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The exit side of a wormhole is always named K162. It spawns when a player initiates warp to the entrance wormhole. Therefore, you always know that if you find a K162, someone else has found the other side. The exit side will give all the same information as the entrance, with the exception of the name. You can still tell what type of space it goes to, what condition the hole is in, and whether or not larger ships can jump through it.

By using the show info dialogue, you will see a rough estimate of the time and mass allowances remaining on a wormhole, as well as the size of ship that can jump through. Many players believe there is some variance, as a freshly spawned wormhole does not always seem to have exactly the amount of mass listed. For safety's sake, allow for a 10% variance. Example show infos can be found here: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Wormholes#Example_Wormholes

A third mass property is regeneration. This is an amount of mass that will regenerate over time, up to when the time limit expires. Frigate holes have the most aggressive mass regeneration, to the point where they are impossible (as far as we know) to collapse.

* Armor plates - these add a lot of mass to your ship. They can be put offline to eliminate the effect, and then onlined again after jumping once 95% capacitor is available.

* Propulsion modules - when active, prop mods add a certain amount of mass to your ship. If a prop mod is active as you enter a wormhole, that additional mass is subtracted from the mass of the wormhole. For instance a battleship running a 100mn microwarpdrive or 100mn afterburner will add 50 million kg when the module is running.

Once a wormhole's lifetime has expired, or its mass limit reached, it will collapse. In k-space, this is the end of the story, but in w-space this may trigger a new wormhole to spawn. All w-systems must always have a wormhole present to prevent capsuleers from being stranded, although there can be several minutes delay for a respawn. All w-space systems 1 or 2 static wormholes, where a certain named wormhole is always present. This wormhole will always reappear when collapsed, and will always lead to the same type of space and have the same characteristics as the collapsed hole. It will, however, lead to a different system.

* Each wormhole can only be jumped once every five minutes in each direction due to a game mechanic called polarization. Thus, if you were to jump X702 to K162, then 1 minute later jump back through the K162 to X702, then you would have to wait four ''more'' minutes prior to make another jump from X702 to K162. This is a very important thing to keep in mind, especially if you need to quickly leave a wormhole.

W-space, is the collection of 2500 star systems reachable only through wormholes. Though they are technically arranged in regions and constellations, in practice this means nothing as connections are constantly changing. This space is all described as "unknown", as it does not appear on any map. The true security level is always -1.0 (however the EVE client tells you its 0.0). In addition, its sovereignty is "unclaimable", meaning that players are unable to claim space, build stations, upgrade, or any other benefits of typical 0.0 space.  

Although in general w-space has the same appearance as k-space, note that there are no NPC agents, no stations, and no place to dock up to repair or log off safely. Many w-systems are very large, sometimes over 100 AU across, so care should be taken when using D-scan to survey a system, and when making long warps.  

Some wormholes have special effects such as reducing shield boosting, or decreasing velocity. There are many environments, each with multiple effects. The environments are: Black Hole, Cataclysmic Variable, Magnetar, Pulsar, Red Giant, and Wolf-Rayet. Each environment pairs with the class of wormhole to determine the effects. See more here [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Wormholes#Wormhole_Environments]. Note that these effects do not have any impact on POSes or NPCs.

Each system in w-space has at least one 'static wormhole', leading to k-space if it's a C1 or C3, or to w-space if it's a C4, C5 or C6. C2 systems have both a static to k-space and another to w-space. This wormhole doesn't always lead to the same system, but it always leads to the same ''class'' of system -- for example, a class 4 w-space system might have a static wormhole that leads to a class 6. C4 wormhole systems also have 2 statics. Once the wormhole closes, the signature for a new one will appear usually within a minute and a new wormhole will appear (once probed down and warped to), connected to a different system of the same class. This means you cannot be trapped inside a wormhole system with no way out (unless of course you neglected to bring a probe launcher & probes).  

Other wormholes may appear in the system, but the static wormhole will always be present.

Ore sites are asteroid belts. Since w-space is null security, you will find all kinds of ore present, although higher class and more advanced sites will yield greater quantities of rare ore such as Arkonor and Mercoxit. There will be sleepers present, but only a single wave. However, they are not present on first warp in, instead spawning 15-20 minutes after a player has first initiated warp to the site (called "activating" a site). The sleeper spawn timer will start even if the player cancels warp and never actually arrives at the site. This mechanic can be taken advantage of to activate all ore sites in the system and come back later to clear the sleepers. The asteroids are often very, very large, and even a modest Arkonor roid will be 5,000 units. At 16m^3 per unit, that's 80,000 m^3 in a single asteroid.

