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WTF is Holes.Test

Holes.Test is your place for all things wormhole and exploration! If you like to scan, this is a great way to contribute your time to find content for the alliance and help others find gas, relic and combat sites. It mainly comprises of a Pathfinder map and a shared bookmark folder open to the entire alliance.

Accessing Holes.Test

Holes.Test channel + bookmarks

  1. Open the chat channels window in game
  2. Search for the “Holes.Test” channel
  3. Bookmark folder is linked in MOTD

Access Pathfinder

To access the WinterCo Pathfinder server and our alliance map:

  1. Go to https://map.wcpathfinder.space/map/ and sign-in with your EVE credentials.
  2. To access WC Tunnel Rats shared maps, you need to enable alliance shared maps in your Pathfinder settings.
  3. Go to Menu>Account and click on the “Share” tab. Switch “map invite for alliance maps” to “Enable.”
  4. Our map is in the “TEST map please ignore” tab

See below for more info on other uses this Pathfinder map has within WinterCo

Using Pathfinder Maps and Bookmarking

Once you're out and scanning, you will want to do two things: Have Pathfinder open and create bookmarks through wormholes or to other anomalies you aren't going to run yourself.

Update Pathfinder

In order to fill in information in Pathfinder, you need to copy/paste info from your Probe Scanner to update the Signatures section.

Other things to keep in mind:

If you're not familiar with Pathfinder, check below for some links to guides.

Bookmark Etiquette

For every kind of anomaly bookmark, always set expiry to two days. This prevents having to do cleanup later Save bookmarks into appropriate folders as follows:

Type Goes into subfolder
Wormholes Wormholes+Chains
Combat, Relic, Data, Gas Combat/Explo/Gas Anomalies
Structures (like a POS) POSes/Structures

Naming WH Bookmarks

Wormhole Entrances: These are for connections leading out of friendly space. Always bookmark wormholes from Overview and not Probe Scanner window! To keep bookmarks clear and easily read by others, format connections like this:

 SIG-ID - Size - WH - Region | Class/System

For example:

 SDT-434 L C3
 AGN-657 VL DELVE | YZ9-F6
 VAR-077 C414 Vale | P3EN-E

If you scan down a wormhole and will not have a chance to go through it, bookmark it anyway so someone else can come back and add the details later without needing to scan it down again.

Wormhole Exits: These are for connections leading back to home space.

When entering a wormhole for the first time, add a bookmark that simply says “EXIT”. Do the same for any WH that you enter as you travel down a WH chain. This way, you can easily find your why’s home by simply jumping to every bookmark labeled “EXIT,” like a trail of breadcrumbs

Naming Other Signatures

Other signatures such as Combat or Exploration sites should be saved in the Holes.Test folder whether its inside wormholes or around our space. This helps speed up the scanning of anyone coming around after you. If you run one of these sites, please clear them out from the Pathfinder map and bookmark folder.

When saving these sigs prefix the bookmark name with a letter to signify the type and leave the rest as is:

Example:

 G BUD-420 Ordinary Perimeter Reservoir
 C VAP-710 Gurista Fortress

Sometimes we might want to bookmark friendly or enemy structures like POSes so there's a subfolder for that too. There's no naming requirements around these, just make it descriptive enough. Ex: “Hostile [B0SS] POS, WUZ-WM II - Moon 5 - no guns”

TEST Alliance Map

TEST Map

This is our home map. It shows our space in a sort-of Dotlan map layout, try not to disturb the layout too much unless you need to make room for connections. As you're scanning space, copy and paste all signatures. When scanning WHs, also paste dscan of WH structures for intel. Add drifter connections if you come across Unidentified Wormholes in Overview, too.

Feel free to leave connection tracking ON going through our space to track connections automatically


WinterCo. Tunnel Rats SIG

As part of TEST Alliance in the Winter Coalition, we have a SIG called Tunnel Rats focused on finding wormholes to be used by our FCs and members to move quickly throughout New Eden. This could give our fleets strategic advantages and create opportunities for content.

Once you join, you will be added to a discord channel where you will sometimes see FCs requesting wormhole connections requesting to specific places. If you want to help out strategic efforts, feel free to lend a hand in finding routes!

You can find the full Tunnel Rats SIG guide here.

Tunnel Rats SIG access

  1. Find “_Tunnel Rats” SIG
  2. Hit Request to join

Tunnel Rats Bookmarks

A link to the bookmarks folder can be found in the MOTD of the tunnel rats in-game chat channel.

  1. Open the chat channels window in game
  2. Search for the “WC-TunnelRats” channel
  3. Bookmark folders are linked in MOTD

WC-Tunnel Rats Map

WC-Tunnel Rats Map

Main Tunnel Rats map. This map should be kept mostly clear except for relevant chains to/from friendly sov space.

Example:

  1. You're using the TEST map, then you find a connection to enemy space via a wormhole system.
  2. Add the appropriate bookmark chains in the Tunnel Rats bookmarks folder.
  3. Switch over to the Tunnel Rats map and manually add using right click → add system: The friendly sov system → Wormhole system → Enemy space system.
  4. Use Ctrl+click between each system to create connections and set correct Mass/Ship Size.
  5. Report the connection in the WC discord Tunnel Rats channel.

Drifter WHs Map

Drifter WHs Map

Tunnel Rats map for Drifter connections only. These can also go into the TEST map. If you find drifter holes, match the hole ID and link the system.

Example:

  1. You are in XCBK-X and notice Unidentified Wormhole in your Overview
  2. Warp cloaked and at distance to the Unidentified Wormhole (or closer if you plan to go through)
  3. Note the Wormhole ID R259 in the Overview when you are on grid with it
  4. In the Drifter WH map, Right click → add system where you are
  5. Link your system to the R259 system in the pathfinder map using Ctrl+click

Read more about Drifter holes here

Additional resources

Learn more about Wormholes, getting rid of Unwanted Wormholes, or exploration.

Pathfinder guides: