Wormhole Community Services

This page is specific to EVE University. Other corporations or groups in the game may operate differently. For a summary of EVE University's rules and code of conduct, see EVE University Rules.

EVE University provides its members a wide array of services ranging from one-on-one mentoring to subsidized mining ships to inter-campus hauling. The Wormhole Community also runs a variety of additional programs, some designed to supplement normal Uni services that are unavailable to us and some to meet the challenges unique to our pocket of the universe. The services listed below are generally only available to Uni members living inside of WHC's home, but mostly because they are not useful to Uni members in K-space.

CAMP: the Coordinated Asset Management Program

Summary

WHC stocks common PvP doctrine ships on contract at a reduced cost.

Explanation

Dying in PvP is part of wormhole life. In order to get back into the fight, members need new ships. While it is possible for every member to keep their hangar full of replacement ships for ones that are destroyed, this is wasteful, as many members will be keeping copies of the same doctrine fits. Instead, WHC centralizes these replacements so that a single pool can serve a large number of members. In addition, the ships themselves are produced leveraging EVE University's industrial infrastructure to allow the cost to be kept low. Finally, when members choose to take a break from the game, any doctrine fits can be sold back to CAMP at full face value to avoid ships sitting in hangars of inactive players.

How to Use It

CAMP contracts are available to any EVE University WHC member in our home system. Use the normal contract interface to find them, filtering by "available to my corporation".

To recycle a ship through CAMP, you can contract it directly to the WHC Operations corporation at the CAMP contract price (which you can find on the CAMP dashboard, by looking at an existing CAMP contract for the same fit, or by talking with a WHC community coordinator). Please put "Recycle" in the contract description to help us identify it.

WHD Armament Request

Summary

Subsidized home defense ships are available on request.

Explanation

Home defense is the responsibility of us all. WHC members are broadly expected to procure a home defense ship once they've gotten their footing and decided to stay a part of campus. To promote ownership, WHC subsidizes the cost and handles all the logistics. In order to properly fly this ship, please also train into the WHD Skill Plan, available in the EVE University corporate skill plan list.

How to Use It

Submit a request using the WHD Armament Request form, and we'll contract it to you at a reduced cost.

Affordable Suitcase Program

Summary

WHC will help you construct certain cargo ships at-cost for emergency use.

Explanation

A "suitcase" is wormhole jargon for a ship with a large cargo hold that you can pack with all your belongings in case of an eviction. If any pilot has an active ship when the structure they are docked in explodes, the pilot, their ship, and everything in it will appear in space at that location the next time they log on. This is an excellent insurance policy and a good way to deny assets to evictors. Because the ships with the largest cargo holds are expensive to produce and, in the case of freighters, must be built inside our home system, WHC and the EVE University Production department help streamline the manufacturing process and keep costs low for WHC members.

How to Use It

Submit a request using the Affordable Suitcase Program form, and we'll build one for you, then contract it to you at cost.

Scout Payout

Summary

WHC pays our scanners for signatures they bookmark and add to our mapper.

Explanation

Scanning is the lifeblood of wormhole life. We live and die by our knowledge of the connections around us. To promote good scanning habits, WHC pays a small, fixed percentage of its total weekly activity to anyone who bookmarks a signature and records it in our mapping tool. The payout is shared amongst those who scanned in any given week and is proportional to the number of signatures scanned. Scan more, and you get paid more. For new members who may not have the ships or risk tolerance to fly other PvE activities, scout payouts can be a meaningful way of bootstrapping one's wormhole career while also learning an invaluable skill. For veterans who already know the value and wish to give back, they may voluntarily decline to receive scout payouts by contacting a WHC Community Coordinator.

Note: It is convention at WHC for a scout who finds PvP content to receive an additional 50% of all loot dropped (often colloquially called a "Y" for historical reasons). This is unrelated and complementary to the Scout Payout for signature scanning. Pilots may receive both.

How to Use It

This service is provided automatically. Our tools keep track of who scans what, and the Buyback department pays out a sum weekly to anyone who has scanned in the WHC chain.

Gas Upgrade Program

Summary

WHC converts any raw fullerenes sold to the Buyback program into hybrid polymers of higher value.

Explanation

Fullerenes are valuable but low-density. Moving raw gas to a trade hub from wormhole space requires an uncomfortably large number of hauling ships and puts strain on the wormholes being used due to mass. One option is to compress the gas, but this comes with a price, as decompression is not 100% efficient. Another option is to convert raw gas into production materials through reactions. The volume of the resulting products is far less than the original raw gas and its market value normally increases.

How to Use It

This service is provided automatically for all fullerene gas sold through Buyback at WHC.

Vacation Storage

Summary

WHC will hold on to your fitted ships while you take a break from EVE.

Explanation

There is no asset safety in wormholes and an eviction threat can arrive at anytime. A suitcase is an excellent insurance policy, but it doesn't interact well with fitted ships. In an eviction scenario, you typically strip everything down, repackage it, and shove it in the suitcase. But this requires that you're actually *there*. What if you want to take a vacation? Or have a health emergency? Or just need a break from the game for a bit?

If you leave EVE for a while, it's responsible to put your modules, ammo, components, and other packaged items in your suitcase and hand it to your suitcase pilot. This is pretty easy, it takes next to no time and effort. For fitted ships, WHC offers the vacation storage program. You give your ships to WHC, we hold on to them for your vacation, then hand them right back afterwards. In the event that an eviction befalls WHC while you're on vacation, there's a group of people that you can rely on to ensure your ships don't fall into enemy hands.

Note: the Vacation Storage program has a maximum of two months. Please do not use this for taking extremely long breaks or for leaving EVE entirely for years. We will generally reject requests that have return times longer than two months (and explain this to you). If you create a short request and then just never come back, we will do our best to repeatedly get in contact with you both on your expected return date and again close to the two month deadline, but eventually we will have to sell off your stuff so that we don't just have a stock of unclaimed assets lingering in the hole. The proceeds of that will be reinvested into the University, so if you are planning on just getting rid of stuff, please just use Buyback or the WHC market channel instead.

How to Use It

Fill out the Vacation Storage form, then contract your fitted ships to the WHC Operations corp with "Vacation" or something similar in the contract description.