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Bermag
Point-Zero Ratel Alliance
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Posted - 2006.12.07 12:10:00 -
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I am interest in knowing which kind of exploration sites "scenarios" you have found.
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- name of complex - found in which security rating - difficulty - Found items/structures. - Any other comments about the site you found
Please keep other discussion out of the thread please. I am looking to get some data on what has been found so far, no general chatting
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Sumayyah
Minmatar Dynamic Endeavors
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Posted - 2006.12.07 14:32:00 -
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people don't want to give up the cool thinks they have had to work hard to find with out some isks I'm an ! I will always be an ! that is all I have to say But thats not all!!! Dynamic Endeavors is now Recuiting.!! Contact Jet Collins in game. |
Sakko
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.12.07 14:41:00 -
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I found:
1. Easy complex (0.0)... after i killed all rats my Journal blinked - Expedition at 6 gates... There i found 6 corporate hangars who shooted me with 600-1200 damage :) Nothing, nothing valuable
2.Hidden belt with 25 bistot roids (100 units each bleah) - i'm wondering who the hell will sert up a POS there to mine 25 small roids...
3.Another complex - looks like 8-10/10. No expedition, NO LOOT. One single batllestar structure and ofcourse WITHOUT VALUABLE LOOT.
After 1 day of exploration i'm wodering if this is a joke...or i just have no luck!
P.S Only thing i earned in this time was some like 100 salvaged items. Donno if is good or bad...
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Boxt Dryden
Caldari Sturmgrenadier Inc R i s e
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Posted - 2006.12.07 17:39:00 -
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I was part of a group who ran a Serpentis Luxury Lodge exploration complex today. The difficulty of the deadspace area was far greater than a 10/10 and we greatly enjoyed it! Unfortunately, we were disappointed to find that there wasn't the normal journal expedition entry at the end of the run nor was there any loot beyond normal rat loot (The asteroids weren't even able to be mined). We did loose a ship given it was so difficult (A good thing!) but we'd expected at least some reward at the end.
I petitioned requesting if this was "working as intended" and the kind GM suggested that I post it here for player/dev review and included my petition in his shift notes.
As for the difficulty, there was easily over 100 battleships alone and hundreds of NPC's in total. The space-scape was outstanding with huge, erupting ion fountains (for lack of a better description) and after destroying the Luxury Lounge a very large electrical cloud remained in it's place.
While the mission was a blast, the lack of any form of faction loot or journal entry was a bit dissapointing. -----------------
Boxt Dryden Chief Petty Officer Battlegroup One - "The Nightstalkers"
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Ashvul
Amarr XenoTech The Fonz Presidium
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Posted - 2006.12.07 20:06:00 -
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Edited by: Ashvul on 07/12/2006 20:07:16 seems to be a major problem with dropping loot. I killed 3 overseers in different exploration complexes and NONE of them dropped any loot (one was an overseer structure).
edit: we also found a hacking complex, but as soon as we hacked the second can there was a node crash and the plex was gone when we got back.
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Serihon
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Posted - 2006.12.07 21:56:00 -
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How does one find these exploration sites or exploration complexes? Is this the exploration tidbit they were talking about and the new probes are used for?
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Powder
Caldari Black Nova Corp Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2006.12.07 22:10:00 -
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Originally by: Ashvul Edited by: Ashvul on 07/12/2006 20:07:16 seems to be a major problem with dropping loot. I killed 3 overseers in different exploration complexes and NONE of them dropped any loot (one was an overseer structure).
edit: we also found a hacking complex, but as soon as we hacked the second can there was a node crash and the plex was gone when we got back.
how do you know it was a hacking plex? did it have containers like in the empire cosmos ones or something?
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Miranda Duvall
Gallente OPM Holdings
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Posted - 2006.12.07 22:41:00 -
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Not sure what the name was (how can you find the name?), but it was a 2 stage plex equivalent to a lvl1 mission, save for the single cruiser in the 2nd room. 2 or 3 serps spawned, and the next bunch when they were killed. The next bunch was 100km away at least, every single time... There was a "spaceshuttle wreck/with debree" there in the first room which looked promising, but didnt drop anything...
I'm not sure what is needed to "complete" the mission...
No expedition afterwards.
This was in a 0.6 system and i found it on the second probe i ever fired , took another probe to nail the location tho...
No good loot or salvage.... Isn't it great being a skill collector?
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Tassill
Minmatar GREY COUNCIL Breidablik
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Posted - 2006.12.08 01:47:00 -
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Edited by: Tassill on 08/12/2006 01:48:16 I have found 2 x a drone harvester plex (how do i find out the name of the plex?) which has 2 sections the second section has unstable worm holes and a ruined station. Imo if i am doing it right its not worth running was very easy to run no real challange and hasent moved or respawned in about a week.
Also found a serpentis ruins sight, which had containers openable with analyser modules. It gave about enough salvagable items to build 3 rigs and didnt take long to do. all in 0.0
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Githtakai
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Posted - 2006.12.08 04:50:00 -
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Originally by: Tassill Edited by: Tassill on 08/12/2006 01:48:16 I have found 2 x a drone harvester plex (how do i find out the name of the plex?) which has 2 sections the second section has unstable worm holes and a ruined station. Imo if i am doing it right its not worth running was very easy to run no real challange and hasent moved or respawned in about a week.
Also found a serpentis ruins sight, which had containers openable with analyser modules. It gave about enough salvagable items to build 3 rigs and didnt take long to do. all in 0.0
Did you need any special skills with the analysers or just the basics?
Enough salvagables to build 3 rigs is a LOT of ISK!!!!
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Loraen
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Posted - 2006.12.08 07:55:00 -
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Originally by: Githtakai Did you need any special skills with the analysers or just the basics?
Enough salvagables to build 3 rigs is a LOT of ISK!!!!
Analyzer I is the equipment used with Archeology. Considering they dropped the Salvaging requirements to Survey (asnd Mechanic 3), it's sort of fair the people with Survey 5 (Archeology's prereq) get some advantage out of it.
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Yonos
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Posted - 2006.12.09 10:44:00 -
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Edited by: Yonos on 09/12/2006 10:44:15 I have found a couple of deadspaces so far. All bad loot. Some appear to be pre-nerfed, bugged, and not even completely programmed or thought out.
The following were all in 0.0. One I just found called Independence had a bunch of ruined drone structures but no npcs or cans. I blew up one structure to see what would happen. Took forvever to blow and when it did not only did nothing drop, after the explosion the structure RESPAWNED so there were two of the same thing on top of each other. Really lame.
I have also found a belt, an 8/10 2 stage equivalent complex, an easy 5/10 battlecruiser/trigger nephilims. The 5/10 gave me an expedition to called Toxic Waste Scandal 5 jumps away. I went to it and it said that some silos were releasing toxic waste and hurt ships. The silos were doing 300 to 600 damage to me...I blew em up. Only drop I got was some livestock.
I really want to find a hacking complex but no luck so far. Terrible loot, hopefully the Wed patch will revamp exploration.
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Nocturnal Prince
Tech 2 Holdings Limited
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Posted - 2006.12.09 11:12:00 -
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Guristas Lookout
found in a 0.7 system two deadspace pockets and only let upto destroyer sized ships in 3 cruisers in first pocket 25 frigates (respawning weak belt rats after clear out) second pocket 2 cruisers (one angel) and 10 frigates
Nice to look at and a total waste of time to do anything else with. Minimal loot, poor salvage. Killing structures yielded nothing, not even the overseer.
On further inspection first pocket showed 3 Hemo roids and 8 jaspet roids, all tiny. Second pocket had 10 omber roids also tiny.
Remember barges and haulers are not allowed into this area so all mining would be by destroyer including hauling. I couldnt be bothered tbh for the tiny amounts but I just wanted to give a complete report.
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Elena Lanfear
Crafty Productions
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Posted - 2006.12.09 13:17:00 -
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Edited by: Elena Lanfear on 09/12/2006 13:21:10 Edited by: Elena Lanfear on 09/12/2006 13:17:33 I have found so far:
1) A tiny complex in 0.5, only ships up to AF allowed, 2 Stages, worst Enemy was a cruiser. Nothing valuable to loot, but the salvage ratio was ok (20 enemys -> 15 Salvage drops)
2) A Pocket without an entrance gate in 0.4 (so i visited it in a BS), worst Enemy was again a Cruiser, 6 hacking cans, a Battlestation without loot and a Forcefield, guarding 2 of the cans. Did 10 hacking attempts before i had to go to bed. 9 failed, the last one dropped an item worth nothing.
Ahh, forgot: The second "Complex" despawned as soon as we logged off.
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Ganymede Gale
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Posted - 2006.12.09 18:48:00 -
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I found a deadspace acceleration gate.
Warping in, a bunch of rogue drones attacked me. There were two waves. There was a Beacon in the complex but it didn't seem to do anything. Loot was equivellent to a LVL 1 Rogue Drone mish. I wasn't even able to recoup the cost of the probes I used to find the structure.
