Unknown sites

During last month I have been selling that loot I found during my previous testing period and bought some new modules and Vexor to get my exploring to a new level.

With new ship I have been scanning now new sites and put my energy also to figure out these unknown sites on high-sec space.

What I have been find worth of doing so far was 3/10 DED site (Sasha’s Command Relay Outpost) and Sasha Watch. Both though take some time to complete with my current skills and ship, but income is decent if you salvage and loot all wrecks.

Weird though that although I also found some magnetometric and gravimetric sites during the month I was not able to find ANY radars so many wise this month was not that good that previous one. Note though that last night I then find two radars. So those are not totally lost.

During a one mining operation on hidden asteroid belt, my guardian drones also shoot down one True Sasha ship and I got most valuable individual loot item so far: Low-Grade Slave Beta. That was a nice surprise indeed.

I also ran some troubles during last month. Luckily got away alive and ship intact on those. Few times I ran with several others Sasha Watch site because I wasn’t fast enough. Gladly those others didn’t shoot me pieces and they even let me proceed my salvage etc. what I was doing.

Second time I got warning on hidden asteroid belt from fellow miner who proceed my Jetcan and took some ores from there front of my eyes. I think he/she tried to provoke me to shoot him/her but I didn’t see any point on that. I just warped away and marked him/her to my ‘friends’ list with negative standing so I remember to avoid him/her next time.

My next goals are of course find some new sites and check if Crusible expansion actually changed something for example on magnetometric sites. And hopefully find also new radar sites because those seems to still yield best profits.

Happy hunting everyone!

Summary: What I learned?

During last five weeks I have learning basics of exploring. I wanted to know how easy (or hard) is to find sites and how much ISK you can get with a decent amount of time spent a each week.

During that time I found total 145 signatures, six radars, three magnetometric and eight gravimetric sites. As expected radars were most profitable on hi-sec space and quite much time I spend also to mining few gravimetric sites while doing something else. If you calculate probability to find a radar site on my test it was less than 5%.

My total playing time was about 27 hours during these few weeks so about 5,5 hours a week. That is a little bit more than I usually spend and I also spend several hours to gather statistics, loot values and write these blogs. I also find out that my reporting template were a little bit too heavy but wanted to keep it same so I can wrap up this test properly.

What a learned? I learned that exploring can be very profitable and I gathered more money (or loot anyway) than I gathered before during my short career. So I would say it IS profitable for newbies also. All sites which I visited were easy to handle even with a small frigate so you don’t need expensive ship and big guns for those.

My loot value is somewhere between 94-120M ISK but we will see in a future how it sell. I’ll start to sell it piece by piece. It is though pretty far from PLEX price, so with this knowledge, I would like to say that it will need way more hours to gather 350M ISK in a month for a ‘free’ subscription…and with that amount of time spend to game I’m not sure if that anymore fun or is that wise. Spending 15€ or less to pay subscription is easier.

One point I’ll have to say though that my testing was not optimal if you think about time I spend. If you strictly scan down lot of sites and ONLY visit radar sites you can get better profit for you time. But I wanted also check out other site types, learn and use a time when I can’t play 100% of my time and concentrate to the game for mining.

Testing period was small and it is too early to answer the question “How much playing time it would take to get 350M ISK?”. If you want to calculate it based with my luck, you need about 24 radar sites. This is based the fact that my loot value from radars was about 88M ISK and that dived to six, it’s about 15M per site. And if it would be 24 sites and to find radar site it was about 4% of the total sites you need to find 580 signatures. Depending your luck and scanning skills it would take time. I don’t say it is impossible because so many have done it, but either my luck on this test was bad, I was on bad region or it just takes lot of more playing time.

I also spend a little money during this test to skills and got some bounty money, but if you consider loot value those both, it was so small amount of money.

