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=== Exploration === | === Exploration === | ||
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[[Exploration]] is a broad category of activities that mostly have to do with searching for and acquiring various items of value that can be sold to other EVE players. Acquiring these items may involve combat, explosions, and puzzle solving. Exploration is not as organized as mission running, nor as consistently productive as mining, but it can provide considerable excitement and may produce extremely valuable loot. | [[Exploration]] is a broad category of activities that mostly have to do with searching for and acquiring various items of value that can be sold to other EVE players. Acquiring these items may involve combat, explosions, and puzzle solving. Exploration is not as organized as mission running, nor as consistently productive as mining, but it can provide considerable excitement and may produce extremely valuable loot. | ||
* [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Scanning#Scan_results Combat Anomalies] - pirate or other NPC sites that contain loot and, usually, NPC combat units. These appear occasionally in most systems and can be located with your ship's built-in scanner. | * [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Scanning#Scan_results Combat Anomalies] - pirate or other NPC sites that contain loot and, usually, NPC combat units. These appear occasionally in most systems and can be located with your ship's built-in [[directional scanner]]. | ||
* [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Scanning#Scan_results Cosmic Signatures] - hidden NPC sites of unknown origin, these can only be located with a [[Scanning|probe scanner]]. Generally, these are more difficult but more lucrative than combat anomalies. | * [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Scanning#Scan_results Cosmic Signatures] - hidden NPC sites of unknown origin, these can only be located with a [[Scanning|probe scanner]]. Generally, these are more difficult but more lucrative than combat anomalies. | ||
* [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Combat_sites#Expeditions Escalations (if available)] - also known as "expeditions", these are more advanced combat sites that appear occasionally at the completion of a regular site. Escalations are chains of up to four sites, each of which has a random chance of appearing, and each of which is located in a system with lower security than its predecessor. | * [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Combat_sites#Expeditions Escalations (if available)] - also known as "expeditions", these are more advanced combat sites that appear occasionally at the completion of a regular site. Escalations are chains of up to four sites, each of which has a random chance of appearing, and each of which is located in a system with lower security than its predecessor. | ||