EVE General Discussion

AFAIK, playing before or after server maintenance has but little to no impact on exploration, since the sites do not "reset", but rather re-spawn on an apparent random basis.

As such, it's possible to find systems with many sites and then again, systems with none at all. It's entirely possible that you have been in somebody's trail (x-jumps ahead of you) and as such, you've been just unlucky.

I do assume there are also a whole lot of people doing exploration.


Do correct me if I'm wrong though, I usually have to ask my way to my vessel's bridge, so..

Note to self....skip the exploration profession!

....or maybe that's just what you want us to think to deter us.....

If I remember correctly, the sites only despawn after someone has run it, or a certain amount of time passes with it NOT being run.

Once a site despawns, a new site will spawn somewhere else. Sometimes it's not in the same system.

You should try running some sites in wormholes, there's usually plenty to choose from! Just please remember to use bookmarks once you get inside the wormhole, otherwise you will get lost and have to probe your way back out.

Please, make bookmarks. Don't make the same mistake other rookie explorers have!

And when the WH residents (or pvp day-trippers) decloak beside him in a Proteus, and land with other sundry r@pe accoutrements?

While you may find more unworked sites in WH's, the risks go up astronomically with having no local chat to watch for +1's. Just sayin.

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Wait,i dont understand,i can do data and relic sites in wormholes without getting into combat with the sleepers or whatever they are called?

Do all relic/data sites in WH space contain sleeper patrols or just some?

Only those with the key words above are guarded afaik ... Positive, check for those with a pirate faction name, e.g. "Sansha" in the name, they are NPC-free.

If you take advice on this forum about things involving your personal security (i.e., where your butt is gonna be)
you're NUTS.

Investigating wormholes is a good idea, but be warned that not all the sites will be safe. Any Sleeper site will have very, VERY powerful rats protecting it. In a wormhole, you want to look for the nulsec-class sites. These will have names involving Sansha, Guristas, Angels, Serpentis, and Blood Raiders. The others are all going to be Sleeper sites which take a LOT of firepower (and tank) to handle.

One big thing you can always do with a wormhole, though, is use it to get to other parts of New Eden that may not have as much activity. Deep nulsec or distant lowsec are both a normal stop with wormholes, and while nulsec sites do indeed have better payouts, you'll still make more if you run many lowsec sites over a single nulsec site, so don't discount an area just because it isn't nulsec.

Sometimes if you scan something else down (ships, structures, etc) and play with your default settings you can forget to set them back to show anomalies and sites, etc. Make sure your scan list is set to show these things. I've had it happen before and spent a few minutes scratching my head.

Other than that - yes other people might have gotten there first and run them before you (not likely though if you say this happened in a great deal of systems), or it could just be a run of bad luck from the (non) random number generator. Try a different region maybe?