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Melanger
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Posted - 2007.03.30 09:10:00 -
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Since exploration came into the game I've been heavily training to make the best of it. It's a profession that has it's ups and downs sometimes you get a signature and pinpoint it quickly finding a nice hidden belt and other times you'll spend a couple of hours trying to pinpoint one only to find someone has beaten you too it and mined it out.
Till now the "Unknown" sites I've found have been very poor drone sites with no real content leaving me with a very low opinion of them. Last night though all that changed.
On warping to the acceleration gate I had a message pop up about the blood fanatics defending their cathedral. I treated it like most other such popups and closed it after a quick scan of its contents used the gate and found myself facing 4 cruisers. Being in my scanning frigate I warped out to get my ratting ship. Up till now all the sites like this had only allowed a destroyer or below in but I decided to see if my BC would fit through and surprisingly it did.
I'm not going to go into great detail about what I found because I like new content to be new to everyone and don't want to spoil it for others but I will give you this.
2 Rooms Reinforcements in waves Shooting Cathedral in second room spawns final rats
After killing 3 millions worth of cruisers I have to say it was the most fun IÆve had in a long while. I'm not saying it's particularly hard to do (Lvl 3 Comparison) but the fact that I didn't know what was coming next made it fun.
Only thing I will say is that gates on these sites do not show when right clicked what ship size can go through and IÆve wasted time fitting a ship only to find it wonÆt fit through. When exploring IÆm sometimes a good few jumps away from my ships and having to turn around to get a smaller ship when the one I go back there in doesn't fit is not great.
Thanks to CCP for the new content. I look forward to finding a few more of these surprises!
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Alha Qmar
Caldari Xenon Logistics
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Posted - 2007.03.30 11:37:00 -
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In what kind of security systems have you been searching? The lower secure you go, the higher complexes you find.
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Melanger
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Posted - 2007.03.30 13:55:00 -
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Surprisingly it was an 0.5 system
And i forgot to say that there was nothing special about the loot too but as i said i was more interested in the fun element.
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Maximum Panic
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Posted - 2007.03.30 15:46:00 -
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Wait till you find the Gurista 0.0 base.
On warp in they had an electronic shield in place and tons of BS rats.
When the shield was popped tons more rats swarmed us. My massively tanked and remote armor repped abaddon barely held up in that room and many of our gang of 6 BS and 3 cruisers had to warp off.
In the 2nd room all was going easy when we started shooting the base it detonated a mini-doomsday device that popped all the support cruisers that had tagged along with our gang. This mini-doomsday device did around 4K damage per hit and it went off every 2 minutes until the base was destroyed.
What is guarded by such an awesome force and defense that took nearly 1.5 hours to beat through with our small squadron: Miner 1, Cargo Scanner 1, and a small armor rep.
Fear what those Guristas hoard in their awesome bases. |

Melanger
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Posted - 2007.03.30 16:54:00 -
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Yeah i remember that thread a while back.
I still chuckle that all rats seem to have commanders that insist that every combat ship up to BS "MUST" fit a miner 1
I'll leave 0.0 to you die hards for a bit longer and keep to safer haunts thanks
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Motorcycle Emptiness
Gallente Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.03.30 16:58:00 -
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Edited by: Motorcycle Emptiness on 30/03/2007 16:54:51 ha, i remember that one too :)
what I don't get is 3k bounty mission rats dropping stuff worth 1million isk, and it's not rare they do that :S
alos to the OP, is it viable for me to go out scouting for these sits and then sell them to other players? am not really into shooting things.
Flashing White Box (rank 1) |

Moraguth
Amarr Rangers
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Posted - 2007.03.30 17:32:00 -
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I've had generally good experiences with exploration, my only beef is that all of the Hacking sites i go to (radar probes) are always very simple. at most, 1 cruiser and a couple destroyers and frigs. And this is in a system that used to be 0.0 till they changed the minimum for empire systems to be 0.1. When i go over to 0.0 i find the same types of hacking sites. Sometimes I'll have 1 BS there too. Granted, I agree that if the main point of the site is hacking, it shouldn't take a fleet of ships to beat the guard, but still.
I love it. Let's tweak it some more though. Much Love CCP.
good game |

Moraguth
Amarr Rangers
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Posted - 2007.03.30 17:34:00 -
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Originally by: Motorcycle Emptiness Edited by: Motorcycle Emptiness on 30/03/2007 16:54:51 ha, i remember that one too :)
what I don't get is 3k bounty mission rats dropping stuff worth 1million isk, and it's not rare they do that :S
alos to the OP, is it viable for me to go out scouting for these sits and then sell them to other players? am not really into shooting things.
Unfortunately, the only way to "sell" your exploration sites is to do it to someone who trusts you personally for now. It's way too easy to make a bookmark to nothing and try to sell it for 10M isk and call it an arkanor mining site in .6 space.
good game |
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