Wormhole Community Scouting Guide

Welcome WHC Scouts!

If you are reading this, you are probably a newer member of the WHC who is an explorer at heart. You might even be interested in being a scout for the campus but are not sure of all the little intricacies of scanning/scouting down our chains in hopes of finding PvP and even PvE activities. If we have your attention so far, please read on :-)

This guide will take you step by step through the preferred process of scanning and scouting down one of our new chains, including what to do should you find potential PvP targets.

Helpful links:

WHC Bookmarking Scheme

WHC Mapper

I'm in Bacon!...now what?

One thing that cannot be overstated is the importance of not announcing your presence to anyone in the system you just jumped into. In other words:

• Do not drop your probes as soon as you jump in
• Do not de-cloak and sit on the hole

Now that we have that out of the way, let's go step by step (assuming there are no visible hostiles on grid with you)

• Quickly push off away from the wormhole and immediately cloak back up (as soon as you're cloaked again, you can stop your ship so you're still close enough to jump back quickly if you have to)
• Bookmark the way back home
• Add the new system to the mapper (see the link above)
• Announce (preferably in mumble) that you have done the above two steps
• Check d-scan for the presence of any ships, wrecks, deployable mobile structures (mobile depots, mobile tractor units, etc.), active POSes (force fields)

At this point we are still assuming that there are no apparent threats in the system (no ships visible on d-scan - at least not from the hole)