Ships & Modules

There are two kinds of combat sites in highsec. Unrated can be found easily using your onboard scanner. http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Cosmic_Anomalies

DED rated sites need to be scanned down. http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/DED_complexes

As a new player, start with Burrows and work your way up. The DED sites pay quite well, even in highsec.

A discussion of the Omen, including some recommended fits: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Omen

For clarification, 'Unrated' is another category of combat sites that have to be probed down just like DED combat sites. Cosmic Anomalies are the combat sites that show up in your list without the need to scan, often called 'green sites' by players.

Also i got a budget of around 200M for the new ship so if anyone got a fitting (dont have to be omen but lasers would be nice) i would love to test it out

If you have 200 mil ISK that's great! Buy Ishtar!

If you like lasers and you have some cash to spend (and have the skills to support it) I really love the Confessor for high sec sites outside of Angel/Gurista space. 75mil all in:

[Confessor, sisters arc updated actually cheapish]
Small Armor Repairer II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Adaptive Nano Plating II

5MN Microwarpdrive II
Tracking Computer II
Eutectic Compact Cap Recharger

Small Focused Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S
Small Focused Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S
Small Focused Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S
Small Focused Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S
Core Probe Launcher II, Core Scanner Probe I
[empty high slot]

Small Capacitor Control Circuit II
Small Capacitor Control Circuit II
Small Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II

Requires some pretty tasty fitting skills, but man can it shred sites once it gets going.

Edit: the HVO is a quality of life thing and not critical to the fit. You could easily fit another rig there. Another CCC wouldn't be out of place but I'd look at a fitting rig if you need it. Putting an overclock in there allows a T2 cap recharger at least.

Keep in mind the T3 destroyers will receive substantial balance changes within the next two weeks. You might want to read about those before committing training time. In general the fit is fine but somewhat weak in tank, so a beginner might struggle and go *poof*. You zip around and snipe with this and you need to zip into the correct position to be effective and safe.

For a beginner I'd lose a heat sink for better resists and fit an afterburner for better evasion.

Quads are cruiser sized guns, Confessor uses small guns.

This forums section with the sticky threads.

Anomalies

So the high-sec Sansha Anomalies are the Hideaway, the Burrow, the Refuge, and the Den, in ascending order of difficulty. Because there are no acceleration gates on any of these sites, you can run them in any sized ship you like. Your Omen will have absolutely no difficulty with any of them. Note that there is a difference between a Sansha Hideaway and a Sansha Forlorn Hideaway. Sites with modifier words like "Hidden," "Forsaken," and "Forlorn" can be quite a bit harder than the vanilla version of the same site, and can even be harder than a vanilla anomaly of the next step up. Your Omen will be still be able to handle them though.

There is a small chance (somewhere on the order of 5%) that any given Anomaly will either spawn a faction NPC or escalate (or both!) after you kill all the regular NPCs. If they escalate, they will escalate to a DED Signature, which you won't necessarily be able to run in your T1-fit Omen.

DED Signatures

As I said, if you scan down a high-sec cosmic signature of the "combat site" type in Sansha space, you need to look at its name to know if it's an Unrated Signature or a DED Signature. The high-sec DED signatures are Sansha Military Outpost, Sansha Acclimatization Facility, Sansha's Command Relay Outpost, and Sansha's Nation Occupied Mining Colony (in order of difficulty).

DED Signatures are all behind acceleration gates with ship size limits, so you literally CAN'T run all of them in an Omen. The Sansha Military Outpost only allows frigate sized ships in, and the Acclimatization Factory only lets frigate/destroyer sized ships in. A Retribution can do both easily. A Slicer or even a Tormentor could also do both, but you'll need to be a little more careful in the Acclimatization factory with them. A lot of people just skip the frigate and destroyer sized sites, but it's easy to keep a dedicated Retribution or Slicer sitting around for them, they're fast to run, and you can sometimes get very lucky with the loot.

The Command Relay Outpost can definitely be run in a T1-fit Omen. For the Occupied Mining Colony, I'd recommend shipping up to a Harbinger for the first couple of times, until you understand how to blitz it, at which point you can go back to the Omen.

Unrated Signatures

The Unrated Signatures in Sansha high-sec are the Hideout, the Lookout, the Watch, and the Vigil (in increasing order of difficulty). The Hideout will only let Frigate/Destroyer hulls in, so break out that Retribution/Slicer again (or skip it, the average payout is quite a bit less than in the DED Signatures that limit you to small ships). Your Omen will have no problem running the Lookout. As for the Watch, you'll be fine as long as you blitz the second room.

The Vigil is a different beast. It's very blitzable, but you're going to need to deal with spider drones in the second room, and your lasers won't be able to hit them. If you have good drone skills, a flight of Acolyte IIs from from your Omen's drone bay should be
able to kill them before you pop, but you probably want to switch to either a Harbinger or even a brick-tanked Maller for your first attempt.


And that's that! Have fun running combat sites in your Omen and don't let anybody tell you not to. Later, upgrade to a Navy Omen and then a Phantasm. Pew pew!