Guide to combat sites: Difference between revisions

Combat sites are pockets in space filled with rats to shoot at. This guide focuses on the three most common types: [[Combat_sites#combat anomalies|Combat anomalies]] that can be found without probes and [[Combat_sites#Cosmic_signatures|cosmic signatures]] (unrated and DED rated) that need probes for locating. Cosmic anomalies are easier, have no ship restrictions and pay less. Unrated and DED rated combat sites require probes to scan down, have ship size limitations but pay on avarage more than anomalies . DED rated complexes pay especially well.

===Advantages:===

* Drops can be very inconsistent. Most of the time you get nothing but any of the sites can drop several hundred million isk worth of loot at once.

When doing anything in EVE you will need to use the right ship for the right job. While selecting the hull and fit you should remember the following:

* Exploration involves traveling around in multiple systems. You will be usually on your own and need to have everything you need in your ship.

* Probe launcher requires a high power slot. Some ships have so called "utility high" meaning they have more high slots taht weapon slots.

* Rats of different regions are different. Each deals different damage type, has different resist profile and uses different electronic warfare. You should at least select your hardeners to match the incoming damage.

** Angel (Minmatar space): Deals and is weak to explosive and kinetic damage. Uses target target painters that are mostly harmless.

** Rogue drones (everywhere). Deals various damage types, mostly kinetic, thermal and explosive. Weak to electromagnetic and thermal.

Cruisers can enter all cosmic anomalies, lookouts and unrated complexes that are above lookout and 3/10 DED complexes and above. Cruisers enjoy high damage and good tank. They can run most high security sites they can enter without issues. Only the hardest DED site is tricky hard and the hardest unrated complex is very hard for a cruiser.

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While battlecruiser can still enter all anomalies and same unrated complexes as cruisers it suffers from inability to enter 3/10 DED site that is commonly found in high security space. In general a battlecruiser is not a good choice for doing combat sites in high security space.

Combat sites can be divided anomalies, signatures, escalations and static complexes.

Once a Combat Anomaly has been completed it will disappear few minutes after you warp out, so make sure to bookmark the wrecks if you want to salvage them later. Ore sites will despawn when all asteroids have been depleted, or after an internal timer expires.

==Cosmic Signatures==

The deadspace complex usually consist warpin and one or more additional rooms. Any warp into the site will land on the warpin. In each room there is an acceleration gate that will fling ships to next room. The acceleration gates are however most of the time locked. Most common requirements for unlocking the gate are destrying all hostile NPC ships in the room, unlocking it with a tag (consumes tag), destroying a specific ship or destroying a specific structure.  

When running cosmic signatures it is often best to rush to the commander as fast as possible as they are the most profitable objects in the sites.

Sometimes, completing an exploration site will escalate to an expedition. These are like followup missions and usually have a chance to happen if you kill a faction spawn at the end of a site. If an escalation occurs a message window will appear with escalation message and the expedition is added to your journal on expeditions page.

Escalations from cosmic anomalies will lead to a deadspace complex that are normally found as cosmic signatures. Escalations from unrated cosmic signatures are unique four part expeditions that are only found as escalations. Each part has a chance to lead to location until fourth location is gained. Each of the three first locations have high chance to contain a faction commander with normal commander drops and the fourth location will usually contain quaranteed DED module drop.

==See also==

*[[Probing In Simple Steps]]

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