Complete waste of time.
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Inspiration
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Posted - 2006.12.09 20:48:00 -
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Edited by: Inspiration on 09/12/2006 20:49:49
Originally by: Nocturnal Prince Guristas Lookout
found in a 0.7 system two deadspace pockets and only let upto destroyer sized ships in 3 cruisers in first pocket 25 frigates (respawning weak belt rats after clear out) second pocket 2 cruisers (one angel) and 10 frigates
Nice to look at and a total waste of time to do anything else with. Minimal loot, poor salvage. Killing structures yielded nothing, not even the overseer.
On further inspection first pocket showed 3 Hemo roids and 8 jaspet roids, all tiny. Second pocket had 10 omber roids also tiny.
Remember barges and haulers are not allowed into this area so all mining would be by destroyer including hauling. I couldnt be bothered tbh for the tiny amounts but I just wanted to give a complete report.
I had exactly the same one I think and in a system with the same security rating. One odd thing though, the first level had Guristas + Blood raider ships, the second had guristas + a few Angel ships. Both where dominated with guristas ships, i killed them all, wanted to come back with my ore scanning ship I had docked in another system. But when I returned the complex was gone :(. I dont know if it was because of me docking or me being in another system or both, but I bet killing them all is not a good idea if any mining needs to be taken place!
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Corina Chiriac
Quam Singulari Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.12.09 21:01:00 -
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Found 4 so far , the last 2 was in same system and i found them in first scan of the system
Firts was a easy archangel deaspace (3/10 - 4/10 ) 2 level , no good loot or salvage . Second one had a 'Hidden warp gate" not a normal one like first complex .Same 2 lvls of complex , almost nothing good loot , the complex lvl was around 8/10 , about 12 BS at first lvl same in second , some buildings there too , took me a lot of time to destroy them and nothing loot . So spend a day and didn't make any profit :((
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Sorela
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.12.09 21:48:00 -
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So has anyone found one with good rewards? It seems somewhat suprising that all of them sound pretty sucky so far. Hopefully this is part of what the next patch is going to fix.
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Lurtz
Caldari Gunrunners and Gamblers
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Posted - 2006.12.10 04:33:00 -
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have found 2, both in .8 systems (I'll even say systems since they vanished next day after I cleared them)
in Tasabeshi a small 2 room gurista plex, not sure of a size limit, went in with a Nighthawk and this was serious overkill since only saw frigates
in Inaro a group of 37 misc omber roids. 3 rogue drones spawned while I mined it out (hey omber in cal space how could I pass that up!)
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Moadyb
The Raven Warriors
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Posted - 2006.12.10 06:01:00 -
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I've been probing around in Sansha space, found nothing worthwhile, all Sansha ecounters similar to what others have described in this thread. I alot of enounters repeating itself over and over, and I suspect there are probably only around 15 or so out there at the moment, nowhere near the '250' varied exploration sites (or encounters) that was mentioned over and over by the DEVs before Revelations.
All in all, a waste of time.
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Still Hart
Aurora Empire Fuzzy Nut Attack Squirrels
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Posted - 2006.12.12 17:44:00 -
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Well there was the one guy who got all the rig components. That's quite worth it in my opinion. I have also heard of some friends who found a bistot belt with like 25 roids in Curse. Guess it just sucks that the plexes are pointless. _____________________
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Sprobe
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Posted - 2006.12.15 02:34:00 -
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Edited by: Sprobe on 15/12/2006 02:35:00 we just found a escalation exploration site called minor blood annex.
it was cool to fight, but not very rewarding besides normal loot and slavage from battleships.
the first 2 stages ended by destroying a cathedral and the "priest" (I clal it like that because I forgot his name). It was really nicely done and setup and we expected at least some kind of cool loot (several waves of BS before that in stage 1 and 2, and support).
After that we were sent from 0.4 to 0.3 7 jumps away were we needed to destryo missle sentries and multiple BS (1 hour timer). When we destryoed the "POS" tower there, we got another message telling us to fly into 0.1 (!) and there was another mining site with lots of drones. The mission took us 6 hours to complete (basically 1 and 0.5 tanks and 3-4 damage dealers) and I believe that some kind of faction loot would have been appropriate .. or anything at all!
There was no rewarding loot, although I need to admit that I haven't had fun like that for a very long time. But reading all your postings my motivation is wearing off.. ATM it is cool and fun, but it should be more rewarding.
I believe that the loot table isn't working properly. And I really would like to hear a dev say: 'guys, you only know the tip of the mountain, there are tons of special rewards for exploration, keep looking for it'
Or I'd love to hear: 'OMG you are receiving no special loot for doing these exploration sites? That's not supposed to be like that, let us fix it immediatley'
Whatever the answer is, both work for me. Now let's find a dev who wants to say something to it
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Iog Krugar
Gallente The Rising Stars
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Posted - 2006.12.15 03:43:00 -
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Originally by: Sprobe Edited by: Sprobe on 15/12/2006 02:35:00 we just found a escalation exploration site called minor blood annex.
lucky you, we had the Minor Serpentis Annex and it didnt escalate :(
please check this thread as well, it has some posts with findings
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DNightmare
Caldari Psyballz
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Posted - 2006.12.15 04:42:00 -
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*weee* After finding around 7 Complexes and some hacking/arch site today, i just found a Serpentis Hacking Site in 0.4 Space 5minutes ago and looted:
Incognito Data Interface 2-Run BPC and several Datacores
The Site was quite small (50km diameter) with 4 frigates & 3 cruisers in it, but when getting near a container, some more waves spawned, like 2 cruisers 4 frigs per container, so no big deal)
But where did I put my gallente skill ... Anyway, Invention: I'm Coming!
So Folks out there: It IS worth the time, if you just put enough effort in it (btw: was a serpentis but found it with RADAR for those who wanna know)
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Iog Krugar
Gallente The Rising Stars
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Posted - 2006.12.15 05:31:00 -
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Originally by: DNightmare Incognito Data Interface 2-Run BPC
congrats man! good to hear these things are out there :)
--- i suposse everyone rolls around stations in pods |
franny
Phoenix Knights
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Posted - 2006.12.15 06:02:00 -
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Edited by: franny on 15/12/2006 06:03:19 found 3 signals when I was on, 2 I couldn't scan due to lack of probes vs time(ie the probes were still building while I was awake)
found an 'unknown' - scanned it down, found a blood raiders complex(forgot to note the name, i'll poke Errol see if he noted it) and ran it with a corpmate it let in BS's, wouldn't let in my alt's viator, it had 2 stages, maybe 15 BS's total, no real loot, so either I was late and someone beat me to it, or it sucked ass what was there was soloable in a domi w/t2 hvys
didn't see it escalate
hopefully I find something something cool over the weekend, cause so far it sucks, I could make more ratting in the same domi
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Khajit Smitty
Minmatar MisFunk Inc.
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Posted - 2006.12.15 10:13:00 -
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- Complex name : Radiance (System sec is -0.9) - difficulty : 2/10 to 3/10 - Found items/structures : Nothing of importance yet, a few leaking containers that contain overseers effects if you cargo scan them. - Drones site.
- Complex name : Gurista's Fortress(System sec is -0.75) - difficulty : 6/10 to 7/10 - Found items/structures : No decent loot, a few structures to destroy or not destroy unsure. - Had this one twice now and both times loot was underpar.
- Complex name : Gurista's Provincial HQ(System sec is -0.85) - difficulty : 7/10 to 8/10 - Found items/structures : No decent loot, a few structures to destroy or not destroy unsure. - This one was fun with an unexpected surprise, still reward was minimal.
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Bermag
Point-Zero Ratel Alliance
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Posted - 2006.12.15 10:24:00 -
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Originally by: DNightmare *weee* After finding around 7 Complexes and some hacking/arch site today, i just found a Serpentis Hacking Site in 0.4 Space 5minutes ago and looted:
Incognito Data Interface 2-Run BPC and several Datacores
Nice! Did you get the components to make the data interface as well? According to the item database (check eve.coldfront.net) you need some special components to make it.
For some strange reason there are only a few of the interfaces which have bps published.
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Eagle32
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Posted - 2006.12.15 10:36:00 -
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Originally by: DNightmare *weee* After finding around 7 Complexes and some hacking/arch site today, i just found a Serpentis Hacking Site in 0.4 Space 5minutes ago and looted:
Incognito Data Interface 2-Run BPC and several Datacores
Nice, that provides me with a bit more motivation to keep at it.
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Ishina Fel
Caldari Synergy. Imperial Republic Of the North
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Posted - 2006.12.15 11:51:00 -
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Regarding roids with 100 units ore each: this is a known bug in Revelations that also happens in regular belts. Asteroids sometimes do not grow back past 100 units. It's quite frustrating really.
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Lurtz
Caldari Gunrunners and Gamblers
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Posted - 2006.12.16 18:31:00 -
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update, 2 more since my last post.
1 was an exact clone of the small 2 room gurista I mentioned before.
