How to Bookmark Signatures in LSC

How to Bookmark Signatures in LSC

Quick Reference:

IMPORTANT: All bookmarks will be entered using at most a 2-day expiry. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES enter bookmarks with Expiry set to “Never” in the "New Location" window.

Non-wormhole Cosmic Signatures (Sites)

Non-wormhole signatures (Sites) will be entered using the following prefixes in front of the default bookmark label in the "New Location" window (right-click on signature in "Probe Scanner" window, click “Save Location”):

• C - Combat Sites
• D - Data Sites
• R - Relic Sites
• G - Gas Sites
• O - Ore Sites

Note: Combat, Data, and Relic Sites should be placed in the subfolder “Explo & Combat Sites”, and Gas and Ore Sites should be placed in the subfolder called “Gas & Ore Sites” within the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder.

Format:
P XXX-### Default Site Name
(P = prefix, XXX-### = signature code)

Examples:
C TSL-999 Minmatar Rendezvous Point
D NXH-243 Regional Angel Mainframe
R KDK-360 Decayed Angel Mass Grave
G UUP-494 Helix Nebula
O YZQ-000 Hidden Crokite and Dark Ochre Deposit

Wormholes

Wormholes will be entered by warping to the signature in the "Probe Scanner" window, right-clicking the Wormhole in the Overview and clicking “Save Location” (never bookmark the signature itself as it is located some distance from the actual wormhole), using the information provided by the "Wormhole: Information" window (right-click the Wormhole in the Overview, click “Show Info”), in the following manner:

Wormholes that lead to Wormhole-Space (W-Space, J-Space)

Note: Wormholes should be placed in the root LSC (EVE Uni) folder, not in a subfolder.

1. Prefix the bookmark with a “dot” or “period” (.), first to place the bookmark near the top of the "Locations in System" popout window, and next to indicate that the wormhole leads away from “home”, followed by the first three letters of the current system’s name, and the lowest number available based on existing wormhole bookmarks in the locations folder (example: “.ISB1” for a wormhole found in Isbrabata, or “.ISB2” if .ISB1 is already being used).
2. Enter the signature code found in the "Probe Scanner" window (example: CUV-998).
3. Enter one of the following abbreviations that indicates a wormhole’s destination system type found in the "Wormhole: Information" window: “HS” for “High-Security Systems”, “LS” for “Low-Security Systems”, “NS” for “Null-Security Systems”, “TR” for “Pochven” (Triglavian Space), “C1-3” for “Class 1 to 3 Wormhole Systems”, “C4-5” for “Class 4 to 5 Wormhole Systems”, “C6” for “Class 6 Wormhole Systems”, etc.
4. Enter one of the following abbreviations that indicate a wormhole’s Maximum Ship Size found in the "Wormhole: Information" window: “XL” for “Extra-large”, “L” for “Large”, “M” for “Medium”, etc.
5. If the "Wormhole: Information" window indicates that “Lifetime” is “Less than 4 hours” and/or the “Mass Stability” is “Less than 10% remaining”, enter “EOL” at the end of the bookmark to indicate that the wormhole is near the end of its life, set the expiry of the bookmark to “4 hours”, and click "Save" in the "New Location" window.

Format:
.SYS# XXX-### DD SS EOL
(. = prefix, SYS = 3-letter system code, XXX-### = signature code, DD = destination, SS = max ship size, EOL = End Of Life)

Examples:
.ISB1 DKE-484 C1-3 L
.FLO3 JJF-394 LS XL
.KUR2 SUD-935 TR M EOL

Upon entering the wormhole, it is recommended to enter a companion bookmark on the destination-side of the wormhole as a way back “home”. Prefix the bookmark with an “asterisk” or “star” (*), first to place the bookmark near the top of the list in the "Locations in System" popout, and then to indicate that the Wormhole is leading towards “home”, then the first three letters of the name of the “home” system (eg. *ISB1, *FLO3, *KUR2), as well as any information about its destination type, maximum ship size, stability, etc. (*KUR2 LS M EOL). Since we don’t have to scan down the Cosmic Signature to know the location of the Wormhole we just jumped through, entering the signature code is not necessary.

