Missions & Complexes

Yes you can probe them and they appear as Combat sites, you'll have to google the names and see if they come up as a rated site (DED 3, DED 4, etc) There are unrated ones too but I am not really an expert on those. I run lots of 3 and 4/10's.

Basically follow the instructions on the wiki, sometimes it's a rat at the end you shoot, others it's a structure. Gila or Stratios work great for 3/10 and 4/10.

You can also run anomalies. https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Cosmic_Anomaly

Scroll down to Escalations.

Here it lists what anomalies have a chance of escalating to a DED site. Simply kill all the rats and you'll get a pop up if you're lucky. The location is in your journal under expeditions. If you're doing these with a friend in a fleet, everyone will get the popup but only one person will have it in their journal.

I think these are really fun and the reward is anywhere from just the overseer's effects to a few blue mods and a pirate faction spaceship BPC.

Serpentis 3/10 loot example: http://i.imgur.com/duF7Uv7.png (Results may vary)

Hello and welcome to exploration.

Cosmic Anomalies don't need to be scanned. Those show up at 100% allowing access to anyone just by opening up the on-board ship system scanner. These sites are good for running if there's no other exploration sites available and have a small chance to escalate to a DED Rated Combat site.

Cosmic Signatures (DED Rated and Unrated Combat sites) need to be scanned using a Probe Launcher and Core Probes.

The Unrated Combat sites have a good chance to escalate into expedition which could continue for 4 stages with a chance of getting good loot in each stage.

The DED Rated Combat sites don't escalate and usually drop good loot.

Be aware, there's a lot of competition in high sec so expect other players to enter the sites and try to get the Overseer first. Best look for sites in systems that are far away from Mission and Trade Market hubs. Check map stats for systems with low amount of population, ship jumps, NPC kills, etc.

Good luck to you.


DMC

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Escalating_encounters

Escalation locations always lead to another system and can't be found by probing, however your ship and drones can be found with probes.

DED 1/10 up to DED 4/10 sites and their equivalents (Unrated Combat sites) are found in high sec. Those sites along with all the other sites can be found in Low and Null space. To minimize the chance of having the competition completing the sites before you, best to have high level skills and equipment as well as knowledge about the site itself (Triggers / Spawns).



DMC

Well, I'm not sure but they should at least spawn in systems that have Infrastructure Upgrade.



DMC

Gosh! I'd like to run null-sec combat sites in NPC null. That means fighting Serpentis pirates. However as I understand Serpentis plexes:

- DED 5/10 is not present in null
- DED 6/10 does not exist at all

so I would be forced to run Serpentis DED 7/10 and DED 8/10 sites there. I am not hurry to run such dangerous plexes in my Tengu as a newbie in combat exploration so now I am thinking about selling my Tengu...

In all rated sites you need to kill either overseer or structure in the lst room for loot, but some sites may have faction NPC in rooms before. For example in Serpentis Narcotic Warehause there is one in 2nd and 3rd room. Make sure you check those as on few occasions i got more loot from those faction NPCs than from last overseer.

Actually, a deadspace fit tengu would be better than a rattle for null. You're either going to have to probe them down or get them from escalations by running Sanctums, so either way, you'll have to travel to get to the site. This is much easier to do in a cloaky nullified tengu holding a mobile depot and the fitting you had to take off to make the tengu cloaky nullified.