EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello I am a new player looking for a heron exploration fit for high sec . Any help would be great.

Why do you specifically want to use a bantam for exploration? The heron has scanning and hacking bonuses and is much better suited for this task.

Edit: Netan beat me to it, and has a much more detailled answer.

Also is there any missions explorers can do or do you just scan for stuff and hack it ?

For the sites that require combat, typically you scan / probe for the site, and once found you right-click and bookmark it. Then switch to an appropriate combat ship and go to the bookmark.

Just WHY do you have 32 scanner probes??? Especially 32 sister probes, that will be insanely expensive for the new bro. Hell, even I wont buy that many.

To add some content:


- you're best off to focus on Data only, relic tends to not pay as well and takes up way more cargo space forcing you back home more often. And the time you waste on doing an, on average, crap relic site is time you didn't use to find or complete a data site

- in high sec data/relic isn't really going to pay too well on average, combat exploration would do better there so if you see being in high sec just as a first stepping stone before you move to more interesting/risky areas then that's fine. If you truly want to stick to high sec you're probably better off focussing on combat exploration

- get a cloak even in high sec, you're in a frigate with valuables onboard which tends to make you a gank target. Because of that get in to the habit of jumping into a new system, warping to some planet at a random range while dropping probes as you align to warp, and once you arrived you'll cloak up. It's what you'll also do in low or 0.0/WH so might as well get used to it right away. Also learn to use the cloak/mwd trick

- no reason to use an expanded probe launcher as that is only useful for "pvp purposes". Don't waste money on sister launchers or probes, being new you're probably going to mess up a fair amount of times so no need to make them costly mistakes. They're not worth the investment until you have so much cash you wouldn't even notice missing 50m

- don't waste your rig slots on grav rigs, you can achieve increased scanning strength with modules these days so your rigs are better used to augment your hacking


Here's a basic data Heron fit:

[Heron, Data explorer]
Warp Core Stabilizer I
Warp Core Stabilizer I

5MN Microwarpdrive I
Scan Rangefinding Array I
Scan Rangefinding Array I
Data Analyzer I
Cargo Scanner I

Core Probe Launcher I, Core Scanner Probe I
Salvager I
Improved Cloaking Device II

Small Memetic Algorithm Bank I
Small Memetic Algorithm Bank I
[empty rig slot]





The only T2 item you really want for now is the T2 cloak (requires cloaking lvl 3), the rest you'll build up as you go.

I was my understanding that for high sec specifically data now outperforms relic, I'm not talking about low chance "super drops" but rather realistic isk/h wise. Then again I never bothered to test it first hand (I do combat exploration) so it is 3rd party "hearsay". I did kinda forget about the other changes and their impact.

So which to choose it up for grabs perhaps but I'd still choose either, not both, because of the extra slots you'll have to use, which then results in having to use grav rigs which thus means you lose the hacking ones.

Hello and welcome to Eve! You're looking for Heron fits? I prefer to keep my fits like right tools for the right jobs:

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Welcome to New Eden. Good luck

I would personally go for the imicus because it has a stronger hull and an extra low slot, which is very important if you're venturing into Lowsec/Nullsec, avoid WH's until you're more familiar with them as many of the sites there contain beefed up rats called sleepers.