Missions & Complexes

Sure, it happens, but how often? To a newbie what you lost might seem like a lot, but exploration pulls in enough isk to make it a "meh" loss. Furthermore, you don't actually *need* a sister's scanner, or even sister's probes - I've been scanning down sites just fine without them. A t1 frig with cheap t1 mods costs less than 3mil and most of that is the cloak. The best investment is the T2 data/relic analyzers which up your chances of completing the highest difficulty minigames, which is also another mil. Even the worst sites are likely to give you a couple of mil in lowsec.


Warping out as soon as you see someone doesn't really teach you anything. Try using dscan to figure out what they're doing, and whether they can find you. You can spam a short-range dscan to look for incoming ships and warp away if you see one incoming. There's lots of ways to mitigate the risk, but if you're expecting no risk(== no ships lost), then you're not going to find that, even in hisec.

Is there any reason to fit a cloak on the T1 frigs in low-sec?, can't really see where it would make a difference.

Look Rand, I am not disputing any of this :)
I'm just saying this happens and it's nigh impossible to properly do the d-scan+play the minigame+etc.

btw I've had that covops for..i don't know..four years? It finally died, yay. Jita was close by.

I like it, kind of like a security blanket, but I did a lot of scanning without it.

It has saved me twice so far so it has paid for itself.

I also use it if I need to go afk. Saves me the warp to station and keeps the active scans up (going in the station resets them).

It really is a convenience item. I just use the cheap one though.