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.

All that says is you suck at exploration, lol

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.

True, but then again there is a difference between testing something and being foolhardy with expensive equipment. For example when i did my first stints in w space i didn't go in with a t3 but with drakes in order to get a feeling for the dps there. Lost one, even on the specific sites i lost it i made profit (and replacement drake rdy to go).
And i know about undocumented sites, i've run quite a few of them myself or tested them with unsual setups. I remember doing the first mothership incursion sites without real knowledge about how the bombers actually worked (and i promptly lost a guardian to the alpha of them due to dualboxing).

Still, there are times where committing expensive stuff without a safety net is just unnecessary and nothing to boast about, at least in pve :)

But when that pile of pixels costs you 33 euros per month, it suddenly takes on a different meaning.

Fine for those that can afford the time to dual/tripple/quad box with 20 accounts, and pay for all their shiny ships and PLEX just to blow it up the next day and not blink an eye-lid. But the casual player can't do this.

I hear many on these forums claim that you cannot play this game, and have "reward" without "risk". Well, I see no risk for those players who have billions in their wallets. If a lost tengu represents only 10% of your wallet, that's not a risk, that's pocket money.

Do not mock those who fear low-sec for good reason, when you yourself do not face the same risk. Try putting 75%+ of your wallet on the line, then you'll know risk - hardly surprising the majority of casual (intelligent) players never leave hi-sec.

Buzzard, Cheetah, etc. Not a Pilgrim.

Probably the second most dense argument about online gaming ever presented, If you have no passion for the pixels, stop playing.

Pixels represent time out of your life, time you may have to put in to replace them too (this is the case whether you play to play or pay to play).

If you lose that time out of your life to someone else's activity, it hurts - it's supposed to hurt, that's why EVE is the game it is, why many people love it.

Of course it's easy to lose perspective - it's a game, and a game you've chosen to play. Part of the challenge in playing a game like this is in seeing how well you can "handle" loss, how quickly you can recover your equilibrium before you've said something stupid in local that you'll regret :)

It's not necessarily sad. Below the level of conscious thought, the brain doesn't discriminate between "real" loss and "virtual" loss. That's why you get the adrenalin rush at the prospect of winning or losing pixels - that's why games matter, why people play them, because they tickle the same parts of the brain as if it were real.

Of course consciously we understand that and can override the brain's reaction, but sometimes when you're really immersed in a game in a trance state, it takes a few minutes for your conscious thinking to kick back in. This isn't "sad", it's why EVE is a good game, because it can seem real, if only now and then.

We laugh at people who are so engrossed in their game that they get really upset, but that's more a kind of machismo, akin to drug machismo. Everybody who plays EVE feels the hurt of loss - you're more or less "manly" in EVE terms if you're quick to recover, quick to regain perspective, and those who are slow to recover are laughed at.

Yeah, and so will a drake. Cov-Ops with Gravity Capacity Update rigs or whatever they call are the best for scanning for plex. Yeah, you can scan with anything, but this isn't about what is "okay", it is what is best.

Personally, I do use two characters, but even then the scanning Cov-Ops switches out to a high DPS ship. And yeah, a Tengu or two with one probing, would be most efficient. I just don't see how a Pilgrim is even remotely comparable to this? You can't tank a 6/10 with a Pilgrim, let alone do enough DPS to kill the boss Hell, what exactly can you tank or kill with a Pilgrim?

For a new player, I would suggest using a cov-ops to find the sites, and a Battleship or HAC to run them.