Gas sites contain two gas clouds which at can be harvested using gas cloud harvesters. This is also referred to as huffing. Unlike k-space gas which is used in the manufacture of mostly illegal boosters, w-space gas is used in [[Tech 3 Production]] to manufacture Strategic Cruisers and sub systems. Like Ore sites, they are guarded by a single wave of sleepers (with the exception of the [[Vast Frontier Reservoir]] which spawns in 2 timed waves).  

Relic sites are similiar to Data sites, except that they require the Relic Analyzer module to access the containers. Relic loot will be components from which T3 blueprints can be [http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Tech_3_Production#Reverse_Engineering Reverse Engineered]. These components will be wrecked, malfunctioning, or intact; the qualities will produce either 1, 2, or 3 run blueprint copies. Relic sites are also guarded by usually four waves of sleepers.

Salvage, on the other hand, is used by players. To be specific, it is used in [[Tech 3 Production]], and can be difficult to salvage. Wrecks may require a salvaging skill of 4 or higher, although a salvage tackle may be used in place of a rank in the skill. One item of salvage in particular, Melted Nanoribbons, far exceeds the ISK value of all others with an average price of over 5.5m ISK.

[[Strategic Cruiser]], Tech Level 3 ships, are the fully assembled loot that you extract from w-space. They have very high resistances, are modular and customizable, are the only ship that can fit an interdiction nullifier, but still fit in a package the size of a cruiser. As such, they are tailor made for w-space, being able to adapt to new situations while having great survivability, firepower, and low mass as to not destabilize wormholes. However, beware the price tag. The hull alone will run you over 100 million ISK, and each of the five subsytems will cost you anywhere from 20 to 100 million, or more, making for a very expensive ship once fitted out. A "cheap fit" T3 will be 300 - 400 million ISK. A T3 ship must have all subsystems filled to undock but subsystems can now also be swapped in space using a mobile depot.

Because there is no list of those in local like in K-Space, players are always at great risk of being attacked without provocation. The terms of an engagement are almost always set by the aggressing party, and thus it's not a fight, but a gank. Players are ganked for profit, fun, or control of space. Despite the seemingly vast stretches of empty w-space, a happenstance connecting wormhole can link an empty system to a highly active, aggressive, residential wormhole corporation.  

The Directional Scanner is often your primary source of intelligence regarding what else is in system with you. When jumping into a w-space system, you should always, always, always check your D-Scan while holding your jump cloak (after bookmarking the hole, of course!). No matter how recently you were in the same system, or if you have a friend in system, check your D-Scan. Things can change very quickly, and any warning at all will help.  

Many pilots will use certain overview filters to aid them in determining what is in system with them. These filters are often personalized, and can be added gradually as a user becomes adept at using D-Scan.

This is not a class on D-Scan, however it's worth mentioning that d-scan can be used in a variety of creative ways, including roughly locating things, telling if a ship is in a certain place (at an anomaly for instance), or telling if multiple ships are in the same fleet (if they use the same naming convention). It can be used to covertly locate things whilst you are cloaked, by changing the range and narrowing the angle and pointing your ship camera or solar system view camera at things. This is useful in combat scanning particularly, as you want to have your probes visible for as short a time as possible.

In addition to the basic bookmarks such as an entrance or exit wormhole, other points such as a hostile control tower, observation points, group safe spots, or bombing points can be very useful. This has been a great update for W-Space since prior to that the only way to share bookmarks was through the use of a jet-can. While any corporate member may create corp bookmarks, and edit/delete his own bookmarks, only those that have the Corp role "Communication Officer" may edit/delete corp bookmarks that are not his own. In EVE University that role is assigned to the Sophomore title.  Copying Bookmarks is still required however if you are part of a group that is not all in the same corp (no, there are no Alliance Bookmarks).

In an anomaly, hostiles can enter through a wormhole out of D-Scan range, cloak, warp to your nearby planet, on board scan, d-scan to narrow down your anomaly, warp in at range, and position themselves next to you.... and there's no way you can see them coming. The only way to detect this intrusion is to be constantly probing for new signatures... and to remember that every ship can find your site while you're in an anomaly.