1. We are in fact selling our home system in w-space which we affectionately call Planet Risk.

2. We are also selling our Planet Risk related wormhole-fu and settling services. i.e. we will provide all the information we have gathered the hard way regarding all relevant aspects we have encountered, plus we will help the newcomers to settle down, setup their POSes etc and after they are comfortable with the arrangement we shall be gone from the system with no claims to come back to.

3. We used to be carebears, doing missions and mining in empire space before we got here. We like to think we evolved into newbs and had a great time and fun while doing so! We are now extending this opportunity to come and establish your own base in our very own system, with all the good stuff and our lessons learned, to the highest bidder!

OK… so who is this sale for?

1. Small to medium sized corps. Planet Risk’s optimal usage will come from corporations with no less than 5 and no more than 15 active players. On a theoretical level Planet Risk can be inhabited and operated by less than 5 people but farming the neighboring C5 plexes with less than 5 pilots is a death wish. More than 15 pilots will need to go on farming sprees more often to ensure a big paycheck at the end of the month.

2. Carebears who have always been dreaming of exploring the fun side of EVE but who do not have the experience to venture into null sec and who do not wish to band under the protective wings of an Alliance. If you’re bored silly of grinding missions in empire and you feel like you’d go all Stockholm Syndrome if you crunch another Veldspar rock, then Planet Risk is for you. Keep in mind that Planet Risk, though a much safer place to be than your cookie cutter null sec, is still 0.0 space and PVP encounters will happen relatively frequently.

3. People willing to invest ISK into a w-space colonization operation in terms of equipment, know-how, real estate and colonization services. A couple of billion ISK in your corp.’s wallet should be your starting point. You’ll make those back in the first month in Planet Risk with quite a profit margin. By the second month you’ll be able to make your corp 15bil/month.

4. Any other type of player who wishes to colonize w-space for specific types of operations. We suggest that you go over our podcasts and blog posts as we have extensively covered life on the wormhole and looked at it from various profession perspectives, such as those of Pirates, Resource Harvesters, Industrialists, Carebears, PVPers, Researchers, Mercenaries etc…

Hmm… so if we have a small (5-15 man) corp… Why don’t we wait for Dominion and try to claim our own 0.0 system?

1. Wormhole life is in many ways different than null sec. If you know the ropes you can make boatloads of ISK in relative safety at the same time. In fact you can up to a point control the level of exposure to danger. All of our corpmates have their +4/+5 implants on them. How many 0.0 citizens can tell you that?

2. You won’t find yourself against big blobs. Planet Risk is a Class 2 system, and all wormholes that spawn from and to it will not allow anything bigger than a Battleship to go through. You can rest assured that unless another corp is VERY determined to rip you out of Planet Risk and settle there your POS is going to be perfectly safe.

3. Wormhole life is suited for both Teamwork and Solo activities. You can have fun (and ISK) alone or with your corpmates doing Plexes and sites or ambushing other pilots in neighboring systems, or organizing mining expeditions. Planet Risk plexes are soloable, albeit time consuming.

4. You can start your own T3 production. We started a couple of months ago and now we can build practically every T3 ship and subsystem. The cost of building T3 ships for our own use is only a fraction of the retail market price, so you can either equip your own team or sell them for profit.

5. You can run your own T1 production inside Planet risk, research your BPOs and construct everything less than a super capital ship with no war-declarations to scare you or threaten your POS. In fact if a corp declares war against your corp, it gives you the added bonus of a good laugh.

6. After Dominion you will most probably have to fight to claim your space rather than just come here and start farming Class 5’s the next day.

Plus, you won’t be missing the ratting aspect of 0.0 since you get your daily wormhole linking to it

Sounds great! Can you tell me more about Planet Risk?

Planet Risk is the name we gave to our Class 2 wormhole system. It’s official designation is J163923. It has no native wormhole anomalies that affect your ships. It has two static connections that daily connect to a different Class 5 system (N062 wormholes) and 0.0 (E545). It also sports infrequent access to/from HighSec (about once every 2 weeks) and other Class systems, as well as Low sec.

