Missions & Complexes

I've come upon people running sites, particularly DED 4/10. I overheat my afterburner and get there before them and take the loot.

Eve is all about competition. He's doing it right.

Personally I'm a NiceGuy™ and I operate on "First come, first serve" and I don't ninja other people's sites. However I firmly believe that if something is worth having it's worth fighting for, and I think think it's great that we have the opportunity to create conflict by fighting over sites :D

You can try and be the nice guy but someone will always try and ninja you at some point. About that time is when you will probabaly change your opinion.

Oh and fit a point..they dont expect that

the blog was all about how to make decent isks with minimum skills for new player

and hideout is doable with imicus too, btw.

Ofc I have motivation. :-)

I am not sure if rewriting hi sec exploration blog is my top priority atm.

Even been outdated Hi sec Exploration Almanac still gives new people good idea what is exploration is about in general and how to start it as mini-profession.

Important thing with exploration, as mini-profession, is the fact that it is became as boring as any other PvE content at some point, especially in hi sec. Yes, you can made lot of ISKs, became virtual billionaire, and this is pretty much all. Personally I have found DED hunting in hi sec as boring as running missions.

Low sec is a bit different story, not only that you can make more ISKs, but mostly it is a bit of thrill. Life and operation in low sec is nothing close to hi sec, and very different to 0.0. If you do exploration right way, it is a lot of fun, very entertaining and can be extremely profitable.

I am planning my next little project to answer the one of most common question: how much you can make in low sec.
I mean, is it worth to go there, risk your ship and pod? Risk/Profit in low sec was the question floating around for awhile.

You can't increase profit on your own while, but you can drastically reduce risks.

And this is another project I have in mind. Sort of "survival guide" for people who wants to get theirs fits wet in low sec. I have read tons of materials how to operate in low sec. Lot of good tips here and there, but bottom line of the most advices: "clak+mwd trick".

I spent almost a year (starting right after I wrote Almanac) in low sec dedicated to another mini-profession: "low sec pirate". Do not be confused, I did it with my alts. So, I want to write how to avoid PvP in low sec (actually avoiding PvP still part of PvP) from "pirate" point of view.

Yet another thing I willing to do is to show people how to burn theirs pathetic wealth they made with exploration. It can be introduction into PvP in low sec for the guys who wants blood, but have no idea where the vein is.

That is pretty much I have in mind for next few month.

I never wrote any blogs before, and Almanac dragged me from casual plying almost into full time job (not for a long tho :-) ).
Assembling materials, writing texts, photoshop screenshots and editing videos can be very time consuming. And producing quality content requires big deal of effort. So I think about some rewards in return. I don't want to pump my project with ads all over pages, so I do my little research about possibility of subscription/donation/sponsorship. Not that I loose any sleep if I can't get any (Ad Words still the option) but potential prospective of "making fortune" out of ads always keeps me motivated.

In any event, I am opened for any questions or suggestions to keep me in right direction and deliver entertaining reading.

cheers

I understand. And I'll try to re-read what you have wrote before and learn from it.

I allready started to write a blog about this issue my point of view and my real life skills I have (or lack) for EVE. It will be more of a diary than a guide but maybe someone find something usefull there. I'll publish first results next week and post a link to this thread if this is still open.



Excellent! I'll waiting for it.

I didn't read all the responses to this thread but I just wanted to add my two cents about Exploration in case any new players are reading this.

If you like the idea of exploration but find it frustrating because it is taking you forever to scan stuff down (and half the time it ends up being unstable wormholes) I recommend putting it on hold until you can train into a Tech 2 exploration ship and until you have trained all of your exploration focused skills up to level 3 at least.

Fit rigs to your new ship (I have an Anathema) and a sisters launcher and probes and the difference in your speed and ability to scan is staggering compared to your old starter exploration ship and gear. It turns it into a fun and fairly profitable endeavor.

I decided to share these link allready altough I only have three posts on my blog so far. I'll post more results as soon I have time to continue EVE. So watch out that address if you want to see my progress and results.

Intro
Starting point
First round

What a constructive post.

you already got the caracal fitting posted here, why aren't you using that, you need minimum skills to scan, a scanning frigate is an overkill with your skills, with those you can go lowsec with a normal probe launcher and no rigs and find sites without any problems, there's always going to be one mag and radar site you won't scan down anyway in high, rest is reachable, using a scanning frigate means you'll get your sites stolen

the general things are, don't mix tanks, don't put relays if you're putting on a booster, don't put a plate on if you're going to put an overdrive and a shield booster, use proper drones, mixing em and explosive drones makes absoultely no sense, 4 light drones make more dps than 1medium+2 on paper and in game

if your missile skills are this bad then you might aswell train for a cormorant and get some hideouts done too, but caracal's not bad, but get some support skills in missiles



this is a cormorant fitting, you need some minimum gunnery skills, i've done angel hideouts and lookouts with a thrasher that had worse stats and angel hideouts are the hardest ones, if you feel like you're having problems then carry annother resist mod and swap for the codebreaker, thermal for serps, annother kinetic for guristas, should be able to get angels done with it too, for that you use explosion and add a kinetic one if necessary. this is based on your other fits, so t2 relay and shield upgrades as in your ships, if you don't like it, swap for t1.



if you can't afford extender rigs, just skip them, use resits and drones according to where you're scanning, get some missile support skills

ofc i'd suggest you go with the cormorant, you get more done in it, doing a watch in a caracal is possible, but probably not with your piloting skills, you'd only be wasting tags, with the cormorant you can do a lookout and a hideout, both can drop good loot, it's good because most people explore in cruisers so there's plenty hideouts left for you and you can always try to do 2/10s if you come across one that isn't camped