Missions & Complexes

PS.... They should create Exploration Agents, that give out "Seek and Find" or "Treasure Hunt" Missions. At least that would be progress!

1) With low skills, you can do the sites you don't even have to probe down. You're also not the only person looking for sites.
2) Scanning is so easy, if it's giving you that many problems, you're not going to want to find any harder sites.
3) PROGRESS means you can find the sites faster, beating others to it.

If you're in high sec, you're better off perhaps doing other things as a new player than exploring for combat sites. Of course, exploring for data and relic sites might pay better, takes fewer skills, and makes you comfortable making long trips to get things done.

There was once a time where we had to place probes by putting the ship where we wanted the probes, the probes were not allowed to overlap, and they would take 10 minutes to cycle. Starting in a system I hadn't explored before, I had to spend about 20 minutes making bookmarks to place the probes, and then it would take an entirely unreliable length of time to hit the sig, usually an hour or more.

What we have now, is entirely reliable, tells you how many sigs are about in advance without even having to launch something and can be done with just the mouse hand whilst alt-tabbing between accounts without doing anymore than uncloaking the ship and pressing launch - if it was any easier it might as well be in the overview.

There is plenty of content, but you will find that highsec suffers from a sweeping action, where people repeatedly doing popular routes sweep content into unpopular corners, so that as the name exploration suggests, you will in fact have to go look for content.

It won't take you that long to find a system with 5 or 6 sigs in it, nor will it take very long to get level 4 skills.

Pithum C-type Adaptive Invulnerability Field. (ie deadspace loot).

Whilst I don't personally do caldari highsec exploration, the reality is the skinnerbox moment of seeing the drop is 10x more fun than any point in the 10 hours of mission grinding that I would need to do to make equivalent isk.

I've averaged about 200mil including ope, bounties and loot from each serpentis hydroponics (ded 5) that I've done, and realistically there is something more satisfying about fetching isk with risk/reward attached, something that entirely lacks in missions. There is after all 14 battleships that must be killed and a web trap in that encounter (its not 'easier' than a mission even without other players). I haven't lost a spaceship to other players, and have at least 2 bil to show for recent lowsec exploration, so losing a spaceship now would be relatively meaningless (I bought my last 2 Ishtar hulls for 150mil a piece, they are fitted for sub 200mil).

there will be a point when you are over missions.

*facepalm*

Keep running those missions then. Id say you are doing it wrong. You should explore in low or zerozero for more thrill. Yes missions give you more isk but all missions are same **** over and over and over and over and over again. At least exploring in zerozero things can get interesting.

I would ask for what do you need so much ISK that you are willing to sacrifice FUN for grind?

It's not really boring or a grind yet.... as I said it's like playing a card game of sorts to me, and at this point I wouldn't want someone (another player) coming in my game and stealing or blowing up my deck just to be a jerk.... not my kind of fun really!

Ok, ten bucks says you are trying to poke around in Hisec.

No. Stop it.

If you get a Covert Ops frig with some Sisters Launchers + Probes, you can nail all the expensive Data and Relic sites no problem. You just need the equipment and the ballsack to go into 0.0 to find them.

Almost all the stuff you find in Hisec is worthless with a few exceptions, but even then it would take you a while to make it really add up. I made 650m in a single night cracking open Relic and Data sites. You just need to know where to look. Lucky for you, I'll tell you!

NULLSEC


Oh, and here is a nifty little guide I still use for Exploration.

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

And for probing, its incredibly easy once you get the hang of it. Once you know the proper technique, skill has nothing to do with it. Its mostly equipment if you ask me. Just YouTube probing guides. Back during Apocrypha finding a Wormhole was a miraculous achievement for me, but now I hate finding them because that means there isn't a Site there.

The more I look into things that seem interesting other than Missioning, trading, etc... it always seems to be in Null sec...... yet the Null sec folks seem to always complain about high sec getting all the goodies.... oh well!

Yet, the few times I've ventured in there to Low/Null with characters, EVERYONE was trying to kill me. If you see another player in local, you can bet they will hunt you down for sport........ So it seems just too much anger going on in there to be any fun, unless you find a nice group to gang with.....

So, I suppose you all are right as well am I.

Exploration is ONLY for the players willing to venture in areas that allow other players to engage in combat with you.

and yes, I've only tried probing in High Sec, and the one time I found a worm hole, I was killing some NPC's and a guy with his two buddies (or alts), warp/web me and "bwasted my wittle ship"... and I ended up in the hospital..

Peace

Doing it in null while at war and this is what makes things interesting, but that's not the part I'm worried about or at least head scratching.

I've started by hating this can spew thing and still do but before I decide to definitively turn my back on this I'm trying rather hard but miss something for sure.
Scanning sites is not a problem for me just a matter of seconds, however I'm havin a real pain with this minigame and its getting me really angry, I'm missing awesome BPC's (some T2's...) and T2 salvage or BPC's for stuf and whatnot, selecting cans order is not really an issue even if I think those go far too fast and disapear also too fast, issue is the minigame really boring to hell to find always more nodes to crakck and getting only 10 to 15% of the global value, most cans just depop ...

My question is, is there some logic in this nodes clicking minigame or is it completely random? how to improve changes of succeed hacking?

Thx for your advices.