Wormholes

I have to completely disagree with this statement. There are plenty of good, trustworthy, and helpful groups in wspace. Many representatives have already posted in this thread, more can be found elsewhere in this section . If you find no groups trustworthy, or willing to take you in, then perhaps you are the issue, not them. But trying to make a solo go at wh life is almost certainly going to end up in failure and frustration.

If you tell us what you are looking for specifically, in terms of play style, I or others can certainly get you headed in the right direction with folks that suit your wants/desires. Most of us want more active, engaged, and competent players in wspace, not less. If you don't want to post up here, feel free to convo me in-game...

I don't have time right now to go through and point out every stupid comment in this thread so I'll just give you 2 tips:

1 buy a marauder
2 sell the rattlesnake

I wasn't trying to be smart miss, just putting it out there that I'm not trying to do C5's atm. And I get what you're saying, I'm gonna get killed....no problem for me as long as I get some isk out it and to alleviate the boredom I'm currently suffering from being stuck in safe-sec. If I get ganked too much then I'll just return to safe-sec and grind lev 4 missions. Right now I'm trying to get as much helpful advice as I can so that I can live and stay in a WH permanently because believe me, I do not like been stuck in safe-sec.

Yes this was my original intentions and I can totally live with losing 240 mill (the cost of 3 Domis) when someone attempts to gank me, also I heard RR domis are quite formidable in their own right. But the micro managing is a very tedious task when using 3 RR domis, unless I'm not doing it right. I wish there where videos on Youtube that showed you how to maximize the use of RR Domis in WH's since the Rattlers have a bloodlust tag on them.

Maybe I should hold off on using the Rattlers until I mastered using 2 RR Domis in C3s. Lloyd do you happen to know of any videos or links that'll give you tips on how to use 2 or 3 RR domis to maximum effect.

pffft.

if you are too scared to use a single marauder to do C4's but are happy to use 2 RR Rattlers, and quote the same exact reason, you are delusional. If it's too dangerous for one 1.6B ISk ship, why do you need 2?

I won't go into too many details, but I'll link a few Rattler kills for you, just to illustrate what happens to Rattlers.

This is kinda of on par with your setup. Note it's a Magnetar, and one logi was enough.

Frigate hole entrance, C3 Cat. Not enough of a deterrence.

Another frig hole entrance, and another Rattler dunked.

Not safe from frigates in a Paladin either. Note: only takes 5, you better have those entries critted to an inch of their lives!

So, yeah...why so afraid of using Marauders vs Rattlers? Both are gank magnets people will go out of their way to kill. We certainly do. The paladin there, we went 25 jumps through k-space via a frig hole exit and came in via a critted hole, and YOLOed it with 5 ships.

That does it, it's back to the Domis we go. You can kill my 2 domis all you want, I'm still doing WH's. My implants won't be worth more than 20 mill so it's all good. Marauders and Rattlers are out, not worth it xD, especially since even Marauders can die to just a handful of AF & T3D's.

Right there, I can't really get more performance out of those domis for c3s. You only need around 65k drone range, and you can only really fit 4 DDAs. As for handling:

For c3 anoms, I warp to 0m, drop sentries and the assist-domi (the one using OTC instead of painters) sets drones to guard the other. That way, frigs in the first wave die instantly and very likely trigger the second wave right away (fortification/solar cell). By the time your domis locked each other, you set the assist-domi's set to assist the painting one, activate all RR-mods and minimize the client. (If you don't have good RR skills, use one repairer constantly and pulse the other)
Then you just go through all sleepers, and make sure you kill the trigger while leaving one cruiser alive to shoot while you lock new ships from the next wave.

Basics are really just:
- One domi is *actively piloted* and has two painters.
- All other domis have omnidirectional tracking links and remote sebos fitted, so the actively piloted domi has some decent lockspeed.
- You need two large shield transfers incoming to sustain up to c3 datas/relics, and you need 3 for c4-anoms with 4 hardneers fit.

Then in outposts, the last wave got two BS and 4 frigs. You can just kill the BS and leave the frigs, they'll despawn quickly anyway. If you're running Frontier fortification, make sure you carry as many MTUs as you got FFs to run cause the MTU takes ages to tractor all the small crap, same for oruze.

For c3 oruze and c4 barracks, you can warp to the site at 100km and bounce to the structure by warping to the rock behind it at range. Then for barracks, the initial spawn is 20k off you, the upholder wave is 65 below you (they will eat your buffer, so you better hurry on those) and the preserver wave is at 105k roughly, so just within range.

You can armorfit them aswell, however you'll need more pilots to get to similar performance.

I think it is safe to disregard this statement as-is because it simply isn't true, based on personal experience and max skills for both ships. However, for the ISK you are risking, Domi's may be a better choice.

the fact that a rattlesnake CAN do it is really not in question here.
what is, is that it SHOULD do it.

My intentions are to do C3s then C4s, not C5s (that's mostly for Capitals) and I honestly believe that Rattlers (if not in a Corp) are more safer than Marauders cause of Bastion (it's a double-edge sword).

And that sinister fella Trickey Fiend I think his name was showed the kill mail with just 5 ships taking down a Paladin, JUST 5 and those ships were mostly AF's & T3D's. You think Just 5 ships could've taken down 2 RR Rattlers, I seriously doubt it unless the pilots were AFKing.