2nd found with radar was a non gated area with 3 hacking cans and a single Arrogator guarding them. The cans yielded 2 EM Physics datacores, 2 Grav physics cores, and an Hydromagnetic Physics core.
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FFGR
Maza Nostra Euphoria Unleashed
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Posted - 2006.12.16 18:45:00 -
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Quote: 2nd found with radar was a non gated area with 3 hacking cans and a single Arrogator guarding them. The cans yielded 2 EM Physics datacores, 2 Grav physics cores, and an Hydromagnetic Physics core.
Seems to me that Reward to Sec status is messed up
0.0 hacking plex with 12 sentries, multible BS and cruisers drops 7 cores and an empire one drops more or less the same loot for a fraction of the difficulty _______
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Will McBlack
Gallente Serenity Inc
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Posted - 2006.12.16 19:32:00 -
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Can one find Encryption skills on those sites as well?
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FFGR
Maza Nostra Euphoria Unleashed
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Posted - 2006.12.17 02:44:00 -
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Originally by: Will McBlack Can one find Encryption skills on those sites as well?
The Encryption books can be found inside the Hacking complexes that are in the corresponding Empire COSMOS Constellation.
Have fun searching for them _______
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Tharrn
Amarr 1st Praetorian Guard Vigilia Valeria
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Posted - 2006.12.17 02:59:00 -
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Found so far:
A belt with 40 Omber and Kernite roids (about 50/50) in 0.7 space. Some frigs spawning there now and again. Refined ore was worth about 20 million ISK.
A belt with 12 Gneiss and Dark Ochre roids (about 50/50) in 0.3 space. Rats up to battlecruisers spawning from time to time. Refined ore was worth about 25 million ISK.
A belt with 10 Gneiss roids in 0.4. No idea what rats as I didn't stay long, the roids held between 1500 and 2800 Gneiss each.
A drone complex with 1 stage in 0.7. Five small drones - totall waste of time.
A drone complex in 0.2 with two stages. Second stage held one BS size drone. Escalated to a 'drone freighter' 7 jumps away, that also dropped drone minerals only.
A Sansha complex in 0.2 with two frigs and a stasis tower. More rats spawned upon hacking of the 5 containers there (dropped datacores and decryptors).
A 'Sansha Minor Annex' in 0.3 space. First stage held 1 BS and 12 sentry guns. Upon moving towards an acceleration gate 5 more BS and some cruisers and frigs spawned. The Slave Commander dropped a crystal tag for the gate. Behind the gate 19 BS (up to 1.5 million bounty) plus support and cruise missile batteries owned us (totally unexpected in 0.3). Centus Bunker, a Sansha Control Tower and a complete asteroid belt of Hemorphite and Hedbergite. Tough cookie for low-sec. We haven't gone in again yet, so can't say if anything good is dropped.
Now recruiting!
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Ravey Head
K.O.R.
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Posted - 2006.12.17 03:55:00 -
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1. hidden asteroid field -.6 -when you popped a roid, rats would spawn. -lots of omber and kernite roids - golden, silvery, luminous.. etc -had a strange bug, if you went into the center of it, it knocked you out at 600m/s
2. blood hideout -.5 -about 3/10 -lots of blood structures in the 2nd part -not many rats, after blowing up one of the structures, got an escalation expedition had to chase down 3 of the blood with 1 named. unfortunately, it deadended on the 3rd part of the expedition. lots of fun, but very disappointing when we reached a deadend.
Will post more as I find more.
-Ravey Head
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Lurtz
Caldari Gunrunners and Gamblers
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Posted - 2006.12.17 03:55:00 -
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Edited by: Lurtz on 17/12/2006 03:56:21
Originally by: DNightmare *weee* After finding around 7 Complexes and some hacking/arch site today, i just found a Serpentis Hacking Site in 0.4 Space 5minutes ago and looted:
Incognito Data Interface 2-Run BPC and several Datacores
The Site was quite small (50km diameter) with 4 frigates & 3 cruisers in it, but when getting near a container, some more waves spawned, like 2 cruisers 4 frigs per container, so no big deal)
But where did I put my gallente skill ... Anyway, Invention: I'm Coming!
So Folks out there: It IS worth the time, if you just put enough effort in it (btw: was a serpentis but found it with RADAR for those who wanna know)
Curious could you tell me the parts list on those interfaces? is it regular ore or special parts required?
edit: Also people posting in this thread, where are complex names coming from? With no beacons on the stuff I've found, where is anywhere is a name?
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DNightmare
Caldari Psyballz
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Posted - 2006.12.17 04:15:00 -
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BPC Screens
And for the names: Just zoom out to systemmap once you warp at 0m and you will see a little indicator with the name of the plex/site/belt right next to you ;)
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Caletha
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Posted - 2006.12.17 10:57:00 -
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I've found the same complex twice now, took me about 1.5 hours each time to find the bloody thing (and plenty of probes). I've only done the complex once though (first time wasnt exactly exciting).
Complex: Hierarchy Where: Drone 0.0 space Difficulty: Probably a 3/10, max was 3 cruisers, rest was drone frigs Structures: The 2nd level contained a structure called Hierarchy, dropped nothing for me Comments: At warp in there are only 6 or so drones, but once you start to move towards the 2nd stage gate, more will start to spawn. Not terribly exciting and my raven didn't really have an issue tanking them.
The first stage contains 3 unstable wormholes, and 1 of those 3 is covert in bunkers. Not exactly sure what to do with them, the info-text of the wormholes says this: "Your sensors show readings of the chart when you aim them at this peculiar phenomenon. From what little information you can gather you surmise that a stabling mechanism of some sort is needed for it to be safe to venture through the wormhole. But the readings also seem to indicate that this wormhole might not be a totally random natural phenomenon, but rather something that was created. When or by whom is impossible to tell and where it leads is an even bigger mystery."
So I want one of those "stabling mechanisms"
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.12.17 11:35:00 -
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Two comments:
Ravey: the ôbugö in your hidden asteroid fields seem the spawining of a force field, like in some of the hidden sites of the Cosmos missions. Have you looked if there is some structure responsable of the effect?
Caletha: you could to try a with a disposable ALT and some warp stabilizers? It seem a possible solution. If you try, keep us posted.
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Eagle32
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Posted - 2006.12.17 12:19:00 -
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Originally by: FFGR Seems to me that Reward to Sec status is messed up
0.0 hacking plex with 12 sentries, multible BS and cruisers drops 7 cores and an empire one drops more or less the same loot for a fraction of the difficulty
I've cleared two low sec Sansha hacking sites and between them I only got 2 datacores. I only have hacking 3, I don't know how much of an effect the hacking skill level makes. ~2/10 difficulty.
All in low sec:
Minor Sansha Annex. -1 Drake latter in the second stage I'll be taking back something bigger. 20 BS + cruise and heavy missile batteries all of which agro on warp in. Unexpected but cool :). ~5 or 6 / 10 difficulty.
2 of one sort of drone site. Got an Expedition to another site one time but not the other. ~2/10 difficulty.
A different drone site. ~3/10 difficulty.
One arcsal site. Archaeology and salvage cans and a few rats. ~2/10 difficulty.
One small belt in a 0.4. Dark Ochre roids, Gneiss and Crokite! Only 2 of the roids were Crokite and they only had 800 and 900 units each. When the server is up I can say exactly how much of each of the other types their was but it was approximately 3000 Dark Ochre and 5000 Gneiss.
A couple of 2 stage Sansha plexes with nothing interesting about them.
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Oriental Express
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Posted - 2006.12.17 12:39:00 -
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Ive found four things so far .
Two hacking sites in 0.0 few Battleships and frigs and turretts. Loot hacked was a few datacores. No good loot from anything else.
Third thing found In 0.0 was Serpentis Fortress Quite a few ships there and a gate the first part kiled all no good loot nothing in structures etc .
2nd stage few ships killed all, no good loot blew up Fortress and got a message telling us to go somewhere to get some items in a certain time .
Went there few frigs cruisers there killed them. No good loot . Was then told to go somewhere to recieve a 1 billion isk reward so went there few frigs and cruisers again. message come up u have been coned there is no reward.
Fourth site was a belt in 0.0 with one bistot in it .
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Kolmogorow
Freedom Resources
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Posted - 2006.12.17 14:33:00 -
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My first exploration site:
Name: "Serpentis lookout"
System security: 0.6 in Gallente space
Difficulty: Somewhere between a level 2 and level 3 mission. I could finish the complex (2 pockets) in a cruiser without problems. The first pocket had around 20 frigates and destroyers, one 60k-bounty-cruiser (all Serpentis) and one light missile battery (3 or 4 groups). The second pocket around 25 frigates/destroyers and 5 or 6 cruisers (all Serpentis, again 3 or 4 groups).
Found items/structures: Nothing special, ordinary Serpentis loot, Serpentis bunkers, a communication tower without noticable loot. The only remarkable item was a Beta hull cargo expander (a 6-7 mil item) in one of the frig wrecks. In addition the first pocket had 3 or 4 Hemorphite asteroids (in a 0.6 system!) and the second pocket around 10 Omber roids.
