Exploration: Difference between revisions

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* Explore from a safe place

** While probing for exploration sites, your ship will be motionless for extended periods of time. This is dangerous in many parts of EVE. In high-sec, you will probably be perfectly safe idling some distance from a dockable station, or, say, 100km out from a planet. You will be even safer if you have a cloak fitted and activate it when you get to your spot. Indeed, you can explore cloaked so long as you remember to launch your probes ''first'' before engaging the cloaking device. In low-sec and other dangerous parts of space, you will want to explore from what's called a '''Safe Spot''', and you will pretty much always want to be cloaked. You can find more info on locating and using Safe Spots in the [[Bookmarks]] lesson, and high-sec is a great place to get in the habit of using Safe Spots to explore unhindered!

** After finding a safe spot for your ship, an extra precaution you can take is to '''point your ship in a semi-random direction away from the system’s major points of interest and then activate your Afterburner or Microwarpdrive'''. You can safely do this while focusing the majority of your attention on your probing. This is very helpful if you are flying without a cloak: the forward momentum makes it harder for hostile players to track you down, and even if they manage to, you will have a head start on them and should be able to escape!

** After finding a safe spot for your ship, an extra precaution you can take is to '''point your ship in a semi-random direction away from the system’s major points of interest and (if you're not cloaked) then activate your Afterburner or Microwarpdrive'''. You can safely do this while focusing the majority of your attention on your probing. This is very helpful if you are flying without a cloak: the forward momentum makes it harder for hostile players to track you down, and even if they manage to, you will have a head start on them and should be able to escape!

== Checking Your Ship Scanner ==

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 * Explore from a safe place
 ** While probing for exploration sites, your ship will be motionless for extended periods of time. This is dangerous in many parts of EVE. In high-sec, you will probably be perfectly safe idling some distance from a dockable station, or, say, 100km out from a planet. You will be even safer if you have a cloak fitted and activate it when you get to your spot. Indeed, you can explore cloaked so long as you remember to launch your probes ''first'' before engaging the cloaking device. In low-sec and other dangerous parts of space, you will want to explore from what's called a '''Safe Spot''', and you will pretty much always want to be cloaked. You can find more info on locating and using Safe Spots in the [[Bookmarks]] lesson, and high-sec is a great place to get in the habit of using Safe Spots to explore unhindered!
-** After finding a safe spot for your ship, an extra precaution you can take is to '''point your ship in a semi-random direction away from the system’s major points of interest and then activate your Afterburner or Microwarpdrive'''. You can safely do this while focusing the majority of your attention on your probing. This is very helpful if you are flying without a cloak: the forward momentum makes it harder for hostile players to track you down, and even if they manage to, you will have a head start on them and should be able to escape!
+** After finding a safe spot for your ship, an extra precaution you can take is to '''point your ship in a semi-random direction away from the system’s major points of interest and (if you're not cloaked) then activate your Afterburner or Microwarpdrive'''. You can safely do this while focusing the majority of your attention on your probing. This is very helpful if you are flying without a cloak: the forward momentum makes it harder for hostile players to track you down, and even if they manage to, you will have a head start on them and should be able to escape!
 == Checking Your Ship Scanner ==