High meta, rare deadspace modules, when found.

You have to remember that exploration income is subject to extreme fluctuations. One day you might make a few hundred mil within half an hour , other times you might spend days finding nothing but wormholes and gravimetric sites.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/DED_Complex_List
All of these sites will have an "overseer" rat (or structure) at the end who has a chance of dropping rare goodies in his wreck.

In addition you have unrated combat sites who have a chance of spawning faction rats (Dread Gurista, Dark Blood, True Sansha etc), who again, have a chance of dropping rare loot.

You also have Radar sites which have cans than need the Codebreaker module to access and which can contain decryptors, datacores and blueprints for you to sell to industrialists. The Magnetometric sites have chances of dropping T2 salvage which can sell as high as 30M ISK per unit (Cap Consoles/Intact Armor Plates)

Thank you very much!

So, if I planned to do solo exploration, I should stick to RADAR sites (assuming much less or no combat???)

Thanks for all your responses guys. I'm planning next direction for my character, and this helps a lot.

There is some combat involved as most of Radar sites are guarded by at least a couple of rats on initial warp in and there is a chance of additional waves spawning when approaching/hacking/opening cans. You have to kill them as their presence prevents you from opening the cans, even after a successful hack.

Its a lie.
If you are able to kill the ship which is dropping the expensive PBO (sometimes) and you divide this earned cash between all your mates who have helped you to kill the sites and you also count in all the time you need to do this there is no billions earned cash.

If i constantly rat or mine and stockpile zydrine of all my corpmates who are helping mining or ratting and then after 2 weeks I jump to jita and sell it, i can make more isk in the moment somebody buys my stuff.

And then i am not telling you how much time and investment it took me to use a jump freighter and also pay for accounts with cyno pilots in it and so on. All this people dont tell you, they only see the momentary spike of isk and ignore the hours they have spend without any income at all.

Would T2 drones from a Pilgrim be sufficient to tackle these?

Would T2 drones from a Pilgrim be sufficient to tackle these?

Yes. Even a cheap Vexor or Arbitrator with not even great skills will do for most Radars in lowsec. Just have to remember that they are not gated and you should be very vary of surprises from other players.

"ISK/hr" and "Exploration" together ... If you are thinking in that term, then don't explore. Even ISK/week won't work probably, because it is so random.

I would say that if you are dedicated to it, then yes there can be a good amount of wealth coming from it, but then i don't have anything to compare it with. Apart from the monetary aspect, i think many are also in it for the 'thrill' of finding some really good/rare stuff.

Its a lie.
If you are able to kill the ship which is dropping the expensive PBO (sometimes) and you divide this earned cash between all your mates who have helped you to kill the sites and you also count in all the time you need to do this there is no billions earned cash.

If i constantly rat or mine and stockpile zydrine of all my corpmates who are helping mining or ratting and then after 2 weeks I jump to jita and sell it, i can make more isk in the moment somebody buys my stuff.

And then i am not telling you how much time and investment it took me to use a jump freighter and also pay for accounts with cyno pilots in it and so on. All this people dont tell you, they only see the momentary spike of isk and ignore the hours they have spend without any income at all.

Exploration is a lie. There is nothing but disappointments awaiting you there.

You are better off doing level 4 missions.
You are better off mining.

Exploration is a lie. There is nothing but disappointments awaiting you there.

You are better off doing level 4 missions.
You are better off mining.

Five legions lost during exploration. Can you handle that?

All that says is you suck at exploration, lol

Or that he takes risks and **** happens.

Then his ability to wage risk vs reward is probably not well developed. Truth to be told low sec explorations can be decently profitable. It is however probably not as good as incursions or level 4s. You should also be aware that depending on the space you're operating in mag/radar site will be the bread and butter whereas combat sites are much more hit and miss (if you find them that is). If you take maybe a week of rather constant probing and plexing you can get a rough idea how profitable your setup is (and your setup as well as your location plays a huge role in it).

Exploration is really more about lifestyle, like some already mentioned than minmaxing the isk/h.

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I wasn't talking about risk/reward.

Some sites are difficult and not everyone wants their hand held while doing them and thus don't look up the guides for them (or they are simply not documented well). I almost lost a tengu the other day doing my first Digital Compound; I just didn't realize the damage output in the last room. Overheat and a blue pill made things ok but it was still damn close.

**** happens. And even if those losses of his were to pirates, that's part of the risk.