Wormholes

So I scanned down a wormhole from K-space for a day-trip and a little recon. I am looking for a WH only corp to make the move into Wspace and drop the whole day-tripper crap.

Any way I jump in flying my COVOP and First thing I see is a BC just sitting there camping the hole at about 5km off. I BM the hole, launch probes, hit MWD and cloak, then jump to 100km off the nearest anom and burn away from it. Start scanning down every sig I can find, then start some basic recon on the hole. (Standard stuff - scan down Moon POS's check for activity, scan for ships off the POS's, etc.)

Well in all this that BC has just sat ther, hasn't moved, not eve a twitch. The system was big something like 10 Planets with moons, 20 POS (5 or 6 more than just a tower), 7 Sigs, and another 10 or so Anoms. Only one Sig was a WH and that was the one I cam through and the one the BC was sitting on. Well all that recon took me a good 45 minutes to find, mark, check, recheck from another couple of sides... and just get a "lay of the land." But the BC has me nervous. I'm a crap combat PvPer. I have the skills trained, I have the bling, but I don't have the instinct. So I warp in at my 250km BM on the WH back to Kspace. I check the pilot info, I check the corp, I uncloak and wait. I have a 1000km BM I'm aligned too and at max (non-mwd) speed so I can jump fast if I need to. Nothing. No response. Not a move.

Now I'm considering jump out, grabbing my own BC (though I am not happy with my fits since I lost its twin a few days ago on a day-trip to a cloaky SC with Logi support,) and seeing if the guy is AFK. Hey my thought is its an easy kill, boost my ego some get me to try more PvP, but I have this gnawing feeling its a trap. But my uncloaked baiting for response got me within 70km and I saw nothing and was able to cloak back up no problem.

I mean he could have been sitting there to roll the hole if something good jumped in, He could have been waiting to see what I did next... I've been victim to some VERY patient people before, or like it seemed he could have been totally AFK and I really don't have that kill and f'em mindset that everyone else has.

What should I have done? Would popping him have accomplished anything outside a few tears from a stupid player?

That guy was most likely afk or assumed to be cloaky. Usually it's best to bump them some 20k off the hole (that's like bump twice with a vexor) and then position yourself in between him and the exit. Now you can kill him without him being able to jump back, while remaining rather close to the hole in case his 3 cloaky t3s decloak.

Actually just yesterday had a buzzard baiting me. Burned some 170km, killed buzzard, their legions/prots start de cloaking, I start cloaking up. (5s targeting delay for them :>)

Especially when you're close to any wormhole, it never hurts to bite the bait.

All your problems can be solved with a mobile depot. Just refit on the fly. Even with the limited cargo hold in a bomber you can throw a launcher in there even if you have to offlline a torp. You could even throw in some of those nifty midslot modules.

Might as well throw down, worst case you hop on back through the WH and fly off.

He's probably there waiting for something else. I've sat on HS WH's doing that before, waiting for a polarisation or to try and bait people out. You get the occasional person who's a bit too overconfident because it's a HS WH.