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WH hacking and archaeology
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Minty Aroma
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-05-09 19:45:30 UTC
Possibly going into WHing and want to know roughly how much people tend to make through hacking and archaeology in C3s. I know like with the rest of EVE exploration can suck and times and others you can get a lucky break but if you averaged all that out what kind of isk/hr do you think you can make and what kind of ranges of isk per site do you tend to see?

Thanks a lot for the help, o7
Rall Mekin
End-of-Line
#2 - 2014-05-09 19:58:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Rall Mekin
1. You have to kill rats to do hacking/archaeology in a wormhole. So the ISK you would get from hacking will be buffed by nanoribbons. Relic and Data sites are tougher than the regular sites in a wormhole class.
2. Hacking / Archaeology sucks in anything sub-C5. It's better just to run sites.
3. Your exploration ship is probably going to get ganked a few times before you learn the ropes.

That understood, wormholes are hella fun.
Ahost Gceo
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-05-09 21:33:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Ahost Gceo
Haven't done a bunch of wormhole exploration sites because of rats, but I do use the nullsec connections wormholes offer to do sites in null. Reason being is that you can make decent money in null and you can do it solo. You can even make it into nullsec through a 2 jump wormhole chain or shorter from highsec. It really doesn't get any easier than that.

CCP ignore me please, I make too much sense.
Amak Boma
Dragon Factory
xX SERENITY Xx
#4 - 2014-05-10 11:48:57 UTC
if you can tank damage done by sleepers , you might be able to hack data/relic cans and grab the loot if you dont want fight sleepers.
StudleyManiac
Enigma Expanse
ENIGMA DOMAIN ALLIANCE
#5 - 2014-05-11 12:56:08 UTC
As a Wormholer... Data/relic sites are only good for the sleeper loot.... just kill the sleepers, salvage the sleeper wrecks and GTFO
the time it takes you hack/analyze sites you could have ran another site and made more money.
Noxisia Arkana
Deadspace Knights
#6 - 2014-05-12 02:43:10 UTC
StudleyManiac wrote:
As a Wormholer... Data/relic sites are only good for the sleeper loot.... just kill the sleepers, salvage the sleeper wrecks and GTFO
the time it takes you hack/analyze sites you could have ran another site and made more money.




Pretty much this. Plus, I hate scooping loot pinata. *shudder*
Kupena
Xenophobics Asylum
#7 - 2014-05-12 08:49:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Kupena
The RNG is way higher in WH relic and data sites than it is in k-space. Basically, the "good stuff" can be in any of the mini-containers, even scraps, afaik. So the amount of isk you make from the cans is dependent only on luck. Would require two people to get them all. Besides that - C1-C3 the relic sites are only good for the sleeper loot and salvage, as Studley Maniac pointed out. That being said, doing them solo in C3 relic I've made anything from 10mil to 50mil, which is not a lot either way. They are fairly often left unhacked if short on time.

You can just put this down as a broken aspect of the game.
Core Null
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2014-05-14 08:16:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Core Null
Class 1-4, kill sleepers and not really worth hacking / analyzing.
Class 6, not soloable.

Class 5 on the other hand can be very lucrative.

Relic sites:
200 - 400 Mil from hacking cans.
~36 mil from salvage and blue loot.

Sleepers can be cleared in a passive tanked Ishtar or Gila. Gardes to clear the Cruisers and Ogres to clear the frigs.
Leave one cruiser alive or bad things will happen.
Switch to hacking ship such as Tengu or anything that can tank the very low dps from the cruiser that is left on field. Personally I use Ishtar and then Tengu + Falcon for hacking.

I guess it's easier if you live in w-space.

Data sites:
60-80 mil from hacking cans.
~36 mil from salvage and blue loot.

Pretty much same as above, clear and leave one cruiser. Hack the "Abandonded Talocan Battleship" with your Relic Analyzer.
Some people are hacking the other cans but I've found that they're not really worth doing as they dont pay off that much.