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Category Archives: Exploration
Tip: Reduce the value of your lossmail
Munition delivery, sadly, is ISK-neutral at best, and I’m not best, so… I have to find ways to earn some ISK. Usually, I choose exploration, because it doubles as scouting for potential delivery targets, or combat exploration in a PvP ship, because it doubles as bait for pirates.
I make it a habit to stash my loot frequently, so that I can (hopefully) sneak back in and pick it up if I’m blown up
There are a couple of options for stashing loot in space, each with their own pros and cons.
Tip: Turn off Auto-Repeat for Analyzers
Data and Relic analyzers have auto-repeat enabled by default, but there’s no need for auto-repeat. It just burns your capacitor, and increases the time it takes to retry the hack, if you fail the first. You only need to cycle the analyzer once to access the can, then it can stop running.
Right click on those analyzer modules, and set Auto-Repeat: Off!
Tip: Expand and reduce probe radius with your mouse
Shift+Wheel will expand and reduce your scanner probe radius. You don’t need special hotkeys, and you certainly don’t need to go click the slider!
Tip: When NOT to Cloak/MWD
New explorers, and even experienced explorers looking for a challenge or to reduce the ISK exposed to loss in hostile space often venture out in T1 Exploration frigates. Fitted with an Improved Cloaking Device II, an MWD, and minimal or no tank, we’re very squishy, and a tasty treat for gate camps and B274 campers.
We encounter four types of gate camps
- Instalocking camps, typically in Low Security space, and Wormholes.
- Bubble camps, typically in Null Security space, and Wormholes. These fall into two camps: anchored bubbles, and interdiction probe camps.
- Casual campers, who use anchored bubbles and have not-quite-instalocking ships.
- Smart bombs gate camps
EVE University has a good write-up, as do any number of other sites dating back years. I’m not going to discuss how to do it, but I do want to suggest when to use, and when NOT to use the Cloak-MWD ‘trick’, and that there are times where it is actually harmful.
Tip: Exploration, and the Rule of Six
The hacking Rule of Six in EVE Online exploration is a huge (and coherence) saver. It’s been published many times, but I like Marroc’s explanation and graphics best!
Go check it out: https://marrocsevestory.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/day-6-rule-of-6/
Tip: Decloak Dumb or Lazy Gankers
The two biggest risks while exploring are gate camps (instalock or bubbled) and getting ganked in the site.
A dedicated pirate won’t warp to the signature at zero, but a casual ganker, or someone who is simply taking the opportunity to welcome you to their wormhole might warp to the signature at zero with the intention of either slow-boating cloaked to your location, or saving a collidable’s location so they can warp off and back.
If you jettison a piece of junk (carbon is perfect) at zero on the signature, and someone warps to the signature at zero, they’ll be decloaked by the jettisoned can, giving you notice they are present, and interested in paying a visit.
One option is to warp to zero when setting up your site perch, jettisoning the junk, then following yesterday’s tip to warp from perch to can to perch to can.
Happy hacking!
Tip: Don’t Slowboat in Exploration Sites
I see many explorers slowboating from one data or relic can to the next, typically with the use of a MWD.
Don’t!
Lesson Learned: Don’t trust Eve’s in-game appraisal, and Sleepers eat drones
I’m interested in pursuing the next step of exploration (sites with sleepers), and looking for an excuse to use my Stratios now that I’ve had a chance to learn how to use drones in some <blush>HS</blush> and LS anomalies, so I decided to head out to my friendly neighborhood C5 to try some Server Bank and Data Field ninja hacking.
Some thoughts on the Sunesis
tl;dr – Is this OP for K-space exploration and explorer-hunting? I feel like they’ve given too much value to covert ops cloak in balancing this ship for exploration. Perhaps limited supply is the only reason not to prefer this ship for those activites?
In response to
and the forums announcement on this interesting and attractive ship.
Sunensis class Society of Conscious Thought destroyer
Learning to EVE 