EVE General Discussion

Not sure about those other spaces, but if you do exploration in Highsec you obviously need a mining permit and follow the New Halaima Code of Conduct.

No etiquette.
Completely depends on your own preference.

As poster above, it can be considered in your own interest to clear a site, so it might respawn nearby.
However leaving it incomplete, can create content, if you are creative.

Speaking/contacting others in Local can be extremely beneficial, but also lead to absolute disaster.

Leaving a site to someone else running it will earn you nothing.
They wont thank you, and you are competition, even if you dont invade their site.
Weigh the risk of competing against your capacity to do so.

3rd option: Train into an Astero, and you massively open your options.

This is the only rule that applies.

Do unto others before they do unto you.

Is step 3 turn on smart bombs?

Negative sir, there's no real 'etiquette'. Just keep things civil if stuff goes pear-shaped.

Please hack the cans at your leisure, though feel free to announce your presence in local if you'd like.

Remember to watch out for smartbombing Proteus, sensor boosted Lokis and redheads in wormholes.

If you daytrip in a wormhole, there are a few steps you can take to maximize isk/hour and reduce the chance of a gank:
-Create a safe spot. Create multiple if you are an alpha and can't use cloak.
-Never use local chat.
-Cherry-pick your sites. The more time you spend with your cloak off, the more people will notice. Also, not wasting time on hacking low-value cans increase isk/hour. Alternatively, hack everything and lose the cargo scanner for a Pinpointing/Rangefinding Array to speed up scanning.
-Invest in Sisters Core Scanner Probes. They are cheap and speed things up a lot.
-Don't reload your probe launcher when jumping a hole/using a gate/docking. You may lose your probes.
-Stop scanning signatures which you aren't interested in as soon as you are able to determine what type of signature it is (gas/wormholes, maybe data sites if you are picky like that). Put them on the ignore list to clear up your scan window.
-Don't warp to sites with active ships/extra probes on dscan.
-Keep in mind that ships left unpiloted behind a POS still show up on your scanner, but you should scout around and find these ships to make sure. Copy the naming pattern of these ships if there is one to confuse people coming in after you.
-Don't drop depots unless necessary, and don't leave them at your safe (this is if you are running sleeper relic sites in a Stratios with the "keep 1 sleeper alive" method). Depots/MTUs are easier to combat scan than ships.
-Spam dscan, keep it in a separate window.
-If you see combat scanners, warp to your safe and cloak up, then exfil.
-If you are an alpha and you see combat scanners, you should have multiple safes which you can use to bounce around if necessary. Warp to a safe that is in dscan range of your return hole, and do a 5° scan towards it. If you see a dic/hic, bounce around until they get bored. When the hole is clear, exfil.
-Turn off dynamic music. Wormhole music sounds like Darth Vader sitting on the toilet.

As for etiquette, everyone who isn't your friend is out to get you. Cherry picking is okay because nobody knows who you are anyway. If you explore with friends, just come to an agreement between yourselves.

Happy hunting!