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Viken Limes
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.03.22 14:17:00 -
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I just started my carreer exploring around in high sec systems -mostly those around the one I started in (Trossere)- but so far I wasn't able to find anything but wormholes and Serpentis sites, which I can't clear with my Imicus.
Am I loosing something? I spend a lot of time searching, but it would seem that I can't find anything other than wormholes.
PS: If you could suggest some high-sec systems for me to explore I'd be grateful. |
Praxis Ginimic
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Posted - 2013.03.22 14:30:00 -
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Exploration in HS is a race. If you're not finding anything good then you are in too densely populated of an area. Use the stats functions on the map to find a more quiet section of space. Also the search function is that way ^^^. This is a commonly asked question. |
Davith en Divalone
Plate of Beans Incorporated
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Posted - 2013.03.22 14:31:00 -
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http://evemaps.dotlan.net/
Show "jumps" to get an idea of how well-traveled a system might be. |
Friggz
Dirt Nap Squad Dirt Nap Squad.
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Posted - 2013.03.22 14:40:00 -
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Davith en Divalone wrote:http://evemaps.dotlan.net/
Show "jumps" to get an idea of how well-traveled a system might be.
This is good advice, although I perfer doing it from ingame, using the map screen and "Average ships in space in the past 30 minutes" filter.
Exploration is highly luck based. For now until you can handle 4/10 combat sites where the real isk is, you might want to make sure you can equip a salvager, codebreaker, and analyzer as those will let you do mag and radar sites. You don't need all of them fitted at once, just carry them in the hold and swap at the nearest station when you find a suitable site. Re-elect Trebor Daehdoow for a stronger CSM 8. |
Viken Limes
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.03.22 14:51:00 -
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Thx guys, I already marked two high sec systems that register almost no jumps during the last hour, hope my luck changes :P |
Dark Lightstrong
Asset Reclamation Services LLC
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Posted - 2013.03.22 14:56:00 -
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You need a combat ship to do sites. You can't do anything in an Imicus except RARE radar and magnetometric sites.
DED and Unrated complexes, radar sites. That's all that matters in highsec exploration.
Edit: Can't believe there's 3 guys posting before I did but none mentioned that to earn isk in exploration you need a combat ship to do sites. AND another ship with codebreaker to do radar sites. |
Davith en Divalone
Plate of Beans Incorporated
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Posted - 2013.03.22 15:00:00 -
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Dark Lightstrong wrote:You need a combat ship to do sites. You can't do anything in an Imicus except RARE radar and magnetometric sites.
With a fair investment in drone skills, the imicus can handle almost every highsec radar and magnetometric site. Highsec radar and mag rats are trivial, and Retribution gave exploration frigates enough teeth to handle them without refitting.
Lowsec, null, and wormholes is another matter. |
Doctor Ape MD
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.03.22 15:40:00 -
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Dark Lightstrong wrote:You need a combat ship to do sites. You can't do anything in an Imicus except RARE radar and magnetometric sites.
DED and Unrated complexes, radar sites. That's all that matters in highsec exploration.
Edit: Can't believe there's 3 guys posting before I did but none mentioned that to earn isk in exploration you need a combat ship to do sites. AND another ship with codebreaker to do radar sites.
As a new player I would also hit high-sec Mag sites as well. I do this on my new explorer character and every once in a while get a nice piece of T2 salvage. Sure, sometimes I get peanuts, but usually I get at least a million or so in salvage which (imo) is worth it for a new player.
Of course this also depends on where you are exploring. Some areas have better salvage than others. |
Viken Limes
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.03.22 15:47:00 -
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Well, good news are that I found my first mag site :) |
Doctor Ape MD
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.03.22 18:22:00 -
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Viken Limes wrote:Well, good news are that I found my first mag site :)
Glad you finally found something. One of the first few mag sites I ever found had a T2 armor plate in it worth about 20 million. I was basically hooked on exploring from that point on!
Also, high sec exploration can really be a roller coaster, so don't let it bring you down. I spent an entire night exploring a few days ago and ended up with absolutely nothing (aside from many many wormholes and grav sites, and this was in relatively lightly traveled systems). I've also made over 20 million in 10 minutes before. It's mostly just luck of the draw. |
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Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
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Posted - 2013.03.22 20:26:00 -
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Davith en Divalone wrote: With a fair investment in drone skills, the imicus can handle almost every highsec radar and magnetometric site. Highsec radar and mag rats are trivial, and Retribution gave exploration frigates enough teeth to handle them without refitting.
Lowsec, null, and wormholes is another matter.
