EVE General Discussion

Hi all,

Just recently i decided to ditch my usual game style and fitted a Myrmidon with exploration in mind. I have the skills required for general all round play on this character (Jack of all trades and master on none) but im finding the probing etc extremely laborious and long winded.

Due to game time limitations i was wondering if any of you peeps could give me some tips so that i can find sites etc quicker as by the time i get something to warp to i generally find that RL requirements put it to an end.

All tips appreciated.

Yes sorry i was a bit vague there.

I am looking for sites to hack etc and even hideouts etc that don't appear on the basic scanner.

I seem to find the odd wormhole or two but my lack of exploration knowledge seems to show here as it seems to take an age to finally pinpoint anything in a reasonable amount of time to get the WARP button up.


On the whole i'm exploring to look for anything to do be it Hacking or Combat, i don't mind.

So the ability to pinpoint accurately and quickly on anything out of the ordinary would be welcome.

Ok i get the neutral reply and will find the information regarding this matter.

You went from clueless, to annoying, to rude in the space of three 3 posts.

Typical. Shows who and what you really are.
With your attitude you can forget getting any help from the community, especially to substitute for your own laziness.

I was polite, matter of fact and informed you this is the wrong board and your questions are too general to answer without a 2page post, and all of which is available already in well worded basic wikis. If you can't handle that without getting rude, thats your problem, not mine.

I was neither condescending nor superior.

I was matter of fact and polite.

You are the one who has been rude here.

I should have just left you hanging in your ignorance for everyone to facepalm at, on the wrong board, with questions that are so basic and general that they show you haven't made even a cursory attempt to find the information yourself, to the result that you insult me.

Bye.

Use a bonuses ship for scanning and reship to combat ship, or use an all in one ship that has bonuses to scanning, ie t3 with locus subsystem, or sisters faction ships.

Get your skills up. Fit gravity capacitor upgrades. Use sisters mods and probes. Use the poteque series of hard wiring implants. Use the scan array modules that came out in odyssey. Reduce probe size by two or three steps down at a time if you can do it without losing the signature.

Use dotlan to finds systems with low jumps per hour, low npc kills per hour, signatures build up in them. Avoid busy systems. If there are two or more signatures in one system with two identical last letters, it means they were still unused at downtime, consider skipping these as they are probable wormholes or drone site crap.

Get your corp to make a probing spreadsheet or tracker and put signatures on there so corpmatea don't scan crap if you already did it once. If a corpmate only does hacking ask them to drop combat sigs in corp chat, vice versa for corpmates that only do combats. Reset the sheet every downtime.

If you want to do hacking/archaeology, get a probing frig, either the T1 or a cov ops.
The sites don't contain rats except in WH space. So you don't need a lot of guns etc. to run them.
( only to duke it out with other explorers if you find any )

Also, these ships get bonuses to hacking/archaeology that are very usefull in the sites themselves, making them much easier to do than with a regular ship.

We can't have borderline pomposity around here. Either, be pompous or get off the pot!

........./kTHWAK

you youngins today!

With yer scannin' modules.

And probe formations.

back in my day, we had to move every single damn probe by hand!

And launch every probe one at a time!

and manually arrange them with no presets!

After every single time we hit the scan button.

and were unable to move them as a group with the fancy-schmancy Alt/Shift control schemes.

Down the 20-system Chain!

In the Snow!

Both ways!

With the wrath of Bob breathing down your neck!

heh.

no, but seriously, if you think scanning is *too hard* now, then.......pfft.

on topic

get away from the major hubs, and find some quiet area. the hi sec islands, low sec away from hi sec borders, and null away from staging/alliance living areas are excellent places for exploration content.



Multiboxing 3 characters by myself is still solo.

Me, myself, and I are still just one person. therefore, solo.

thank you for your opinion, npc alt who is apparently the authority on the subject.