Additional comments: - After killing every ship and structure I wanted to scan the ore amount of the asteroids in the complex but when I came back the deadspace was gone only the ship wrecks were still there - Scan time to find the deadspace: Around 60-75 minutes with all four probe types. - The multispectral probe told me two frequencies: One Radar and one "unknown". So I decided to use Radar probes and I expected to find some Sansha or Blood Raider complex. But it was a Serpentis, only the light missile battery in the first pocket was a Sansha battery. This is a little bit strange that only this single battery should have caused the Radar frequency although all other ships and structures were Serpentis. But maybe I found the complex with the "unknown" frequency spectrum and not the one with Radar frequency
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DNightmare
Caldari Psyballz
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Posted - 2006.12.17 14:44:00 -
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Heya, Found s.th. yesterday but couldn't investigate it any further cause of some stupid bug -.- so I hope someone in here has found s.th. like that before and can give me intel on what I missed.
Situation:
It was a Base 3, Lo Sec, Hacking Site. (quiet 0.4 System)
Ok, i found plenty of them, but this one was different. One of the Containers in there was guarded by an "Medium EM Forcefield Battery" with a couple of Shield Recharger Arrays attached and 14km radius. So you coudln't use the Codebreaker straight away, but had to detroy that Forecefield first. (There were also, like in any other Base 3 Hacking I found so far, a couple of Frigs/Cruisers that guarded more containers)
Due to the Bug, I don't have any more Intel about that thing (couldn't even get the FField down or check one of the other containers), but as I said, maybe one of you has.
o/ DNightmare
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Lurtz
Caldari Gunrunners and Gamblers
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Posted - 2006.12.17 15:40:00 -
[45]
update,
the small gurista plex I've gotten (3 times now in different places) is Guristas Hideout
today it actually escalated and gave me 1 hour to go 6 jumps to expedition "The Soothsayers"
When I arrived at location (35 minutes left on clock) saw 3 targets briefly at 250k which quickly vanished and it gave me a message about my 'hunch' not panning out this time.
anyone had any luck with expeditions? perhaps I'll try approaching cloaked next time.
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Skarraza
Gallente The Scope
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Posted - 2006.12.18 00:20:00 -
[46]
A friend of mine got a "Large bistot field" or something to that effect in his home 0.0 system.
He mined out around 70k bistot of the various flavors.
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Lurtz
Caldari Gunrunners and Gamblers
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Posted - 2006.12.20 05:31:00 -
[47]
Found a 'Exploration small hedbergite hemorphite jaspet' in a .8 system.
about 3 cans full of those 3 low sec ores, 8 rocks total.
the initial signal on multispec was grav. Took a couple sets of quests to get a hit as it's closest object was planet 1 of a 9 planet system and coverage was funky first time around. even when I got a hit it was .03 strength and 1.5 mil km dev.
Took 9 sifts to get a 250k deviated signal.... close enough, warped to it and bm'd a collideable object there and fetched my hulk. (had to switch to regular strip miners as carebear me never bothered to train up low/no sec refine skills and couldn't put h/h or j crystals on)
Still 1.2k zyd and a nice pile of nocx in safe space. I'll take it
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Aiyleena Iluvatar
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Posted - 2006.12.20 05:40:00 -
[48]
what i "know" so far
gravimetric = mining site lada = clouds or "salavging" contis radar = hacking magnet = archeology
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Miss Overlord
Gallente Ferrum Pugnus New Eve Order
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Posted - 2006.12.20 06:37:00 -
[49]
so these things are out there me thinks each little downtime CCP are adding some variants - id like to see upwards of 500 of mre or perhaps randomness within each one just to keep things fresh - its coming along nicley found 2x in high sec boht 70m of omber inside (70m ISK worth of various sub types)
These posts represent my personal views and not those of my corp or alliance. These do not reflect offical alliance or corp views
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Zwotte
Gallente Dark Reality
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Posted - 2006.12.20 09:16:00 -
[50]
Originally by: FFGR
Originally by: Will McBlack Can one find Encryption skills on those sites as well?
The Encryption books can be found inside the Hacking complexes that are in the corresponding Empire COSMOS Constellation.
Have fun searching for them
Not true, can be found in explore sites. Got 1 in my hangar now. MicanG's jumpclone Service
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Serrano Balthar
Section XIII Tau Ceti Federation
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Posted - 2006.12.20 09:37:00 -
[51]
got that : http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/0612/resultPlex.png from "Profession - Arcsal - Base 2 - Deep Safe - Angel" ----------- Igvar Thorn arn ! |
DarkHorizons
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Posted - 2006.12.20 11:37:00 -
[52]
Found: Dirty site in 0.2 system believe it to have been an unknown sig
Consisting of two levels. The first level, has nothing to shoot, but has drone structures/radiance structures + various other structures and gate to next level. Next level, also nothing to shoot at but has a radiance warp gate, which I cannot activate, has anyone else come across one of these or is it a bug? Gate info reads.
These natural phenomenum that rumour says will hurtle those that come too close to faraway places. Wary travelers stay away from them as some that have ventured too close have never been seen again
Sounds Cool just wish I could get the gate to work
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Sakko
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.12.20 14:29:00 -
[53]
Originally by: DNightmare BPC Screens
And for the names: Just zoom out to systemmap once you warp at 0m and you will see a little indicator with the name of the plex/site/belt right next to you ;)
Just for curiousity, what was the name of the site? I found also Angel hacking complex Base 4 and dam me i din't hacked all the databanks cos i warped out for some reasons and after that site desapear :(( i'm pretty sure there was a minmatar interface cos it was extremelly hard to find it, dam me dam me
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Kai Lae
Gallente Shiva Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2006.12.21 01:52:00 -
[54]
The entire exploration experience so far has left me quite fustrated. I and my corp have 2 goals with it, obtain invention items and gas cloud mining equipment. The rest is not of real interest to us.
So far, I've been beating the bushes around tribute and vale for about a week and a half (vale because of the hidden cosmos areas). I've found:
Several coral rock formations. Generally with bistot in them, which made our miners happy but not me.
Several complex type finds, "Guristas Fortress", etc. Takes a crew to do and doesn't drop a thing.
Several Archeology complexes. After accessing them, I get salvage components, and several T2 2 run rig BPC's. This is the only good thing I've found.
I have found no hacking type complexes at all in over a week of searching, none.
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Lurtz
Caldari Gunrunners and Gamblers
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Posted - 2006.12.21 02:23:00 -
[55]
Originally by: Kai Lae
I have found no hacking type complexes at all in over a week of searching, none.
Multispecs look for and nail down radar signatures.
in related news I haven't found any Ladar sites yet, are they all low/no sec?
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franny
Phoenix Knights
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Posted - 2006.12.21 06:32:00 -
[56]
Originally by: Zwotte
Originally by: FFGR
Originally by: Will McBlack Can one find Encryption skills on those sites as well?
The Encryption books can be found inside the Hacking complexes that are in the corresponding Empire COSMOS Constellation.
Have fun searching for them
Not true, can be found in explore sites. Got 1 in my hangar now.
got one too, in a non cosmos 0.0 system corpmate and I are arguing over selling it or training it
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Ishmael Hansen
No Quarter.
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Posted - 2006.12.21 11:50:00 -
[57]
I have found:
Arcsal base 1 serpentis - some rig components, but was gone before I could figure what to do in it (was my first site)
Arcsal Base 2 serpentis - 2x bpc of a tech 2 rig (drone mining yield bonus, who uses them?) and a gallente encryption book
Independence - This one was bugged
Hacking base 3 serpentis - NO bounty, No loot, NOTHING hacked (out of the 6 cans)
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Maior Interfeci
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.12.21 11:54:00 -
[58]
Originally by: Nocturnal Prince Guristas Lookout
found in a 0.7 system two deadspace pockets and only let upto destroyer sized ships in 3 cruisers in first pocket 25 frigates (respawning weak belt rats after clear out) second pocket 2 cruisers (one angel) and 10 frigates
Nice to look at and a total waste of time to do anything else with. Minimal loot, poor salvage. Killing structures yielded nothing, not even the overseer.
On further inspection first pocket showed 3 Hemo roids and 8 jaspet roids, all tiny. Second pocket had 10 omber roids also tiny.
Remember barges and haulers are not allowed into this area so all mining would be by destroyer including hauling. I couldnt be bothered tbh for the tiny amounts but I just wanted to give a complete report.
I too found this mission. It was in a .8 system. It seems as though CCP didn't do enough QC on these missions before they were released. Example: When you come to the first gate of this plex, it tells you frigate class ships only. When you come to the second gate of the same plex you are told that this gate can handle up to BC sized ships. Tried to BM the second gate and come back to it, but it only brought me to the first gate.
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Kolmogorow
Freedom Resources
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Posted - 2006.12.21 12:09:00 -
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Originally by: Kai Lae Several Archeology complexes. After accessing them, I get salvage components, and several T2 2 run rig BPC's. This is the only good thing I've found.