In a future I’m definitely continue exploring and my next goal is start checking also unknown sites and learning those. For that I’ll have to buy a new ship and fit that. I got some great setups and ideas from community but I’ll think I’ll start with Vexor  first to learn things. Reason for that is that my current skill set support that ship and fighting setup best.

Send comments using in-game mailing system if you have something to ask and donations are also welcome if you liked this blog series. I might continue this series if there is enough interest among community. But who knows if I continue blogging again and share my experiences along the way while flight to unknown sites and explore low sec space, even if nobody care, just for fun.

Happy hunting everyone and see you in game!

Hacking and mining

This time I ran two different circles. First run was good one. Although  I only located two sites but that first radar site was good one. Second magnetometric site was again disappointment. Only some standard crap loot what you can salvage from any rat you shoot down. Total run worth is anyway about 17.5M because of that radar site.

My second run few days later was better. I found one radar, one magnetometric and four gravimetric sites. Radar one was again success and magnetometric site was again as empty as previous ones. Before gravimetric sites my loot was about this:

Gravimetric sites I found was mostly Omber based sites from small to large. Omber reprocessing and mining with current market prices is worse than Veldspar, so I decided to skip those. I though find small Kernite deposit and decided to mine all Kernite because minerals from that has better ISK/m3 value.

After several hours mining, hauling and reprocessing my total loot from these rounds was something between 40-50M ISK including some loot from rats along the way. Not bad.

It is about a month now passed since I started to explore and on my next blog I’ll wrap up what I have learned and reveal my plans for a future. As you might have noticed I have learned several new skills during this time to support my next goals.

Statistics

Found sites (on parentheses) and visited ones without by type.

Time used:  1.75 hours

System	Total	Radar	Magnetometric	Gravimetric
1	8
2	3
3	1
4	1
5	0
6	1
7	2		(1) 1
8	1
9	7	(1) 1

Time used: 6.5 hours

System	Total	Radar	Magnetometric	Gravimetric
1	4			(2) 1
2	5	(1) 1		(1)
3	2
4	0
5	0
6	1
7	3
8	1
9	4		(1) 1	(1)

Estimate market price and other income

Loot found so far and estimate average prices

Item	Qty	Domain Average	EVE Market Average
50mm Reinforced Nanofiber Plates I	1	21 769.07	25 038.22
50mm Reinforced Titanium Plates I	1	21 948.08	25 860.04
Armor Plates	19	178 078.13	190 858.77
Auxiliary Parts	45	349.00	959.83
Broken Drone Transceiver	2	75.45	129.56
Burned Logic Circuit	11	13 518.75	16 548.34
Cargo Scanner I	1	1 074.03	1 989.46
Charred Micro Circuit	5	129.34	199.94
Civilian Shield Booster I	2	1 368.15	5 763.64
Classic Doctrine	1	9 002 937.52	12 236 017.07
Condensed Alloy	11	972.44	1 049.99
Contaminated Nanite Compound	22	1 771.99	2 268.52
Crystal Compound	10	736.96	1 699.00
Damaged Artificial Neural Network	16	143.05	430.77
Datacore - High Energy Physics	1	170 521.21	181 466.54
Datacore - Hydromagnetic Physics	1	242 855.66	259 954.55
Defective Current Pump	6	93.43	326.82
Dual Light Pulse Laser I	1	5 193.45	9 319.09
Dual Modal Pulse Laser I	1	20 955.68	19 552.64
Formation Layout	4	7 628 489.62	9 280 000.00
Fried Interface Circuit	15	1 409.63	1 665.13
Gatling Pulse Laser I	3	477.37	9 999.99
Gleaming Alloy	3	2 763.18	3 788.98
Golden Omber	286	34.66	45.45
Hobgoblin I	1	3 144.98	3 392.91
Infrared S	1	1 053.65	1 186.46
Isogen	169 993	61.95	62.97
Jaspet	253	238.21	278.99
Kernite	353	147.19	175.00
Luminous Kernite	245	107.55	139.49
Malfunctioning Shield Emitter	1	227.53	699.93
Melted Capacitor Console	2	17 034.62	17 991.93
Mexallon	259 342	33.43	34.31
Multifrequency S	1	4 048.89	3 197.87
Nocxium	7 232	428.90	442.38
Omber	337	89.65	67.39
Partial E95a Power Conduit	1	1 209.83	4 373.49
Passive Targeter I	1	35 252.35	42 494.03
Photon Scattering Field I	2	47 728.82	64 000.00
Positron Cord	227	8.54	499.90
Precious Alloy	8	926.08	1 014.00
Pristine Jaspet	176	236.01	314.91
Pure Jaspet	424	130.01	300.00
Pyerite	31 312	4.50	4.38
Sacred Manifesto	8	3 242 508.47	4 911 898.39
Sheen Compound	3	3 307.19	3 586.52
Silvery Omber	125	31.25	48.92
Small Energy Neutralizer I	1	13 367.49	17 570.00
Small Energy Transfer Array I	6	26 696.84	29 510.39
Small Hull Repairer I	1	23 625.84	27 500.06
Small Remote Armor Repair System I	1	4 388.92	5 899.69
Suppressed Targeting System I	1	371.72	839.04
Tangled Power Conduit	3	185.55	448.86
Tripped Power Circuit	13	68 143.14	69 897.06
Tritanium	177 225	3.31	3.47
Warp Disruptor I	1	22 749.62	39 591.14
Zydrine	221	750.12	794.32
Estimate Total		94 363 548.75	118 842 306.05

