EVE New Citizens Q&A

quite possibly.

The only gas sites that will spawn in HiSec are Mykoserocin clouds used for Synth booster production; and they're not really worth harvesting, topping out at approx ~ISK14m/Venture load. What's more these clouds only appear in specific constellations. So if you weren't scanning a hotspot constellation, you were never going to find one anyways.

Lowsec and 0.0 can spawn the far more valuable Cytoserocin clouds, used in producting Standard, Improved and Strong variant combat boosters.

Now, Wormhole gas clouds are of the Fullerite variety and they're used in the rather convoluted T3 ship production process. Any class of wormhole may contain a gas cloud, higher class wormholes may spawn higher classes of gas cloud. A Barren Perimeter Reservoir (C50 & C60 gas) is worth considerably less than a Vital Core Reservoir (C320 & C540 gas), but while a Barren will spawn in a C1, a Vital is restricted to much further down the rabbit hole in C5/6 class holes.

Not every wormhole will contain a gas site. Some will contain many, some will have none.

I know that CCP changes spawn rates from time to time and likely without always informing us. Also lots has been said about this and I've always found it hard to separate fact from speculation. Further I've not spent time in wormholes in years.

All of those qualifiers out of the way the last that I heard wormhole spawn rates were kind of convoluted and mysterious. The best that we could figure from our experimentation was that when you live in a hole you drive down the spawn rates. It seemed like we'd find a hole with several sites and put up a PoS and live there and the site would respawn at a decent rate for a bit but the longer and harder that we farmed them the less often that they would spawn until sometimes nothing would spawn for a day or two.

Again it's been years since I've lived in a worm hole and I fully understand it could just me trying to make sense of the RNG gods but that is the best that me and my corp could come up with at the time.

Any recommendations on how to fit a Venture to escape sleepers and lowsec gankers using only skills available to trial users?

You already got some good suggestions from people above. In regards to fitting - fit cheap. Stabs and whatnot will not save you from dedicated hunters, so you might as well save the isk for the next Venture.

The most important piece of gear is the t2 gas harvesters, as they will double the amount of gas per cycle.

NEVER warp to the ordinary gas sites in you venture. Ordinary sites always have sentry guns that will blow up your little venture when landing.

I don't think there's anything one could really fit to a venture (or any other ship for that matter) that would even come close to being as effective of a defense as pilot situational awareness (especially D-scanning like a madman when in wormholes ).