If you have never experienced the “joy” of being locked out in a wormhole out of probes (or worst, being the sole survivor of a gang gone SNAFU), chances are that you might be missing out one of the most mysterious and eerie staples of the EVE Online experience. Wormholes.
Introduced back in the Apocrypha expansion, wormholes has an earned reputation of being the harshest and unforgiving environments known to capsuleers. This combined with the high skill overhead and patience required for a pilot to successful navigate through endless probing runs also makes wormhole life a hefty proposition to new pilots out there.
Luckily CCP Games’ flight academy is here to the rescue, recently they put out four 101-ish videos showcasing the basics of wormhole gameplay and mechanics. Hopefully these could serve to jumpstart enterprising capsuleers into the darkest reaches of New Eden:
0:09 What is a wormhole?
0:20 Locating a wormhole
0:27 Wormhole systems
0:49 Types of wormhole connection
1:14 Local Chat in Wormhole space
1:36 Thera and the Shattered Systems
1:49 Wormhole Classes
2:24 Resources in Wormhole space
2:30 Sleepers
2:43 Importance of Scanning in Wormhole space
2:51 Wormhole space security status effects
0:08 Static and Dynamic connections
0:29 Wormhole Classes and their connections
1:14 Class 5 Super Highways
1:23 Navigating out of deep Wormhole space
1:49 Shattered wormholes and their connections
2:01 Thera
0:05 What are System Effects?
0:32 How System Effects affect your ship
0:52 Types of Wormhole Effects
1:04 Magnetar
1:18 Pulsar
1:34 Wolf-Rayet
1:54 Cataclysmic Variable
2:10 Red Giant
2:27 Black Hole
2:52 Tactics in Wormholes affected by System Effects
0:06 Differences between Stargate connections and Wormhole connections
0:40 Polarity
1:09 Wormhole lifespans
1:16 Mass limitations
1:50 Single Jump limits and Lifetime limits
Credit goes to the CCP Games team and CCP Sledgehammer for this valuable intel.