Wormholes that lead to Known-Space (K-Space)

Simply enter the bookmark using the “dot” or “period” (.) prefix, first to put the bookmark at the top of the "Locations in System" popout, and next to indicate that the wormhole leads away from “home”, next the signature code, the destination, and any relevant information from the "Wormhole: Information" window. For example, “.QIQ-298 → HS XL”, since we have yet to splash the Wormhole and learn its specific destination. Once the Wormhole has been splashed and the destination system is known, edit the previous bookmark by right-clicking it in the "Locations" window and clicking “Edit Location” to add the system name. For example, “.QIQ-298 → Baviasi HS XL”. Since we don’t know the signature code for the Wormhole leading back to the originating system, the bookmark for the returning Wormhole can simply be entered as, for example, “*→ Vimeini LS XL” (the “asterisk” or “star” (*) used to put the bookmark near the top of the list in the "Locations in System" popout, and also to indicate that the Wormhole leads towards “home”).

Note: The above guide is intended only as quick reference. A full understanding of the LSC Bookmarking Protocol, especially as it relates to bookmarking J-space wormhole chains, requires reading the full text below.

How to Bookmark Signatures in LSC

LSC Shared Folders

Eve University members (Unistas) are granted access to two "Shared Locations" (bookmark) folders, which were created by LSC Staff to facilitate sharing important locations in space between Unistas. They are called "LSC (EVE Uni)" and "LSC Strategic (EVE Uni)". Links to both folders can be found in the Message of the Day (MOTD) upon joining the LSC Standing Fleet in the "Fleet Finder" window. These two folders are the property of EVE University, and as such, EVE University requires that all Unistas learn and use the following bookmarking policy if they wish to enter bookmarks into these folders.

The "LSC Strategic (EVE Uni)" folder contains useful strategic and tactical locations that can be helpful for navigating in and between systems, particularly “Instadocks”, “Insta-Undocks”, and “Gate Tacticals”. In general, non-Staff Unistas are strongly discouraged from entering, modifying, or deleting bookmarks in this folder, even if they have access to do so.

The "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder, on the other hand, is there for Unistas to use freely. This folder is a powerful tool that allows Unistas to share locations, and thus content, with other Unistas. A "Shared Locations" folder is nothing more than a special kind of communication tool, and proper communication requires that everyone speak the same language. This protocol IS the language of this very powerful communication tool, and failure to learn and use this language properly can lead to, at best, missed content or a sternly worded email from an uppity Staff member, and at worst, lost ships and floating corpses (which Idris will gladly buy for top ISK).

Within the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder are a number of subfolders, the most important being the “Explo & Combat Sites” and “Gas & Ore Sites” folder. Wormholes should go into the root "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder. Combat, Data, and Relic Sites should go in the “Explo & Combat Sites” subfolder. Gas and Ore Sites should go in the “Gas & Ore Sites” subfolder.

Expiry

The "New Location" window that opens up when you right-click on something in your "Probe Scanner" window or the Overview and click “Save Location…”, or type CTRL-B, has four options for the expiry time of the bookmark you are entering. Unless you are a Staff member, you should NEVER set the Expiry to “Never”. In most cases, you should use an expiry of 2 days. In cases where the stability of a Wormhole is nearing its end (in cases that you would be tagging your bookmark with EOL), you can use a 4 hour expiry time.

Scanning

Scanning of Cosmic Signatures using Core Probes is too large a topic for this document, and it assumes that the reader already knows how to scan, has scanned down one or more signatures in a system, and wishes to bookmark them properly in the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder for all Unistas to use and enjoy.

For information on scanning, please visit https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Scanning

QUICK TIP: It’s quite possible that someone has recently scanned the system you’re in, and some of the signatures in your "Probe Scanner" window might already have been bookmarked. It’s good practice to check the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder for existing bookmarks in your system, which you can cross-reference with your "Probe Scanner" window and right-click, “Ignore” the signatures that have already been bookmarked, potentially saving you time and avoiding duplicate bookmarks of the same signature.

