Missions & Complexes

The simple question is : Is it worth training Hacking V and Archaeology V so you can use the T2 items

I have an alt that is only trained for salvaging, exploration and logistics. I'm pretty happy with the scanning ability's of that account (exploration skills are on 4/4/4/5. So with a cov-op + sister launcher & probes + rigs I can scan down almost everytihng) The only thing i'm doubting about is if i should train those skills to V. It's 2 times 10 days

I'm scanning 4 0sec system everyday. And always doing all the DED / radar / magnetronic sites i

I'm glad I trained Codebreaker II, means I spend less time in hostile space waiting for cans to open. Personally I wouldn't bother with Analyzer II, as the only Magnetometric sites I do are the ones that need Salvager module, which I'd recommend training to V as well for Salvager II.

i have questions about this

1 - besides training that skills you guys mention to lv5, is it worth placing rigs for faster salvaging, hacking and archaeology?
2 - another question: i understand that these skills do not increase or change in getting better items (from salvaging, hacking, etc), but by getting the items in less cycles does it means that i can get more than if i do more cycles?
example ( salvaging a ship, contains 10 armor plates and 10 alloyed trit bars. if you salvage it in 2cycles you get 8 armor plates and 8 alloyed trit bars, if you salvage in 1cycle you get 10armor plates and 10 alloyed trit bars... same for hacking, and using the analyzer?)


thanks

Using T2 for better chance and faster cycle in hostile space is great. The range difference really doesn't matter much usually. If you are in high sec, using T1 at lvl 4 is pretty good. But like everything else, faster is usually better.

For salvaging C5 & C6 Sleeper sites, we used one Noctis and one Hurricane that did the cans.

A Hurricane was chosen because of its cargo, high-slots, acceptable number of mids, and speed moving between cans. It had an unexpected bonus of people not wanting to gank the Noctis with a Hurricane on grid (one potential ganker even told us this), even though it was unarmed.

The Hurricane was fit with either 3x Codebreaker II or 3x Analyzer II as the site required. It took about as long to open all the cans as it did to salvage it, sometimes longer.

The Hurricane was rigged with 2x Cargo and 1x Access, and the pilot had a Salvaging Implant.

From personal experience, I can say that this is not true. I have received loot from cans on which I have triggered the booby trap.

Booby traps simply have a random chance of going off on a failed attempt, and the probability is not a function of the number of failed cycles. The point stands that a higher chance of success will mean fewer cycles, and a smaller cumulative chance of triggering the booby trap. In any case, the trap damage isn't even enough to kill an untanked covert ops frigate. I know this as well from personal experience :P

I'm not sure what the range of a booby trap is - anyone have info on this? With T2 mods you might be able to stay out of the blast radius.

IMO, for general exploration, I would crank up all of my scan skills before taking them to 5. Just my opinion. While a T2 codebreaker will be good for some sites, nice high scan skills help for all of them.

assuming time isn't a concern, whats the minimum skill required to open cans in nullsec? just lvl 1 with t1 codebreaker/analyzer?

I think that this really depends on your personal opinion of how well you're doing on hacking/salvaging/killing. For example, my main "clean up" alt trained Salvaging, Hacking and Archeology to 5 very shortly I started seriously running sites in w-space and I always fit salvage rigs on my dedicated clean-up ships. Reason being that Sleeper wrecks are on average tougher than k-space wrecks and all the salvaging time added up was taking longer than I liked, plus there was no detriment to fitting salvage rigs on a ship that's not meant to do much else besides cleaning and not getting ganked while doing it. If you do something often, you generally want to not sink unnecessary time into doing it so you can do more of it So, I fit salvage rigs on all of my ships that clean up sites with any fair number of wrecks, including mission sites. I don't bother with hacking and analyzing rigs since these modules don't get used nearly as often and so some lack of efficiency there isn't all that noticeable. Preference. I think my older cheapo salvage ship had 2 salvage rigs and an agility rig (for increased chances of GTFO when things go ****-up)

But despite saying "preference", I would make this generalization. If you're using an all-in-one ship for both the radars/mags AND combat sites 4/10 and higher (+their equivalents), it's probably best to avoid salvage rigs and the like. There are more useful things to put in their place, like tank, gank or speed. The demands on your ship from these combat sites are very different compared to those from hacky-looty sites, gotta err on the side of giving more attention to the combat abilities since that's the harder part. Or so I see it, at least.