EVE New Citizens Q&A

I came back to this game after two years. I played through some missions and it was fine. After I wanted to pursue my exploration career I noticed that I can only find wormholes!? I jumped to about six different areas in high sec Gallente and I cannot find any of the data/arch/salvage sties... After jumping through the wormholes I still only find other wormholes at the other end. What's going on?

Exploration is kind of like a dice roll.

There is a small chance you roll 6...and eventually, after many rolls you will have your 6.

But, it can also happen you roll 6, 5 times in a row.

No ,too many explorers, not enough people hunting them.
The sites in highsec get run constantly, if you're after good content , go to low sec or into one of those holes you find.

There is an option to not detect them. Just uncheck them in the filters. You do realize that every noob out there is an "explorer" and as a result systems are picked clean quickly. Especially in high sec. Did you know that Wormholes are full of sites?


Man you are a whiney one.

OP - Try an isolated area of highsec. The systems Ala, Ney, Steggete and Odotte (the last two require you to transit through Fasse, a very safe lowsec system) are all quite out of the way and probably are not overfished.

Once you get confident with lowsec, try the Solitude region - its lowsec area is very quiet.

Thanks I will definitely try this route! I appreciate your help people!

Yep IMO you should use highsec to determine your strategies for the hacking game and to practice probing, then jump into lowsec soon.

Unlike missions where, give enough players, you could keep spawning new missions in a system until eventually the server collapsed or went into TIDI the supply of exploration sites is very limited meaning that in highsec they are going to either be impossible to find or, if still present, already looted of anything valuable.

Call me crazy, and I dunno if this is a coincidence or an actual thing, but you know when you see the red spheres in your solar system map to scan down right? Well I noticed some of them are slightly larger than normal. Whenever I scan them they are exploration sites (not always data/relic) and the slightly smaller spheres are wormholes. Can someone confirm this?

Also a tip iv'e learned on my own:
If there are only two signatures in a system they are likely to be wormholes and if there is only one it is almost certainly a wormhole. My rule is only bother to scan if there are three or more sigs and a small local. Exception to that rule if is if I can see that one of the sigs is larger than the other.

Once you find the site, get with within 14 AU of it, and D-scan the site. Adjust your D-scans FOV to 5 or 15 degrees. (Remember the D-scan FOV is based on where you look, not where the ship is pointing.) Also I found the big fins on the heron/buzzard make nice iron sights for this if you align to your target before you go to it. Doing this can save you an awkard/violent encounter with a competing explorer.

But as an avid explorer rookie myself I can attest to that hisec exploration is not that great. Sometimes I get lucky, like today where I found a decryptor that was 5 mill alone, some T-II blueprint and about 18 mil total minus the blueprint. But still, just plain too many people doing it, people who actually hurt the spawn rate of data sites by not completing theirs because they cargo scan and only loot the best stuff, leaving only garbage for you to find. And to add insult to injury, I saw a Stratios (Read: A very expensive cruiser with massive scan bonuses) running hisec sites. Showoff. Also get a prototype cloak for your lowsec explorer if you haven't already.

Btw, if you don't mind the horrendous locking range/time, try Sir Livingston's magnate fit.

Signatures have varying strengths, depending on what they are. It's not as simple as wormholes are weaker than data/relic however, it depends on the type of wormhole and type of data/relic, etc.



This is just statistics really. With a high percentage of wormholes, a system with only one sig is likely to have a wormhole. It could be something else though.



Or prepare you for it.