Over the past week I have done a few things wormhole / exploration related. I also have a story to share as a warning to all people who think they are safe in their precious T3 cruiser. First I will start out with my wormhole expeditions. On Wednesday, I had just logged on when my friend Anti Kondor messaged me saying he had found an epic class 2 wormhole. 30+ Cosmic Anomalies, and a whole lot more Signatures. The best part was that the wormhole was free of POS's and not a single person had entered the wormhole since he started running the sites. He had been in the wormhole for about 7 hours already and had made around 200 million isk doing just the anomalies, not to bad for a class 2 wormhole. Immediately I wrapped up what I was doing and started heading to the location of the wormhole. From here we continued to do as many sites as we could before the wormhole we entered through began to reach the end of its natural lifetime. After making around 70 million isk, we had to exit. Not a bad haul for the 2 hours or so that we spent in that wormhole.
Think you are safe in that T3 cruiser of yours? Think again. Just because a T3 cruiser can tank sleepers doesn't mean it isn't vulnerable to people killing you. This is an interesting story that shows just how stupid people could be. About 2 or 3 weeks ago, I went into a class 1 or 2 wormhole to see what I could do in it. I found a few signatures and anomalies, nothing to special. But I did notice a Tengu on the direction scanners, so I immediatly though, Oh cool, if I get a few people we could probably kill this Tengu with no problems. So I proceeded to use a technique I developed for finding other ships in a wormhole with minimal detection (Not sharing because I don't want people to know all my secrets).
Upon finding this Tengu and warping to 100 km in my Anathema, I got a bit of a laugh when I realized that the Tengu I had probed out belonged to a person in my corp who runs wormholes often. So I started a conversation with the guy and asked him if he knew I had probed him out. He had been completely oblivious to the fact that anyone was even in the same system as him. He didn't even check his directional scanner once....An obvious newbie mistake and anyone in a wormhole should always check the directional scanner no matter how safe you think you are. When I talked to him for a bit, he said that he could tank anything and that he wasn't in any danger of being killed. He thought his faction fit Tengu could tank anything and was really cocky about it.
About a week later, I checked our alliance killboards, and guess who got podded while in a wormhole. The same person I had probed out a week earlier and warned him to be more careful. I heard that he was jumped by a curse, pilgrim, and hurricane, attacked them so that he had an aggression timer. Then he thought it was a good idea to log out because he apparently thought he would disappear before they could kill him. Well he got podded and lost his faction fit Tengu all because he thought he was "safe".
To pile stupid mistakes upon stupid mistakes, the Tengu pilot thought it was a smart idea to put his 900 million isk haul of wormhole stuff that he had gotten from a few wormholes in a single Iteron Mark V and move it through one of the most gate camped systems in Amarr Space, Niarja. The suicide gate campers got him good and he lost his Iteron Mark V in one volley.
Personally, I have to laugh at this guy's stupidity because I had warned him to be more careful in wormholes, instead he ignored my advice and lost his 2 billion isk Tengu, and then another 900 million while transporting wormhole loot in the worst possible manner. If you are going to transport wormhole loot through a heavily gate camped system, do it in a battlecruiser or something because the space needed isn't that high, and a battlecruiser has a very good tank and won't insta-pop against a gate camp. Or better yet, take a covet ops ship to transport the blue sleeper tags, they hardly take up any space and a covert ops ship isn't worth scanning for gate campers.
Moral of the story, Always check the directional scanner, assume you will be hot dropped by a capital ship (I have had it happen when I was in a harbinger in low sec...), and don't be stupid when transporting a large amount of isk worth of goods in high sec.
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Found this blog on the forums and thought I'd check it out. We recently took down a Badger with almost a billion isk worth of BPO's in it's hold. This was in null sec, so it wasn't a suicide, but they could have just as easily been transported in a shuttle...and a shuttle would have gotten away. People amaze me sometimes...
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