Missions & Complexes

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Does anyone have links to a good starter guide to exploration. Basically stuff like how exactly it brings in money, what exactly the items i will be needing and how they are used ect.

The basic stuff. Any tips and tricks are also very appreciated.

Is there a specific way to know what type of rats you are exploring around? I know people explore in specific ships for specific rats but i am under the assumption that exploration can take you to many different regions with many different rats so how is it possible to for instance "explore sansha systems" if you are jumping regions.

I may be getting exploration mixed up with wormholes but just taking a guess.

If you are talking about beginner High Sec exploration, it is unlikely that anything will take you into a region with different enemies than the systems you choose to explore in.

Radar sites require the Hacking skill and a Codebreaker module to complete. You will get datacores, decryptors and other research related items. Decent money can be made from these.

Magnetometric sites need the Salvaging and Archaeology skills and either a Salvager or Analyser module. They reward salvage parts used in the construction of rigs. High sec Mag sites usually are worth extremely little. Low sec and null sec ones were buffed. The latter types can reward T2 rig BPCs.

Gravimetric sites are mining sites. Pretty much self explanatory.

Ladar sites are gas mining sites and are only found in certain regions. Not too sure on these but I think the gases are used in Booster (drug) production. Only certain gases are really worth a good amount of Isk.

"Unknown" signatures can be either wormholes or combat sites. The combat sites are either DED rated or unrated. Rated ones will have an Overseer at the end which may be a ship or a building. These will drop the deadspace loot reward if the loot gods like you. Unrated sites may spawn a faction rat i.e. Dread Gurista, which may or may not drop faction loot. These unrated sites also have a chance to escalate into an expedition, taking you several jumps away to run another site which may escalate again. The final escalation will take you into a system of a lower sec than you started, e.g. a high sec escalation will take you into low, a low sec one will take you to null. This last escalation will reward the deadspace loot, if you're lucky.

Guides have already been linked.

Also see http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/dsp/highsec.html if you plan on only going after specific sites. Type your probes' sensor strength into the top left and it will tell you the minimum signal strength of each band and what sites are contained in it. Usually used by those with Astrometrics 5 and using Deep Space Probes, but can, as I do, also be used with normal probes as long as you take into account the distance from the probes to the site. This can be learned with practice and can be recognised quite easily.

Bear in mind that high sec exploration is highly contested. Suitable ships and fittings have been discussed time and time again, though most will usually say "get in a Tengu."

pilgrim sucks.

interesting... i am more interested in the radar and mag sites currently just due to the fact this character does not have much combat stuff and from what i understand most of those sites just require hacking and such with not much combat. (just a guess)

i also left out i kinda meant arbitrator for high sec >>>> pilgrim for low sec and >>>> tengu for null..

Is there much money in the radar/mag sites or should my goal be something that can do some of the higher ded sites.


http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/DED_Complex_List

It looks like i can find 5/10s in high sec even so ill have to think about where i want to go. A ishtar may be a good option if my drone skills are good enough but im not sure how well it would work out.

More research needed. Thanks all for the advice!

I've never seen nor previously heard of 5/10s in high sec. But I don't normally explore in high, so things may have changed. 5/10s at least used to be restricted to low.

Mags in low/null can be profitable. Radars are decent in high and low. You can safely start by hunting for those (I'd get into low sooner than later). But eventually you'll want to be able to run combat sites.

As Salazar already noted, high sec is actually pretty competitive if you're in Caldari space (and to a lesser extent Minmatar). Low is, in lots of ways, a lower barrier to entry and will help you develop skills like knowing how to not die in space where anyone and everyone can shoot you.

Completed a ruin in null sec last night that yielded 30M in power circuits plus a few mil in other smaller things not as valuable. Took about 5 minutes to scan down, 5 minutes to kill the two rat battleships guarding the place and then the analyzing to open the ruin. Total time 20 minutes from launching my first scan probe to warping away with the loot.

This of course is all dependent on your scanning skills/ability, your archaeology skill and your ability to tank the rats damage and take them out in turn.

Only because you don't know how to use one. Pilgrim is great for high and low sec exploration. Use a Curse in low for exploration if you're up for the occassional fight (assuming the other guys doesn't run from you).

Radars appear on most, but not all, signature bands. Filtering for them based on signature strength won't work.

You have 7 - 8 signature bands in hisec ( never seen 0.09dsp myself so it's 7 for me ). Radars appear on 4 of them.

When you are using core probes you will probably need to scan everything ( you might be able to exclude fist band ~0.4dsp ) because scanning with core probes is not as precise as scanning with DSPs especially in bigger systems.

DSP bands

You just need to input your scan strength. Remember that this is basically for DSPs. I don't know how accurate it will be for core probes ( will depends heavily on placement ).