EVE General Discussion

To answer your question, YES.

You don't need to scout after DT at least not according to the current understanding of spawn mechanics: when sites are cleared they soon (how soon is debated, my take on it is that it is probably not immediately but that is another article) respawn again somewhere esle in the same region. Only sites the reach the timer (7 days I think but a little unsure on this) without being completed will despawn and respawn at a new location at DT.

What you see is the result of scarcity of sites and competition to find and clear the sites in popular areas. All explorers tries to find quiet systems with "little traffic" so the traffic you do see in these systems is likely to have a much higher proportion of explorers. Quiet for some but busy for others.

Bottom line, you need to scan a lot to find the goodies. Or so I have heard, I never find the goodies myself.

It is chance based with a potential for huge profits but mostly long dry spells. A little like a lottery. It takes a certain personality and do not ever expect a steady income. You won't get it. Also, highsec is probably the worst place to explore in.

Huh really?

I made a couple of bil in a week or so scanning in hisec.

I like it because it's fun

And here we have a winner!

These kind of comments are common and so is "exploration is broken". Such is the nature of the game. The truth lies somewhere in between. I once made 500m in 10min from salvaging two sites in lowsec. That doesn't mean I think I can do 3B/hour doing exploration.

ISK wise, there are probably better (and more steady) incomes. Even missioning in highsec can give you several billion ISK a month, every month, if you have stomach to do it. But everything is not about the ISK now is it.

i have been long time saying there is way too many wormholes, and too few other exploration sites compared.

There is no such thing as too many wormholes <3

Maybe jump in one, and come out with a billion? Might change the attitude

Exploration is very boring ocupation most of the time, but the excitement when you find something is incredible... till you find someone else got their first.
Personally I think it's profits are to unsteady, mission running might not have as much excitement, but at least it lacks the downtime.

Wormholes are great, except if they are occupied since you can count on the fact all mission sites are done and whoever is in it will try to kill you.

Maybe, but unlikely. More likely it's human nature and how it reacts to patching, chance based phenomena and the timing between them. Every time there is a patch by CCP, some people who have a simultaneus change of luck(usually bad) suspect, that CCP changed something. I think I've read a thread about this issue after every major release. I think the reasoning goes something like this: My luck has changed and CCP released a patch around the same time, so the change must be cause by CCP changing something in the mechanic.