Are wormholes into Jita usually camped

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Although the EVE universe has many tools like killfeeds etc., here's one detail I don't see how I can figure out meaningful observations (mostly due to lack of timeseries of WHs into Jita):

Should I expect that wormholes into Jita are camped on the other side of the hole to Jita, and also any other exits in the same WH or its chain? Are there any other external helper-sites that I am missing?

(And obviously I don't want to run suicide missions myself to find out 😉

Best Answer

Short answer is - Yes, you should definitely expect that hole in Jita are camped. I would even say - you should expect any hole in the system up to 3-4 jumps from Jita to be camped.

Long answer follows:

  • If it is some big entity opening into Jita, they most probably would like to benefit from this opportunity as much as possible with minimal time/effort. Meaning they are going to bring to and out from Jita whatever they need. They will put someone to guard the both sides of WH connection, which means the moment you start scanning hole they will see it, they will se you warping to WH and the moment you jump. Based on what you will be flying they will act accordingly and no matter what - you will get podded. The point here is that you should understand this is not done to get some easy kills, this is to protect ongoing operation of moving assets, which is important. As soon as they are done they will roll the connection asap.
  • If it is smaller corp with small amount of pilots online depending on what type of content they are looking for - they might camp the hole for hours, or roll it immediately.
  • If it is random explorer jumping through every hole they are not going to camp Jita hole as it can bee too risky. But the hole will be scanned within a minutes once it appears and someone will go and camp it, again on both sides, to be prepared for anyone who warps to it.

To summarize it all - If the hole stays in Jita long enough - it will be camped, not 24/7, but you should expect it to be camped all the time.

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