The first run with the Tengu

Just thought I'd drop a quick post about how the first WH experience went with the tengu. I spent awhile today scanning down systems and WH's looking for the perfect one for me to inhabit. Didn't find it. I did find an unoccupied C3 with lots of combat sites though. Perfect time to test the new Tengu.

Man....it is such an upgrade over the Drake. I don't even have the subsystem skills where I want them to be yet and it is leagues above the drake. There are two main differences. The tank: I don't have to ever worry about the Tengu taking dmg. The ROF: the Tengu just spits missiles out like a big leaguer spittin' sunflower seeds. It made a very big difference when it came to completion time on sites. Definately glad I made the jump to t3.

So in my little WH raid I only ran about 5 or 6 sites. Ran the loot to my favorite trading hub for a total of 248 million isk. Made back a chunk of the Tengu already. Another two runs like that and it'll be just about paid off....

Looking for the next oppurtunity

So I logged on to find that yet another gang was in my WH running my sites. I decided that the exits that I had simply yielded too much traffic. It seemed that almost everyday since I moved in there was a gang I couldn't scare away, running my sites. Oh well. So I decided to pack up and leave.

There was a K162 leading to hi sec. It just so conveniently let me out 5 jumps from my staging grounds.

So while my indy char was offlining, unanchoring, and gathering up the defenses, I sent bob in the cov ops to go sell off the loot I had accrued in this hole. While I was there, I really only spent a few hours running sites. Made it through:

• Oruze Construct x 3
• Fortification Frontier Stronghold x 8

Just these sites made me over 429 million! Apparently my short stint in this WH was well worth the effort. Made way more than the cost of the items I brought in.

All in all, I was able to take everything out without problems and moved back to my staging grounds. I'm not leaving WH's for long...

Tomorrow I will start scanning for the next WH. Just due to the amount of time it took to get my pos out of the WH, I think that I will simply take a small pos setup into the first decent WH I find. And if I find a great WH through a static or something I'll call on the orca to bring in the the Med POS setup to make a more permanent home.

Another great WH experience. Gets me well on my way to being able to buy and fly a faction fit Tengu. Yeah. I'll post about that soon.

The big move

Well, I finally did it. I moved out into my own hole. Props and thanks to the members of Stack All for their hospitality. We will certainly run into each other again.

SO.....my new home. It is a class 3. When I entered it had 3 WH's besides the one I came in. One led to a Class 1 WH, one to a class 5, and one to lo sec. It will be interesting to see which exits are static. Kinda hoping the class 5 isn't.

I was able to offline, unanchor and reinstall everything into my new home in about an hour. Not too bad. I almost had a heart attack while I was anchoring the tower as a Buzzard appeared on my scans. I warped my cov ops around to the different WH's trying to find which one he had come through but never had a visual. He appeared and disappeared from my scans so I now assume that he was just going between the lo sec WH and the c1 or c5.

After I had the POS online and all of my ships moved in, I was able to breathe a sigh of relief. Made it. I was finally able to relish the glory of my situation. There are about 15-20 sleeper sites which are more than enough to cover the cost of my upcoming venture. I will explain more on that in the next post.

I was also able to run my salvage from the 4 sleeper sites from last night out through the lo sec entrance. I sold it for a total of 173 million isk. Not bad for 1.5 hours of solo C3 work.

So begins the adventures in my own WH!

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.

Searching for the First WH

So today was really the first day that I focused on finding my first WH. Man...I scanned...a lot. I scanned down 15-20 systems, some lo sec and some hi sec, and found WH's in almost every system. I think I'll keep better track of the exact numbers next time. Every WH I found was either taken, or not what I was looking for. Right now, I'm looking for a c2 WH that is vacant. I really don't even care if it has a ton of sites. I just want to get in there and set up my pos and test out the logisitics. A few sleeper sites would never hurt...

In the recent past, while gaining interest in WH's, I scanned down and took down a few sleeper sites. The amazing amount of isk I made in a little amount of time was what really caught my interest. I had mainly roamed a few c2's so I know that I can clear those sites. Well, at least the ones I have tried. And I did those with Boblakov in the Drake solo. Having Antiochian along in the Domi will surely make things go quicker.

So I scanned down 15-20 systems in my cov ops, scanning down 15-20 WH's. Each time I saw that 'Unknown' scan type come up I kept thinking, "this is definately gonna be the one." But I never did. Ran into a lot of occupied WH's. A lot more than I thought I would. The only empty ones I found were c3's. I did come across what I believe to be a rare find however, a WH in hi sec leading to a c5. It was STOCKED. There were so many sites in there, and no structures or ships showed up in my scans. Too bad that's well above my pay grade. I tried to sell the location to ppl in my various chat channels but nobody was interested :P

So after a long session of scanning, and finding WH's, then finding I couldn't use them, I decided to call it quits on the rollercoaster of scanning emotion for the day. But tomorrow is a new day...