"Only good thing" sounds like extreme understatement. Yesterday I have seen a T2-rig-BPC for 600Mil on the contract market (but to be honest I don't know if it was sold for that price). Congratulations!
But interesting to know that T2 rig BPCs can drop in complexes, I thought they could only be created in a successful invention job.
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Takanohana
Deep Space Explorers
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Posted - 2006.12.22 06:33:00 -
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- "Exploration Large - Spodumain, Crokie, Dark Ochre" (Yes, I'm spelling it like it says in system map.) - 0.4 - Easy, 8 small drones spawned - Rocks, rocks, coral structures and an unstable wormhole. - Gravimetric
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Sabahl
Minmatar Shinra Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.12.22 07:40:00 -
[61]
Originally by: Aiyleena Iluvatar what i "know" so far
gravimetric = mining site lada = clouds or "salavging" contis radar = hacking magnet = archeology
Interesting and my own research appears to be backing this up. Continuing to analyse...
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s73v3n2k
Caldari UK Corp Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.12.22 10:45:00 -
[62]
been flying around tenerifis and found a few of these complexes mainly drone or Angel although i have never seen any names on the gates once i have probed them down. The 3 types i have found:-
1) A rouge drone complex with 2 levels first level had about 3-4 waves of cruiser frig sized drones. 2nd level had 3 waves which included upto 8 Swarm Hive BS's. This level also had 10 leaking containers but when i opened them they were empty and i continuously got a message in local saying "error error error hive empty" so someone might have beat me to it.
2) Angel complex probably around 7/10 level with 15 BS's in the first level and several frigs and cruisers. second level had about 8 BS's with a large ammount of frigates probably 20 ish and 15 cruisers and Battlecruisers. we lost our ships in thsi level because everything aggro's you and there is no groupings. we went back to complete it and destroyed a battlestation in the level which only dropped frigate loot. Very disappointing.
3) Rouge drone complex which had no gate, 2 BS rouge drones and about 15 cruiser/frig size drones. This also had 10 arkonor and 10 Bistot roids in the middle. while hanging around there was a constant stream of coreli protectors spawning
all these complexes never dropped a thing worth the time or effort in finding them let alone doing them
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Jet Collins
Dynamic Endeavors
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Posted - 2006.12.22 14:55:00 -
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Question?
So I see one of you said you founf on in 0.0 that was not a cosmos region.
But are there many others not being found in cosmos regions?
Thank.
Just interested. Currently trying to find a Amarr plantation complex in Metropolis so far I have not had much luck but also I didn;t relise who much different the probe system was so I guess I was doing it wrong :P.
Dynamic Endeavors is now Recuiting.!!
Contact me in game for deatails about the corp. Mostly a PvE corp, with Jump clones avaiale in Empire and 0.0. |
Illminatis
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Posted - 2006.12.24 22:54:00 -
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they can be in any system, doesn't have to be a COSMOS region =)
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Pfrundpaechter
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Posted - 2006.12.27 17:47:00 -
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Edited by: Pfrundpaechter on 27/12/2006 17:54:54 Profession - ArcSal - Base 2 - Deep Space - Guristas (Magnometric Sig in 0.0)
no entry gate, you just warp directly into the asteroid field, no further gates 4x Pithi Exterminator BS, 3x Pithi Assaulter BC 3 Salvagable Objects (2x Guristas Derelict 1x Guristas Hulk) 3 Analyzable Objects (2x Guristas Remains 1x Guristas Ruins) 3x5 Large Collidable Structures (Fragmented Cathedrals, lots of HP, they leave nothing) Lots of Hedbergite and other roids Derelicts salvaged a bunch of rig materials, hulk was empty after salvaging. My Analyzerbuddy is on his way to me, will update the post afterwards.
same system had an unknown sig, found it to be a Radiance complex. is in system for over 4 days now, i have no clue what to do with it. Maybe it has been killed before so there is nothing more to do in it.
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Bucholtz
Caldari Neogen Industries Serenity Fallen
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Posted - 2006.12.30 19:32:00 -
[66]
Serpentis Base (Fade region, 0.0, Unknown sig)
Two locations. Only debris in first, long way to warpgate. Debris and some structures in second location. When i opened fire on armory, 3 frigs and 3 cruisers spawned (serpentis, of course).
Armory and one of the other structures dropped wrecks. No salvage. Armory wreck had crappy ammo in it (rockets or something similar). Usual crappy loot from NPCs, usual salvage.
Soloable in a frigate. I wonder if someone was there before me.
After all structures were destroyed, i jumped out of the system. Complex despawned. --------- Selling carriers, mods and fighters
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s73v3n2k
Caldari UK Corp Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.12.31 14:30:00 -
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profession - hacking - site 1 - angel (sig radar) 0.0 sec
5 containers ring of sentry guns near containers when you warp in. when you approach containers NPC'c spawn but just cruiaers and alot of frigs.
out of the 5 containers i was able to hack them all but only 1 contained something which was a Angel electric conduit
Profession - hacking - site 2 - angel (sig radar) 0.0 sec
A couple of frigates and sentries when you warp in. when you approach the containers NPC's spawn from the station. Hand full of cruiser and alot of frigates again.
out of the 5 containers i was able to hack them all but only 1 contained something which was a Angel advanced theories decryptor
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Titus Herta
Caldari Battlegroup Herta
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Posted - 2006.12.31 15:34:00 -
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Haunted Yard (0.6 system) Four "Leaking Cans" that each contain a keycard and overseer effects when scanned with a cargo scanner. Neither of them can be retrieved. There is a green text message about drones, but none spawn while visiting this deadspace. No other paths. Only structures are a depleted battery and ruined stargate.
Haunted Yard (0.8 system) Same result as above.
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Bazman
Caldari Shinra Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.12.31 22:12:00 -
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Well, i've found various Hacking and Archeology sites which are straight forward, but i litterally finished a complex 2 minutes ago.
Angel Military Base (0.0)
2 Stages: Stage 1: 2 Gist Sentry Operaters (Battleships) a row of 8 Cruise batteries 80km off on one side, 2 Stasis Towers (1 on each side) 12 Sentry Towers (On the oposit side 80km off)
Attacking the Stasis towers triggers a spawn of around about 8 to 10 battleships, 6 to 8 Battlecruisers and some frigates. Also a Gistum Gate Operator (Cruiser) Killing this unlocks the Acceleration gate.
Stage 2: 8 Battleships, 4 HAC's 4 Inties, 2 Stasis towers, 1 Angel Control Tower, 2 Pirate strongholds. Shooting the Stasis towers causes a smartbomb effect that hits for about 2,500 damage(Not sure of damage type) Shooting the control tower forces a spawn of 1 Gist Overseer, 3 Gistum Cruisers and 5 Gistum Wingmen.
Absolutely no loot whatsover. Complete waste of time, no escalation either. I did this using a Cruise raven with 5 hardeners, and a Hyperion completely dedicated to shield transfering. -----
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Bazman
Caldari Shinra Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.12.31 22:16:00 -
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It should be noted that if you cargo scan spawn containers you see what that can *could* drop, there is no guarantee that what you scan is what they will drop. I confirmed this through a petition and GM responceDon't get your hopes up ;) -----
OMG READ TUXFORD!!!1 |
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s73v3n2k
Caldari UK Corp Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2007.01.02 10:03:00 -
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Edited by: s73v3n2k on 02/01/2007 10:03:41 Profession - Arcsal - base 1 - Angel (sig Mag) 0.0
1 level with no gate containes 6 BS's and 3 cruiser NPC's. The location had 6 containers which were 4 archeology and 2 salavage conatainers. I didn't have a salvager with me and i had to log for a bit. when i logged back in the site was gone. I had an analyser module fitted and opened the 4 archeology conatainers bedore logging and found the following items
1 x projectile ambit 2 bpc - 2 runs 20 x alloyed trit bars 56 x charred micro circuit 53 x damaged artifitial neural networks 79 x fried interface circuit 1 x interface circuit 1 x logic circuit 18 x smashed trigger units 47 x thruster consoles 86 x tripped power circuit 14 x burned logic circuit
This includes what i salvaged from the npc's when i eventually fitted a salvage module but the rarer components were from the conatainers. If i had a salvage module fitted at the time i would ahve expected to find the remaining components to build the rigs. Also You require Archeology 3 or higher to access 2 of the containers.
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s73v3n2k
Caldari UK Corp Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2007.01.03 00:16:00 -
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Profession - Arcsal - base 2 - deep space - Angel (sig Mag) 0.0
Similar amount of npc's as there was in in base 1. 1 booby trap (small smartbomb goes off) when you scan one of the salvage containers and a couple of battlecruiser respawn when you scan one of the archeology containers.
managed to find this twice today and picked up a heap of compnents from each but 1st time i also got 2x T2 Rig BPC's and 2x minmitar encryption methods skills. 2nd time i got 3 x T2 rig BPC's.
not bad for a days work
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Aybabtu
Domain Research and Logistics
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Posted - 2007.01.21 14:20:00 -
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i just got the haunted yard, same as the guy above posted, 4 cans cant get anything out of them, im just going to go back with salvager/codebreaker/analizer to see if any of that helped ( i just opend the cans with my cov ops.. ill let ya know when i done it maybe ill find some information thats helpfull to anyone else.