Cosmic Signatures

Cosmic Signatures are locations within a system that provide players with various types of content. In order to access the content contained within these locations, players must “scan down” the signatures using probes via the "Probe Scanner" window. Once a signature has been scanned down to 100% scan strength, the location can be warped to via the "Probe Scanner" window. This location, however, can only be warped to via the "Probe Scanner" window by players who have scanned a signature down to 100%. Players who have yet to scan down a signature cannot warp to its location, even if they are in the same Alliance, the same Corporation, or even the same Fleet as another player who has. Players can, however, save the locations of the signatures that they have scanned down, and they can share these locations to other players via "Shared Locations" folders. Thus, "Shared Locations" folders allow players who have not scanned down a particular signature to warp to it and access its content.

For more information on Cosmic Signatures, please visit: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Cosmic_signatures

Sites and Wormholes

Broadly, Cosmic Signatures contain two types of content: Sites and Wormholes.

Sites

Sites are locations that generally provide different types of PvE or PvP content, like Combat Sites, Data Sites, Relic Sites, Gas Sites, Ore Sites, etc. The content contained in each type of Site is unique, but generally all Sites behave the same: you warp to the location and engage in the content. Thus, the method for bookmarking any type of Site is the same: you simply put a single-letter prefix as below, which describes the type of Site being bookmarked (which is displayed beside the Site name in the "Probe Scanner" window), in front of the default label in the "New Location" window that opens when you right-click on the signature in the "Probe Scanner" window and click “Save Location…”

Prefixes include:

• C - Combat Sites
• D - Data Sites
• R - Relic Sites
• G - Gas Sites
• O - Ore Sites

Note: Combat, Data, and Relic Sites should be placed in the “Explo & Combat Sites” subfolder, and Gas and Ore Sites should be placed in the subfolder called “Gas & Ore Sites” within the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder.

Format:
P XXX-### Site Name
(P = prefix, XXX-### = signature code)

Examples:
C TSL-999 Minmatar Rendezvous Point
D NXH-243 Regional Angel Mainframe
R KDK-360 Decayed Angel Mass Grave
G UUP-494 Helix Nebula
O YZQ-000 Hidden Crokite and Dark Ochre Deposit

Once you have entered the bookmark label correctly in the "New Location" window, make sure to set the expiry to 2 days (see Expiry above), and click “Save”.

Wormholes

As Wormholes don't strictly provide content, rather they act as a transportation aid in finding content, they require a completely separate system to bookmark properly.

What is a "Wormhole"?

It’s important to note that the word “Wormhole” is used to describe two distinct concepts in EVE Online. One type of “Wormhole” is similar to a gate, except that it’s temporary. It is an object in space that can be warped to and “entered”, which takes you to a different system, which might be only a few jumps away, or it could be at the other side of the galaxy, or even further. Conversely, a “Wormhole System” is a system that can only be accessed via the first “similar-to-a-gate” type of Wormhole. Wormhole Systems are often also called W-space (Wormhole Space) or J-Space (because their system names all start with the letter J) systems. For the sake of clarity, this document will refer to Wormhole Systems as “J-Space”, and “similar-to-a-gate” type Wormholes as “Wormholes”.

A Wormhole can take you to any type of system, not just J-Space systems. Wormholes can take you to High Security (hisec) systems, Low Security (lowsec) systems, Null Security (nullsec) systems, they can take you to a system in Pochven (Triglavian Space), they can take you to any type of J-Space system, they can take you to a Drifter Wormhole, or they can take you to Thera, a special J-Space system that has dozens of wormholes and NPC Stations and which is used as a transport hub of sorts.

The content in these different types of systems is, as we all know, very different, ranging from “safe but boring” for some, to “terrifyingly fun” for others. Before we get killed by jumping through every Wormhole we find, it would be nice to know some information about where we will end up when we “splash the Wormhole”. The "Probe Scanner" window itself doesn’t tell us anything about the Wormhole other than it’s “Unstable” (an “Unstable Wormhole” just means that it’s temporary… there are “Static Wormholes” but these exist only in J-Space). To find out more details about the Wormhole, we need to look at the "Wormhole: Information" window, which can only be accessed by warping to the Wormhole, right-clicking it in the Overview, and clicking “Show Info”.

