EVE General Discussion

Well that's the spirit.

Some days it's sites galor, even when moving ships in the Forge regions, other days, nothing.


Yeah they made exploration very easy - you simply have to wander more. That you can traverse so many systems shows you are not hugging a system or station, which is good.

As for attacking exploration - well - first don't attack my ship! (shakes fist) but yeah, exploration is so beared up now it's incredible. Back in the day exploration sites were also combat sites. Let me tell you. I had to fight some hard-hitting rats up hill, both ways. In 3 feet of snow too.

But it was nothing that a nullified T3 could not handle - except things changed a bit. The sites are easy easy now, no need to kill the rats you see, so it's all the more feasible to use a nullified T2 or even an intie (if you rig it for hacking even than it's iffy for the job) . But it's the inties you see. Belt ratting is bad news - even combat sites - intie swarms you see. So exploration is now the most risk free of the activities. So it's not like all of a sudden everybody wants to explore, it's just the with the intie changes and changes to exploration sites, it's now the least risky activity mainly because you can do them faster than other PVe content, make the loot, run off, and that's that.

Like a wormhole to nullsec when I had my Astero. That was a fine ship let me tell you. Found a rare highsec to null WH and there was a covert site in there too - hacking even with the Astero and level 5 skills was not a short affair. But as soon as someone showed up, they KNEW how I got there, because the intel channels and gank pipelines never heard of me, so it just HAD to be a wormhole. I reached the wormhole just as 8 core probes were right on top of it. They didn't get the Astero - NPCs did that job a little while later.


So the gist of this is, exploration is now the defacto "carebear activity" of nullsec. It's easier than running 4 of 10s with a Tengu - back before they got blocked from 4 of 10s, you could be in a DED 4 of 10 for around 10 seconds and there's the tengu going straight for the boss. So the same players are out there, carefully ensconced behind the gank pipelines and intel channels.


So, maybe you should hunt the explorers? Well, my Astero won't be on your KB - Guristas did that -but that might have to be your thing. Maybe you should bring a stealth bomber, wait for them to hack the container, nuke them. From orbit even. They won't be going fast, that's for sure. When I drop bombs on gate camps I giggle like Loreena Bobbit in a sausage factory. So I'm sure a good time will be had by all.

(if seeing you in local does not have them running and hiding - these are bears after all).

Good luck.

if you looking for data and|or relic devoid is your choise, i scan five or six systems and found 10 or 11 data+relic
so no problem here

This.

Also, if you're anything like me, and I hope for your sake you're not, I spent a dozen systems looking for Data Sites in LowSec until I realised I had the probe scan window set to Ships. Wasn't my finest hour...

I'm very glad I'm not the only one who catches himself blundering about like this!

Props to both of you!

oh yeah, been there, done that too.

Also when you get a no scan results on the scan window it's worthwhile closing it and reopening it, there seems to be some sort of caching error there.

can we swop space?
you take my relic sites i take your combat sites.

Stay out of drone and angel space, in my experience they are bad for hacking.

And because it's annoying, it should stay as it is.

not sure about you,but i gain 1-2 bil per day on relics in paragon and isoteria,drop always cool

Basically, exploration has no barrier to entry for any of its sites, even the high end ones. Which means any random dude older than a week can (and probably will) run the sites. This leads to all of the sites being depleted and all of the exploration loot being dirt cheap.