EVE New Citizens Q&A

1. I think Radar and Gravimetric sites are pretty rare.

2. Going to lowsec will get you ganked.

3. Other people are trying exploration, too, and the sites will be taken or done already.

4. In most cases the probing ship won't be able to handle fighting whatever you find at the site.


You want a probing ship that's maximized for scan strength. Use a ship that has bonuses, use the best probes you have the skill for, and train up the astrometrics skills. Since they're useful for also probing down ships for PVP, the skills are worth training to 5/4 - you'll get lots of use out of them one way or the other.

For probing, write down all the signature ID's you see in the system, quickly bookmark all the 100% anomalies, and then probe down all the other sites and bookmark them.

Then look up the anomalies or whatever you find in the evelopedia charts (or search the evelopedia for the other sites) to see what NPC's are there, and what modules to bring with you (hacking, archaeology, etc), and hop into a combat ship to take them out.

Cruiser should be able to handle anything hig-sec; battlecruiser if you want to be really really easymode.

The "riches", by the way, come from the "faction" versions of the NPCs. For example, Serpentis Hideaway, level 1 easiest, all of the Corelli rats drop crap, but that Shadow Serpentis Agent at the end might drop something worth millions, depending on your luck.

for me to be able to cloak I think I need 20 days of training for that right? That was my understanding... Frigates 5 electronics 5 etc....

No, not Covert Ops, just the skill Cloaking and fit a Prototype Cloak. iirc it just requires Electronics 4 or something else easy like that that you should be getting or already have anyways.

Sites respawn within the region at downtime and new sites spawn at random times. So best to go scanning just after downtime.

thanks for posting... what are stabs? and what is the mwd trick?

Dude I really appreciate your feedback on my post its going to take me a few to digest it all but thanks alot!

I doubt I can explain better. Just play with them in highsec, watching your speed.

The thing you really need to work on is how to scan a system quickly to see if there are any signatures in it worth scanning down.

Basically, you want to minimize the time you spend not finding what you want.

So, how do you do that? Here are a few tricks while in High Sec.

High sec is busy (lots of other people are looking for sites as well) you will find that is a double edged sword. Sites spawn quickly in high sec because they are found and completed quickly.

Armed with this knowledge and knowing that wormholes tend to linger you want to jot down the ID of each wormhole so that when you see the ID again upon re-entering the system you don't waste time scanning it down.

The quickest way I found to do this was to use a real notepad with a pen or pencil. I'd jot down what the signature ID was of each wormhole. OR you can bookmark the site when you scan it down the first time and put the ID in the bookmark label. That way you keep a record as well.

Given that you are looking specifically for a type of site, you can skip all 'unknown' sites if you want. But, again, it comes down to being able to quickly identify if a system has sites worth investigating.

The best way to do this in my opinion is to use a deep space probe. Enter the system, drop the probe, set it to max range, warp towards the next gate, scan while in warp. If there is nothing in the system, pick up the probe, and jump. If there is something the system, switch probe types and launch your core probes.

If you can't use deep space probes you can do the same thing - upon entry to a system launch your core probes. Quickly put them into formation if you don't know the optimal formations you can test stuff out on your own or look at one of the online videos about it. Once you have your initial formation, max out the scanning distance of each probe (shift click a sphere outline and drag it outwards) then use a shift click on one of the probe arrows and move the cluster towards the middle of the system. Once you've done that, use ALT and click on one of the arrows of a probe then spread the probes out so that they cover all of the system.

Warp to next jumpgate. In warp hit scan.

If there are results, probe them down. If there aren't, collect probes and move on.

Remember, sites spawn -quickly- in high sec. The busier it is the faster they spawn. So, you can establish a small circular route of four or five systems (if it is really busy two systems will work) and just keep checking until a site pops.

The MWD trick relies on the fact that the MWD will give you a full cycle of speed, even if the cloaking device forces it off. So what you're basically doing is you're pulsing the MWD and then cloaking up, which makes you go very fast and invisible right away, and you coast at high speed for a little bit, until the MWD cycle completes.

Then at the end of it, you're using the fact that you have to be at 70% speed and aligned in order for the warp to engage so you can escape. So you're turning off the cloaking device and hitting the "warp away" button just at the moment when the MWD cycle ends, which results in your ship being at "full speed" for long enough to warp away instantly.

Find systems in the 0.6 or 0.5 security range, off the beaten path, preferably with no stations. That's where you'll find sites in hisec.

Also, when you do you initial scan, you can safely assume that the highest % you see is going to be a worthless wormhole. Always go for the smallest sig first - that's the good stuff.