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Clothings Angel
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-09-13 19:10:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Clothings Angel
Hi
I am trying to do exploration I have all nessacery skills and my science lvl is 5
Are there agents that give out exploration missions. If so which type of agent R&D???
Kilrayn
Caldari Provisions
#2 - 2011-09-13 19:17:01 UTC
Each individual R&D agent has their own area of expertise, like mechanical enginerring. Check the agent's info tab and you should see what additional sciences you need to train. Unfortunately this is just about all I know about R&D agents. I had one set up for data-core farming, but eventually it wasn't worth the trips anymore.

Hope this helps some. o7

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Hunter Ace
Fuctifino
#3 - 2011-09-13 22:56:50 UTC
I'm pretty sure that the only Agents that give out exploration missions are the tutorial career path agents. R&D Agent s provide datacores and that's about it.
Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#4 - 2011-09-13 23:47:42 UTC
Outside of the tutorial agents, no agents give exploration missions.

There is somewhat of an exception in 0.0 Cosmos constellations, but that's largely irrelevant in this case.

Start probing.
Sugilite
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2011-09-14 00:06:37 UTC
Emperor Salazar wrote:

Start probing.


There you go, OP, he just gave you the exploration mission, it wont show up in your journal though, but that's okay.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#6 - 2011-09-14 00:15:17 UTC
What I like about exploration is that you are NOT tied to a particular agent or corporation or even empire. You go where you want, when you want, and just search until you find something that interests you. It's a lot less repetitive than missions and you get a taste of a lot of different things. I've jumped empires and immediately started working DED 4/10 sites without having to grind through low-level agents. I've taken wormholes into empty nullsec systems and killed high-bounty rats. I've made friends (and a few enemies) all over the galaxy because I've roamed everywhere via wormholes.

Exploration is the most fun I've had solo. It can take you anywhere, you'll see new things on a regular basis, and any time you want a change of pace you can just pick up and move to another empire. The only thing I like better is small gang PVP.

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Substantia Nigra
Polaris Rising
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2011-09-14 02:08:15 UTC
There is a dearth of 'exploration' missions that require probe scanning. I have had none at all from normal agents. The only ones I have seen are:
1. The career / tutorial agents ... very easy and more designed to introduce ppl to probe scanning than anything else (and great for faction standings repair efforts btw).
2. The occasional COSMOS mission ... few and far between.
3. The Caldari lvl4 epic arc ... not challenging but does require some probe scanning.

You can, if you want, use your probe scanning skills to access other ppl's missions:
1. Combat probe scan the mission runners' ships and invade their site ... not really mission running, more the realm of 'ninja' salvagers and the like.
2. Core probe scan some mission sites that have spawned. I assume there are others that spawn as scannable site (whether or not any mission runners are present) but the one I keep running into is the first encounter mission of the Minmatar lvl4 epic arc ... and it does offer the opportunity of stealing the mission objective item and popping it onto the contract market.

I guess I am almost a 'vet' by now. Hopefully not too bitter and managing to help more than I hinder. I build and sell many things, including large collections of bookmarks.