Wormholes aren't all that bad... just a waste of time as a 2 day old character.
Lessons learned from yesterday and in my new shiny Magnate I decided to try again with getting to null sec space via a wormhole. It was easy enough to scan one down about 8 jumps from Amarr in 0.7 space.
Bookmark. Jump. Bookmark. I'm in and check D-scan which shows a few sleeper npcs and not much else so I begin scanning down another exit. Find one and with a quick check of the info see it leads to wormhole space. Bookmark. Jump. Bookmark. Find another exit, more wormhole space. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes I was scanning down more than one exit in any particular area in an effort to get... well... somewhere. 3 more wormholes and I was getting frustrated. Almost to the point of just giving up and jumping back the way I came to at least go and do something productive. I scanned down "one last site" - that mantra you quietly say to yourself as you feel this next one will be it - and amazing! It goes back into K-space. Granted it's still high sec but I'm happy with anything at this point. It could take me to the other side of the galaxy, to a pocket of high sec surrounded by low/null sec but no. I jump through and end up 4 jumps from my point of origin -.- 2 hours wasted.
At least I know wormholes are a waste of time at this stage of the game. You need to have more of a plan that "I hope this high sec wormhole leads to null eventually" I won't be messing with wormholes again, at least for a long while. They're too time consuming and with little reward other than the possibility of "safe" passage to null.
I went off and did some standard exploration from here, checking out some systems in the area the wormhole had pooped me out in. I set up a route which took me through a couple of low sec systems as well. It was late night and not too many people were online so I thought I should give it a go. A couple of systems in I entered a low sec system sandwiched between 2 high sec. Those being the only way in or out. There was one person in local but I thought I'd try and scan down some of the 8 or so anomalies that were showing. I launched probes, warped to 100km or a planet and began scanning, the usual ritual. Before the probes even finish their first scan there's that noise again and someone's attempting to warp scramble me as they move closer to begin the attack. I Just warped out to the next system, collecting my probes along the way. So far a 50% gank survival rate!
I have no idea how they scanned me down so quick. The only plausible way I can think is if they were cloaked at the gate and saw which way I was headed and followed a few seconds later. Either way, I survived and finished the rest of the route without incident.
If I hadn't spent so much time in the wormhole I think my profits would have been higher today but as it is I finished the day on 40 million. Not too bad for a 2 1/2 day old character but I was looking for more. I did a couple of security mission in my destroyer as a change of pace and then logged off to get some sleep. Big plans for tomorrow... big plans.
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