as I'm less then a year in eve I try new activities from time to time. at any rate tried some exploration lately and it's lots of fun.. roaming around the universe and finding stuf etc...

but... High sec exploration is plain bad.. just horrible reward wise.

First we got anomalies which are around L1 mission without stnadings or LP.

then we got combat sites which are about L2 or something like that without LP or standings.

both of those are pretty annoying as the drops sucks big time best thing I got was 10 mil laser turret and that's about it.

I was very excited when I got my first data and archaeology sites but god they are bad....
the hacking mini game is nice but truly only way to fail it is on purpose, then some cans sprays around and if you had cargo scanner before you at least knows what and try to get first but well... each one of those netted me less then 300 k :X

even while I was mining in 1.0 with venture and 24 h mining skills I made more isk then that and without the hassle of scanning, also while on belts mining I get officer rat once in a while which sometimes drops implants and other goodies worth 100s of millions all while having fun pooling rocks easily.
Security and other missions are easy enough on high sec and you get LP + Standings which both are rewards in their own.
Trading will net a lot lot lot more then exploration.

so why exploration rewards on high sec so bad ? I mean I do mining get my plex and some goodies then do my exploration roaming just for the experience but rewards sucks.