Guide to combat sites: Difference between revisions

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*you are not interested in running missions/mining/trading to earn some money?

*you want to earn some money with exploration?

Then this little guide might be something for you.

It's far from complete, but it may give you some advice what to do and what not to do.

It doesn't cover DRONE SITES - I just hate them and the angel sites give better loot+salvage.

This guide is about making a little money (up to 10mio/hour) with only astrometics 1, destroyers 1, mechanic+survey 3 (for salvaging) and eventually science 4 (for tractor beams).

I'm writing this cause I didn't find a single website that explained the exploration sites that can be done with a frigate or destroyer - an hour in the ingame EXPLORATION channel didn't help either... no one could help me, so I decided to collect some data and put it on the forum here.

To sum it up:

#First you scan down some anomalies/signatures.

#Then you kill the NPC's inside.

#While you do this, you bookmark a wreck at every site or if it has more than one room, in every room.

#Then you come back and salvage everything.

#Keep in mind that wrecks stay there for a maximum of 2 hours.

#There is no 6!

#Rinse and repeat until you have the skills to join worhmhole(WH) ops or until there is war or something. Smile

A note about scanning and WAR (and wormholes).

These are the IVY League Wartime Rules and they clearly state that no radar/gravimetric/exploration sites may be done while the UNI is at war. Magnetometric sites are not mentioned but "exploration" covers them all so don't do them while at war (you have other things to do then, anyway).

If you find one: warp to it and enter the name here: http://igb.bluesuntrust.com/wormhole.cfm or look there: http://www.eve-metrics.com/wormholes

While at war, you can be engaged at any time by a WarTarget(WT) - so best thing is to train for a covops ship(lvl4) +cloaking(lvl4) - If you are far away from that, you should always be at 0m to a station while scanning so as to be able to dock immediately - and have the local channel open all the time to see if there are WTs incoming.

NOTE: If you are using a ship fitted for long range fighting, you might have to use some different tactics.... I use short range because many NPC's spawn directly on my top and to kill cruisers, orbiting them close and fast is not bad to avoid ALL of their damage. Smile

*sisters core probe launcher/8 sisters core scanner probe

*200mm reinforced rolled tungsten plate (to tank while I loot the rare magneto/radar sites that spawn rats and to protect the 50mio of scanning equip a bit from hisec suicide gankers)

You only want to use something like this in a quiet place... in or near a trade hub it might attract suicide gankers. But never feel safe with a frig worth 100k with modules worth 60mil Wink - know what your are risking for 15% more scanning strength...

NOTE: I grouped in 4+3 cause some small frigs (hijackers, ...) pop from 3 guns if at close range, so i can take out 2 at once... for bigger ships, pressing 2 keys (F1+F2) isn't soo hard Wink - If you know what you're after and you won't get anything that instapops with only 3 guns you can group them all together - I'm too lazy and prefer to press F1+F2 together. Wink

For your info (about shiptypes, what damage they do and so on)