We have established our presence here since 20th of May 2009, and you can read about the first 10 weeks on the Captain’s log section of our website.

You cannot bring in capital ships in Planet Risk. The ships that fit through any wormhole connection to it are all combat ships up to Battleships, all industrial ships except freighters and the Orca. You can build capitals inside Planet Risk to facilitate your life, BUT you will not be able to take them out of Planet Risk.

You can check out some of the screenshots section to take a look of our system. FYI, it has the same colors as the Apocrypha login screen of your EvE client

Won’t I make more ISK per day if I stay in Empire Space and run missions/mine and follow the life of a carebear?

Until you get a solid operation up and running you’ll probably make less ISK than you would if you spent your days grinding L4 missions. Once you get the hang of it though you’ll be able to make the same money in 1/10th of the time and by investing 1/10th of the effort while at the same time having 10 times more fun.

For mining w-space is hands down a lot more profitable. Arkonor, Bistot and Crokite are going to be your daily asteroids.

Now if you are scared shitless of PVP and the very notion of shooting and being shot at by other players makes you sick then Wormhole Space is not for you. If however you dare to be bold,  our “casual” player can expect a monthly paycheck ranging from 500M to a Billion ISK to hit his wallet. A week  month of dedicated farming can net your corp 15 or even 20 billions. Not bad eh? EDIT: corrected: it’s month not week tnx Disndale!

Not to mention the fun you will have and the sense of exploration!

So why the hell are you selling it if it is such a money maker?

While Planet Risk, being a C2 system, is an excellent place to start your career as a wormhole colonist up, it can accommodate you up to a certain degree. Once you grow in numbers you will eventually seek out more resources to satisfy your ever increasing demands, as well as new challenges. For quite a few months Planet Risk will be able to give you a new thrill every day, but as you grow accustomed to the wormhole way of life, these thrills and challenges become more and more trivial.

We have reached the point where we want to expand and invest in bigger premises and greener pastures. Larger and tougher battles, capital ships, more ISK, new experiences. We won’t be leaving w-space. Just relocating into a higher class system. But even with those demands in place, we calculate that Planet Risk could accommodate us for at least another 6 months. We do however get antsy =P

OK sounds interesting… So what do you offer?

Here is our offer:

1. The way we have our daily operations running in every aspect of living within wormhole space. In particular:

a. POS Setups & Fittings & Defensive tips & tricks as well as assorted Bookmarks to help you defend your base(s).

b. POS Refueling operations & best practices

c. Hybrid Polymer Reaction operations and method of optimizing your production for maximum profits and/or T3 production

d. Tech 3 production operations and profit optimization

e. How to work with Planet Risk native wormholes (daily openings to Null sec and Class 5 systems) including scanning tips and defending against heavily populated systems.

f. Class 5 encounters. Including PVE anomalies and Magnetometric and Radar sites that require fleet operations. Detailed wave-after-wave explanation of triggers, Sleeper rats, expected profit per site, and more…

g. PVP guide for wormholeers – what you need to know to be safe in the lawless 0.0 wormhole space, how to defend yourself and how to fight back

h. Mining operations & best practices, including detailed analysis of all the Gravimetric and Ladar sites found in Planet Risk, as well as mining tips & tricks for wormhole space.

2. In addition to the above list, we can provide the following tools:

a. A detailed spreadsheet that anyone can use (comes with a how-to-use-guide) that will be able to help you plan what to bring inside wormhole space, how to haul it using industrial ships, how to optimize your cargohold to minimize jumps through wormholes and how to fit your POS properly.

b. A detailed spreadsheet that will be uber-helpful to POS refueling operations.

c. A detailed spreadsheet for T3 production needs and Hybrid Polymer reactions

d. The method we use for giving away paychecks to our corpmates every 15 days, including (you guessed it) the detailed spreadsheet to help out with the calculations.