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Max Feanor
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Posted - 2007.02.09 11:03:00 -
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I found the same drone site where there is 2 levels the first one had drones, those unstabel worm holes and some debri. the second place had some drones i only got drone components and nothing worth while and that was 2 days ago i found out it is still there i went through it again and everything apeared again but still nothing worth while I think the worm holes are the key.
Max out
if anyone figures this out eve mail (max feanor)please
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the blender
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Posted - 2007.02.11 19:45:00 -
[75]
Haunted Yard 1.309 unkown sig 0.6 security space Difficulty: bloody hard Found: Eight Red Leaking cans
I found this site, it wouldnt let anything bigger than a cruiser in. Once in the were a bunch of worker and builder drones,some devestator and some alvi drones as well. I took my Gila in first. Got webbed and warp scrambled with some huge DPS I just had to sit and watch my Gila die. Spent the next 4hrs trying to retrive my faction kit. I killed all but the devestator and builder, worker drones by warping in staying for 10secs before warping out again. The plex stayed like this till I killed a devestator and warped out. The plex despawned on me at that point. There were about eight red cans. I didnt even get close to them though. I warn you this is a very hard plex, I had 90% resists on explosive and 85% on thermal and the drones were still doing about 45-50 per turret hit. Suffice to say I lost about 300mill in kit and ships to this sucker. DO NOT try it alone and put an alt in there in a pod so it dosnt despawn on you or you may find a lot of time and work dissapear on you.
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Zxergie
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Posted - 2007.02.12 00:32:00 -
[76]
I'm fairly certain the expedition's name was Angel Kickbacks. About 6 destinations through probably 20 or so jumps, all high sec except for last one. All frigs and cruisers even until the end. Found two nice A-Type Coreli items from overseer-frig though.
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Calidor Droks
Caldari Central Elite Mining Operations
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Posted - 2007.02.25 12:17:00 -
[77]
Graimetric - 0.5 - Rock Formation - Branched ad Thisted This was my first discovery.
Just spent 2 hours and about 300k worth of probes to find a hidden rock formation with the roids already farmed
From what I gather from reading other posts the roids ain't gonna respawn. Total waste of time and money so far
I guess there's a high chance these hidden belts are gonna be already farmed in high sec.
It's been interesting finding the place but it's a downer finding no reward for your effort. ubi concordia ibi victoria |
hotgirl933
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Posted - 2007.02.26 08:14:00 -
[78]
Originally by: Calidor Droks Graimetric - 0.5 - Rock Formation - Branched ad Thisted This was my first discovery.
Just spent 2 hours and about 300k worth of probes to find a hidden rock formation with the roids already farmed
From what I gather from reading other posts the roids ain't gonna respawn. Total waste of time and money so far
I guess there's a high chance these hidden belts are gonna be already farmed in high sec.
It's been interesting finding the place but it's a downer finding no reward for your effort.
gallente, amarr and minmatar 0.5 and 0.6 systems off the beaten track tend to have some nice plexes that are unfarmed suggest u try there
Low sec is an option with a cloaker and a small corp to back u up just be persistant like i tell peeps do a minimum of 20 finds first before u average it out and say its worth it or its not worth it etc etc
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Tenschu
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Posted - 2007.02.26 16:14:00 -
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Originally by: Calidor Droks Graimetric - 0.5 - Rock Formation - Branched ad Thisted This was my first discovery.
Just spent 2 hours and about 300k worth of probes to find a hidden rock formation with the roids already farmed
From what I gather from reading other posts the roids ain't gonna respawn. Total waste of time and money so far
I guess there's a high chance these hidden belts are gonna be already farmed in high sec.
It's been interesting finding the place but it's a downer finding no reward for your effort.
Are you sure it was already farmed? Roids in a gravimetric site do not show up tat easily. They are teeny-tiny, usually you have to add them to overview to be able to see if they are there at all. |
Snodipous
Amarr Blue Star Brotherhood Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.02.26 20:29:00 -
[80]
Originally by: Nocturnal Prince Guristas Lookout On further inspection first pocket showed 3 Hemo roids
___________ Composed primarily of meat.
I speak for my corp and alliance. Everything I say, they will back up 100%. They are absolutely willing to go to war to defend my forum antics. |
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Risky Fire
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Posted - 2007.02.27 00:24:00 -
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I found a complex in a 0.1 system, I took me ages to kill the rats. I t was the hardest thing I have ever tanked. I lost a BC and a Battle ship before completing the complex. The loot was a complete waste of time, the second part of the expedition took me five jumps away. I started the second part and after warping away for the 3rd time to recharge my shields the expedition disappeared from my journal. I was really let down but such a big investment of time and money for so little return.
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nice boy
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Posted - 2007.02.28 11:36:00 -
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Edited by: nice boy on 28/02/2007 11:35:08 i found an exploration expedition last night in the new drone region in 0.0. we, myself in a nighthawk another in a cerb and one in a raven...went to first gate...only frigs spawned killed moved on to next gate....next stage was a drone chemical hive refinery or something that sounded similer to that.....no rats untill we started shooting the refiney...frigs spawns then bs's....probably about 10 - 15 bs in all started killing them.
when a message apeared ERROR ERROR DRONE HIVE EMPTY ...then message popped up that what we seeked was in a system 9 jumps away in a pile of rubble...some sort of tracker etc, cant remember...so we killed the rest of the bs and the hive...only loot we got out of it was 3 ark mining crystals and some cap boosters then we high tailed it to the next system...got to the system ...warped to the spot...killed all with 6 minutes to spare...then.....nothing...jack....zip...yes there was plenty of frig drone wrecks to salvage and loot the alloys from ...but hey i can do that in astroid belts....i have filled a petision out as it may be bugged....just have to wait and see...i think they are a bit of a joke if there is no reward at the end.....
after the time it took me to find the dam thing..cost of probes and missles used....come on ccp...dont be so dam tight!!!!!!
o and before i forget..the deadspace plex was called severance...or something spelt similer
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Humpalot
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Posted - 2007.02.28 23:12:00 -
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Originally by: the blender Haunted Yard 1.309 unkown sig 0.6 security space Difficulty: bloody hard Found: Eight Red Leaking cans
You might try running a ceptor through there. I have done this one several times in my Crusader with little trouble. Gets a bit hairy at first but I have a passable tank on the thing (2xEANM-II, 1xInternal Force Field Array, 1xSAR-II) and never have to warp out. Just need to manage cap well at first with the repper running.
Beyond that though have never found anytyhing in there except the drones. Casks are always empty. Never had an escalation (if there even is one).
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Shichiro Motokana
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.02.28 23:14:00 -
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Only one I've found (first) was a small hedbergite/hemorphite/jaspet belt in a 0.6. Worth about 15 mil. -7san |
Lethlia
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Posted - 2007.03.02 17:19:00 -
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Ruins 0.3 Space Hard (only allowed to bring in T1 ships Battlecruiser or smaller) No structures but lots and lots of drones, including 2 Controllers and 5 Supreme Drone Parasites it also escalated after I killed one of the Controllers.
The first escillation had Pithi and rogue drones backed up with 5 drone sentry IIIs. There were also 3 infested dominix and 2 pithi Ravens as well as a huge amount of smaller stuff. Luckily it escillated again after I killed the first small drone.
The second escalation had Centus and drones. This time there were 2 Supreme Alvus Parasites and 2 Centus Savage Lords as well as a smattering of smaller ships. Were it not for the high amounts of every kind of damage this spot would have been much easier. However, by keeping everything at long range it wasn't too bad... esepecially since they weren't backed up by sentry guns. It also escalated when I destroyed a drone bunker.
Sadly I didn't have time to follow the third escalation due to RL time constraints. I took pictures of the spawns in the two escalations so I'll update with the numbers when I get more time.
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Jonaaka Kaliin
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.03.06 07:58:00 -
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"Hidden Arc Site" found in 0.0 with Mag probes.
Absolute Hell. First stage has 17 Pith BS's, 6 warp scramming Dire frigs, and 6 Pith Moas. Even with resists at 89% it was a lot of warp in and out (had small team of a total 3 BS doing this)
Two gates, one is Portal, other is...well its another level of this Hell. Portal just has Piths and no cans to analyze. The other one is chock full of drones and about 9 cans. There are cruise missile batteries that do insane amounts of damage, and when you shoot them, guess what? Spawns more drones. And they warp scramble you. And you and your team die because there is no way to tank for every damage type enough for this "site". Tried the smart bomb route, and that made my screen go totally red from all the drones that spawned. I don't quite know if this is bugged or if I/we should petition it. I don't care to tbh, but I've sat here and thought about it for a long time and there's just no way to beat this. My advice? Avoid this one, and Mag sites in general.