Bounty Prizes (cumulative): 252 625 ISK

Expenses (cumulative)

Item	Cost
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x 1	385 504.88
Repair	32
Jaspet Processing	157 500.00
Omber Processing	112 500.00
Kernite Processing	135 000.00
Gallente Cruiser	450 000.00
Medium Hybrid Turret	90 000.00
Total	1 240 536.88

Skill updates

Following skills got updates after previous blog report

Afterburner
Gallente Cruiser
Caldari Cruiser
Caldari Battleship
Medium Hybrid Turret

Archeology and mining

This post includes two separate runs. On a first run I found on my home system two interesting spots. First one was magnetometric site and I was thrilled. Finally I can see my first one. I prepared for a some resistance with my best ship but site was empty…no rats. Just few debris ‘containers’ and not much worth on that site. So a little disappointment.

Then I find average size of gravimetric site. Although I learned on previous round that these take time…and this was even larger I decided to mine as much I can during that three days before site despawn. I spend over 6 hours mining and hauling that and got most mine every Kernite and Golden Omber.

Few days ago I ran whole circle + some extra systems during a hour and find only anomalies and unknown sites. So that was empty run.

Here is the loot I gathered from rats and sites. It is worth of about 10M according EVE Market Data Average prices.

I also changed EVE Central prices to EVE Market data Average prices on following summary table because EVE Central prices seemed to be out of sync somehow. So total worth of loot is somewhere near 50M currently.

I also learned more processing skills to avoid waste on refining and learned more mechanics and drone skills.

Statistics

Found sites (on parentheses) and visited ones without by type.

Time used:  7 hours

System	Total	Radar	Magnetometric	Gravimetric
1	9		(1) 1	(1) 1

Time used: 1 hours

System	Total	Radar	Magnetometric	Gravimetric
1	6
2	4
3	1
4	1
5	2
6	0
7	1
8	3
9	2
10	5
11	11

