Wormholes

I have an intense interest in frig/destroyer limited wormholes. I was wondering if anyone has found them and what their experience with them are?

Since there is no moons there is no pos's which means no where is particularly safe but you could in theory live out of a mobile depot. Is this viable?

We just found a shattered wormhole last night. Since none of us had ever seen one and had no idea what they did, we immediately formed up in Lazerhawk's newbro destroyer doctorine (Lazyhawks) and headed out. When we started to jump in, our Augorors let us know it was a frig hole. Woops vOv

We started bouncing around and looking at the big broken planets. We shot up the Epicenter, which is this weird construct at the sun that has violent wormholes that you can't go through. After figuring out we were able to dunk on the sleepers even without Augoror support, we said **** it and started warping to combat sites. The next fifteen minutes was just us laughing our asses off as we blew every sleeper nerd in that system off the face of the universe without losing a single Lazyhawk Catalyst.

We bounced around, discussed some lore things, pointed out the weird stuff at the epicenter and of course we shot the violent wormholes. It was a very COF night. No idea what we were doing, not sure if we actually accomplished anything but it didn't matter because good times were had.

Ventures and prospects should fit in there.

you can't mine ice in those

Ugh. Never tried it so, learned something today.

We agreed about frigate holes in the previous thread, but I am reversing my stance towards frigate holes when they are Shattered Systems. Those C6 Wolf Rayet bonuses are just too crazy to pass by.

We cleared the sites off of one of these (had C3 sites) today, and I have never had as much fun in PvE. We took our standard PvP Assault Frigates in and just blitzed trough the sleepers with not a care in the world.

I like it when I can do my carebearing in the same ship I use for harvesting corpses.

Ice works differently than ore. Ice miners are strip miners, and thus only fit on barges/exhumers, and each cycle produces one ice chunk with bonuses reducing time rather than increasing yield.


Hopefully, at some point, they change ice to work like ore, so we can have ice mining turrets that we can put on Ventures/Prospect or other, random ships.
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On a side note, do the Wolf Rayet effects affect small drones? (as in if I run across one of these in an astero, will it be of any use?)
I am guessing no, but want to verify.

As to ice in these systems, I think there is ice in every shattered wormhole (or most of them anyways), and IIRC only 25% of them are frig systems.

So, I wouldn't bet on getting ice miners for ORE frigs or whatnot.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all of the frig sized new wormholes have a C6 Wolf Rayet effect that favors armor over shield?

yes ice in all shattered holes including Thera. I brought up the issue of mining in the 25 frig only holes and after about a week of me poking ccp in various threads and twitter got a 'this is by design' reply.

So that indicates something in the works in the future that can mine it. My guess is either they are doing a mining revamp which includes changing the ice, or adding a new mining laser for ice that a venture can mine ice. Or possible a T3 frig that can ice mine, but who knows