Been trying to play with explorering as far as scanning down mining sites, but I never seem to come across any. I'm in gallate space so I often find dieing wormholes or serpentis outposts with things to use hacking or an analyzer, but it's not very lucrative and not worth the time it takes me to scan them down.

Ideally I'd like to find a mining place in .5 space that would offer things like Jaspet as around dodixie it seems to have a decent price, but not worth flying into lowsec for.

Any suggestions on locations to scan in would be appreciated. I'm fine with relocating my mining ops alt to somewhere other than linsang areas.

Grav sites have some of the smallest signatures. The best grav sites are also the hardest overall sites to find. Without good skills you will not even see them show up unless you are very lucky. And if you do find one you will need good scanning skills to lock it down to 100%.

When I started exploring I never saw a grav site. Once I got my skills up I see them fairly often. Most high sec grav sites though are full of omber and not worth mining in. There are only a couple worthwhile ones, and they are rare to find.

The trick to finding them is to scan in out-of-the-way systems. 10-18 jumps from Jita might be ideal. Or longer, but I'm not sure there is much high-sec that's more than about 18 jumps from the center of the known universe.

Large grav sites in highsec can be great, but the frequency in which they spawn, the difficulty of scanning one (you may need fully trained scanning skills, I can't recall), and the chance that it hasn't been partially/fully mined out or is being actively mined are so low that once you take into account the time invested successfully finding one and then moving your mining equipment and fleet to the location, and then the time to then haul to a station you can refine in is not really worth it.

When I had skills 4/3/3/3 in a T2 boosted ship with sisters launcher and probes I occasionally found a small grav site. Now that I have skills 5/4/4/4 in the same ship, in the same systems, I find them far more often, and occasionally see medium and large grav sites which I never saw with lower skills. This leads me to believe the sites where always around, I just did not have the skills to see them, let alone lock them down.

3. still living in 2011?