Estimate market price and other income

Loot found so far and estimate average prices

Item	Qty	Domain Average	EVE Market Average
50mm Reinforced Nanofiber Plates I	1	20 403.42	25 404.19
50mm Reinforced Titanium Plates I	1	21 456.24	26 567.60
Armor Plates	15	175 076.95	183 179.55
Auxiliary Parts	21	211.41	916.83
Broken Drone Transceiver	1	59.69	93.20
Burned Logic Circuit	1	15 656.09	14 275.48
Cargo Scanner I	1	982.10	2 212.25
Charred Micro Circuit	3	206.01	219.89
Civilian Shield Booster I	2	1 358.79	1 500.00
Condensed Alloy	4	959.44	1 018.04
Contaminated Nanite Compound	8	1 817.16	2 356.57
Crystal Compound	9	1 058.38	1 138.53
Damaged Artificial Neural Network	10	150.09	451.95
Datacore - High Energy Physics	1	184 277.59	187 344.84
Defective Current Pump	2	92.16	148.78
Dual Light Pulse Laser I	1	5 538.95	11 960.32
Dual Modal Pulse Laser I	1	25 163.23	4 000.00
Formation Layout	2	7 489 579.24	8 992 534.17
Fried Interface Circuit	4	1 352.92	1 700.58
Gatling Pulse Laser I	2	908.64	1 450.10
Gleaming Alloy	1	3 475.80	3 794.85
Golden Omber	286	34.25	67.48
Hobgoblin I	1	3 643.13	3 299.53
Infrared S	1	1 244.27	550.01
Isogen	113 477	60.20	61.95
Jaspet	253	203.12	290.00
Kernite	227	141.84	191.68
Luminous Kernite	80	130.66	139.05
Malfunctioning Shield Emitter	1	220.35	641.54
Melted Capacitor Console	1	13 302.18	17 581.42
Mexallon	146 155	31.77	32.61
Multifrequency S	1	4 675.57	3 195.64
Nocxium	7 232	409.40	418.87
Omber	337	84.11	149.95
Partial E95a Power Conduit	1	1 192.60	5 998.99
Passive Targeter I	1	36 042.16	45 460.29
Photon Scattering Field I	2	50 815.39	99 999.00
Positron Cord	113	14.90	396.28
Precious Alloy	6	924.66	1 024.97
Pristine Jaspet	176	245.00	250.21
Pure Jaspet	424	125.00	310.00
Pyerite	31 312	4.37	4.25
Sacred Manifesto	4	3 526 810.42	4 195 151.02
Sheen Compound	3	3 342.21	3 499.38
Silvery Omber	125	31.25	49.99
Small Energy Transfer Array I	4	23 228.63	29 599.97
Small Hull Repairer I	1	23 448.83	27 985.88
Small Remote Armor Repair System I	1	4 017.74	6 760.11
Suppressed Targeting System I	1	325.01	899.18
Tangled Power Conduit	2	203.27	383.67
Tripped Power Circuit	5	63 250.08	70 695.85
Tritanium	120 709	3.23	3.38
Zydrine	221	767.39	744.40
Estimate Total		48 014 693.66	54 616 663.88

Bounty Prizes (cumulative): 161 750 ISK

Expenses (cumulative)

Item	Cost
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x 1	385 504.88
Repair	32
Jaspet Processing	157 500.00
Omber Processing	112 500.00
Kernite Processing	135 000.00
Total	790 536.88

Skill updates

Following skills got updates after previous blog report

Drone Durability
Mechanic
Drone Interfacing
Kernite Processing

Quick run…not

I was about to go to sleep few nights ago but decided to ‘quickly’ check if I find something. My home system was empty but from next system I found five different sites.

One of them was radar site and I found one Sacred Manifest and got some loot from rats.

I also scanned down a Gravimetric site “Small Jaspet, Kernite and Omber Deposit” and decided the check that out. First I though just to mine Jaspet but end up mining it totally next day while reading and doing something else same time. I wanted to check out how much I can mine and haul and is it worth on ISK.

I also trained Omber and Jaspet processing to get rid of waste while refine. My refine skills are good enough for “perfect” refine, but I still have to pay some taxes to company because my standing is not high enough.

 

End result from gravimetric site is presented on following loot pictures.

