EVE New Citizens Q&A

I am told of wormhole exploration, that it is sometimes profitable, but risky. How do i begin, better question yet, is it worth it?

Wanted to post that first.

But yeah...

WH are a good source of ISK. But the time I spend in WH it felt like I was the only person in it for days. Other times there were bubbles and fighting going on 24/7.

Just go.... Space pixels.... you can't die... Be adventurous.

Take a ship, scan a wormhole, mark the spot, fly back, grab a shuttle and go sightseeing.

Don't warp to close when you want to check out anomalies (green lines in scanner, rather right click and warp to 100km).

And if there is a resident.... they might leave you alone because a shuttle is such an odd thing... Or they are happily giving you a quick ticket home... Where you can start again. Don't forget to write YYYYAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR into the local channel when someone is about to "send you back". That shows the right attitude!

Don't sit in front of a wormhole OR Lowsec OR Nullsec and don't venture there because it's full of closet monsters.

If you have an anomaly somewhere close and you don't know what it's about... Leave your ship at home, fly your pod right into it. The NPC's don't shoot at pods. You can take fun selfies with NPC pirates...

Go explore....

And visit the wormhole forum. Maybe someone is kind enough to give you a tour. Happened before.

Hmmmm....actually.... newbie wormhole tours.... A new business.... I'm onto something...

;)
Lemo

PS: Leave your comfort zone once in a while!

PPS: Maybe you will find the wormhole with that link to the Jovian areas! The holy grail of the wormhole community!

WH is for the experience, the lifestyle. There is no other area in EVE that can provide the same.

Really theres 3 way of utilising them:

-Live in one, different nabouring systems everyday, no local intel channel - THE POS EXPERIENCE
-Use them as gateways from one area to another (i.e. get your heron, drop in a wormhole and find a nullsec exit, go hack some cans and go back to sell your loot in highsec)
-Daytripping, take a T1 Battlecruiser and go murder some sleepers (I would only attempt this in a c1/c2, although a drake will probably handle some c3 sites)

The money in a wormhole is from the sleepers, although I hear PI is pretty ludicrous too (I don't know enough about PI to tell you). You salvage the sleepers wrecks for the real $$$.

Just assume you're always being watched in a wormhole, and keep ontop of Dscan like a super paranoid dude and you will be fine.. until one day the proteus whos been watching you from day one thinks you've grown fat enough to eat.

Bull****,get inside wspace,say hi in local and im sure you'll get a warm greeting from the residents

Sorry about that, it's the Eve version of being Rickrolled

In answer to your question, yes the NPCs are dangerous, the players even more so.

This pic just about sums up the various areas of Eve, it won't require eye/ear/brain bleach either

Wormhole people are people too. They are just people that are likely to kill you first and talk later.

If you're interested I would encourage you to poke your head in with a cheap ship and see what it's all about. You're likely to die, so be prepared for that:

1. Update clone
2. Bring probes (fly a heron, magnate, imicus, or probe)
3. Always bookmark both sides of the wormhole (once you warp away you need a way to get back quickly!)

Don't warp to the sites as the NPCs will murder a scanning frigate (ore sites and data/relic have npcs as well!). If a player murders you, say hello and perhaps they'll give you some tips (private convo - using local in WH space is a no no).

I recently wrote up a Wormholes 101 post which has plenty of info if you are interested in WH diving.

This is a risky game. Just undocking can get you dead.

The people who tell you to stay out of WH space are not the type of people that should be giving advice. Like anything else in the game it just requires knowledge to partake in any particular mechanic.

Knowledge gained painfully by just jumping on in ( can be fun) or hooking up with someone that can show you the ropes.

As mentioned above the WH forum is a good place to start.

Mr Epeen

I'm going to throw my opinion into this mesh too:

1. WH's are not the huge isk / hour that some folk feel they are (with a few notable exceptions).
A. Exception: You live in a C5 or C6 wormhole and run capital escalations.
B. Exception: You find an awesome for PI, and train 2-3 accounts worth of alts to farm the PI. (There are some impressive C1 holes for this)

I'd like to also elaborate on that: I live in a C2. When I run solo C2 sites, not including POS fuel expense from living in the wormhole, I can make substantially more isk safer running L4 missions. Even when I form a fleet and farm our static we can make more isk / hour independantly running L4s. The teamwork, risk, and interesting fights that happen in wormholes is what keeps me there.

For a daytripper (i.e. you don't live in a wh): If you solo daytrip, your better off planning like you're going to do low null sites, and just jumping into WH's you scan down on the way to your destination. Planning to make money on the WH's that spawn in K-space is not optimal. Day tripping is tough, because you never know whether you're going to find a C1 or a C5 until you're at the entrance of the WH. C2 sites are going to be hard for a new player to solo (combat wise).

2. You can make decent money in a C1 - C4.
A. If you live in a C2 or C4 - you make your money 'farming' your static. I.E. you go in, try to make sure no-ones home, and run sites while spastically checking D-scan.
B. If you have a low / null C3 (static wh for that wormhole) you could make money by running into low / null doing exploration and running sites. With a Null exit logisitcs can become painful (in my opinion).

3. WH's are dangerous. Because of their residents, and because of the timing and capabilities of the NPCs. I've seen plenty of new explorers warp to our data site in an imicus because they don't realize there's a sleeper spawn waiting for them. They generally leave in their pod if they remembered to bookmark the WH exit. The NPCs are tough, and require either good planning or teamwork. Preferrably both. WH residents are devious and will ancher bubbles, camp system exits, log off and wait for you to attack their miner (then log back in), or spend days cloaked in your system learning your habits and gank a transport ship. WH's are a patience game; a long con.

4. Your life blood is scanning, bookmarks, and warping to other folk in fleet - if you happen to be out of corp. Without a robust set of bookmarks - life is hard.

All that aside, I strongly recommend you jump into WH life. It's the most fun I've had in EvE.

Some C5 data sites can be cleared in a properly fit drake