The "Wormhole: Information" window tells us more, but not all of the information we need to know precisely where we’ll end when we splash (enter) the Wormhole. It tells us the type of system it will take us to (Destination), it tells us the type of ships that can enter the Wormhole (Maximum Ship Size), it tells us roughly how much time we have before the Wormhole collapses (Lifetime), and it tells us roughly how much more mass can be flown through the Wormhole before it collapses (Mass Stability). The only way to know exactly where a Wormhole will take us is to enter it, which could be risky, but the information provided in the "Wormhole: Information" window is certainly enough for us to enter a bookmark into the LSC (EVE Uni) folder.

J-Space Wormholes

The LSC protocol for bookmarking wormholes largely derives from the protocol developed and used by the EVE University Wormhole Community (WHC). The WHC lives in a J-Space system code-named “Cake”. As with other J-Space systems, Cake can only be accessed via Wormholes, and just like any other Wormhole, Cake’s Wormholes are temporary. They exist for a certain amount of time, they collapse, and a new Wormhole appears that goes to a different system than the one that just collapsed. Thus, WHC’s geographical situation is ever-changing, and their bookmarking protocol was developed to help them keep track of that ever-changing geographical situation. In addition to maintaining their own set of "Shared Locations" folders, the WHC also makes use of a third-party mapper web-app called “Wanderer”, which provides its users with a way to create a visual representation of the wormhole chains that emanate from Cake, and the WHC bookmark system was designed to provide an easy-to-understand way to reference the bookmarks in Wanderer, and vice versa.

On the other hand, the EVE University Lowsec Community (LSC) lives in Isbrabata, a “known-space” (K-space) system. The geographical situation in K-space is constant, and we can view a visual representation of that geographical situation any time we want via the in-game map, or any number of third-party applications like SMT or RIFT. Anything we enter on a mapper would just be a duplication of what is already available to us, thus Wanderer is less useful to the LSC, except when LSC Unistas wish to explore J-Space. A mapper like Wanderer is essential for mapping wormhole chains in J-Space, whether you live in Cake or you live in Isbrabata. For this reason, the LSC continues to use the basic WHC protocol for bookmarking Wormholes that go to J-Space (and an LSC Wanderer page to go with it), with one minor modification to avoid conflicting bookmarks between the two communities’ "Shared Locations" folders: whereas the WHC uses a single-letter code (.A) to identify the source system of its chains, the LSC uses a three letter code (.ASE).

Bookmarking J-Space Wormholes

Note: Wormholes should be placed in the root "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder, not in a subfolder.

Imagine we’re in Uisper, and we’ve scanned down a signature to 100% that comes up as “Unstable Wormhole” and we want to enter it into the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder. “Unstable Wormhole” doesn’t give us enough information to properly enter a bookmark, so we must warp to the signature, preferably under cloak, and bring up the "Wormhole: Information" window by right-clicking the Wormhole in the Overview, and clicking “Show Info”. The "Wormhole: Information" displays the following information:

Destination: Class 1-3 wormhole system
Maximum Ship Size: Large
Lifetime: Less than 4 hours remaining
Mass Stability: Less than 50% remaining

We now have all the information we need to enter a bookmark.

IMPORTANT: Always bookmark the Wormhole itself by right-clicking on the Wormhole in the Overview and clicking “Save Location…”. Never bookmark the signature, because the signature is usually a few kilometers away from the actual Wormhole. Bookmarking the Wormhole itself guarantees that anybody warping to the bookmark will be able to immediately “splash the Wormhole”.

Right-clicking the Wormhole in the Overview and clicking “Save Location…” brings up the "New Location" window. By default it is labeled “Wormhole”, which doesn’t convey much information to the next Unista who comes to Uisper. We need a language that communicates the information we have from the "Wormhole: Information" window (and that we can use to reference our bookmark in Wanderer).