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OneSock
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Posted - 2007.03.06 17:12:00 -
[87]
"HiddenProfession - Hacking - Base 1 - Serpentis" in a 0.5 system
Easy to find RADAR site
3 hackable cans which contained nothing.
Two low level Serp NPCs. Waste of time & probes.
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Ryo Jang
Central Defiance
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Posted - 2007.04.20 08:41:00 -
[88]
i found a complex the other night in 0.0, providence region. went onto the test server to try it out. first warp in with supertanked abaddon, tanked them fairly well (many bs's and cruisers, thousands of frigates). couldnt hit them as i was being tracking disrupted, eventually capped out and died. 2nd try, i swapped my mega pulse II's for a set of smartbombs. frigates all went boom, and could then tank the rest! by then i had corpmates on the test server, so they came in with some dps and we completed the plex. 3 overseer lords, but no good loot. nothing, nada. worthless. made about 18mil in bounty between us.
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Odin Jah
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Posted - 2007.04.26 16:25:00 -
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Edited by: Odin Jah on 26/04/2007 16:23:08 I have found 20+ sites(so far), most in 0.5,0.6 and a couple in 0.4. I would say 70 percent of the sites have been hidden roid belts. To date I haven't looted anything of great value, regular loot and salvage from the sites I have found. However, a few weeks ago, my ceo found an arc/sal site in 0.4 and doesn't have the archeology skill to open cans. So he calls me over with my Archeology lvl 4 to help out, first scan on the first debris can nets an Amarr Encryption skill book. Obviously I gave the book to my ceo as it was his site, but finally found something of value. I was getting ready to give up exploration.
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Xelios
Minmatar Rampage Eternal Ka-Tet
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Posted - 2007.04.26 17:11:00 -
[90]
About "Hidden Arc Site" I'm pretty sure this is part of a COSMOS lvl 4 agent mission, not a regular mag site.
Most interesting one I've found so far was a radar hacking site called Zero Cosmos Vale. 4 stages, 3 of which had 5-6 hackable cans each. Last stage required a key dropped from an npc in stage 2 (which also has a chance of dropping Gist faction loot, got a Gist A-Type EM hardener from him). Last stage was damn hard though, couldn't do it without cap transfers from a second BS and a couple large smartbombs.
Loot was Standard, Improved and Strong booster bpcs/reactions, booster skills and a lot of easter egg items like Pillaging 101 and Divine Opium.
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QuarteDeLouis
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Posted - 2007.05.02 10:28:00 -
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I am scaning 0.5 to 0.7 in gallente systems Found yet: - 3 hacking sites - frigs guarding them - best loot was 47 current amplifiers - rest of loot was standard salvaging parts
- 2 archaeology site - guraded by frigs - disappointing, datacores and T1 salvage items
- 6 unkown + 3 of em have been 1/10 plexes - nothing but lvl 1 mission loot + 1 4/10 - drone plex single stage - escalated to an exploration - 5 legs - some leading through lowsec. Couldn't finish - last leg was in 0.3 and system was piri ganked + 2 4/10 - "Serpentis Lookout" - I entered with BS, but only some frigs and cruisers in there - killed all npcs and shot down all structures (besides the inactive gate) - NO escalation. When you warp out having second stage done - deadspace despawns - cg to CCP - designed for players with alts or corpmates present. First pocket contained 15.000 hemorphite and 25.000 jaspet - not worth the effort of mining them. Second pocket contains plagi and omber.
My experience: Don't start scaning 3+h after downtime - all sigs are solved at that time. Never found anything on prime time (which is DT+5h here) - besides 1 radar sig, that took me 3 days to sift probe - but was found by a former corpmate at that time (said it was disappointing).
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Dorah Hawkwing
Chosen Path FATAL Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.02 19:27:00 -
[92]
"A Worthy Task" Concord Agent in .5 space.
A lvl 5/10 Rogue drone plex, 4 stages similar to a standard 5/10, then 2 stages where i don't know isf that is true, and one last stage wich was hell... 5.5 million Angel Overseer, Drone Mother throwing Thor Torps, 4 Cruise towers, and a snowstorm of Bomber drones with 5 BS in support. My Navy apoc with Nanopumps, 2 LAR and faction tank had troubles. I had tpo forego the Mother, as I wanted to collect my 3 million time reward and it was 4 am.. The entry gate didn't want to let my industrial pass, so salvaging & looting took time.
Overall, tough, challenging, and looong. Nice standing boost from the agent.
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Atreides Horza
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2007.05.03 13:38:00 -
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Edited by: Atreides Horza on 03/05/2007 13:35:00 Serpentis drug smuggling outpost w. two levels found in a 0.2 system as an 'unknown' signal. 12+ battleships + numerous support cruisers and warp disrupting frigates. Damn near cost me and my mate an ishtar.
Escalated into a five-leg run ending up in 0.0... all legs had massive stations with multiple waves of battleship and BCs. No loot worthy of mention until the last leg.
Last leg, named Guristas Research Outpost (msg said something about booster manufacturing facility), was interesting though. Overseer structure triggered a trap instapopping my enyo. However, it dropped a corelum a-type energized adaptive nano membrane, even after the msg said it was a dead end.
Total duration: 12 hrs+ Amount of legs: 5 (all low-sec + 1 0.0) Ships used: BC/HAC + enyo Ships lost: 2 x enyo Total ISK rewards (loot, salvage, etc): app. 400m
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QuarteDeLouis
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Posted - 2007.05.04 10:52:00 -
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Originally by: Atreides Horza Edited by: Atreides Horza on 03/05/2007 13:35:00 Serpentis drug smuggling outpost w. two levels found in a 0.2 system as an 'unknown' signal. 12+ battleships + numerous support cruisers and warp disrupting frigates. Damn near cost me and my mate an ishtar.
Escalated into a five-leg run ending up in 0.0... all legs had massive stations with multiple waves of battleship and BCs. No loot worthy of mention until the last leg.
Last leg, named Guristas Research Outpost (msg said something about booster manufacturing facility), was interesting though. Overseer structure triggered a trap instapopping my enyo. However, it dropped a corelum a-type energized adaptive nano membrane, even after the msg said it was a dead end.
Total duration: 12 hrs+ Amount of legs: 5 (all low-sec + 1 0.0) Ships used: BC/HAC + enyo Ships lost: 2 x enyo Total ISK rewards (loot, salvage, etc): app. 400m
Good writeup - but some QUESTIONs to CCP DEVS (and Atreidas plz don't take it offensive) - How are casual players suposed to perform such a task? without having the possibility to "safe" and go on next day? How many players are able to run down such an escalation with 12+ hrs duration? What about someone encountering a really good deadspace in an escalation and beeing solo, cause prime time for corp is not yet up?
As stated in another post - plz think about implementing an interrupt functionality to expedition - it is very motivative to find sth interesting buth have to watch it time out, cause your team is not yet online or it took to long to track down the signature.
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Kristaki
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Posted - 2007.09.01 17:47:00 -
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Originally by: Tharrn Found so far: ... A 'Sansha Minor Annex' in 0.3 space. First stage held 1 BS and 12 sentry guns. Upon moving towards an acceleration gate 5 more BS and some cruisers and frigs spawned. The Slave Commander dropped a crystal tag for the gate. Behind the gate 19 BS (up to 1.5 million bounty) plus support and cruise missile batteries owned us (totally unexpected in 0.3). Centus Bunker, a Sansha Control Tower and a complete asteroid belt of Hemorphite and Hedbergite. Tough cookie for low-sec. We haven't gone in again yet, so can't say if anything good is dropped.
I just got this in 0.4 and the boss mob was 900k bounty. Solo'd the first level (in a nightmare) 2 seconds before DT and lost the tag :( Purchased some tags, solo'd the 2nd level in 3-4 hours (my missile skills are no good) and as the boss died, there was a message about a cache of some kind 12 jumps away.
I went to this location and found 2 very ordinary complexes... what is this message all about - has anyone located the additional area mentioned. I don't have the exact text of the message as it doesn't log to the logs.
tia, k
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TheMinsterDeathMan
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Posted - 2007.09.02 01:58:00 -
[96]
You guys are not alone here.
I found a guirista base in 0.0 , and well it was shocking. I was constanly jammed by about 5 pith dire cruisers , which took real time to kill , found a gurista tower that when killed spawns a few more BS and thats it. It dropped 100l charge (standard) pretty much it. I popped all the buildings and there was no escelation so for 6 hours work I made about 4m not taking into account the ammo cost. Very very dissapointing so come on CCP dont make people work for 6 hours for no return. IM better off killing userper spawns in a belt for 10mins than searching out these pathetic hidden complexes.
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Asarah
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Posted - 2007.09.02 15:16:00 -
[97]
I've only done about 4 hours of exploration so far but I've found 2 plexes, the first one is not worth mentioning. The second one was in a .6 system surrounded on all sides by low sec. It was the equivalent of a lvl 2 mission, with 2 Shadow Serpentis whatever frigs at the end.
