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Derath Ellecon
Washburne Holdings
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Posted - 2012.06.23 14:28:00 -
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Yes sorry OP you don't seem to get it. And it sounds as if exploration isn't for you.
When I was a noob I would explore in an imicus (hmm frigate with bonus to scanning, sounds like a ship design for exploration)
I went for only high sec radars. High sec radars usually have no defenders. And occasionally if they did my 3 hobs could dispatch them. I had nights where I could pull in a couple hundred mil in an exploration session. Far more than I could running level 1 or 2 missions. But it was hit or miss.
Given how competitive high sec exploration has become I would say it is working well and profitable enough to keep people doing it.
But it isn't for everyone. If you find scanning annoying and tedious it isn't for you. If you like a guaranteed isk/hr it isn't for you. |
Derath Ellecon
Washburne Holdings
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Posted - 2012.06.23 15:25:00 -
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Lady Darkmoon wrote:Exactly what did you find/sell that earned you a few hundred mill in an exploration session in an Imicus?
And how many days/weeks passed between each such session?
Also, there are 2 ships with bonus to exploration. A T1 frig and a T2 Cov-ops.
However, those are far from needed to do exploration as you can do it in a simple battlecruiser, or even destroyer if you prefer. Thus it's not really a dedicated ship you need to pursue to find sites, in the same way you really need a battleship to do L4 (unless you use T2 commandships and such), and you really need a mining barge or exhumer to make worthwhile ISK from mining.
So I don't really see how two ships with bonus which is not really needed anyways makes for a dedicated ship lineup.
As I said, I was pretty much focusing on high sec radars. They require no combat, take minutes to hack the cans. I'd say on average they yielded 5-15mil per site. With some going as high as 80mil.
This was before the 4/10 sites were introduced that seem to have made high sec so competitive.
At the time I think I was up to lvl 2-3 missions. I would usually run missions until I reached a point that I declined all of the missions I could in the 4 hour period. So I would go explore.
And you missed a class of ship, T3 cruisers.
But you don't need a dedicated ship for every profession. That is just silly.
Btw I actually enjoy scanning. I find it relaxing. |
Derath Ellecon
Washburne Holdings
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Posted - 2012.06.23 15:41:00 -
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Liliana Rahl wrote:Derath Ellecon wrote:
As I said, I was pretty much focusing on high sec radars. They require no combat, take minutes to hack the cans. I'd say on average they yielded 5-15mil per site. With some going as high as 80mil.
>high sec >radar >80 mil lol
Laugh all you want. I've had it happen. Maybe only once or twice, so yes rare to get that good of a drop. But it can happen. |
Derath Ellecon
Washburne Holdings
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Posted - 2012.06.23 15:54:00 -
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Liliana Rahl wrote:Oh I'm sure its possible. But the odds are so slim its not worth mentioning.
Mentioning it in such a way as relevant toward the profitability of radars in high sec is just silly, as for something like that to happen you'd need a quite a handful of decryptors to drop and for them to be good.
Either way, radars, at least at the time (this was last summer for me) were a great way to make easy isk in high sec exploring for a beginner. They can. They can be done in a t1 scan frig and require little to no combat skills. |
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