ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
Escalating Entropy
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Posted - 2016.11.27 05:58:45 -
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Ailish Drake wrote:How hard it will be for an Alpha Clone to explore Wormholes for Gas Cloud Harvesting?
Okay... let's go through the pre-flight checkoff:
1: I assume you are going to use a Venture for this. If not, I highly recommend using one.
It is cheap (always good!), has a bonus that gives resistance against Warp Disruption (it won't always save you, but it helps), and has ample space for storing gas.
2: Do you have gas miners and can you use them? Get them. I recommend getting the cheapest ones you can find (there is a reason for this)
3: Can you use a probe launcher? And the probes? Double check your skills. Again, keep it cheap for right now.
4: How good are you at probing? If it takes you more than a couple of minutes to probe down something, you may want to practice finding things in High-sec first. This can mean the difference between life and death.
Okay... now that you have those things taken care of, here is the lay of the land:
Wormhole space is basically like null-sec space (0.0 to -1.0 space).
There are now laws out there, no NPCs that will punish your attackers, and certain bits of equipment that you will not find in High-sec or Low-sec are allowed... namely bombs and Area of Effect Warp Disruption Bubbles.
As an added bonus... there are no stargates, stations (aside from player-made citadels), asteroid belts, or really anything that you can warp to outside of planets and the odd cosmic signature (that are usually crawling with Sleeper drones).
Oh yeah... and there is no Local Chat.
Okay well... there is... but no one will appear on it (imagine being locked in a soundproof room).
When you probe down a wormhole, bookmark it on BOTH sides.
Let me repeat that; BOOKMARK IT ON BOTH SIDES.
Too often... people enter a wormhole, probe down what they are looking for, and then just warp off.
This creates a problem as the wormhole will need to be reprobed again. And unless you know exactly which area of the system it was in you run the risk of probing down the wrong wormhole and going deeper into wormhole space.
Or wind up in someone's territory in null-sec.
Yeah. Lots of fun.
Also take into account that wormholes have a lifespan and mass limits. You can check the info of a wormhole you are staring at and kinda guesstimate it (hint: if it looks kinda like jello in an intense earthquake then it probably won't last long).
So basically, don't plan on sticking around, much less logging off, in a wormhole. It may not be there when you want to go back home.
Finally... consider the residents of wormhole space... who can best be compared to the rural yokels in any country that don't like "outsiders" (kidding, kidding... but yeah... best to keep that ass of yours puckered up a bit).
To put all this in laymen's terms; wormhole space is basically Mad Max in space. Not the new one with the pretty ladies... we are talking about the old one... where everyone looks and acts like they have been beaten with a dusty frying pan that was used to cook methamphetamine (note: don't cook meth on a frying pan... bad things happen).
And you will be alone. On a motorcycle. Where everyone is driving around in tricked out Chevy muscle cars of kludge-filled death. And the "wildlife" is armed with AK-47s and RPGs.
But it is not all bad. Your character is immortal after all. So what if your character's corpse was violated for its "purdy mouth?" That was a previous life. 
After a few attempts at wormhole gas mining you will learn how to avoid danger.
Now go getim tiger!!!
How did you Veterans start?
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