Ines Tegator
Project ELT
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Posted - 2011.10.21 22:32:00 -
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Exploration is a great career and one of the more fun ones imo, especially if you like the spatial minigame of probing. Here's a few guidelines that will help you out, since it can be very hard (and expensive when you die repeatedly) to figure out the basics by trial and error.
1. Exploration is a combat career. If you can't kill the baddies you find in a site, you can't exploit the site either. This is especially true when you get into the lower sec spaces with harder sites.
2. The sites you mostly want are magnetometric and radar. Grav sites are valuable to miners and you might be able to sell bookmarks to them.
3. Mag and radar sites despawn within a couple minutes of leaving the grid if you have interacted with any of the spawn containers. Kill everything first, THEN open your cans in case you have to warp out. Alternately, before engaging, use a MWD and make an on-grid bookmark 200km from the center of the site. This gives you a point to warp to in emergencies (or if you need to cloak up, if in hostile space) without despawning the site.
4. Mag and Radar sites respawn instantly at a random location within the same region. This means there are always sites out there to find, and it also means they tend to collect in the lowest traffic areas of a given region. Use your f10 map to see where the fewest pilots are and work those constellations.
5. All in one ships are not only possible, but very convenient and will increase the amount you can do in a certain amount of time. They are skill intensive though. Drone boats make the best ones, since you can rely on drones for killing and leave your ship fitting free for tank and the probe/salvage modules you need. Vexor and Arbitrator are good entries, Myrmidon is a great step up, and the Ishtar is simply amazing. Pilgrim is a good cloaky option for lowsec, but not 0.0 because it's tank isn't strong enough. The king of all-in-one ships are tech 3 cruisers, so you definately want to skill toward one them.
I used to do this in nullsec in a myrmidon and eventually a legion. My record was 150m from a single site, although average was closer to 50-70m. Have at it and enjoy. |