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Tried Exploration, but too young yet.
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Fearless Jin Serb
Voidhounds
Pretenders
#21 - 2015-01-19 15:28:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Fearless Jin Serb
When I first started I ran high sec combat anomalies in a destroyer (Thrasher) and made pretty decent ISK.

Every 1/10 sites seemed to yield a faction rat with a chance to drop some really good loot. Best I ever got was done 100m implant which was awesome at the time. The Hideaway anomalies occasionally escalate into 3/10 complexes which I used to also run in the destroyer quite easily, led to some decent drops too. On a good day I could make anywhere between 100-250mill if the escalations racked up and the faction drops were good. Just don't try the dens in a destroyer, you won't last long.

Fit for range and speed, and try find quite low sec systems where these anomalies tend to stack up and you'll be golden.

Any questions just drop me a mail in game, can let you know some good spots.

Edit: the ship to go got now would probably be the Algos.
Pod Panik
Low-Sec Scrubs
#22 - 2015-01-19 15:40:06 UTC
Nice! Last night I treated myself with a Trasher with 2 long range canon and 4 short range.

So I'll try that tonight around Hek and see what I can get out of it.

Doing exploration was a bit frustrating without any chance to test my archeology/hacking.



And thank for the in-game help offer!
Fearless Jin Serb
Voidhounds
Pretenders
#23 - 2015-01-19 15:56:08 UTC
It's best to stick to the same weapon rather than mixing. This way all your guns have the same range.

Remember this is luck based, some nights you'll find no sites, some nights you'll find all the sites and no faction spawns and some nights you'll find one site a faction rat will spawn with an awesome drop and you'll also get the escalation which will drop a pirate frigate BPC. It's all about luck mate Twisted
Blake Lowe
Catgirl Exhibition and Rental Agency
#24 - 2015-01-20 02:03:11 UTC
The Sun's Anvil wrote:
Pod Panik wrote:
I tried Exploration because It looked like the most interesting way of making ISK (Will NOT waste my 2h of free time per night on mining). For the last couple of days I travelled the 0.5 to 1.0 zones in search of Data or Relic sites. All I could find were Wormhole or Combat Signatures (lots and LOTS of them).


I'm pretty much in the same boat....and I've actually been trying some "dangerous" <.5 and even wormhole space....and if I'm LUCKY I'll come away with 1Mil/hour exploring.

Contrast that with dumb as dishwater mining (in HIGH sec for heaven sake) where I can pull in 3Mil/hour guaranteed (though boring as heck)....

Lower end wormholes turn out a lot less in payment than higher end. Hell, even C3 wormholes pump out a good 60 mil per site, which is something like 100 mil an hour, depending on your ship. (Blaster Proteus is a pain the ass to move around)
Sgt Ocker
What Corp is it
#25 - 2015-01-20 03:11:08 UTC
Pod Panik wrote:
Lots of great advices and I take notes of them. However I don't have 1/2 the skills you guys are mentioning.

I am not 2 weeks in the game yet and that is the issue. There are a lot of options for established players, but its the lift-off that is pretty rough while you have a dozen of skills to work on at the same time because you can't even equip some of the gear you require.

So, until I am able to (for example) use combat drones, have proper tanking and gunning skills, what are the low end options?

Mind you, i wanted to be an explorator so most of my skill time has been spent on scaning, hacking, archeology and the such. My combat skills are..well...low.


Thanks again for the help

The fit i posted for you can be trained into in less than 2 days. From there you just keep training and as skills improve you upgrade modules to increase productivity.
Download EveHQ or EveMON, setup a skill plan, you can then see the best way to progress in what you want. I find EveHQ to be the best for me as I can fit the ship out and save it as a skill plan.


For a rookie wanting to advance in any profession the best way is to find a corp (or group of players) who do what you like. A rookie scanner alone might only make 1 or 2 mil ph but if he can team up with 2 or 3 others with the same or better skills, your income goes up too.

Eve is not "easy" you really do have to work for what you want.
Take the risk, leave highsec behind and hit lowsec pockets. That 1st faction drop makes it all worthwhile.

My opinions are mine.

  If you don't like them or disagree with me that's OK.- - - - - - Just don't bother Hating - I don't care

It really is getting harder and harder to justify $23 a month for each sub.
Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2015-01-20 08:08:11 UTC
The Sun's Anvil wrote:
Pod Panik wrote:
I tried Exploration because It looked like the most interesting way of making ISK (Will NOT waste my 2h of free time per night on mining). For the last couple of days I travelled the 0.5 to 1.0 zones in search of Data or Relic sites. All I could find were Wormhole or Combat Signatures (lots and LOTS of them).


I'm pretty much in the same boat....and I've actually been trying some "dangerous" <.5 and even wormhole space....and if I'm LUCKY I'll come away with 1Mil/hour exploring.

Contrast that with dumb as dishwater mining (in HIGH sec for heaven sake) where I can pull in 3Mil/hour guaranteed (though boring as heck)....


you're doing it wrong.

Art of Explosions
Alliria Seedspawn
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#27 - 2015-01-21 20:25:12 UTC
Tsukino Stareine wrote:


you're doing it wrong.


That's helpful.
Quanah Comanche
#28 - 2015-01-21 20:37:06 UTC
Blake Lowe wrote:
The Sun's Anvil wrote:
Pod Panik wrote:
I tried Exploration because It looked like the most interesting way of making ISK (Will NOT waste my 2h of free time per night on mining). For the last couple of days I travelled the 0.5 to 1.0 zones in search of Data or Relic sites. All I could find were Wormhole or Combat Signatures (lots and LOTS of them).


I'm pretty much in the same boat....and I've actually been trying some "dangerous" <.5 and even wormhole space....and if I'm LUCKY I'll come away with 1Mil/hour exploring.

Contrast that with dumb as dishwater mining (in HIGH sec for heaven sake) where I can pull in 3Mil/hour guaranteed (though boring as heck)....

Lower end wormholes turn out a lot less in payment than higher end. Hell, even C3 wormholes pump out a good 60 mil per site, which is something like 100 mil an hour, depending on your ship. (Blaster Proteus is a pain the ass to move around)



I don't think this bunch is talking about Sleeper sites.
Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2015-01-21 23:21:41 UTC
Alliria Seedspawn wrote:
Tsukino Stareine wrote:


you're doing it wrong.


That's helpful.


more helpful than telling him he's doing it right :D

Art of Explosions
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