48 UTC
Nathan Jameson wrote:
Skeln Thargensen wrote:
if you're multiboxing you might want to train your alt into frigates and have them sit next to the thrasher while salvaging. that'll put off stealthbomber pilots at least.


Considering that Noctis gankers commonly lead off with a bomb before closing with torps, that might actually give them a 2-for-1.

Either that, or its a cloaky T3 bump-jumping your Noctis, and those frigs are going to do jack squat in that case anyway!
Miles Parabellum
Core Collapse Inc
#22 - 2013-05-30 10:56:16 UTC
Solo farming wormholes is mindnumbingly boring. You should talk some friends into joining you or you'll go nuts and shoot yourself before anyone else gets the chance.

Other than that, welcome to WH space, the most interesting space in Eve by far.
Nathan Jameson
Grumpy Bastards
#23 - 2013-05-30 11:04:17 UTC
Miles Parabellum wrote:
Solo Eve Online is mindnumbingly boring.


Fixed that for ya.

http://www.wormholes.info

Marsan
#24 - 2013-05-30 16:59:51 UTC
I really can't recommend doing any WH on your own to start out. The startup costs are too high, and the odds of making a newbie mistake are too high. I recommend either day tripping from an isolated high sec system or joining a corp. I know you think you'll make more on your own, but it's simply not true. The majority of what you make on your own goes to maintaining your POS and the like. As part of a corp you generally get to keep 90% or more of your PI. Sure you'll have to share the loot from running sites, but you'll be running more site, and spending less time scanning and rolling holes. Not to mention if your POS dies you are only out the ships you were storing there...

Former forum cheerleader CCP, now just a grumpy small portion of the community.

Aradiaa
You Can't Fool Owls
#25 - 2013-06-01 10:17:51 UTC
Torva Messorrem wrote:
[quote=Euthanasia Anneto][quote=Torva Messorrem] As in any null system I've been to safes and my pos are safe zones to warp to should somebody enter. Day tripping is tedious and takes too long.


Just wanted to point out that "safes" in w-space really don't work the same as safes in null. Anyone scouting around a wormhole is going to have combat probes, and anyone with any experience at all will immediately recognize you're not in a POS. Then it's just a matter of dropping combat probes off dscan from you, scanning you in one pass, and you're done. You still can and should have safe spots in tactical spots throughout your system, but don't plan on ever going afk unless you're cloaked or in a POS.

Also, if you're determined to go it solo, it's worth the training time to make an emergency scanner alt on your main account - one with the absolute minimum skills to fly a scanning frigate and scan a way out if necessary. That way if you manage to get all your other characters locked out of your home system, you always have that one as backup to get back in.
Enmesharra
Giggle Inc
#26 - 2013-06-11 17:28:02 UTC
I posted this on reddit, but i thought it might help give you an overview of what it was like to set up in a WH by yourself.

Story time
So bright and early Sunday morning I began my trek to low/null looking for an empty wh to call home. I was looking for a c1 or a c2 with a null static. 20 jumps later into Goon territory I found her. A c2 with a static to null and completely devoid of life! With my palms sweaty and heavy mouth breathing a plan began forming in my head. I jump on an alt account and make the trek to jita looking to buy my first PoS.
Now I have been reading up on wh and life inside of one and from all that I gathered the name of the game is to make your PoS as much a pain in the ass as possible. Bearing this in mind I purchase a caldari large tower! Now how to haul it out to my entry hole? This char doesn't have freight skills or blockade runner capability but a cloaky iteron 4? Why not. So tower, cloak ,and some fuel blocks in hand I begin to make my trek out to null.
All seems to be going well until I hit a bubbled entry gate....Fuuuu. As any carebear knows panic and adrenaline flood you instantly. You are immediately aware of all the empty wrecks and the sheer volume of large mobile warp bubbles encircling this gate meanwhile a part of your mind is counting down the seconds till you decloack. First things first immediately align to next gate, I know I know, and hit cloak.
Woooo I am patting myself on the shoulder thinking all I have to do is slow boat out of this... What you mat not realize is how ******* slow this is. Your typical T1 cloack will reduce speed by 70-90%. You need to travel at least 40km at 32m/s and its like nails on a chalkboard while being attacked by a werewolf. After about 10 minutes of this I realize that there is no one at the gate and only 2 people in local so I figure what the hell maybe they are ratting? I decloak and hit my MWD to start burning out. As I later found out I was not the only one who knew how to cloak. Within 20 seconds I was locked and popped.... Double ****.
Back to jita I go to resupply and repeat the process this time without uncloaking. All goes well this time, if it does an almost unbearable amount of time. Make it into my new WH and set about anchoring my new home. Fun Fact: NPC corps cant anchor a PoS. Log into 3rd account and create a corp invite all my chars and try to accept, only to realize you need to be in a station to accept. I immediately begin to expound upon the games sexual preferences and begin to self destruct my anchoring pilot.
1 self destruct, 5hrs, and a new null exit 60 jumps from jita I onlined my PoS with shield hardeners and enough fuel for 5 days. Tonight I bring in the ecm and more fuel.
TLDR: WH space is tough, chokepoints are real, If you think you have researched enough go back and read more.
Edit: Some details and return key.
Oska Rus
Free Ice Cream People
#27 - 2013-06-11 23:35:54 UTC
I had little similar story. I bought nice cozy C4-C4 and started hauling stuff in. but on second hole my hauler got intercepted and killed. I said wota hell i expected looses and tried to negotiate with guys who poped me. They turned out to be decent folk and sold me my pos back with provided escort to anchoring place. :D And yes they really provided safe passage and my pos was safely placed.
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