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Let me tell you something about WormHoles.
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Solecist Project
#1 - 2016-01-04 23:42:32 UTC

WormHoles, my friend, are like that partner you love to hate.
Every time you en... wait, I can't write that.

See... I'm seriously exhausted. Mentally. Just from sitting in front of the computer, playing.

I've been spending the last several ... well, five+ hours probing.
I needed an exit out to highsec, to drop off my loot safely and I was out of ammunition.

Getting in is really easy, but getting out can be a nightmare.

All holes I found were either deeper into whats called Jspace, or to nullsec,
which is a rather bad choice to get my loot out safely.

So I kept probing and probing and probing. I ran sites, enjoyed the view and kept watching dscan.


See... the best part about wormholes is that you never know what you'll find.

Or who you'll find.
Or if you'll actually find anyone.
Or how many.

I got lucky. I haven't encountered a single person. I saw lots of ships ...
... but they all seemed to be inside POS ... Player Owned Structures ...
... so I considered myself safe. And indeed, I was!

I saw beautyfull backgrounds ...
... gigantic stars shining across half the screen ...
... blue pulsars constantly emitting energy waves ...
... and a background I can not possibly describe accurately without getting myself banned.


Every single time I jumped through a hole I feared someone would sit there and blast me back home. I admit, a part of me hoped for it, because - oh boy - these were the most exhausting hours I've ever spent in this game in the last five+ years since I've started playing. It ate up me up from the inside.

Will someone jump onto me?
Will I react fast enough to warp out?
Will suddenly a ship decloak and scram me within seconds?
Will I jump into a disco fleet (that's smartbombs, literally turning space into hell) burning me alive?


These are all things that will inevitably go through your head when you start digging deeper and deeper into this horrible nightmare called wormholes. It's the price you pay for playing in the most dangerous, ruthless, cutthroat part of the game, where you can really lose everything with absolutely NO chance of ever getting it back.


And that also describes why I will do it again tomorrow.

I hate it.
I really, really hate it!


100/10, there's no other game that can wreck you so hard like EVE ONLINE!


Best damn game ever!

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Annemariela Antonela
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2016-01-04 23:49:56 UTC
The dark night of the soul...

“Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.”

― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon
Maziacs
Doomheim
#3 - 2016-01-05 00:05:33 UTC
Say Beetlejuice thrice. He'll get you out.
Serena Cobalt
Forsaken Fortress
Wrecking Machine.
#4 - 2016-01-05 00:14:25 UTC
Or offer a frozen corpse to Bob and he might spare you. Either of the two is just as likely to work.
Shelby Dusette
Division 13
#5 - 2016-01-05 00:21:35 UTC
https://siggy.borkedlabs.com

Best tool eva! Big smile

Just leave it open in your ingame browser while you travel through w-space n' it will map where you've been. With one-click you can bring up info like that system's killboard history, what it's statics are, what effect (if any) the system has, etc.

Used in tandem with an effective bookmarking system you can use siggy to travel around w-space as efficiently as k-space!

Just keep an eye on each hole in the chain you jump through, especially whether it's EOL or at critical mass, as it's probably not a good idea to travel that way. If the chain's still alive you can always just go back the way you came.

Yeah scanning can be painful, especially if you're usin' an un-bonused ship. Most scouts use cov-ops frigates n' often have scanning implants as well, making it quick n' painless to scan down 20 signatures in 5 or 10 minutes.

Maybe I'll see you out there n' we can do lunch!

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Serena Cobalt
Forsaken Fortress
Wrecking Machine.
#6 - 2016-01-05 00:32:21 UTC
Shelby Dusette wrote:


Yeah scanning can be painful, especially if you're usin' an un-bonused ship. Most scouts use cov-ops frigates n' often have scanning implants as well, making it quick n' painless to scan down 20 signatures in 5 or 10 minutes.


A C12 on the other hand, can be a curse or a godsend!
Solecist Project
#7 - 2016-01-05 09:59:01 UTC
Shelby Dusette wrote:
https://siggy.borkedlabs.com

Best tool eva! Big smile

Just leave it open in your ingame browser while you travel through w-space n' it will map where you've been. With one-click you can bring up info like that system's killboard history, what it's statics are, what effect (if any) the system has, etc.

Used in tandem with an effective bookmarking system you can use siggy to travel around w-space as efficiently as k-space!

Just keep an eye on each hole in the chain you jump through, especially whether it's EOL or at critical mass, as it's probably not a good idea to travel that way. If the chain's still alive you can always just go back the way you came.

Yeah scanning can be painful, especially if you're usin' an un-bonused ship. Most scouts use cov-ops frigates n' often have scanning implants as well, making it quick n' painless to scan down 20 signatures in 5 or 10 minutes.

Maybe I'll see you out there n' we can do lunch!

I actually wouldn't suggest uwing tools for the first week in holes,
simple because it reduces the amount of rage and frustration that one experiences.

Yeah I feel like that's a great part of what makes wormholes wormholes.

Though now I've reached a point where I will use it.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Serena Cobalt
Forsaken Fortress
Wrecking Machine.
#8 - 2016-01-05 10:44:11 UTC
If you plan on living in one I would also recommend using Tripwire, has similar features to siggy but it's more geared towards corp use. Though it does have some nifty tools, such as allowing you to set a destination via the IG browser, tracking and documenting signatures and more.
Solecist Project
#9 - 2016-01-05 12:18:08 UTC
In a shameless attempt to promote EVE I've posted this in /r/gaming ...

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Azda Ja
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2016-01-05 12:22:30 UTC
When I'm alone at night, I stare at the Magnetar nebula at home and talk to it, sometimes it answers. It whispers things, wonderful, terrible things.



Grrr.
Solecist Project
#11 - 2016-01-06 09:33:17 UTC
Shelby Dusette wrote:
https://siggy.borkedlabs.com

I have to pay for this .... o_O
... and worst, I can't use it now when I need it.

Pah.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Serena Cobalt
Forsaken Fortress
Wrecking Machine.
#12 - 2016-01-06 10:32:27 UTC
Tripwire is still free I believe.
Solecist Project
#13 - 2016-01-06 10:45:17 UTC
Serena Cobalt wrote:
Tripwire is still free I believe.

I've had this one open in the IGB, had no idea wtf I would need that for anyway.

Then I disconnected in midwarp right into a site.
I even saw my ship reach the site.

Then it didn't respond anymore.

Socket closed.


Logged back in.


Pod.


:(

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Serena Cobalt
Forsaken Fortress
Wrecking Machine.
#14 - 2016-01-06 10:53:10 UTC
As I said it's more geared up towards corp use but it's used to map routes through wormholes, catalogue signatures, provide zkillboard info as well as a graph few of jump, npc kill, ship kill and pod kill stats for Null, Low and High sec systems. It also auto-magically ads new holes to the chain as you go through them, and shows you the class and type. Useful for that alone.

I keep getting random socket closed disconnects too, usually as I warp to a site or activate a module. Often after I've been tabbed out though.
Solecist Project
#15 - 2016-01-06 11:34:29 UTC
I haven't tabbed out.
I don't usually do that.

Six frostline sites... and the event ends today.
What a ******* waste of time and isk. -.-

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Serena Cobalt
Forsaken Fortress
Wrecking Machine.
#16 - 2016-01-06 12:01:38 UTC
Was just bad luck I guess then.

I didn't find anything of significant value, good drop rates were dreadful and way too much competition for them. Lots of Frostlines in Low and Null though. You'll probably have to fly through a dozen HS sectors to find one.