Droped a SS energized thermic hardner a SS adaptive plating and some small guardian ammo.
But as a bonus the first room (of 2) had some huge hemorphite and jaspet roids in them. But all my mining equipment was too far away to take advantage of it
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Arashicage
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Posted - 2007.10.04 17:44:00 -
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Hi i have done an Blood plex named "Blood owned Station" it was an escalating from the "minor blood annex" . First Spawn 4 Merchnary Overloards 5 Merchanary Wingman 1 Merchanary Overseer. (We shoot the overseer before Stationtower)
The tower triggers an second spawn by shooting him into 3/4 Struck.
Second Spawn: 6 Merchanary Overlord 6 Merchanary commander and 6 Merchanary Elite Fighter.
Then this Message shows up
xxxxxx just received an updated mission objective in relationship to this particular location. Either the Overseer was trying to trick you and this was the best he could come up with, or that you killed him before he could reveal the juicy parts of his offer. Either way, the takings from this expedition were as juicy as the good Overseer's remains after your thrusters were done with him.
we think that you should first shoot the Tower then the Overseer.
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Gorefacer
Caldari Resurrection
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Posted - 2007.12.25 01:08:00 -
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Originally by: Boxt Dryden I was part of a group who ran a Serpentis Luxury Lodge exploration complex today. The difficulty of the deadspace area was far greater than a 10/10 and we greatly enjoyed it! Unfortunately, we were disappointed to find that there wasn't the normal journal expedition entry at the end of the run nor was there any loot beyond normal rat loot (The asteroids weren't even able to be mined). We did loose a ship given it was so difficult (A good thing!) but we'd expected at least some reward at the end.
I petitioned requesting if this was "working as intended" and the kind GM suggested that I post it here for player/dev review and included my petition in his shift notes.
As for the difficulty, there was easily over 100 battleships alone and hundreds of NPC's in total. The space-scape was outstanding with huge, erupting ion fountains (for lack of a better description) and after destroying the Luxury Lounge a very large electrical cloud remained in it's place.
While the mission was a blast, the lack of any form of faction loot or journal entry was a bit dissapointing.
Just finished this 1 year later.
Same thing, acceleration gate -> Room 2 acceleration gate -> Luxury Lodge room.
Luxury Lodge room had 5 capital sized sentries, many BS cruisers and frigs. To access this room you need shadow serpentis crystal tags, one per person and it burns the tag so if you warp out due to a respawn, you need another tag to get back in. 1 shadow spawn that dropped a diamond tag, but that was a bout it for loot. Looked awesome and was lots of fun, not worth it ISK wise though.
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Beness
Deep Space Ventures Brotherhood Of Steel
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Posted - 2008.03.18 22:18:00 -
[100]
Edited by: Beness on 18/03/2008 22:18:34 I have done "Blood Raider Base" twice recently, both times in 0.0, but in different systems. The first occurrence was in a -0.5 true sec, while the second occurrence was easier and in a -0.1 true sec.
First taxed (and temporarily exceeded) the tank of a dual LARII Domi fitted for EM/Therm resists, supplemented with a remote LAR and a pair of cap transfer ships.
Second was a walk in the park for 4 BS pilots.
First had a Blood Tower that triggered spawns, 2nd triggered spawns due to location. Both had two rooms, but very different layouts.
Happy hunting!
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The Geoman
Anarchos Industrial Cooperative
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Posted - 2008.03.18 23:31:00 -
[101]
My most recent exploration site:
0.6 system, gravimetric "Medium-Omber"
It was all omber, but its better than nothing. Nice, fat rocks (30k units in some), but one peculiar thing: all of the silver omber contained 500 units. Someone earlier in the thread seemed to have a similar experience.
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banannagirl
The U-B-H-C
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Posted - 2008.03.19 02:05:00 -
[102]
Originally by: Still Hart Well there was the one guy who got all the rig components. That's quite worth it in my opinion. I have also heard of some friends who found a bistot belt with like 25 roids in Curse. Guess it just sucks that the plexes are pointless.
I found 9 cosmos anomalies in one system ... salvage only and the drones that drop the dark crystals and all those types of special ore.
same system was a ladar site which i mined for 1000 untis of gas selling at 90 k a unit. UNINTERUPTED mining too ...!
Also a mag site in the system next door - got onme arche can salvage in it.
Another mag site with two cans in it got one rig hybrid weapon rig skill book worth peanuits but still an ok drop.
The radar and mag sites have the rare spawns where you can clear 1 billion isk or more if your lucky to get the random site spawn.
radar gets you gas cloud reactions ... they are retailing at 20 million each at least. Plus bpc's for drugs .. its the drug sites are where its at .. the rst is like boring unless your going for mining sites in 0.0 or like the combat sites.
uncheck your cosmic anomaly tab on your scanner and you wont get the cosmic anomaly combat sites... sometimes there are like 10 in one system ... which gives good salvage **** loot very often.
regards BG
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Maria Huana
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Posted - 2008.04.14 11:03:00 -
[103]
Sсanning some lowsecs in Domain i found:
0.4 Unknown Scanned with Gravimetric Probes. I waste about 1h for this Sansha Minor Annex - just hell. My tanked drake had no time to warp out and was destroyed.
0.3 Grivimetric Medium Gnesis + Dark Ochre About 12\12 roids. 60mil isk profit. Some frigs + cruises respawns sometimes. 3 hours for scan this belt.
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Haldeeman
Minmatar BGG DeStInY.
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Posted - 2008.05.11 17:30:00 -
[104]
Originally by: banannagirl
Originally by: Still Hart Well there was the one guy who got all the rig components. That's quite worth it in my opinion. I have also heard of some friends who found a bistot belt with like 25 roids in Curse. Guess it just sucks that the plexes are pointless.
I found 9 cosmos anomalies in one system ... salvage only and the drones that drop the dark crystals and all those types of special ore.
same system was a ladar site which i mined for 1000 untis of gas selling at 90 k a unit. UNINTERUPTED mining too ...!
Also a mag site in the system next door - got onme arche can salvage in it.
Another mag site with two cans in it got one rig hybrid weapon rig skill book worth peanuits but still an ok drop.
The radar and mag sites have the rare spawns where you can clear 1 billion isk or more if your lucky to get the random site spawn.
radar gets you gas cloud reactions ... they are retailing at 20 million each at least. Plus bpc's for drugs .. its the drug sites are where its at .. the rst is like boring unless your going for mining sites in 0.0 or like the combat sites.
uncheck your cosmic anomaly tab on your scanner and you wont get the cosmic anomaly combat sites... sometimes there are like 10 in one system ... which gives good salvage **** loot very often.
regards BG
wrong....
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Johnny Gurkha
Maleficus Cruentus Interfeci
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Posted - 2008.05.11 20:30:00 -
[105]
Probed the Serpentis Provincial HQ with my alt yesterday in 0.0, warped in my Enyo thinking... "heck this will be easy, Serpentis Base was nothing". Bang Bang Bang, seige launchers put me into structure within 10 seconds I aligned and got the hell out quick, I'd say you'd need at least a well tanked Raven with Basilisk support before trying this monster out (and then that might not be enough), I didn't have any kind of logistic support so I didn't bother warping my BS in
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Asteroid Bandit
NOPHEX PRISIM
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Posted - 2008.05.11 22:29:00 -
[106]
0.0 Complexes in order of difficulty:
_____ Base Triggers: Scram Frig in second room may trigger faction spawn Unique structures may trigger escalation (HQ and Armory)
_____ Logistical Depot (Escalation should be considered extremely hazardous due to neut towers) Triggers: Some sentries trigger additional waves Final battlecruiser may trigger escalation
_____ Fortress Triggers: Scram Frig in second room may trigger faction spawn Battlestation may trigger escalation
_____ Military Complex Triggers : Tower (The one that looks like a POS tower) in second room may trigger escalation (Testing shows that trigger is only activated if gate house in first room is destroyed)
_____ Military HQ Triggers: Officer quarters unlocks gate Battlestation in second room may trigger escalation
Drone Plexes
Radiance Triggers: Named drone battleships
Independence Triggers: Named drone battleships
Hierarchy Triggers: Named drone battleships
In addition to these there are the old 10/10 plexes
There may be additional plexes but these are the most common ones I come across
The 0.0 cosmos radar plex _____ Compound and its magnometric twin ______ Graveyard can be considered combat plexes. Though they do require the relevant hack/arch skills they are primarily combat oriented and may drop deadspace items.
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Johnny Gurkha
Maleficus Cruentus Interfeci
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Posted - 2008.05.11 23:03:00 -
[107]
Edited by: Johnny Gurkha on 11/05/2008 23:05:25
Probed out Serpentis Logistical Outpost about an hour ago, the trusty old Enyo held up ok in the first room, 2nd had an Energy Neut battery which ****** me sideways
Didn't bother with the 2nd room, I'm bored already and want to kill something with a pulse...
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