Quick little intro to wormholing with Patriot

Yeah it's about that time. Time for me to promise a daring wormhole adventure and untold riches, and then to abscond with all your monies.

Well hopefully not.

More info will be to come, but I want to throw this post up so that people can get ready to participate if they want to, and most importantly to START LOOKING FOR A NICE EMPTY HOLE FOR US TO FILL.

So, the important part first: I'm offering a 200m reward for each of the following, EMPTY (Meaning no online POS anywhere in the hole):

• C2 with a C3 static and a Hisec/Losec Static.
• C2 with a C4 static and a Hisec/Losec Static.

So, goddamn, patriot, how do I find these holes and claim this glorious reward?

1. Go scanning in hisec. About 75% of hisec systems will have a wormhole at any given time. You can do the data sites and the relic sites, and also probe down wormhole signatures when you find them.
2. Right click on the hole and select info. Is the hole "reaching the end of its natural life?" No? Good. Yes? Good as well, but be prepared for the hole to spontaneously close, meaning you have to scan a new exit and possibly have an exciting journey wherever you pop out.
3. Pop inside the hole. Is it blue? Yay! Open www.wormhol.es[1] (yes, I know there's others, but this one has a button.) in your eve browser (alt+b) and add it to your trusted sites.
4. Press the refresh button next to the text box. Info about the wormhole will pop up. It will tell you what kind of a hole it is (C1-C6), what kind of effects it has (Wolf Rayet, Black Hole, etc.), and what statics it has (Null, Low, Hi, C1-C6).
5. Do all of this within 30 seconds and you have no chance of dying. Take longer, and someone may explode you.
6. Send me a private message on reddit as well as on EVE (so I can respond faster). If it's this weekend I might not respond (I have military shit to deal with. Like, real life military not space military.)
7. Best thing to do is stay inside the wormhole, if you don't mind fondling yourself while you wait for me to respond. If you don't have a cloaking device on your ship, you may want to log off in a safe spot so that you don't explode. If you leave the hole, I may travel to the hisec system and find that it is gone, then I will be sad.
8. I will fly to your hole and slip inside. If it's as empty and delicious as you have told me, I will transfer your dirty whore money immediately with a smile.

Also, I'll know how awesome you are and want you in all my wormhole fleets.

So, for those of you who are wondering, what the fuck is a wormhole and why do I care? Here's a few quick bullets (not a guide, I'll do one of those soon).

• "W-Space" systems are systems that aren't on the map, which are accessed through portals called "Wormholes"
• Different classes of wormholes are C1,C2,C3 etc. to C6.
• Combat/other sites spawn in wormholes, and they have NPCs called "sleepers" which drop phat l00tz. (40-70m/site in C3, more in higher)
• You can put up a POS (Player owned structure/starbase) inside a wormhole. This acts like a tent on a camping trip. It's not really as comfortable as a station/house, but you can have lots of fun/uninvited touching in it.
• There's also lots of other profitable stuffs you can do inside wormholes, like PI, mining, industry, etc. I don't really care about that stuff, but if you do, you can come in my hole and go nuts.

WELL GEE WILLICKERS THAT SOUNDS FANTASTIC PATRIOT, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT TAKES A LOT OF SKILL POINTS/FANCY SHIPS TO GET IN ON ONE OF THEM THERE WORMHOLES DON'T IT?

No. No it does not. The way BNI does wormholes, a bunch of month old characters can make 10-50m isk/hr through the power of TEAMWORK (and logi), and it's not hard.

BNI generally uses two kinds of wormhole fleets, Armor+Logi and Passive Shield. I said this wasn't a guide, but I can't help myself. Here's what you can aspire to in order to contribute.

An Armor+Logi fleet consists of:

• 3 T1 Logi cruisers: Exeqorors and/or Augorors. If you can fly both, better (takes less than 5 days to be able to fly both quite adequately.)
• 3-5 DPS armor cruisers/battlecruisers. The only requirement here is ~60% armor resists across the board with more than 3500k armor buffer tank. The more DPS you can field, the more FCs will like you in their fleets. Bittervets, I know that seems like a scary paper tank, but it's all that's really necessary. Trust me, I do it all the time. And I'm a doctor.
• A salvaging destroyer/noctis with a cloaking device and salvaging skill of IV or V.
• That's all.

The easiest (least SP needed) way to get into a wormhole fleet is by flying a logi. My 30 second logi guide[2]

Once you can fly a logi, start training for a T3 battlecruiser, like a Talos or Oracle. Those things put out massively disproportionate DPS to how easy it is to train for them (if there's interest, I can do a 30 second guide). Suffice it to say, a 1.5 month old character can do 600+ DPS in one of those suckers.

Also, if you train salvaging to IV, you will almost be guaranteed a spot.

Passive shield fleets consist of:

• Fucking drakes that can't ever die because fucking drakes.
• A salvager or something. Or if enough drakes have salvagers equipped, you don't even need this fucker. Meaning your fleet will consist of:
• Fucking drakes.

So, to sum up, wormholes are a fun way to practice being in a faux-pvp fleet, with a dash of danger (you'll see) and make a lot of isk (like, a lot. stupid isk.)

SOUNDS AWESOME PATRIOT, HOW DO I GET IN ON THIS HOT HOLE PENETRATING ACTION?

Join the channel "dropbears anonymous" for more info. Once I have a nice hole, I'll be tossing up a POS, and fleet operations should begin as soon as next week! If you have any questions, ask here or PM me in game.

7o 7o fly hard

a DAMN PATRIOT

Head of PvE, BNI