So this trip took about 5 hours totally and estimate market price jumped about 10M. I have to agree that Gravimetric sites are not very fast money but in other hand scanning down the site is not harder than radar site and according veteran explorers they don’t even bother to scan those down.  So I think those are pretty safe to mine and most of the time you can do something else while mining and hauling the site so you can earn money pretty safe manner.

Same money would be possible to get also from just standard asteroid belts but hauling point of view in a hidden asteroid belt it is more secure to use Jetcan -method, so it is a litter faster to out mine the site.

Statistics

Found sites (on parentheses) and visited ones without by type.

Time used:  5 hours

System	Total	Radar	Magnetometric	Gravimetric
1	2
2	5	(1) 1		(1) 1

 

Estimate market price and other income

Loot found so far and estimate average prices

Item	Qty	Domain Average	EVE-Central Average
50mm Reinforced Nanofiber Plates I	1	21 672.36	26 215.19
Armor Plates	2	171 390.72	326 561.90
Auxiliary Parts	21	206.07	18 640.27
Broken Drone Transceiver	1	26.04	1 162.97
Burned Logic Circuit	1	13 468.94	19 494.07
Charred Micro Circuit	3	142.81	1 317.47
Civilian Shield Booster I	2	929.45	28 999.01
Condensed Alloy	3	929.28	71 175.16
Contaminated Nanite Compound	6	2 613.55	2 170.06
Crystal Compound	6	1006.32	11 504.51
Datacore – High Energy Physics	1	199 333.38	2 111 739.17
Defective Current Pump	1	78.41	2 506.24
Dual Light Pulse Laser I	1	8 309.35	83 094.46
Dual Modal Pulse Laser I	1	53 726.84	140 840.17
Formation Layout	2	8 168 324.64	8 266 100.96
Fried Interface Circuit	4	1 317.22	2 436.98
Gleaming Alloy	1	3 348.24	2 973.11
Infrared S	1	1 206.81	705 007.28
Isogen	31 049	61.22	70.13
Jaspet	253	248.88	197.22
Melted Capacitor Console	1	14 207.21	27 352.56
Mexallon	14 464	31.11	34.54
Nocxium	7 232	417.15	1 088.74
Omber	337	98.15	117.21
Passive Targeter I	1	37 483.64	48 842.54
Photon Scattering Field I	1	45 392.11	85 988.03
Positron Cord	113	21.10	4 665.19
Precious Alloy	5	908.02	1 460.42
Pristine Jaspet	176	248.65	223.62
Pure Jaspet	424	103.51	225.82
Pyerite	24 643	4.44	5.31
Sacred Manifesto	4	4 203 972.99	4 735 679.05
Sheen Compound	1	3 289.59	2 811.90
Silvery Omber	125	31.26	42.94
Small Energy Transfer Array I	1	27 631.55	30 676.97
Suppressed Targeting System I	1	363.43	50 262.18
Tangled Power Conduit	2	208.53	8 429.46
Tripped Power Circuit	5	63 222.93	68 607.80
Tritanium	38 281	3.33	4.73
Zydrine	221	763.42	822.48
Estimate Total		40 245 538.85	52 394 473.05

Bounty Prizes (cumulative): 82 750 ISK

Expenses (cumulative)

Item	Cost
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x 1	385 504.88
Repair	32
Jaspet Processing	157 500.00
Omber Processing	112 500.00
Total	655 536.88

Skill updates

Following skills got updates after previous blog report

Standard Missiles
Jaspet Processing
Omber Processing

More loot

Here is my updated sensor strengths for those you want to know. With Sisters Probe it is 83 and Core Probe 75.5.

This round I found one Radar site on my home system but others were just Anomalies or Unknown sites which I skipped. So found some more loot but that site was without rats so no additional loot…only these:

After that scanning trip I got update to my skills and with my current skills here are new sensor strengths. I hope these help me now even quicker scan down sites to at least to 25% to figure out the type of the site. By the way I noticed that I failed to report on my starting skills that I have Gallente Frigate on level 4. That might explains why my sensor strength is this high with Imicus.

