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Millimage
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Posted - 2009.05.18 07:34:00 -
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Since a lot of people have suggested heading into deep low-sec or 0.0 (which I personally find a bit scary, green as I am), is there any exploration sites in low-sec that a cruiser can handle?
I currently have the skills to fit a cov-ops and a BC, but I really can't afford to lose either yet so heading into low-sec with one is not yet an option. Thus I'm forced to fly my astrofrig for scanning and a cruiser class boat for combat if I'm heading out.
As has been stated many times over, hi-sec exploring isn't worthwhile so I seriously want to head out to low-sec (or even 0.0  ). But I'm wondering if there is anything I can accomplish there yet... other than getting ganked, of course. 
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Posted - 2009.05.18 08:10:00 -
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 Originally by: Marguerite Antiki
Edited by: Marguerite Antiki on 18/05/2009 07:50:16
Originally by: Leeham
My only real gripe with the scanning system besides the graphical effects is that you only find out that your skills are inadequuate at the very final point and there is no clear indicator as to how hard sites are
And looking at that - you fail - your probes are too close (IE one of top of another) and therefore maybe 1 or more than one are not being included in the count - spread them out a bit so about half (or a 2/3) of each is overlapping the site and you would get a hit.
While you are certainly right about his probe placement in the screenshot, Leeham does have a valid point about it being hard to evaluate the site difficulty before you hit the brick wall.
I don't know if this info is still valid but I always go by this rule from the scan strength formula thread:
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What you should have done is to scan with only ONE probe at 0.25AU placed very close to the site. I you can't achieve at least 50% scan strength with one probe on top of the site you CANNOT find it with your current skills/equipment, no matter what. In this case train your skills.
On the other hand I if you got more than 50% sig strength you placed your probes in a unfavorable geometry. The most effective geometry is a tetrahedron around the site.
Here's the original thread and post: linkification
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Posted - 2009.05.18 17:03:00 -
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Thank you! This is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I'm not so much afraid of losing ships or getting podded as I'm concerned of risking my skin for nothing. I've taken a few spins in border low-sec systems with a pvp fitted Incursus to test my skills so it's not entirely foreign area for me. Of exploration in there I knew nothing up 'til now.
Originally by: Celia Therone
Wormholes leading to the easiest wormhole space can contain perimeter magnetometric, radar, ladar and gravimetric sites that you can solo in a well fit, decently skilled cruiser. Perimeter Grav sites tend to have wimpy rats that spawn a while after you first visit the site. Ladar the same, except some ladars come with sentry towers that hit pretty hard. Mag and radar put you up against multiple sleeper rats of up to battleship size. I've had some luck thinning out the opposition (be careful, if you kill the wrong ship then more spawn) then tanking the damage whilst looting the cans. Don't know about wormhole anomalies.
I've been wondering about W-space, but so far I've been under the impression that one would need a nber-fitted BC or a BS to solo anything in there. Maybe I will take a peek into one of the low class ones. How do you manage your scan ship in there or do you pop back out to get your combat ship? Only then one would risk getting stranded in W-space which I've understood is not so smart.
Originally by: Celia Therone
If you are lucky then hi sec exploring can be worthwhile. I've scored a couple of hundred million isk worth of loot in one expedition but I've also spent a lot of time getting almost nothing. If your alternative is running level 2 missions or level 3 ones really slowly then it's not so bad.
Oh, I've found several radar sites in hi-sec which have dropped several decryptors worth some 6M each. It's not that you can't make any isk from hi-sec exploring. It just gets a bit boring when you know that it's the radar sites that are worthwhile and combat sites should be run just for kicks. And missions just ain't my thing. 
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