Wormholes

C4 / C4 and run marauders. Or even go to C4/C5 and do the same, if you feel incapable of scaling up the corp to full cap escalations.

Even partial escalations are worthwhile. it's 8 more Sleeper BS, every time you warp in the Archon.

It doesn't take much effort to get the cap hulls with T1 fits, and if you do partial escalations, you really only need one capital hull, and soon you will be able to afford a second and third and fourth.

The thing is, all these guys saying "grow your member, take C5 fights" are running 10-30 man T3 fleets already, as a rule. If you get your whole corp to 30 members, it will be 10 meatbods and 5-6 man gangs. 10 man dualboxing gangs if you want. You won't stand a chance, and you don't learn much at all about wormhole fights in C5's if you DIAF inside of 20 seconds.

The proper way to learn is to attend the batphone events, and adsorb the meta via camping out round the bonfire of a POS burning stront. Your blueslist supplies the giant blob, you just follow pimaries, press F1 and learn.

You should also be prepared to fight in nullsec more than wormholes. My C5 lyfe was mostly hunting in our C2 chain/hisec, or watching bots warp to POS in nullsec. Occasionally some clown would titan bridge a 60 man HAC fleet onto our nullsec connection which was a fun bit of distraction. We got a couple of good fights in the RUS periphery renter space, because null Russians who don't dock are crazy-ass like weasels hopped up on PCP kind of fight-anything.

I agree you won't be evicted swiftly, but if you are evicted, remember to forum sperge about it royally, because we all love a good read.

Don't feel obligated to move to a C5 or anywhere; the only difference is do you want to field caps in regular combat or only in home defense? You can always kill them everywhere regardless of where you live (new-Phoenix in a Pulsar is going to be a royal pain though). Figure out what you want for your corp and from your corp, and what your capabilities are and likely will be in the medium-term future, and settle appropriately.

Coming from a non-smallish C2 corp, I can highly recommend living in a C2. Depending on your statics and your willingness to scan and hunt for targets, you can do quite well regardless of your size. Anomalous Existence is one of the better known "low class" groups, and they can field large, imposing, and shiny fleets like the rest of the W-space groups while "only" living in a C2. Pick a C2 or C4 static for PvP or a C3 static for PvE; all of those can come with a Hisec. Or go full-on C2/NS/C5 and ignore the easy Hisec logistics.

Bastion Marauders mean you can't sit back and let your ECM protect your towers anymore, so you even get some variety in POS mods nowadays, like what the C5/C6 guys are used to.

Yeahh, we learned that lesson on the first eviction

Thanks

O7 Hans we live in a c5-c3 probably the best for pre cap corps , domi fleets can run a load a the c5 stuff an c3 static helps keep every1 payed up an entertained plus if you love pew then roll thatc3 mass is small so ez rolls but idk how many ppl you would need to hold it,I'm new to wh as well but most corps an alli are cool an if you give fights then there usually even nicer after they knwyour not farm bears.

Rail Rokhs. 500+ DPS (skill differences) with 60 km falloff. For running the sleeper sites it works and we get done in good time.

As for PvP well... Secret for now what we are trying to use. Hopefully we can pull off what we are attempting. Till then we all hope to get a "gudfight" soon but have not yet connected to anyone really all that active when we have the bulk of our guys on.

So from what Ive seen, C4>C3 like we have doesn't have as much PVP as we hoped, and the only real fights are other C4s that connect to us, or C4s and C2s that share statics.
But even then, a good number of those just POS up cus they're farmers :v

You might have a bit more like having a c2 static if you're looking for small gang pvp

Step 1 place scout in there hole
Step 2 call some bros and skull **** them
Step 3 sell hole to people that PvP.

;) if you run onto farmers hit me up in game and ill stront check there towers.( this is only for farmers not people that give fights, we need people that fight in wh's (we're not bloodunion;)))

Probably for the same reason we dont have Alliance bookmarks. Would be nice but CCP meh effort.

Welcome to wormholes

Important things

Keep Activity high, reward people who make **** happen. Especially important now towards the summer lull

Don't go smacking around, Wh'ers can keep a grudge for a long time.

Take chances, loosing a fleet isn't the end of the world sometimes it's much worse your members getting boored by risk adversity.

Streamline as many of the tasks as possible, make sure you don't burn your directors out. CCP hasn't exactly made pos living easy at the best of times.

Tons more enough to write a book about but you'll figure it out along the way. =)