Terra incognita: Setting off for Wormhole Space

Over the last few days I've been gathering all my belongings into one system near Bourynes, some 27 jumps away where I was stationed with Phoenix Labs. Suffice to say that the enterprise has been very time consuming, though not what would call boring though. Indeed, I've used this time to accumulate a plethora (damn I love that word!) of links, guides and tutorials that will be useful to me as I join my corp, Chaosstorm, in wormhole space.

During this transition, I've queued up a long list of skills I'll need as I enter this terra incognita: Astrometric skills, probing and other scanning skills...

In trying to share all this information with you, I've put together the following list of guides and links that I've come across in my InterTubes exploration. Please let me know in the comments below of other links you've found helpful.

As always, fly safe!


Wormhole Wikis:

• Wormholes (EVElopedia)
• Wormholes (UniWiki)

Wormhole Guides:

• BattleClinic's Guide to Wormholes (PDF)
• Everything Wormhole Guide, by ArcDragon <-- New
• SPLU Wormhole Guide (PDF)
• Guides - Wormholes (EVE Online Fan UK)
  
• Wormhole Exploration – Tips and useful links! (Emptiness...)
• Wormhole Training Ground (Guns Ablaze)
• Agatir’s Guide to Wormhole Hunting… err I mean Scouting - Part 1 - Part 2 (Planet Risk Show) <-- New
• Jowen's Guide to Wormhole Space (PDF) <-- New
• Wormhole Exploration and Survival Guide Part I <-- New
• Wormhole Exploration and Survival Guide Part II <-- New

Exploration, Scanning & Probing Guides:

• Official CCP Scanning Guide Tutorial (YouTube)
• Exploration guide (EVElopedia)
• A Guide to Probing (Ecliptic Rift)
• Exploration guide (EVElopedia)
• Basic Guide to Exploration (The Lucian Alliance)
• Exploration Myrmidon - Ship Setup (Ecliptic Rift)
• Guide to Scan Probes for exploration (IGN EVE Vault)
• Guide – Exploration in Eve Online (EVE Online Fan UK)
  
• Exploration - Part 1 - The basics (Massively)
• Exploration - Part 2 - Loot and plunder! (Massively)
  
• Apocrypha Exploration Tutorial (YouTube)
• More guides as I find them...

CCP's Official Scanning Video Tutorial:

EVE Online Speedlinking for March 22nd, 2008

Well as I start to put together this week's list of links, I've just docked into Phoenix Labs Home station in Khanid Prime. Seems that our ops in Nuken is coming to a close. During my absence on the other side of the pond, the orders were given to move back to KP. Khanid Kingdom has been home to PPL for so long it's hard to imagine leaving for too long.

Anyways, back to this week's news and links. It's a long one this week, so grab yourself a coffee and start reading!

• Post your interstellar résumé at EVE Careers - Massively.com on EVE-Careers site
• Beastoria strikes again? - EVE runs skin deep for this dedicated gamers!
• Probing - Votrian comes across a great probing guides and shares his thoughts on it
• Caldari Navy Ibis: Noob Adventures in New Eden - a new EVE Online newby blog
• Mahogany Finish - Very opinonated, yet so entertaining (Warning! WoW content present)
• Goonswarm wants you! - James from Kill Ten Rats comes across an interesting corp ad
• Warp Drive Active Podcast #31 and #32 are now available at the VW Podcast Collective
• Try Catch in Eve Online - Proof that the EVE Devs have a sense of humour
• EVE Online: Frickin Huge, Frickin Difficult, But Kinda Frickin Cool. - Even Halo players get hooked
• Return of the Drake - Meaderings of Wihelm2451 on Caldari NPC missions
• The Drone Bay Episode #3 - This time, without yours truly
• The Council of Stellar Management, new blog by Xhagen - the title says it all
• The Council of Stellar Management - Call for Candidates officially began on March 18th
• Eve Avatars - Animated Forum Avatars - as mentioned below, get yours quickly!
• Your favourite ship in Eve - So what's your pick?
• Elections for EVE's player council begin in May - The CSM becomes a reality, well almost.
• Player governance in EVE - James, yes the same James from above, on the CSM
• What Can Virtual-World Economists Tell Us about Real-World Economies? - Scientific American covers EVE Economics!
• Maugrim McFiriba's Eve Online Journal - A well done in-Character EVE blog
• The Daily Grind: In-game cash for subscriptions? - CCP's (partial) answer to Real-Money-Trade
• Probing part 2: Tools of the Trade - Votrian continues his essay on Probing
• EVE Online Holds Democratic Elections - More coverage of the CSM
• The Seven Month Itch - Keeping your EVE Mojo up!
• The Amalgamated CSM Thread - Omber Zombie's list of all CSM EVE Forum threads!
• EVE's Council of Stellar Management: Making E-Democracy Work - Crovan on the CSM
• The architects of EVE society talk player elections - An interview with CCP on the CSM
• Speaking of the CSM, WDA Podcast #32 has a great segment on it - Make sure you listen to it
• Agony Unleashed - Copter's EVE Online Corp website
• The Stoned Hippies - An EVE Corp website; don't let the name fool you though

As I said before, a busy week. Losts of news on the Council of Stellar Management this week, a result of CCP making the annoucement that the Call for Candidates was now open. MMO history in the making folks. We live in interesting times I tell ya!

Ok, now it's time to undock and pay a visit to a couple of pirates! Fly safe folks!