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What ship for Exploration?
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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-01-22 00:37:09 UTC
hi! I have been making my way thru the tutorials and I really like the exploration one! I think I might like to do it in Eve but I'm confused about what would be a good ship to use? Maybe not right now, but soon? Should I keep training amarr (I am Amarr, dunno if that matters)?

thanks in advance
Grawr Hatter
MeowMageddon
#2 - 2012-01-22 01:55:05 UTC
There are quite a few answers as the question is not very specific. Do you plan on hi sec only? Wormholes? Low sec?

Each area has different risks and therefore different preferred ships. Perhaps these will help a bit...

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Exploration_guide

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/High_sec_exploration_(advanced)

http://www.eve-search.com/thread/1441689/page/1

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0705/Exploration_2.01.pdf

its a start anyway.

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malaire
#3 - 2012-01-22 09:47:43 UTC
Each race has one T1 frigate with scanning strength bonus which is meant for probing - that is good ship to start with. It can't really do any combat so if you are after combat sites then you would need to save the location and come back in other ship which can actually do the site you just found.

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Fyei Yarii
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-01-22 21:57:01 UTC
I'm liking the look of exploration myself, but is it really worth going down that path?

Id like to go after the hacking sites in high sec preferably (I'm very new, not ready for lowsec yet), but I've heard they don't generate much reward and/or by the time of day that I play (around about now) all the sites have already been found.

Is this true? It'd be awesome if someone could help me out on this.
Grawr Hatter
MeowMageddon
#5 - 2012-01-22 22:57:11 UTC
Exploration can be fairly profitable. The main problem is the randomness. I know of people who do it full time, and in wormholes and such it can be very profitable full time. But for the most part its very random. Anywhere from getting excellent faction drops like centii a-types in high sec and dramiel bpcs to nothing but substandard bounties and meta 1 modules. So day to day profit can fluctuate widely.

I've found it easiest as a team sport unless you can pilot an orca from system to system to lug around ships and modules in order to change to suit the site types. I usually take ships for combat, scanning, mining and salvaging as well as the extra modules to refit for gas harvesting, hacking and archaeology.

One might say "oh I'm only going to go for the combat sites" but in all honesty if you can run every site you scan down it becomes a lot more profitable in the long run.

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Jouron
Hadon Shipping
#6 - 2012-01-24 16:20:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Jouron
You can make bank with exploration. For the Amar youll want the Magnate and then its tech II version the anathema.

I prefer the Heron and the buzzard my self: Max CPU.

To make the most of your exploration make sure you can use tech II: Salvagers, Analyzers, Codebreakers.

If your really ambitious you'll learn to use gas cloud harvesters. Which you might find skill books for in a Ladar site if you lucky.

Youll need to get good cloaky skills and missioning skills as you'll have to fight off rats in some sites.

Get all the supporting skills for probing at least to four to lesson the amount of work you have to do to find sites.

Finally when you have enough cash there are sets of implant you can get from each empire that will increase your sensor strength which intern makes you harder for other people to probe down with combat scanner probes.


Its the golden age for explorers now. With the advents of tech II probes and probe launchers, No one has to break the bank on sisters probes and probe launchers.

Now go forth and make dough.
XXSketchxx
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
#7 - 2012-01-24 16:41:55 UTC  |  Edited by: XXSketchxx
Grawr Hatter wrote:


http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0705/Exploration_2.01.pdf



This is going on 3 years outdated Shocked
XXSketchxx
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
#8 - 2012-01-24 16:48:04 UTC
Fyei Yarii wrote:
and/or by the time of day that I play (around about now) all the sites have already been found.


Sites respawn after being completed. No need to worry about time of play.
Grawr Hatter
MeowMageddon
#9 - 2012-01-24 17:16:51 UTC
"XXSketchxx" wrote:
This is going on 3 years outdated Shocked


So are you saying its time to clean out the pdf folder??? Dang it.

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Fyei Yarii
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-01-27 15:03:29 UTC
XXSketchxx wrote:
Fyei Yarii wrote:
and/or by the time of day that I play (around about now) all the sites have already been found.


Sites respawn after being completed. No need to worry about time of play.


Thanks for answering this, I really appreciate it! And to everyone else too :)
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Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#11 - 2012-01-27 16:42:31 UTC
Radar sites in High-sec:

If you can find them, you'll probably pull in 10-25 million per. Like all exploration, this is random. Sometimes you'll find five decryptors. Sometimes you'll find nothing.


As for selling them, check out buy prices on some of the market data sites. And decide if going to a trade hub is more profitable for you. (Taking into account the risk of getting there. A drake makes a fair hauler for high value, low volume goods (in highsec). As does a cov-ops)

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Anshio Tamark
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-01-28 11:18:33 UTC
Regardless of race, if you want to get into exploration, train your racial Frigates skill to level 5, then train for your racial Covert Ops Frigate. They have cloaking capabilities and better probing bonuses than their T1 variants.
Karn Dulake
Doomheim
#13 - 2012-01-29 21:35:06 UTC
Deep exploration requires the Pilgrim or the tengu.

Pilgrim for lowsec

Tengu for nullsec
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Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#14 - 2012-01-29 22:31:25 UTC
Quote:
Deep exploration requires the Pilgrim or the tengu.

Pilgrim for lowsec

Tengu for nullsec


You should really stop trolling the newbie Q&A forum. It's bad form.
Mike Whiite
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-01-31 11:43:14 UTC
the problem with exploring in highsec is the competition. it will be a race to the site.

if you want to go the path.

- get core skills to standaard (Always nomatter what you're going to do)
- Race towards your race coverts-opp
- Find a good combat support ship, Battlecruiser will do.(Be able to fly it properly)
- Find a nice secluded lowsec system [url]http://www.eve-maps.com/[/url]
- get the battlecruiser there right after downtime (or and other low key time)
- Go exploring (less competition, more and better findings, risk of being ganked though, (read a lowsec guide to minimise the risk)
- Meanwhile train for transports (cloaking blockade runner) to get your findings to the proper markets.

thats the solo path it can be way shorter if you do it with friends/ corps memebers.