3. Finally we shall be providing any support needed for the buyer to move their possessions from K-space into Planet Risk, including (but not limited) to:

a. Scanning of appropriate K-Space systems to be used as entry points

b. Hauling support by our industrial fleet, including (if needed) Freighter(s) and/or Orca(s)

c. Combat Fleet to protect the Hauling operation(s).

d. Safespot under our POS Shields during the setup of your new base.

Hmm so besides the money you ask, I need to acquire lots of stuff as well! Any idea how much the whole thing is going to cost me?

Well.. Good News!

We will be more than happy to sell you any/all of our belongings at face value (zero profit) to go along with the sale. This way we won’t have to carry lots of stuff outside and into our Class-6 and you will have all the stuff you need inside Planet Risk waiting for you to use.

The list of available assets will be made available upon request, but just to give you an idea we are talking about 2 Large POSes, shitloads of structures for all T1 ships/modules/rigs production, T3 production end-to-end and lots of ships that we’d rather sell than have to carry around with us.

Wow!… So anything else I need to know?

1. We keep the rights to the name Planet Risk. Period. Other than that you can name your system whatever you like. At most we might accept a name in the lines of “The system formerly known as Planet Risk”. =)

2. You must be speaking on behalf of your corp, so need to be either a CEO or Director to vouch for your genuine interest.

3. This is not an open bid, and it will run for as long as it takes till we have a satisfying offer. I’d say that we definitely won’t bother for less than 2 Billion ISK for the real estate, so your offer needs to be considered as a long-term investment from your end.

4. We shall keep all bids/discussions confidential and the buyer will decide if they want their name to be public after the transaction is complete and the system is under their control.

5. We shall provide all the needed support before-during-and-after the transaction to the buying corp to make sure they enjoy wormhole space as much as we did!

So what are you going to do with the money you make out of this sale?

We are going to invest it in our Class-6 project more on that soon ™!

For any questions/comments/bids or offers please contact Quivering Palm or Luminus Aardokay in-game.

Download Episode 5

Episode 5 includes a special reward to those who will listen to the full show =)

Special shoutout to the peeps over at the Missions Collide podcast

Music Tracks performed on Episode 5:

Glxblt – Everything Is Under Control (Planet Risk Intro)
Sanxion7 – Dreamcatcher
Little Bitchard – Choose Zero Polys and Shaders
aMUSiC – Purple Corn
Quasian – Beertime X
Xerxes – On Base Percentage
Irvin – Gamma
Xenophobe – Function Invitation Soundtrack
Man With No Alias – Electric Kool-Aid
Puryx – Forever Again

Quivering Palm: On that episode I say “we have a large POS, we don’t have to worry about anything” and next episode we have people jumping in sieging our POS
Luminus Aardokay: And yet you’re still talking
Quivering Palm: And yet I’m still talking (laughs.. laughs harder.. starts coughing)
Luminus Aardokay: And so we got humped by the russians
Quivering Palm: (in between serious coughing) …you got me…
Luminus Aardokay: OMG, the guy’s dying here!!!… … … Can I have your stuff?

01/09/2009 – A new null sec opens to a region of space that bored people live. Same night some of us go out and have a look, and some of them peek inside. We exchange some trash-talk but we are bored to engage them at the wormhole. They probably take that as lack of strength or willpower from our side and decide that “they like this wormhole and they will take it” (pun intended lols).

02/09/2009 – They have entered at some point during the night and have started bashing our main POS. throughout the day we don’t really care much because their DPS is quite low to be a serious threat but as the day progresses, they bring in more ships and we assess that they are here to stay. We wait for their guard to drop and one by one we start some guerilla tactics and take down 4 of their ships. A probe dies alone in space, an Iteron dies to a bombing run along with lots of sentry drones. However we don’t push back but continue on random bombing runs – just to keep them guessing. They reach our shields to like 40%, but they get demoralized when they fail to collapse another nullsec opening that does not suit their needs, while they loose two more ships, a Manticore and a Buzzard which while having fail-fits tried to collapse that wormhole for hours. We go and have the Planet Risk Show as normal and have a great time, while we manage to fend them off just prior to the show.

