Before the next incoming update dealing with wormhole type behavior, I would like to write about couple of less known observed mechanics around certain wormhole types.
Since February 2020 ‘from wormholes with love’ patch, wandering connections are increased and new wormholes introduced.
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We are interested in those “new wandering connections between C4, C5 and C6 wormhole systems”.
So what are those new connections?
New wormhole connections are in fact 9 existing static types updated so they behave as wandering too.
Lets call them wandering statics for convenience, meaning they have both static and wandering attribute.
Those are statics from c4, c5 and c6 leading to c4, c5 and c6 systems, each.
changed wh types
from C4: X877 H900 U574
from C5: E175 H296 V753
from C6: Z457 V911 W237
Since that patch these previously static-only types can wander across their respective spawn class, and appear in a system regardless if the same static type exist/don’t exist there.
- example 1;
E175type was static only in certain C5 systems, and now it can spawn in any C5 system as wandering. - example 2; Having two
H296types in a C5 system at the same time, one being static and other being wandering, is not unusual.
Further, static types spawning in Class 2 leading to w-space also wander, but not the k-space ones which remains static only.
Similar ‘wandering static’ behavior is present with frigate holes, difference being they can spawn in multiple different classes (as static in C13, and as wandering in C1-C6). Even C13 to C13 connections are observed, meaning A009 can wander in there too.
And, all static types spawning in Class 1 and Class 3 systems are static only.
Conclusion is, there are 3 different behavior mechanics around wormholes: static, wandering, and static & wandering.
In fact there is even another one - K162 statics (or ‘reversed statics’) present in Thera and Pochven, but that’s for another time as in this post we are focused on those 3 only.
I put up complete table of everything mentioned in this post (all connections types that spawn in C1-C6 wormholes) here:
in familiar words
C1s always have one K-space static.
C2s always have one K-space static and one W-space static. - statics leading to W-space can wander
C3s always have one K-space static.
C4s always have two W-space statics. - statics leading to C4, C5, C6 can wander
C5s always have one W-space static. - statics leading to C4, C5, C6 can wander
C6s always have one W-space static. - statics leading to C4, C5, C6 can wander