Prefix

First we need a prefix that indicates which direction this Wormhole is traveling. A “dot” or “period” (.) indicates that we are going away from “home”, and an “asterisk” or “star” (*) indicates that we are returning “home”. For the WHC, Cake is always “home”. For the LSC, even though we live in Isbrabata, Isbrabata is not necessarily “home” for the purposes of bookmarking Wormholes, since the Wormhole we’re bookmarking isn’t necessarily in Isbrabata. For the LSC, “home” is just the “Known-Space” (K-Space) system where we found the Wormhole. It might be two jumps from Isbrabata, it might be 30 jumps away from Isbrabata in another region. Either way, “home” is the K-Space system where the wormhole was found. In the case of our Wormhole in Uisper, Uisper is “home”, and the Wormhole is taking us away from “home”, so we will use the prefix “.”, which we will enter into the “Label” field in the "New Location" window.

System

Next we need to indicate what system is “home” for this Wormhole. WHC uses a single-letter code. In order to avoid conflicts between the LSC's bookmarks and the WHC’s, the LSC uses a three-letter code. In our case, our Wormhole is in Uisper, so we use the code “UIS” in the "New Location" window, and along with our prefix, so far our bookmark is “.UIS”.

Wormhole Number

Next we need a number to indicate which Wormhole in Uisper we’re bookmarking. Many systems contain more than one Wormhole, and naming every Wormhole in Uisper as “.UIS” would obviously be confusing. To decide which number we should use, we check the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder (or the “Locations in Uisper” popout… click the box with the arrow in the top right of the "Locations" window) to see if there are any other Wormholes in Uisper that have already been bookmarked, and choose the lowest number available. Let’s say we check the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder and it already has three Wormholes bookmarked “.UIS1”, “.UIS3”, “.UIS4”. Since there is currently no bookmark for a Wormhole named “.UIS2”, we can add the number “2” to our bookmark. So far our bookmark is ".UIS2".

Signature Code

Next we enter the signature code, for example JEV-494. Even though we’re bookmarking the Wormhole itself and not the Cosmic Signature we scanned down to find the Wormhole, it’s important to include the signature code so that other Unistas can cross-reference the existing bookmarks with their "Probe Scanner" window and avoid scanning down signatures that have already been bookmarked and creating duplicate bookmarks for the same signature. So far our bookmark is “.UIS2 JEV-494”.

Destination

Next we enter an abbreviation that describes the type of system this Wormhole leads to, which is indicated in the "Wormhole: Information" window under "Destination":

• “HS” for “High-Security Systems”
• “LS” for “Low-Security Systems”
• “NS” for “Null-Security Systems”
• “TR” for “Pochven” (Triglavian Space)
• “C1-3” for “Class 1 to 3 Wormhole Systems”
• “C4-5” for “Class 4 to 5 Wormhole Systems”
• “C6” for “Class 6 Wormhole Systems”
• etc.

In our case, the "Wormhole: Information" window for our Wormhole in Uisper tells us that our Wormhole leads to a Class 1-3 Wormhole System, so we enter “C1-3” into the "New Location" window. So far, our bookmark is “.UIS2 JEV-494 C1-3”.

Maximum Ship Size

Next we enter an abbreviation that describes the Maximum Ship Size listed in the "Wormhole: Information" window:

• “XL” for “Extra-large”
• “L” for “Large”
• “M” for “Medium”
• etc.

In our case, our Wormhole in Uisper is a “Large”, so we enter “L” into the New Location window. So far, our bookmark is “.UIS2 JEV-494 C1-3 L”.

Wormhole Stability

Next we check the "Wormhole: Information" window to see if the Wormhole is close to collapsing. Wormholes are temporary, and they can collapse either due to time or due to the amount of mass flown through the Wormhole.

“Lifetime” describes how much time is left until the Wormhole collapses, assuming it still has Mass Stability. There are four possible values for “Lifetime”:

• “More than 1 day remaining”
• “Less than 1 day remaining”
• “Less than 4 hours remaining”
• “Less than 1 hour remaining”

The way to understand this is that for any given “Lifetime” value, you’re guaranteed to have as much time as the next value below. “Less than 1 day remaining” means the Wormhole is guaranteed to be stable for 4 hours, because if it had less than 4 hours of stability left, it would say “Less than 4 hours remaining”. In all likelihood it will last longer than 4 hours, but we can only safely assume that it will be stable for 4 hours.

“Mass Stability” describes how much mass can be flown through the Wormhole before it collapses, assuming it still has some Lifetime left. There are three possible values for “Mass Stability”:

• “More than 50% remaining”
• “Less than 50% remaining”
• “Less than 10% remaining”

Again, we can understand this to mean that the Wormhole is guaranteed to have no more Mass Stability than the next value below. “Less than 50% remaining” means we are guaranteed that the Wormhole has 10% Mass Stability remaining. It might have more than 10%, but we can only be sure it has 10%. Also, it is impossible to know the total Mass Stability in Tonnes of the Wormhole, only what percentage of that total is still stable.

At any rate, a Wormhole that has “Less than 4 hours remaining” of Lifetime and/or “Less than 10% remaining” of Mass Stability is considered to be in danger of collapsing, and the LSC protocol requires us to tag the bookmark with “EOL” to indicate that the wormhole is at its End Of Life. In the case of our Wormhole in Uisper, the "Wormhole: Information" window says it has a Lifetime of “Less than 4 hours remaining” and Mass Stability of “Less than 50% remaining”. As our threshold for Lifetime has been met, we will enter “EOL” in the "New Location" window. Our bookmark is now “.UIS2 JEV-494 C1-3 L EOL”, which we can enter into the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder, with a 2-day expiry (See “Expiry” above), by clicking “Save” in the "New Location" window.

Wanderer

We’ve entered our Wormhole bookmark into the LSC (EVE Uni)... now what?!

EVE University doesn’t require Unistas to engage in content that they’re not interested in. Nobody can force you to enter a Wormhole. You may not be interested in the type of content that exists in a Class 1-3 Wormhole system, and you might not be interested in risking your ship and your corpse, and that’s fair. At least you’ve bookmarked the Wormhole in the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder, so other Unistas who are interested in that type of content can quickly and easily warp to your Wormhole and get killed themselves.

But maybe you are the type of Unista that enjoys getting killed in Wormholes. Arguably the best place to get killed in Wormholes is in Cake with the WHC, but maybe you're not ready to take that leap, but you still want to get killed in a Wormhole. There’s no reason you can’t seek death in Wormholes as part of the LSC, but if you want to slightly increase your meager chances of survival, the LSC has the perfect tool for you: Wanderer.

https://wanderer.eveuniversity.org/lsc

Wanderer is a third-party web application that runs in a browser. It is a “mapper” application. It links with the game and follows you around and maps out your path as you jump from Wormhole to Wormhole, keeping track of your chain. Although it will show you all the J-Space systems you’ve been in and which systems you need to travel through to get home, it doesn’t know or care which Wormholes you used to travel through the chain, which signatures you scanned down or what you entered into the "LSC (EVE Uni)" Folder. This has to be entered manually.

Let’s say we’re in Uisper, sitting right in front of the Wormhole we’ve just entered into the "LSC (EVE Uni)" folder as “.UIS2 JEV-494 C1-3 L EOL”. We want to see what might be in this Class 1-3 Wormhole system, so we “splash” (enter) the Wormhole by selecting it in the Overview and clicking "Enter". We emerge on the other side of the Wormhole, and our present system as displayed in the top-left corner of the EVE client window is “J123456”.

If you have Wanderer up in your browser and you have Tracking enabled (“little man” icon at the top right of Wanderer), you should now see a box that represents a system near Uisper called “J123456”, with a curved line connecting the two systems that indicates that a connection exists between these two systems. What Wanderer doesn’t tell us is which Wormhole in Uisper will take us to J123456, which is why we entered the bookmark with an abbreviation for the system and a number to differentiate our Wormhole from the others in Uisper: so that we can reference our bookmark in Wanderer.

We do this by right-clicking on the box for J123456 in Wanderer and clicking the icon at the top-right of the context menu that pops up that says “Edit system name and description” when you hover over it. This will bring up the "System Settings" window, which has a box called “Temporary Name” where we can reference our bookmark. It’s not necessary to enter the entire string we used for the bookmark; only the three-letter system code and the number we assigned the wormhole are necessary (we don’t even need the prefix): “UIS2”. When you hit enter or click “Save”, you will see that the text in the box for J123456 changes. “UIS2” is now the main name beside the system type, and “J123456” is now the secondary name.

Now anybody else who looks on the LSC Wanderer can see that there is a J-Space system connected to Uisper via a Wormhole, and that they need to warp to “.UIS2” in order to travel to that system.

Next, we should always bookmark the Wormhole we travelled through on the “destination” side of the Wormhole so that we have a way to get back “home” to K-Space. Again, right-click the Wormhole in the Overview, click “Save Location…” to bring up the "New Location" window. First, enter an “asterisk” or “star” (*) prefix, first to place the bookmark at the top of the "Locations in System" popout, and next to indicate that the Wormhole leads towards “home”. Then enter the three-letter system code that we used on the K-Space side of the Wormhole, and the number we used to designate which Wormhole in the K-Space system we used. In this case we would enter “*UIS2”.

Since we didn’t have to scan the Cosmic Signature down to find this Wormhole, we don’t need to enter the signature code into the bookmark, but it is a good idea to include any other information we have about the Wormhole to assist other Unistas in deciding whether a Wormhole is useful to them. In this case we would enter “*UIS2 LS L EOL”, and click “Save” to enter the bookmark into the "LSC (EVE Uni)" root folder.

Note: If you forget to bookmark the Wormhole that will get you back home, you can always scan down the system for Wormholes, and assuming the Wormhole hasn’t collapsed, can warp to it via the "Probe Scanner" window.

J-Space Chains

We’ve managed to survive in J123456 long enough to make ourselves a safe spot, and we’ve decided to scan for Cosmic Signatures. Upon scanning the entire system down, we see that there are two Wormholes in J123456. We can tell by its proximity in the System Map to our “*UIS2” bookmark that one of the Wormholes is our way back to Uisper. But what is this other Wormhole? We warp to it, bring up the "Wormhole: Information" window by right-clicking the Wormhole in the Overview and clicking “Show Info”, and now we have all the information we need to bookmark this new Wormhole. We again right-click on the Wormhole in the Overview and click “Save Location” to bring up the "New Location" window.

As this second Wormhole is part of a chain of Wormholes that starts in Uisper, our three-letter system code doesn’t reference J123456; rather it references Uisper as the start of our chain (“UIS”).

Again, we use a “dot” or “period” (.) prefix to indicate that the Wormhole is leading us away from “home”.

Next, we use UIS to indicate that this Wormhole is part of a chain starting in Uisper, which gives us “.UIS” so far.

Next, we reference the wormhole number out of Uisper that we used to get to J123456 (.UIS2) and assign a number to the new Wormhole indicating which Wormhole in J123456 we’re bookmarking. Since the only other Wormhole in J123456 is our return Wormhole to Uisper, we assign this new Wormhole the number 1. We enter “.UIS21” into the "New Location" window.

Then we enter the signature code and all the other relevant information contained in the "Wormhole: Information" window like “Destination”, “Maximum Ship Size”, and the Wormhole’s stability status. For example, our bookmark might look like “.UIS21 XIR-003 C4-5 XL”, and we click “Save” to put the bookmark into the "LSC (EVE Uni)".

But wait, a new unscanned Cosmic Signature has just appeared in our "Probe Scanner" window. We scan it down and it’s yet another Wormhole. We warp to it, bring up the "Wormhole: Information" window and the "New Location" window by right-clicking on the Wormhole in the Overview. We enter the bookmark as, say, “.UIS22 RKE-201 HS M”, as this is the second Wormhole (that isn’t our return hole to Uisper) that we’ve found in J123456, which is a system that we travelled to by splashing the Wormhole at the .UIS2 bookmark in Uisper.