03/09/2009 – We take a blockade runner and form an op where we go and buy and bring back inside Planet Risk lots of shield hardeners for the POSes and lots of other nasty surprizes. When they try to take a second round at our shields they see we have them repaired to more than 85% and that now they can do only portion of their previous DPS since the hardeners are now online and smiling at them. They spend about 2-3hours to take it down from 85% to 83% and then decide to call it quits. Before server downtime they exit Planet Risk.

What we did wrong

Obviously, first of all, we thought that a Large POS alone with no defenses would be enough to hold off any non-capital fleet. Well NOT! We will be going into details on the next episode of the Planet Risk Show, but suffice to say we should advise anyone who listened to our advice on the 3rd episode where we mention a Large POS in a small wormhole with no defenses a workable solution – well it’s not!! A fleet of 5-6 BSs can take it into reinforced in about 24hours – even less I guess depending on skills.

Secondly, we didn’t have a “Battle Plan” or a “Emergency Disaster Recovery Plan” if you like. When you are living in Wspace for 4 months and you have moved most (if not all) of your belongings inside your POS, loosing it could be disastrous. Not having a specific plan in place and trying to create one (who should do what – what ships and fittings to use etc etc) at the same time when your POS shields are melting down to less than 50% and you know you probably got about a couple of hours before you enter reinforced.. well.. that’s not the best timing to do your planning.

At some point we has a chance to take down the Ishtar they had – as it was firing alone and we had the firepower to take it down before any other ship could come to help him. However we lost the point on the Ishtar – a bit of confusion on positioning of some of our ships and bad fitting decisions (no MWDs) costs us another kill – oh well :-/

What they did wrong

They got bored easily – don’t plan to take upon a wspace POS bashing unless you get a lot of time to spare – remember no caps in small wormholes.

Do not keep your support ships together with the rest of the fleet. The killing of their Iteron, along with lots of Sentry drones from their BSs and their Ishtar with just a single bomb was by far a rewarding kill (and my personal first bomb kill! huzzah!)

Do not leave your support ships alone. Especially if they have the all-important role of being your ticket out of here. That poor Probe was sitting on it’s own and without cloak… ts ts ts…

Don’t use one of your two remaining scanner ships – nor your stealth bomber without any AB -  to try and collapse a null sec wormhole that can hold up to 2.000.000 tons of mass before collapsing. It was very amusing watching you jump in and out – wait 5 min – jump back in etc etc until we decided to stop ya. That Manticore had pretty much fail fit imho – why so many sensor boosters? why not a bomb launcher? Why no painter?

What we did correctly

Besides the obvious mistake in POS planning & fitting, fortunately we had the clarity and clear thinking on our side, being on the defender’s side, knowing our full strength potential and the resources at our disposal we where going to give a real fight and not abandon our POS nor allow our efforts and stuff go to waste by a small group bashing our shields. I stand by the conviction of our team – we had lots of people getting online in very short time after they received the “our POS is under attack” message and we could get twice those numbers if that would have happened a week from now when everyone would be back from vacations etc etc.

We did add every intruder to our addressbook, along with comments, ships, fittings and related killboard info etc etc that we could find – and we did that efficiently and quickly – even before they had the shields down to 90% we know lots about our attackers to create a “psychological” profile if you like. That helped up remain cool and pretty much be able to anticipate some of their moves.

We didn’t act hastily – we made calculated decisions, after getting the max intel we could get on a given situation.

We used delayed local to our advantage. At one point we had some pilots in cloaked ships, who we took great care in keeping them cloaked, waiting to hear the command to drop hell in our attacker’s heads, but we decided to keep them cloaked until we had formed a specific battle plan (see above).

