Now to kick back a bit...

So now that I am very much established in this WH, I almost feel like I can relax a bit. Every other time I've been set up in w-space, I've always been looking for the next great WH. Where I'm at now, I basically have unlimited access to C3 WH's. I understand that complacency doesn't generally end well, but I just feel at home.

Today I felt like getting more fuel. So I scanned down the hi sec exit and got some. All there was to it. Decided I wanted to run a few sites, so, with a WH neighbor, scanned down the static C3 and ran some. Man, living hasn't been this easy...well...ever in w-space for me. Here's to hoping I haven't spoken too soon...

While I had the orca out picking up fuel, I also had him pick up some much needed combat supplies to bolster my pvp capabilities. As a WH community, our neighbors and us seem to have silently decided to treat mysterious visitors as hostile visitors. If we can take em...we will. So I picked up my dusty Falcon for Boblakov to ensure that I would be more prepared the next time we had visitors...along with various pvp fittings, ammo and such.

On another interesting note...we found that, if the planets don't change with the release of Tyrannis, we will have one of each type of planet. I haven't really looked into Tyrannis and PI yet but a more knowledgeable w-space neighbor commented on that interesting fact. This could open up a new source of income for our little community...

That was quick!

So last night I pulled out of my WH with the intention of shorter stints in W-space. Probably taking in only a small tower so that I could remain very mobile and move when I found a greener pasture.

I log on today and find a WH 3 jumps from my staging system leading to a C2. Not very many sites but I find a C3 WH leading from it. Jackpot.

This C3 has over 20 sleeper sites and about 15 sigs. I haven't even taken the time to scan them all down yet. Even more interesting, there's two abandoned medium towers. One still has guns anchored to it. The other one is alone. Both from different corps and different alliances.

So I decided to setup the small POS and bring in the orca with the medium POS setup in its hold. I'm here to stay for a bit.

I would love to hear from you, what can I do to profit from the abandoned towers? That's at least 400 million isk floating in my WH.

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!

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.

My first WH...

Alright, I finally found one. Although it's not exactly what I was originally aiming for. After 3 or 4 days of searching for WH's I eventually stumbled across a vacant C3 while crusing around lo sec. According to several sources that I read it would seem that the quieter WH's are often found in lo sec as those WH's will often spawn openings leading to lo sec. This means that you have FAR less traffic since the casual (noob :) ) WH traveler won't venture into lo sec to look for one.

So this WH was about 5 jumps deep into lo sec and the system had a lot of locals. So it was a hair-raising experience bringing my Itty V and other ships in. When I had made my way into the WH and begun setting up my POS, I realized that I had forgotten my salvage boat! So I had to make my way 12 jumps back to my staging area to go grab it. Not that bad but it sucks to realize, after you've come down off of your adrenaline high, that you gotta go BACK through hostile space.

But all said and done, I made it. Set up the small tower and then anchored and onlined the corp hangar and ship maintenance array. I'm all set!

Now, again, this wasn't the perfect system I was looking for. It is not chock full like I was hoping my first WH would be. But it is great to finally be in here laying waste to sleepers!

The sites upon my entry are:

• Fortification Stronhold
• Outpost Frontier Stronghold
• Solar Cell
• The Oruze Construct
• Ordinary Perimeter Deposit
• Unexceptional Frontier Deposit

Not a whole lot. But it is comforting to know that since I got in here, I have not seen hide nor hair of even one other pilot. The only evidence of previous occupancy is the lack of sites along with two leftover mobile warp disruptors.

I have run one site so far and it was definately more of a challenge than the sites I ran in C2 WH's. I had to warp out a few times and noticed that Antioch's Domi had a hard time keeping up with the dps as many of the enemies NOS'd her. Even Bob's drake had some difficulty maintaining his tank on the last wave of enemies. But, when it was all said and done, I was able to finish the site and made an estimated 18-20 mil in salvage and loot off of it. Not too bad. Definately a good experience as it shows me that I can survive out here in the C3 territory. I have enough fuel for about 10 days and I will certainly be able to clear the rest of the sites during that time. So I'll keep my ear to the ground and look for a favorable WH that might pop up in my system here leading to a C2 or another C3 with possible greener pastures...

Couldn't find a WH to live in but....

So, since I spent the entire day on eve scanning down WH's looking for my new home, I was kinda tired of scanning. I wanted to blow some sleepers up...

So it was a few hours from downtime and I found a c2 WH that was perfect. Well, it would have been perfect had there not been a huge POS in there. Whoever was in there definately had some serious production going on. However, there were about 6 perimeter sites, just begging to be cleaned out. I scanned the whole system and didn't find any other ships, and the hi sec system I came through was also quiet. So I decided to get it out of my system. I simply did 4 Perimeter Hangar sites. Took me 1 1/2 hours total, to take out the sleepers and to salvage the wrecks.

I wasn't expecting a whole lot in the way of isk from this adventure but after running it all to my favorite local trading hub, I netted a cool 57 mil isk! Not that bad for 1.5 hours in someone else's WH :P

Almost all of the isk came from two item types. The most profitable was the melted nano ribbons. That accounted for 30 mil, that's only 6 ribbons. The second most profitable was 112 sleeper data cores selling for 22.4 mil. Not half bad.

This first isk run certainly made me feel better about not having my own WH yet. Although it has definately whetted my appetite as to what I'll be able to net once I'm in a WH 24/7