EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello. My name is Zeales and I'm a new explorer.

So, I've been trying to scan out relic sites for around a week now, and I honestly don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm comfortable with scanning and hacking, I'm comfortable with avoiding camps and using my map, I'm comfortable with transitioning from low sec to null sec and vise versa.

When it comes down to it, my real problem is literally finding the site. I'm homed my character in Jita, so that's where I start naturally. I've made 50 jumps into northern and eastern null sec, going north I found 1 relic site after 50 jumps. Going east I found no relic sites after 50 jumps. I scanned every zone with the exception of the high sec into low sec systems and the low sec into null sec systems, anything heavily populated I skipped, which is only about three zones. I popped into a wormhole and scanned 8 site there before leaving and didn't find a single relic site either. I found a few data sites, but I was told not to bring a data analyzer with me as relic yields more. I also found a ton of combat sites and wormholes, both are worthless to me as I don't know how to navigate a wormhole and combat sites are of no use to a solo explorer with no guns.

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. If anyone who is experienced with exploration could give me a little guidance it'd be greatly appreciated.

Signed,
Zeales

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personally I always found null sec to be very picked over. usually very quickly too. On the otherhand there are always tons of relic and data sites in lowsec to the point where imo lowsec exploration is more worthwhile then null isk wise. Also the skill requirements are less. Ofc I dont really do exploration sites anymore b/c of the minigame, but I do hunt explorers in them.

In short you're not doing anything wrong you are just unlucky/looking in the wrong locations.

So would I be better off bringing a data analyzer to null sec or just picking around low sec?

Would it be best to bring a data analyzer as well to low sec if I chose to go there?

It depends on what you are doing. If you were living in null and trying to explore then I would have both relic and data analyzers. OTH if you are just day tripping I would concentrate on lowsec. BTW in the last update I thought CCP said they boosted data sites, so maybe they are worth doing in and of themselves - I cant really say because I don't run them. I just use them as bait.

Hey!

For what it's worth, my suggestion would be to get away from Jita.

I remember when I was first starting out I would take day trips like you to lowsec or from whatever highsec-nullsec wormhole I could find.

Now it's the other way around, I take day trips to highsec every once in a great while. I suggest basing somewhere really quiet in lowsec. Quiet lowsec like Aridia, Molden Heath, Genesis or Kador. Lowsec has the most wormholes last I heard so getting around is not a problem. I have a central point that I drop my loot off in lowsec and then when there's a direct to high wormhole nearby I'll take it to market.

Everything around Jita, even most of highsec for that matter is going to be very, very competitive.

After a bit you get used to it.

I'd start by seeing an optometrist - looks nasty. Beside that, go to lowsec or null but NOT factional warfare regions. Jita is probably the worst system in the entire map to base out of for exploration.

Alright, say I relocate my home station, would I still transport my things to Jita in order to sell?

Also, my local optometrist got podded.

Yeah or the next nearest hub

Drop the stuff off in the nearest contiguous hi sec and set up a public courier contract to have so me one else bring it to Jita.

The stuff is generally light, and the collateral isn't super high, so you should not have much trouble finding a guy trying to break into hauling move it for pennies.

Once you have a billion or so gathered up, swing by or clone jump to sell it all.

Other options would be to look for k-space to low class wormholes. Not only do they have the nullsec relic and hacking sites in relative abundance, they also have the potential of having links to other nullsec or hi sec systems for quick relocation.

For example X702 in hi sec takes you to c3 space which will have at least one k-space static.

Set your star map to show the jumps statistic for the systems, so you know how to plan your route. I don't to more than 10-15 systems a day and on bad day (like yesterday) I end up finding 80 milions in loot.

If I did not stop by every data/relic I find I would be probably more effective. I also peek into every wormhole that doesnt look to be ending the next second and is not very likely to be camped. That makes my travelling very slow, but I enjoy it.

And sometimes its funny to travel 20 systems down and enter wormhole already bookmarked from two weeks ago :)