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A ship with scanning bonus perhaps.
Maybe even invest in scanning skills if you feel 1337 enough?

Get Astrometrics 4, Astrometric Acquisition/Pinpointing/Rangefinding all to level 3. Get a heron, with level 3-4 in frigate. That's good enough to start.

You can then upgrade to level 4 Astrometric Acquisition/Pinpointing/Rangefinding, level 5 Astrometrics, and use a covops scanning ship as time allows / need dictates.

Heron for highsec, Buzzard for low/null/WH, two Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I rigs, Sisters Core Scanner Probes

If you want to splash out a bit more, Sisters Core Probe Launcher, and Poteque Pharmaceuticals 'Prospector' implants (PPG for time, PPF for deviation, PPH for strength).

And if you plan on getting Astrometrics V: Deep Space Probe scanning guide

T3 with scanning subsystem.

Good info.


However, the descriptions for Astro. Acquisition and Astro. Rangefinding should be switched.

Astro. Acquisition - makes your probes scan faster, not really necessary but its nice to have.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Astrometric_Acquisition
Astro. Rangefinding - Increases probe strength. This is a must.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Astrometric_Rangefinding


To the OP,

T1 starter Frigate, Launcher and Probes reward gained from the Exploration Career agents is a good ship and can complete High Security Radar, Mag, very small Anomalies and the Hideout signatures.

T2 Covert Ops Frigates have great scan bonus but lack on defensive and offensive power. They are quick and can operate Covert Ops Cloaking modules. Best in a small gang fleet or switch ships for the higher level exploration sites.

T2 Force Recon Cruisers are an excellent 'Poor Mans' all in one exploration ship for doing High Security Exploration. They can complete all mid level exploration sites easily and can operate Covert Ops Cloaking modules for the last expedition stage in Low Security. No ship scan bonus so would be good idea to fit up 1 rig slot with T2 Gravity Capacitor Upgrade and use the other rig slot to improve the ships defensive tank.

T3 Strategic Cruisers are the top of the line all in one Exploration ship. With various sub systems fitted can just about go anywhere and tackle a lot of different sites. Best to have high skill levels and excellent fit up with these ships.


Check out the Exploration Career Agent, complete the mission series and try out exploration with the basic equipment they give. If you're just going to be looking for Grav sites, that'll do just fine for High Security Exploration. Only takes a few days to train up Level 3 and 4 exploration skills, fit up SoE equipment, rig up ship, maybe even get a Hardwiring implant for scanning, should have no problems getting 100% signature locks. If you do like Exploration, then start with a Force Recon Cruiser as your basic all in one high security exploration ship..Just remember that Hideout sites are Frigate class and Vigil sites are a bit tough.

If isk isn't a problem, then here is my all propose exploration ship. Scanning them down and running them.

Tengu, Exploration
Tengu Offensive - Accelerated Ejection Bay
Tengu Propulsion - Intercalated Nanofibers
Tengu Defensive - Adaptive Shielding
Tengu Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer
Tengu Engineering - Augmented Capacitor Reservoir

Sisters Expanded Probe Launcher (Sisters Core Scanner Probe)
Salvager II
5x Heavy Missile Launcher II (Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile)

Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster
Corelum C-Type 10MN MicroWarpdrive
Analyzer II
Codebreaker II
Pithum C-Type Magnetic Scattering Amplifier
Pithum C-Type Kinetic Deflection Amplifier

Damage Control II
2x Ballistic Control System II

2x Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I


The set up here is for Guristas and Drones mainly. (Em: 67%, Ex: 67%, Kn: 90%, Th: 87%). No cloak at the moment so yes I'm just doing Highsec at the moment. Even so in the past I have found several Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Boosters (~350Mil) hence the reason I have one fitted


Terminal.

Drone and arch sites are literally useless (particularly true in high sec). I'd drop the mag and analyzer for target painters or something.

Thanks.

As for the extra DPS from having a faction Ballistic Control System, the ones you mention give a 2.5% bost each and I don't think the 100Mil each price tag to be worth it honestly. As it is I've sacrificed a Missile Launcher to fit a Salvager. I do see the CPU advantage but I already have 76 CPU free with this fit so that's not a problem. I could swap out all the faction stuff and put in T2 with out a problem if I wanted to.

Terminal.

I doubt high sec ones will be anything less than useless. Low sec and null? We'll see what they're dropping but again, I doubt it. Having sites drop things that are more readily available from other sources is a "durp, we have no idea what we're doing" idea.

Posts yours and we'll tell you why its wrong.