While I don't disagree with you in the larger sense, I feel compelled to point out that this:
1. This is New Citizens' Q&A, so what you're positing skill-wise is maybe a bit unlikely
2. By the time he's got good frigate skill and drone skills for bonuses he can hop in a Tristan, shove 5 combat drones in it instead, and actually run the lower-level combat sites, so "have a combat ship around" is still a good plan.
Additional note: A Tristan is so cheap that you could probably just have one sitting in every other system in high-sec within a few weeks of exploring around with no problems. |
Kyra Quinn
We Are Really Scary
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Posted - 2013.03.22 22:15:00 -
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Actually, get a destroyer. I used the Algos to clear radars and the easy 1/10 and related sites, now I'm 2 months old and have made over 2.5 billion in my Gila. Best time for exploration seems the be just before and after downtime but once you get into the US time zones it gets seriously crowded. I generally keep my escalations till the US logs on because of it,
There's a lot of travelling involved, I generally move some 20-30 systems in high sec on a day. The adventures of a newbie: http://kyraquinn.wordpress.com/ |
Davith en Divalone
Plate of Beans Incorporated
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Posted - 2013.03.22 22:58:00 -
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Lost Greybeard wrote:Davith en Divalone wrote: With a fair investment in drone skills, the imicus can handle almost every highsec radar and magnetometric site. Highsec radar and mag rats are trivial, and Retribution gave exploration frigates enough teeth to handle them without refitting.
Lowsec, null, and wormholes is another matter.
While I don't disagree with you in the larger sense, I feel compelled to point out that this: 1. This is New Citizens' Q&A, so what you're positing skill-wise is maybe a bit unlikely
It takes one day of skill training without implants or remapping to fill the drone bandwidth on an Imicus. Filling the drone bandwidth on a Heron, Magnate, or Probe is 4.5 hours, but you probably want to train a secondary weapon system as well. So a character conceivably can start running radar and mag sites a few days after creation. Highsec rats are not very tough, and with post-Retribution modifications to their AI, may not even aggress on light drones.
The primary threat in highsec exploration is competition with other players. If you decide to dock up, there's a good chance you'll warp in to find that the site has just been cleared or blitzed by someone who didn't. |
Viken Limes
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.03.23 02:55:00 -
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Doctor Ape MD wrote:Viken Limes wrote:Well, good news are that I found my first mag site :) Glad you finally found something. One of the first few mag sites I ever found had a T2 armor plate in it worth about 20 million. I was basically hooked on exploring from that point on! Also, high sec exploration can really be a roller coaster, so don't let it bring you down. I spent an entire night exploring a few days ago and ended up with absolutely nothing (aside from many many wormholes and grav sites, and this was in relatively lightly traveled systems). I've also made over 20 million in 10 minutes before. It's mostly just luck of the draw.
I didn't get anything useful out of it, but it still felt good. It was some kind of Serpentis ruins, I don't remember the exact name.
Another important thing, at least for me, was that my Imicus handled the NPCs quite well. Right now I know there're a lot of things I could do but I simply don't have the cash to do all of them.
I was thinking about joining a Corp, but -while I'd like the help- I would also like it to be somewhat important, so that I don't have to change corps every time I get a bit better. If anyone knows a good one that's taking rookies, please let me know. |
Praxis Ginimic
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Posted - 2013.03.25 05:19:00 -
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There are a lot of good explo corps out there that love rookies. Use the ingame corp search function or browse through tje recruitment subsection here in the forums. Take you time choosing though. Hang out in their public channel and get to know them and read the stickies at the top of the section before you begin. |
Bret Crendraven
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.03.25 12:40:00 -
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All I'm going to say to a budding explorer. I'm roughly 18-19 days old in the game and haven't done anything for exploring in the past 3-4 days. So in roughly 1 week I;ve made 300+mil on exploration sites In highsec, In a Frigate. :) Enjoy. |
Doctor Ape MD
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.03.25 12:54:00 -
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Kyra Quinn wrote:Actually, get a destroyer. I used the Algos to clear radars and the easy 1/10 and related sites, now I'm 2 months old and have made over 2.5 billion in my Gila. Best time for exploration seems the be just before and after downtime but once you get into the US time zones it gets seriously crowded. I generally keep my escalations till the US logs on because of it,
There's a lot of travelling involved, I generally move some 20-30 systems in high sec on a day.
Weekends also seem particularly bad regardless of timezone. I'm on a bad streak at the moment as it's been 4-5 days since I've even found a radar site. All part of the randomness associated with exploration, although if you start seeing wormholes and grav sites everywhere odds are there are a group of other explorers around that have beat you to the punch. Unfortunately it only takes moments for a well trained character in a tech 3 ship to detect and clear the 'good' sites from a system, which can make things frustrating for a new player who gets to limp along scanning down wormholes and grav sites all day. |
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