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Selling bookmarks?
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Atlas Tigh
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-05-08 11:52:55 UTC
Hi everyone,

I've finished everything the career agents have to offer and exploration seems to catch my interest the most. I'm already well on my way to being an excellent explorer, but aside from hacking/archaeology/ratting, I don't really know how to make money doing it. I heard explorers sometimes sell their bookmarks, which sounds right dandy, but I don't know how to go about starting.

If any fool-hardy explorers can give me a little advice, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#2 - 2012-05-08 13:40:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Kahega Amielden
Corps a lot of times like to set up in a good wormhole, but finding one that has the properties they want and is unoccupied is often difficult. Most 'bookmark sales' for the purposes of exploration are wormhole locations.

You can look up the details of a wormhole here (information based on the name of the wormhole) and here (information based on the wormhole system's locus signature). Some WHs have anomalies (listed on the latter link) which provide various bonuses and penalties to ship stats.

Wormholes also have "Static" WHs. A particular wormhole system will have at least one constantly-respawning wormhole. It will not always respawn in the same place and it will not always lead to the same place, but there will always be one there and it will always lead to the same type of place (you can have a static hisec exit, a static lowsec exit, a static 0.0 exit, a static WH exit...). Often it's the static that people want to buy.


Anyway, there's one broker service that I know of that sells wormholes, here.


Additionally, with low skills you should be more than capable of running the "profession" sites (Magnetometric/radar) you find.
Lyric Lahnder
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-05-08 14:03:00 UTC
Find a system that people mine in frequently. Since its Hulkageddon days eve miners may be scarce in your area.

One you find a mining system start scanning for grav sites, Once you have found one set up a contract and start asking some miners in local if they want it. I wouldn't suggest trying to contact them directly as they may be afk or are jaded and just dont accept convos from any one as they figure there haters.

Try and establish the quantity and value of the ore to get a good price for the bookmark. Make sure its clear in contract details what kind of grav site it is and what the main roids are, Omber etc.

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Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#4 - 2012-05-08 18:24:36 UTC
Generally, there are three things you can sell, bookmark-wise:

(1) Grav sites to miners (they like them because it shields them from casual ganking/suicide)

(2) FULL maps of a WH system (everyone that goes into a WH _can_ scan, but it can take 30 minutes easy to actually track everything down in the system so it's worth a couple mil to just not have to bother)

(3) The position of war targets hiding in safes and other PvP intel


The fundamental difficulty you'll run into trying to do this for a _living_ is that (a) your customers have no guarantee that you're not just selling them a random bookmark with nothing in it and (b) most people that care about exploration sites can find 'em themselves. Generally speaking your best bet is to link up with a corporation that has operations that benefit from a scanner/scout and just join them rather than trying to freelance for cash. w-space corporations are the obvious ones, you can map systems into corporate bookmarks instead of private and then they just give you a cut of the loot. Though, as a scanner, you'll generally be expected to jump in and hack/archeologize locked site containers as well.