EVE General Discussion

In this game there is some kind of exploration etiquette?
Examples...

• If I am in a system claimed by someone shoud I declare my intentions in order to avoid retaliations?
• If there is a data / relic / something_else site that I'm unable to loot shoud I say that this site exists, in order to ease the work of my fellow explorers - if any?
• If I jump in and someone is looting the site should I stay or should I go?

Thanks!

Reassuring.

In EVE you have to ask yourself...would they do the things you mentioned for you?

I don't. Unless it's super obvious like you're in nullsec and there's an available local chat that shows everyone who's in system. Then I just skip by if I'm only looking to explore and go to the next empty nullsec system. Otherwise in wormholes I do my best to determine if I'm alone or not. See how many are docked in their Citadels, directional scanner, etc.



I always hack the cans so they at least open or explode. The site will despawn after all the cans have been hacked or failed somewhere else. The rumor is there's a set number of each site in the game at a time. Using a cargo scanner and cherry picking is really bad manners and they deserve to be beheaded.



This is where I measure up what I'm flying, what he's flying, how many cans are left, could I get a good jump on him before he finishes the site for me? It's entirely up to you. Explorer violence is pretty exciting!

One bit of explorer etiquette that is nice when people follow is to not leave sites half done. If you've got a cargo scanner and are cherry picking cans just do a couple failed hacks on the empty/worthless ones so they explode. That way the site will respawn faster elsewhere and you won't waste the next explorer to scan the system's time

Tops I did is to tell random people in null that the remaining sites in system are holes and combat ones after I saw their core probes.

But that was during my Alpha days, when my explorer ships didn't have teeth. Theye days I'd just a set a trap.

There's no way to claim systems for exploration sites. Any site is free game for anyone.

No. No they wouldn't. It's dog eat dog. Get yours before they take it from you.

Yes. Be sure to type GF in local after you are mercilessly destroyed.

Mr Epeen

@OP;

During my time with Signal Cartel up to recently, this disccusion came up quite abit, and it was discussed up to and including cherry picking sites. The general rule of thumb was to clear the sites even if it had any worthless junk like Carbon for one.

Another point was once you scanned down a site and if somebody else was already in it, just move on, of course if the sig is still active on your probe window you could go back to check and see if it was cherry picked leaving the junk behind.

In my experience yes it may take a little time to clear the site if need be, but this insures that a new site will spawn somewhere else in the constellation/region.

As a side note, since Alpha clones were introduced last fall, the uptick in cherry picking has gone up, but I do not have staticstics to show if it is or not.