Originally by: Strom Nekth

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Originally by: Zibyist

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i am thinking of starting doing some exploring. Is it worth it doing it in high-sec with a frigate? My current skill set is: http://ineve.net/skills/character.php?charID=MTk1ODgzOTcwOA%3D%3D. Of course i still nedd to train skills for probes.

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I couldn't load your profile but, assuming that you're pretty much a noob), I'd recommend leveling up your ship flying skills first.

If you go the exploration rout then you'll want to train up at least hacking 1 (probably a couple of weeks), salvaging 3 (a week), astrometrics 4 (a week), triangulation 2, pinpointing 2, the one that reduces probing time 2 (a week). Then you'd better have thirty million (minimum, up to 100 million if you get the sister's probe launcher and a covert ops frigate) or so that you don't mind dropping on ships, probe launchers and probes.

Then you'll want to get racial frigate 5 (2 weeks), covert cops 3+ (half week), pinpointing 4, triangulation 4, probing time 4 (couple of weeks), better hacking, analyzing (couple of weeks)...

Some of the easier exploration complexes you can complete in a not very well fitted frigate however these complexes rarely pay for the probes used to find them.

The harder complexes, often with better loot (but it's all very random) tend to be in lower security space (0.5/0.6) space and have a difficulty closer to that of a level 3 combat mission. If you get an escalation then that can be level 4 mission toughness.

All that said, it's common to pull a couple of $10million items out of a radar site and you have the chance of scoring, say, a 90 million implant.

Again, I don't know you skills/experience level, but if I was you I'd train for a larger ship type (cruiser, if not BC/BS) and get a decent wallet going running missions before dipping into exploration. However if you're really bored of missioning (like I was) then you can jump into exploration earlier but be prepared to devote a lot of training time to it during which your combat potency wont increase very much.

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