Category:Wormhole Colonization

What is Wormhole Colonization
Anyone can probe out a wormhole leading to "unknown areas of space", have some fun, and then return to regular known space without much difficulty. Wormhole colonization involves taking the necessary equipment into w-space, deploying a Player Owned Structure, and making that wormhole system your home for an extended period of time.

The Goal of Wormhole Colonization
Whether your motivation stems from the desire to "own" a small area of the Eve galaxy or are simply dreams of wealth and riches, Setting up a permanent, or semi-permanent, home in wormhole space can be a intoxicating idea. However, the monetary issues and logistics issues involved in operation a POS in w-space will eventually weed out those individuals or small corporations that just want to "own" space in Eve. What will be left is the groups that are well-organized, financially motivated ,and successful at earning more ISk from their w-space operations than they could from other activities in k-space.

Obviously, clearing combat sites in your w-space system and selling the drops and the salvage materials can be very profitable, but eventually the longer you stay in a w-space system the number of exploration and combat sites that spawn will dwindle to the point that you will find yourself with nothing to do. Therefore it is important that your group is also able and willing to mine and harvest gas in w-space. Bringing a group of multi-skilled pilots is essential so that you have people to kill sleepers, mine ore, harvest gas, and defend your home from other players.

In addition, your corpmates should automatically know to scan the system down if it has not yet been done and be able to share those bookmarks with everyone. Your corporation should know what to do with or without you online.

You should develop a way of knowing who is and who is not in your wormhole. Everyone should be hitting the directional scanner more than when they came in from high sec. Regular fuel runs and a general plan on what to do when a hostile ship or fleet enters your system should be known by every single member as well.

The information on this page and the other pages in the Wormhole Colonization category were compiled from various sources including, but not limited to, ArcDragon's "A Guide to Everything Wormhole" which can be found Here; Eve Online Forums; Eve-wiki; and other online sources.