Missions & Complexes

take what you can lose 15x over and not break a sweat

Take some time to get to know the neighborhood: adjoining constellations, neighbors, etc. Set up plenty of insta-undocks and safes before you start hauling stuff out there. Scatter a couple JCs around neighboring constellations in the event you **** someone off and they start camping your "home" station. On that note, don't make any one station your "home" station. Find stations with the services you may use most: repair, medical, industrial, mission agents, etc.

Do your scouting in a fast (maybe cloaky) frigate. After you have the lay of the land start moving some stuff in. After that, just have fun!

I more or less live out of Blood low.

If you want Bloods and gas sites, you have to be in Aridia; they're common enough there, especially along the Delve border. Venture should be enough to get you through, but you will get jumped and you will lose ships, so bring replacements.

As for combats, the 5/10 is actually somewhat harder than the 6/10, but either can be done with a Tornado and some creative flying. The Annex is also fine. Don't touch the Minor Annex; that thing is simply awful.

I used to use a Tengu for everything and have now retired it in favor of a Legion. If you have the budget, I'd recommend you do so as well, but honestly Bloods aren't all that bad in general.

If you wind up in Aridia, mind the Sadana-Hier gate and the Otakod-Van gate. The locals in the Ombil constellation don't care for visitors. Test was supposed to leave Soliara, but there are still a huge number of them there.

Anomalies and Belt rats are not worth it at all.

Try combat exploration, aka the DED sites.

Angel 5/10?

Load barrage before entering, the 3 webbing towers pop with ~2 volleys.
mwd to about 60km. After that the sentries don't hit you anymore.

T1 cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships, they are cheap and gives the best payout on insurance, don't bring anything you can't afford to lose.

Covert ops frigs are nice to have if you can fly one.



Gas sites only spawn in specific regions, if you know where you are going wiki will tell you if you can find gas sites in that area. If you are in a region with gas sites they are a common spawn, but mostly worthless. There are two types of gas, one that is only found in null and one that is found in low and hi-sec. The hi-sec gas is worthless, but in low-sec there is one type of site that will give the null-sec type gas, this is a rare site but worth doing.

If there is gas in your area it never hurts to bring a venture, but it's not a "must have" thing.

There is money to be made in combat exploration sites or faction warfare, pretty much anything else you can do will be better off in high sec as even in relatively safe low sec the increased risk does not offset the increased pay which is marginal. Also you will pretty much have to bring anything you want to sell to high sec to unload it, so there's that too.

If you have two accounts you can do this quickly and safe-ish-ly with a cloaky probing scout (helios, buzzard, anathema, cheetah) and a Tengu. Keep an eye on local and if you see a ship you suspect may drop probes it's generally going to be better to leave the site than get probed out, people will assume your Tengu is bling fit and will come for it if they have the means to find you. If you do not have two accounts you can scout with the probe ship bookmark and return but the two account method is a lot safer. But the fact that a good drop from a 5 or 6/10 can make you a bil or so instantly is what makes it worth doing.

I've been on hiatus for about 6 months but when I left Amarr low sec, particularly Genesis and Aridia were pretty much deserted when I play which is West Coast U.S. - Primetime somewhere in the Pacific (Japan/Australia maybe?), so where you live will affect the safest areas as much as the region you choose.

BELT RATTING IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Not only are you out and about but you are at a celestial that is readily available to d-scan, if you get caught doing anything in low sec, chances are it will be while you belt rat or mine, great if you plan to bait a fight but bad if you're trying to make money. The rats are not worth much anyhow.

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lo-sec is a great place to live and make isk but it is also very deadly area

your best bet is to stay away from highways and hot spots there are alot lo-sec areas you can disapear go out and scout your target area small cloaky frig be carefull of smartboms on gates

once u found were u want to live id use a carrier as a mobile home you can move from area to area easy find a station to base out of pick what ships you want depending on what you want to do i.e gas mineing to make boosters or t3's to run noms or wotever go cheap untill you feel comftoble liveing in hostile area

rember everyone wants to kill you and will try to

learn to servive there 1st and isk makeing will follow learn to book mark your new area station undock bm's 200k gate bm's and so learn how to use your 360 d scanner

if it just you and a few alts nomadic lo-sec life can be fun as well as profitable

my spelling sux sue me

Solo in lowsec is no problem.
Though I strongly recommend an alt for scouting and logistics (Transport and JF).

Running DEDs in lowsec is also good money, even compared to 0.0 DED sites. (Made 1,5B in under 2h today)
I never lost a ship while doing PvE in lowsec, at least not that I could remember.

But yes, 0.0 is safer.

First figure out what you want to do in lowsec, getting shot at just for the sake of getting shot at isn't a good plan :p Some people go for the lewt, others for the lulz and the rest is roadkill. Once you know what you're going to do there, you'll know what kind of crap to bring.