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WH exploration hacking difficulty
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Morgan Jones
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2016-07-17 19:10:44 UTC
Hi everyone,

Over the past week I have been doing some explorations and I have found it to be close to impossible to make isk. Before this week I might have failed 10-20% of the hacks in total, but now Im failing 60-70%. I keep getting cornered by high lvl defense subsystems. They appear twice as frecuently as they used to before last week. It is quite overwhelming and frustrating. Is this a common ocurrence? I feel that exploration might be turning inprofitable.

Cheers,
Morgan Jones
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2016-07-17 20:26:32 UTC
Train up associated skills and install implants in clone to boost successful hacking.

Also use a ship with hacking bonus that's fit with specific rigs and modules to enhance your career.



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Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2016-07-17 21:40:50 UTC
If you want to reliably hack the red cores to be found in WH and nullsec you need the T2 hacking modules and associated skills. Take a covops ship with hacking bonus or pimp your ship with rigs. Having 30 virus strength and 130 coherence is sufficient to fail less than 10% (these are my stats using an interceptor), the rest is training and some strategic thinking.

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Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2016-07-18 07:26:27 UTC
The T2 hacking mods are like night and day since having 40 virus strength is a whole different world than 30 due to the fact a lot of subs become 2 hit kills instead of 3 and gets even easier when you have a utility to help.

That being said, I think a lot of newer explorers will not do the minigame properly and will panic and attempt to uncover nodes in places where they shouldn't. Even when I was still using t1 hacking mods I would only ever blow up less than 5% of my red cans.

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Andrew Indy
Cleaning Crew
#5 - 2016-07-19 07:02:30 UTC
I did a site yesterday in a WH and it was no harder than normal. I think you are just having a run of bad luck.