Tyrendian Biohazard
Terra Rosa Militia
SpaceMonkey's Alliance
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Posted - 2013.10.16 16:44:00 -
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I am a big advocate on exploration for new players to develop their income. Back around June a created a new character and spent a month training her for exploration, mostly working towards fitting a Buzzard. Her Hacking and Archaeology skills are both at 3, and barely any Astrometric skills. Part time (maybe two or three nights a week) I would go explore LowSec using a Heron to start, fitted with normal Probe Launcher, SoE probes, Prototype cloak, Analyzers, Cargo Scanner, and the necessary rigs. In a months time, I made about 400m just selling off the random stuff I got from the sites.
Now, on the flip side, I have another character with very similar Hacking/Archaeology skills and went out in NullSec last night, made about 80m+. Not including the blueprints laying around. Was at it for about 2.5 hours, maybe 3. That character has much better Astrometrics skills so I'm sure I was scanning down sites my dedicated explorer wouldn't have been able to.
Training up Astrometics (regular, rangefinding, and pinpointing) will help you not only scan down sites that may have a lower signal (when your probes are at .25AU and its only at 75%), but should help you find them quicker (reaching 100% at a high probe scanning range). Don't forget there are rigs and ship bonuses that help you with that.
As far as the loot, you don't always get a big payoff, and the bulk of it is from the the Decrypters, Datacores, and Materials that spew out. Just make sure you are using the cargo scanner to find out what is in it, and grabbing the specific containers when they pop out. Additionally, Exploration of Data/Relic sites is not consistent income. There are some nights you can pick up 100m, some nights you get 10m. It really depends on where you go to explore, and what kind of chances you get.
TLDR:
- Explore in LowSec/NullSec. HighSec sucks
- Astrometric skills helps you probe down the sites, but there are ship bonuses and rigs to help out as well
- I'd recommended Hacking and Archaeology to Level 3 minimum.
All in all, Exploration can be decent income if you tough it out. I will be streaming tonight (2200ish, Eve time), and if its not PVP, I will probably be exploring (in fact it will most likely be exploring). Feel free to drop by and ask any questions.
My twitch stream to help new players:
http://www.twitch.tv/biohazrd51
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