Missions & Complexes

A few months ago, I got a Pithum C-type Medium Shield Booster and two Pithi A-type Small Shield Boosters over the course of 2 days, whilst getting less than that over 6+ months of exploring in Blood & Sansha high and low-sec space.

hmm I had the slow days last 2-3 ... only made 25m isk in radars ...

sure will talk when I see you in local :-)

Random is random. Sometimes you strike gold, more often you just get some crap mod worth a few mil. That's what makes exploration fun and, should you stick with it, eventually lucrative. It is the closest thing EVE has to "hunting purples" even if you are actually mostly hunting for ISK by selling whatever faction loot/BPCs you find.

A corpy is having a great time of it just now. He has just started exploring and is getting some OMFG luck. To top it off last night he found a Ded 4/10 with everything destroyed apart from the objective (telescope). He popped that and got a c-type medium booster and shield transfer.

As we say in scotland, if he fell out a plane he'd go up the way.

Ishtar should do great ... I can clear a serp 4/10 in a vexor and I am not 2 months old (of course I am not able to break the boss there yet, waiting on t2 drones).

When I first decided to use a tengu for exploration, I nabbed about 7 Pithum C-type medium boosters, a gila and worm bpc, 1 pithi a-type small shield booster (got the holy trinity of drops in Gurista Watch final escalation, both a-types and the worm bpc) and a handful of implants/c-type hardeners/faction loot inside of 2 weeks. This was when I was still doing Gurista hideaways while probing as well and when I discovered I could get escalations from them. Granted I was playing for probably 4-5 hours a day (was off from school) and it was when I first started using DSP (before it become public info), but yeah, good streaks happen, just like bad streaks happen.

I know you're joking, but the big difference here is that isk made from exploration is largely not due to new isk in the game (overseer effects aside). It is isk that is already being circulated being used to pay for the sexy drops. On the contrary, incursions give out enormous amounts of raw isk. Take it as you will.

I understand the difference. But there was no way to make incursions pay out be in loot and salvage and keep them highsec. Making the exclusively null and low wouldn't have done anything other than giving secure 00 another isk pump; as anyone willing to take a risk would still be doing only WHs. If incursions only payed out LP they'd be worthless by now. There wasn't really a way other than big part of earning being isk.

But this is pointless. Just look at latest QEN; incursions simply are not the biggest isk faucet.

It is not my record (unfortunately) but friend of mine. He made 3.8 Bil without single jump to low sec within about 6 hours just doing DED 4/10 and escalations. Therefore it was right after Incursion deployment. Next day we both got almost nothing.

If you keep accurate records of your hi sec exploration for let's say a month you can figure out that average income is right about 100 M/hour.

But once upon a time and only once in my exploration career I had DG Invul , C-Type Med shield Booster + 4 amplifiers and Gila BPC. All form 4/10 GSO in hi sec. Cool story? Well, we all had something once upon a time.

That average has so many factors hitting it (locations, drops, escalation, etc) that its completely useless.

There is no isk/hr value that can usefully be applied to exploration.