The Wormhole Hitchhiker's guide to Siggy, Corp Bookmarks, and sharing bookmarks with Alliance/Coalitions

Introduction

As your Wormhole Corporation/Alliance/Coalition grows, and the chains grow, it becomes vital to have bookmarks organised for everyone. If you get a good system in place, it will save time for everyone, make it easy for different Corporations to follow your chain, and will also make spotting new signatures a breeze.

Siggy - Basic Functions

Siggy (http://siggy.borkedlabs.com) is fucking awesome. If it wasn't for Siggy and programs like it, wormhole life would be a lot more of a pain in the ass. The problem is that people don't use it correctly, usually because they don't know how.

The Chain Map is pretty self explanatory, it creates a map as you scout out new systems. What it does not do is add the signatures automatically. All it does is creates links between systems.

If you scroll down below the map, or click the small '-' symbol in the top right to minimize it, you can find the current system selected (just click on any system in the chain map to make it the current system) details.

There is an abundance of features in just this little section. You can see the wormhole's effects, just by hovering your mouse over the 'System Effect' (as shown above). Below this are the current system's static wormholes. Yet again if you hover over this you get the Max Mass, Max Jumpable Mass and additional information for that static. If you have clicked on a K-Space system, the Hub Jumps will tell you how close you are to a market hub. Beware that this is direct to the hub, and may be via lowsec or null.

There are also three small icons up the top.

These Icons link to Dotlan, wormhol.es, and Eve Kill for the system, giving you a bunch of additional information.
Changing Wormhole information - (EOL, Mass and Frigate Holes)

Once you have jumped though a few wormholes, you can then tell siggy if the hole is mass reduced, End of Life, or is only for frigate sized ships. Just click on the link between two systems and a pop up window appears, where you can enter the information about each wormhole.

Corp Bookmark Folders

I would recommend having 3 different bookmarks solely for signatures.

1. One folder for 'Road Map', which only contains wormholes.
2. One folder for 'Home Base Signatures' which only contains your home hole PvE sites.
3. One folder for 'Non Home Wormhole Sigs' which contains all other PvE sites.

The reasons are this, you are going to be deleting a lot of sigs from the Road Map and Non Home Wormhole sigs regularly, as as soon as a wormhole pops and is no longer in your chain, there is no longer any need for it.

Adding Signature ID's

Adding the Signature ID's is vital if you are scanning out a new system, or scanning out your statics. At a glance you can see if you have a new signature, or other corps can see where you have scanned out and which Sig is which wormhole.

This is done below the system information section (see above).

The first thing to do when entering a new system is delete any old sigs that might be there from the time you happened to roll into the wormhole on a previous day. To do this just click the red X on the right of each sig.

Then click on the lower half of your D-Scanner, and press CTRL-A to select all, followed by CTRL-C to copy them. Now in Siggy, click the 'Mass Sig Reader' and a Pop up box appears.

Then just CTRL-V into this box, and all the signatures for the system will be added to the list. They will be blank, yet at least they are added. This populates the list. Now it's time to scan. If you have a large system with a huge amount of sigs, you can now take a few people into the hole and all of you can scan and work on the list. If you all sort the list by the Sig name alphabetically (by clicking the word 'Sig' at the top of the table), one of you can scan from the end of the alphabet, one from the start, and one from the middle for example, so that you don't end up scanning the same sigs.

Editing Signature ID's and Bookmarking PvE Sites.

Now start scanning down the system. If you are just looking for wormholes, and are not too bothered about PvE sites, when you know the Sig is a PvE site, no need to scan the whole thing down (not recommended in your home or static systems), click the pencil to the left of the Sig ID, change the type to the type of PVE site (Data, Relic or Gas), and then click the tick. If you do want to scan out the PvE site to completion, you can then change the Name also to the name in the 'Type' field of the Probe Scanner (You may have to expand the Probe Scanner to see the Type Column).

Right click the 100% scan, and click save location. A popup pops up, make sure the correct folder is selected down the bottom in Corperation bookmarks, and then before the name add the sig ID, for instance, ' LXK Unsecured Perimeter Comms Relay'. You can then right click the sig in the Probe Scanner and click 'Ignore Result' for now. 

If you add the sig name to the start of the site name, it makes it even easier to see new sigs in system, or if one of the bookmarks is outdated. Just right click in space when you log on, even before siggy is open, and see if the bookmarks match.

e.g.

• KGJ Minor Perimeter Resevoir
• PKR Unsecured Frontier Digital Nexus
• OKF Forgotten Frontier Conversion Module

If you have scanned out a wormhole, warp to it at 30km to avoid landing on it and de-cloaking. Right click on the wormhole either in space, or on the overview and click 'Show Info'. Reading here you can tell the mass and the life of the wormhole and where it leads (This isn't a blog about that information). Update on Siggy the same way as before, choose WH as type, then in the Name/Description box click the name of the WH. This description box will also tell you what type of wormhole it leads too, unless it is a k162, then you can only know by reading the show info. The description box is a good way to learn the wormholes, after you've done a few of one type, it starts to stick, O477 goes to a C3 from a C2, N766 leads to a C2 from a C4 etc.

Now you can bookmark the Wormhole.

Bookmarking Wormholes

There are a few different methods for naming wormholes in bookmarks. Since the Hyperion patch, I think it is a very good idea to start with the Sig ID, you then add the wormhole name and the wormhole it leads to, with an arrow in the middle, depending on if the wormhole is leading towards or away from your home wormhole.

e.g.

• PKG k162 --> Unk (K162 leading away from the home wormhole to an Unknown system)
• KGH B274 --> Jita       (B274 leading to Jita, would be nice)
• GDT Home  <--  X877         (X877 leading back home)
• SDN Static C2 <-- k162        (k162 leading to the Static C2 wormhole towards home)

If the arrow points to the left, you know that it leads home (<--), if the arrow points to the right, you know it leads further away from home (-->).

When you enter a new system, you don't necessarily know the sig ID before you warp around to check the system (D-Scan) before dropping probes. I name the wormhole its name without the signature (e.g. 'k162 <-- Home'), then if its safe to start probing, I can always go into the Neocom "People and Places", click the places tab, find the signature by listing the bookmarks by number of jumps (you current wormhole will always be the top) and the right clicking and select "Edit/View location". You can then just change the name and add the sig.

Sharing Bookmarks

Sharing bookmarks is a lot easier since the Hyperion patch, yet it still is not as straight forward as I would like. You can put a secure container in space, and have all corporation in the alliance/coalition bookmark it. Then, if you and your corp has added a lot to the Siggy chain map, you can dump the new bookmarks into the can for another corp to use.

First I create a folder in my personal bookmarks called, 'To Copy'. 

Second I drag all the bookmarks I want to copy from the Corperation Bookmarks to my 'To Copy' folder. Then I can drag the bookmarks to my cargo. You can't do this cloaked. You can then just drop these from your cargo into the Secure container in space for another corp to pick up. He then has to drag them to his personal bookmarks, and then from there drag them to his corporation bookmarks.

Ending Comments

If you feel like I have missed something or could improve on something, just let us know and I will update the guide. Obviously there are many ways to do it, as long as everyone does the same, and it's not all left down to one or two people in each cooperation, it makes it a lot easier for everyone.