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:
First Steps
Let us begin with a new cosmic signature appearing in our home system.
Let's assume that it is in fact a new wormhole and you have just scanned it down to 100%.
Let's also assume that this is a new Bacon static. Other scenarios will be covered later in this guide.
Note:All bookmarks should be placed in the Wormhole Campus folder of the Corporation Bookmarks unless otherwise stated. Keep in mind that corporate bookmarks can take up to 5 minutes to propagate (show up) for everyone else in the corporation.
- (Optional but helpful) Announce that you have scanned down the new Bacon and are in warp to it
- Warp to the wormhole at 10 (warping at zero will de-cloak you and make you visible to someone possibly jumping in from the other side)
- Bookmark the wormhole once on grid (following the bookmarking scheme linked above) - DO NOT bookmark any wormhole from the scanner window as the bookmark may be up to 5km off the actual location
- Announce in mumble and/or in fleet chat that you are on grid with the new Bacon so that others wanting to help scan down the new chain can join you immediately without having to wait for your bookmark to propagate. You can put something like "www new bacon" in fleet chat
- Once everyone wanting to join you is in warp, go ahead and jump in - always announce friendly activations :-)
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). The next thing you should do now is gather some intel on the system:
- Open up the mapper and click on the newly added Bacon system
- You should be on the "Details" tab by default which will show system occupancy (POSes) in the pinkish box
- Take note of any POSes with the "Status: ONLINE" tag
- Warp to each active POS' moon at 10 (warping at zero means warping to the most common warp-in point and warping at a greater distance such as 100, might land you close enough to a POS module and de-cloak you...I have warped to 100s of POSes and have only been de-cloaked by a POS module once, at that was when I warped at 70)
- Confirm whether the POS is still in fact there (and if it's still online or just anchored)
- If the POS is completely gone, delete it from the mapper by clicking the little circle with a slash icon next to the POS in the "Starbases" tab
- If the POS is still there but only anchored, change that designation by clicking the little pencil icon next to the POS in the "Starbases" tab
