Just a quick update

So I have now been in this C4 WH with my very generous hosts (Stack All) for about a week. I have only really run sites with them once, while having a few other adventures tossed in as well. In short, I'm itching to get into my own WH. Nothing against my current hosts but I feel that everything I do while I'm here I have to do very carefully as I don't want to mess anything up for them.

I suppose I just can't wait to be in a spot where all my mistakes are my own and affect no one but me. Live to learn I suppose. This time spent here has not been fruitless however. My time in this C4 has gained me invaluable experience on WH management due to the tagging along on ops with Stack All. Closing WH's. Learning more, first-hand, about static WH management. All valuable things which I will certainly benefit from in the future.

Right now, as I have the urge to move on, I will really be looking for the first relatively-suitable hole I can find. I made a run out to Jita through a lo sec exit (popped out only 5 jumps away!) and stocked up on fuel (now I have two weeks worth), modules I've found I need, and some skill books leading to more modules I've learned I need.

So I feel I'm ready to hit the open road. This WH I'm in has a static C3 exit so I'll be looking at the next few that pop up and a) move into that WH b) move into an adjoining C2 or C3 from that WH. I have had a little while to consider this next move over the last week and I have a few ideas rattling around in my head. I will be flushing them out over the next few days and will certainly post about it as I do.

P.S. I promised in a previous post that I would report on my earnings from the sleeper campaign I ran with Stack All. I netted 76 mill isk. Not as much isk/hr as I make running sites by myself but not too bad either. Also more fun running with cool capsuleers!

An unexpected adventure

A new day, and a new set of WH adventures. I logged on expecting to do something similar to what we did yesterday. How WH's love to mess with well-intentioned plans...

SOOO, we start by checking the static C3 WH and find it to be farmed out and occupied. So we start the process of closing it. Successful WH collapse. Next WH. Farmed and occupied. *sigh*

While our one WH closer begins the process of closing this one, the rest of the pilots have to head off. So now it's just me, watching, cloaked in my cov ops, as the mega jumps in and out. It goes critical, so he switches to the Brutix fit for finishing the WH off. Unfortunately, this WH enjoys eating Brutixes. It closed behind him.

It was right then that we realized that I hadn't given him the BM's for the sites in that WH. One of which was a WH leading to hi sec, and safety. When I had scanned it down, it was on the verge of collapse due to ships passing through it (probably the work of the local corp not wanting hi sec noobs running around).

Did I mention? The WH with our intrepid Brutix pilot in it was about 180 AU across. Try scanning the proverbial needle out of that huge haystack....in a Brutix. Not fun.

So he started scanning. And scanning. And scanning. Once he had gathered a bunch of the sigs, he was reading some of them outloud on Vent when I recognized one! Sure enough, it was the hi sec exit. And fortunately, the local corp had simply bottlenecked it, not bothering to collapse it all the way. VERY lucky.

While he was scanning down that system, I was scanning ours for the new static C3 to open up. And by the time he had found his way out, I had already found a new way in. It went something like Home C4 -> C3 -> Lo sec. It came out into a system that was gate camped on the gate leading into hi sec. But he lugged that Brutix the 30 or so jumps to the lo sec system (after buying and fitting 4 stabs) where I proceeded as scout to the WH entrance.

At the gate camp, he was targeted but escaped before being fully locked. They were so miffed at their own incompetence, they gave chase. At the next gate, they managed to jump through in time to lock and scram him. hehe. They must have been ticked to realize just how many stabs he must have had fitted.

Pirate scum 0 : WH adventurerers 1

All in all, it was not a very profitable day. But what makes WH's fun is not just how much isk you can make, or the number of sleepers you can kill (both thoroughly invigorating in their own right), but the adventures you can have - not found in k-space. At least, that's what this blogger is trying to experience. Note it: in one day, locked out of home WH, found exit from hostile WH, made it back to home WH through gate camps and lo sec entrances.

A new day, and a new set of WH adventures.


EDIT: Also had a good conversation with Star Defender (author of the great Eve Online Wormholes) about our mutual WH experiences. Great talking to you SD!

Had a few extra minutes...

So while I was waiting for my new WH buddies to gear up for combat, I decided to take the cov ops for a stroll around the shiny C4 system. And what a beauty it is. Enjoy...


My small POS (Antioch)

Love these planets

Great looking system...

This is all just another reason to love W-space...

An interesting oppurtunity

So I logged once more today after the encouraging sales run I made earlier to run some more sleeper sites. I had run another two sites when I had my first visitor. Had a good conversation with 'I Noob' about WH living and hope to stay in contact with him as he attempts to work with WH's in the future.

Not long after, while I was sitting in my pos, a heron appears 150 km or so out, then quickly cloaks up. I was able to open the pilot info before she disappeared so I convoed her. Turns out that she was part of a C4 WH corp. Their system had opened up a WH to mine. After a few minutes talking about our situations, I showed her the way to my lo sec exit WH and she offered me the chance to move into their C4 WH with them until I could find the proper C2 WH I was looking for.

As I had just finished the last of the sleeper sites, I jumped at the oppurtunity. So as two of my chars stayed behind to start packing up my POS I decided to run out the little bit of loot I had acquired from the two sites I had done. Surprise surprise, I sold it off for a lot more than I had thought I would. Another 84 million isk. The cost of my tower has been completely covered at this point. Who knew that running 4 sleeper sites in one day would cover the vast majority of my initial investment...

So an hour or so later I had successfully ferried my small pos setup along with my 5 ships into the adjoining C4 WH. My main goal while here is to find a vacant C2 WH that I can occupy for awhile. Shout out to the Stack All corporation! Thanks for the non-hostile arrangement! Should be an adventure...

And on a quick note, I grabbed the necessary skill book and module so that now my Domi pilot has two large shield transporting mods fitted to assist Bob in the Drake. Makes a difference and helps make sure that I don't have to warp out now from C3 sites.