We knew our wormhole-fu and found the null sec openings and other signatures well in advance from our “guests” and thus had cloaked pilots watching their every move.

We did understand that they where looking into collapsing the null sec exit, hoping that another one would open closer to their home turf, to allow them to bring any reinforcements. We let them jump-in and out and get careless while they where trying to collapse it. When the wormhole was nearing collapsing, we had a strike force ready to kill the ships trying to collapse it and killed them when they had the 4min jump timer delay.

We knew from the start that since we had a full supplement of Stront (never build your POS without) the whole game would be won by whatever team could go without sleep. Being on the defensive side kinda helps to keep you up at night and get the job done. As soon as they logged for the night we formed up an operation to bring back some shield hardeners for our POSes, extra bombs and various other stuff, while at the same time we got in our Ospreys and repaired the shields back up to 85% (Nictutu your stamina on repping those the shields was just astonishing! way to go mate!)

What they did correctly

After they lost their second scanning ship the last remaining buzzard stayed cloaked or pulled a logofski – anyways they kept it relative safe.

Two of their pilots suicide and pod themselves back in kspace.

They got the message and left Planet Risk before they got heavier losses

Lessons Learned

Any POS should not be considered undefended if there are dedicated pilots behind it’s shields. Before launching an attack on a POS that seems like an “easy” target, make sure you have a force that is able to take care of the defenders as well as the shields. Yes, pun intended

We had amazing laughs when they said that they want 1 Bil to let us alone and go away – back when our shields where 80ish% and 2Bill when they where < 50%. They had some balls to ask us of 700Mill ever after they saw all the hardeners and shields back up at 85%. We laughed so much… still do…

Aftermath

I need some sleep! and so do most of my corpmates! – but Planet Risk managed to fend off the first major attack on our POSes and got in tons of stuff to help defend in any similar war stories. We learned a lot from this encounter – and as luck would have it – we had TeaDaze, our very own Alliance Tournament VII PVP expert inside Planet Risk giving us tons of tips and info and coordinating with our attacks and giving suggestions to the battle plan! TeaDaze, thank you for your support mate! In the next couple of days we’ll award a special medal to those who participated in this absolutely thrilling siege!

GG and a job well done everyone!

It seems like yesterday when we where still carebears supreme in empire farming level 4’s and yet it’s well over 2 months now we live in our 0.0 system! 10 Carebears evolving into nubs! Not to mention the tons of fun we had and the 12 Billion ISK we made in these first 10 weeks!

Damn we love wormholes!

Check it out here

It has a detailed log of our activities, the good and the bad, as well as lessons learned during our stay in Planet Risk!

At the time there was Merinid in his Hulk mining some rocks and myself sleeping in our POS, while Sengiria was hauling the ore back in the hangar.

All where AFKing… all? well not all…

A guy with some big set of steel inertia stabilizers (yeah you got that mental picture right) was not AFK but instead warped to our Hulk and we saw that sweet line in Local… “300M or you die!”

To keep the story short, the hulk died and the guy left since we where too slow to respond..

Given this incident and a couple of recent posts I found (troll) relating to Piracy and Wormholes – we decided to make our first “official” episode of The Planet Risk Show have a YAARRR theme

http://lifeinlowsec.blogspot.com/2009/07/discussion-7-pirating-from-w-space-base.html

http://www.newedendiaries.com/archives/Thar-be-Pirates-here!.html

Check out the posts mentioned above and contribute to the discussions either by responding here or leaving your questions for the QnA section at QnA@theplanetriskshow.com

As always – suggestions and feedback are most welcome!

We’ll be working on the website to make it an information hub not only for the show but for any wormhole related info as well!

Looking forward to our next broadcast – Wednesday 29th July 20:00 EvE time!

Till then.. fly reckless… because you can!

Till then.. fly safe… if you can!