border systems where null meets low or high sec are you most dangerous systems to travel through. You are far safer deeper into null.

Sometimes you can find a wormhole that leads to null and you can wander around several systems and never see another player.

Sounds like you are on the right track to me OP.



Yeah that's what I would suggest. The payouts are bigger in null/w-space but the stakes are higher too. I would suggest training up to a covert ops cloak and covops frigate before you take that plunge, but it's not totally necessary if you are alert and aware of your surroundings and remain cloaked while scanning.

Others often suggest the Astero for exploration and while it's a fine ship I still prefer t2 covops frigates, they get just as good a bonus for the hacking mini-game and their bonus to scan probe strength is actually better than the Astero when you hit covert ops frigate IV. Plus the loss mails aren't as big .

When it comes to wormholes there's a lot of information you will have to research, wormhole types, wormhole system classes, the various wormhole effects, etc. and your d-scan skills will have to be on point. You'll also need to learn to differentiate between the guarded Sleeper relic/data sites and the unguarded pirate faction ones. Joining a corp of seasoned explorers can help here with learning the ropes, but exploration works fine as a solo career as long as you're willing to do the research and learn from your mistakes.

If you are done with covops, train for an interceptor, then T3 tactical destroyer and max your probing skills ... these are all very handy for moving around in New Eden (beside core and fitting skills of course).

In Wormholes sites with Pirate names are the ones that 's usually abandoned. Outside of Wormhole space it's critical to read up on exactly what defences certain sites have. Some might appear to be abandoned but instead have a hidden timer where you get attacked by a defence force after time's up. Others might have defences that activate if you fail a hack or simillar.

I've done some exploring myself (not much though so I'm no expert in any way) and I have chosen to stick with T1-ships both because the cost for loosing one is negligible and because I'm not as 'blingy' as the covert-ops exploration frigates for hunters looking for both a kill and payout.

I'm not sure exactly what's the difference in cost between a kitted T1 and T2 exploration frigate is nowadays but it is something that should be considered if ISK is an issue.

Absolutely. However, the ever-present danger is part of what makes wormholes fun.

Actually it's quite safe for cloakies as long as you stay cloaked , but you never do hacking inside Thera anyway (or for longer than 30s ), instead use it as a staging to explore distant regions.

I play my EvE almost exactly the same as you.
And I found out that doing explo in low/null sec is not really worth it.
Traffic in WH-space is much MUCH lower (at least in European timezone) and it's more relaxed.
Also, you don't need to look at your local every 3 seconds :) Just the d-scan.
I average 100mil per trip that takes me around 2 hours of playing.
Some WH's are plentiful.
Some are spammed by gas sites thus worthless to an explo frigate, then you just scan down next WH as quickly as possible.
And you don't need to worry about gatecamps since there are no gates.

If you'd like to fly together sometime feel free to drop me in-eve mail and I will happily share my WH survival knowledge :)
Bookmarks and GTFO tab on your overview really help if someone tries to jump/bump you when you hack cans.

Although in all honesty, in WH I got jumped on only once and managed to get away.
The time I lost my Astero I decided to take exit to null and do some sightseeing. Given that I landed at far south reaches of the map.
Managed to get through a single gate only before I got killed :<