Missions & Complexes

I explore in high-sec. I do combat sites when I find them and scan the rest for data and relic sites. But 95% of the signatures I scan turn out to be wormholes. And I don't care for wormholes. I've been in them, but my skills and ship make the odds of making a profit there, neglectable. I was just in a system with 3 signatures, all wormholes.

I would love to see exploration be more interesting, more versatile. More to hack and shoot.

It is impossible for there to be too many wormholes. The more the better.
Perhaps there is a lot of competition where you are going?

I scan in LS and i can confirm that there a a tonne of WHs there to (pretty sure they buffed the WH spawn rate a few years back)

That being said its not really a huge issue, as with everything in eve its all PVP in some way. If you have to scan a tonne of WHs so does everyone else. Remove the WHs and the number of sites per system would be he same but competition would most likely be way higher as everyone would find those sites faster.

Also means that there is a larger emphasis placed on scanning skills, become really good and you will find more sites. Out compete those bads that can't scan for **** (its amazing how slow some people are) .

I personally like it, discourages pirates from scanning every site or slows them down at the very least.

PS,
Keep a record of sig IDs for each system you scan, saves a lot of time on the second way around.

I'm not sure what you are getting at, Anoms have (at least for hte past 6 years that i have been playing) always been warpable without scanning. People have been Farming them in NS for as long as I can remember.

The only thing that has change in the past few years was Ore sites not requiring scanning and that is a really only a major issue in WHs (No Intel channel/Local for safety).

As for the sites as is, Ore sites and Anoms are only really good isk in NS due to the respawn mechanics they have. (WHs as well but for different reasons)

In HS Ore sites are fairly rare and you make more isk by constantly mining low ends than hunting Ores, Anoms are a joke.
In LS no one really mines because its not very safe, at least not on mass and Anoms while better than HS are also not great and the increased traffic/ slow respawn means they are harder to farm.

Scannable sites are almost always better isk in HS and LS.

If you want to find more combat and hacking sites then look for deadend pipeline and cul-de-sac systems away from major trade / mission hubs. Check Star Map for system stats - low amount of population, low amount of jumps, low amount of NPC kills, etc.

Security level doesn't matter. Exploration sites have a natural life span of 3 to 5 days and tend to pile up in systems that don't have a lot of traffic.

Good luck to you.



DMC

Exploders that complain about "to many wormholes" are a strange thing to me... Why would you scan for sites that get you one million each (or even less?) when all the wormholes lead to sites that get you at least 10 times the loot per site. All you risk is a T1 frigate, cheap fits are less than 10 millions. Do one WH data site, go back to HS and your ship is reimbursed. Do one WH relic, go back to HS and you have more loot that an evening of scanning in HighSec would get you.

Now go back to WHs, learn to mash D-Scan, get dank ISK and don’t forget to bookmark good gas sites for even more dank ISK. Get killed a couple of times and don’t care, because the station you got podded back to has 10 more fitted frigates ready to go. Really, buy and fit them in bulk and stay totally calm when you have to use a new one. Ignore the kill board, even with a 50% chance of success you still make a lot more ISK with daytrips into WHs than all the highsec sites will get you.

Disclaimer: Works better from Monday to Tuesday or outside of EU/US prime times. Even WHs are crowded at Saturday 8pm.

You are right about the "hit and miss" with the WH faction sides. That's why I avoid peak times and bookmark good gas sides for a second round with a venture. I prefer WHs because for me it is much more safer than the Sansha null or low space (that is notorious as a hunting ground). But whatever you choose, everything is better than high-sec.

They (WH) are an excellent pathway for PVP, scanning a WH and its connections opens up so many options. Relic sites in C1 to C3 WH, fights in the WH themselves, routes out to various null and low sec sites to hunt or explore. It opens up so much more of the universe rather than spending time in a small area of space, or taking to same long route to a particular null/low sec area.