If we found yet another Wormhole in J123456, we would call it “.UIS23”, and a fourth would be called “.UIS24”. All the bookmarks start with “.UIS2” because they are all part of a chain of J-Space systems that originated from Wormhole “.UIS2” in Uisper.

Now let’s say that we splash the Wormhole we’ve called “.UIS24”, enter that name into Wanderer as it tracks our new system (let’s say it’s called J654321), and bookmarked the return hole to J123456 as, say, “*UIS24 C4-5 XL”. We get to a safe spot and scan the signatures in J654321 and find two more Wormholes besides our return hole. Those two bookmarks would reference the Wormhole chain that begins in Uisper, not J654321. The first would be called “.UIS241”, and the second would be called “.UIS242”.

And so on and so forth down the chain, always referencing the start of the chain in Uisper and the numbers we’ve assigned to the Wormholes we’ve used to travel down the chain.

K-Space Wormholes

Wormholes can also take us to Known-Space, or K-space. For WHC, their home being Cake, a K-Space system is always part of a chain that is made up mostly of J-Space systems, with the home reference always being Cake. For the LSC, Wormholes found in K-Space systems that lead to K-Space systems are mostly used on an individual basis, not part of any kind of Wormhole chain, and as such it is not required use Wanderer to keep track of them, and similarly it is not necessary to bookmark K-Space to K-Space Wormholes using the same system as J-Space chains. LSC will use a system that is similar to how the "EVE Scout // Hubs" folder works, where the Wormholes are bookmarked with the signature code and the destination, with a . or * prefix to indicate in which direction from "home" the Wormhole is leading.

Let’s say we find a Wormhole in Vimeini. We warp to it to bring up the "Wormhole: Information" window by right-clicking the Wormhole in the Overview and clicking “Show Info”. It says the Destination of the Wormhole is “High-Security Systems”. Hisec systems are all in K-space, so we know only that we need to bookmark the Wormhole using a prefix to indicate its direction, the signature code and the destination.

Again, EVE University doesn’t require Unistas to engage in content that they’re not interested in. Maybe you find Hisec boring and you have no reason to go to Jita today. You don’t have to splash the Wormhole and find out where it goes if you don’t want to. You know the signature code and you know the Wormhole goes to a Hisec system. It is sufficient to enter the bookmark by right-clicking on the Wormhole in the Overview, clicking “Save Location” to bring up the "New Location" window, and entering the bookmark as, for example, “.QIQ-298 → HS XL”. The “dot” or “period” (.) places the bookmark near the top of the "Locations in System" popout, and indicates that the Wormhole leads away from “home”. Also, it’s always a good idea to communicate important information like Maximum Ship Size and Stability. In fact, even if you plan on splashing the Wormhole to see what’s on the other side, it’s a good idea to first enter the bookmark on the "home" side of the Wormhole without the system name so that you have something to edit when you’re on the other side.

If you do choose to splash the Wormhole to see where it takes you, you can then include the destination system in your bookmark by right-clicking the bookmark you just made and clicking “Edit Location…”, and adding the system name to the bookmark so it says, for example, “.QIQ-298 → Baviasi HS XL”.

Don’t forget to also bookmark the Wormhole in Baviasi so you can get back to Vimeini. Since we don’t know the signature code for the Wormhole in Baviasi, we can just enter it as “*--> Vimeini LS XL”, the “asterisk” or “star” (*) placing the bookmark near the top of the "Locations in System" popout, and also indicating that the Wormhole leads towards “home”.

Conclusion

The LSC bookmarking system might seem complicated. It is complicated. It’s complicated because "Shared Location" folders are a very powerful tool in EVE Online. They form part of the lifeblood of any successful corporation. For anyone who joined EVE University seeking an opportunity to learn game skills that will make them a valuable asset to such a corporation, the LSC system offers them an opportunity to "learn how to learn" a bookmarking system. No doubt every corporation has their own very different system to ours, but learning and using LSC's system will give you an edge over someone who hasn't bothered to learn.

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