Updated statistic and loot info can be found on following tables. Not totally bad trip because that Formation Layout is worth of almost 8M ISK.

Statistics

Found sites (on parentheses) and visited ones without by type.

Time used:  2 hours

System	Total	Radar	Magnetometric	Gravimetric
1	7	(1) 1
2	1
3	0
4	1
5	0
6	2
7	3
8	2
9	2

 

Estimate market price and other income

Loot found so far and estimate average prices

Item	Qty	Domain Average	EVE-Central Average
50mm Reinforced Nanofiber Plates I	1	19 167.30	31 887.11
Armor Plates	1	175 760.15	339 211.90
Charred Micro Circuit	3	111.39	1 311.86
Civilian Shield Booster I	1	2 728.38	54 987.78
Contaminated Nanite Compound	2	2 375.51	2 165.81
Datacore – High Energy Physics	1	199 294.43	2 124 690.52
Dual Light Pulse Laser I	1	4 968.93	92 581.74
Dual Modal Pulse Laser I	1	6 911.48	140 220.80
Formation Layout	2	7 800 011.01	8 420 479.97
Melted Capacitor Console	1	13 223.18	27 681.91
Positron Cord	68	12.08	4 581.86
Sacred Manifesto	3	4 505 588.67	4 769 344.33
Suppressed Targeting System I	1	325.00	51 866.75
Tangled Power Conduit	1	194.66	8 531.75
Tripped Power Circuit	2	62 387.02	69 149.04
Estimate Total		29 670 042.21	34 478 784.39

Bounty Prizes (cumulative): 45 750 ISK

Expenses (cumulative)

Item	Cost
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x 1	385 504.88
Repair	17
Total	385 521.88

Skill updates

Following skills got updates after previous blog report

Astrometric Rangefinding

First contact

Based on feedback from experienced players, I updated a little my Imicus setup. It now has more speed and has three Acolytes for damage. I’ll switch drones later based on rats.

I was on my way to buy a new Sisters Probe to get better scanning strength but decided to scan first my home system. I found 8 signatures (6 unknown) and started to scan those down.

First one was radar type and I was thrilled. I finally find something. Scanned it down little by little and finally got it 100%.

I recalled my probes and jumped on 30 km range from the site. It includes about 6-8 rats but because I didn’t know how hard those were I started to get closer little by little to get first hits. Those were Centii Servants and I quickly got attention when I went closer. Turned over, kicked my afterburners and launched drones. I was ready to hit armor repair if needed but suddenly I realize something…three targets were gone and I didn’t even got single hit. My Acolyte drones, which I thought would be pretty much useless, dropped those Servants so fast that I didn’t even noticed. I have used to little harder rats on my missions so far.

I killed other rats (or my drones did), cracked those containers and salvaged the wrecks. From the first site I got two Sacred Manifesto and some smaller loot.

Then I returned the the station, did some repairs to drones and scanned second signal. It was also a radar! Scanning that down to 100% took awhile and I was close to call it off. Got it 99.99% and first it seemed that I can’t get it to 100%. But some probe re-arrangement I finally managed to get it done.

Second radar site was pretty much same than previous site regarding difficulty. So it was quite fast farmed. I have to though point out that my drone skills are decent so that helps me a little. I found there one Sacred Manifesto more and one Formation Layout.

It was over midnight on that point so I had to hit the bed and leave those other sites intact. But for 1.5 hour job I was tired but pretty pleased what I got. You can see my gathered statistics below and estimated values on my region and based on EVE-Central info.

Statistics

Found sites (on parentheses) and visited ones without by type.

Time used: 1.5 hours

System	Total	Radar	Magnetometric	Gravimetric
1	8	(2) 2

 

Estimate market price and other income

Loot found so far and estimate average prices

Item	Qty	Domain Average	EVE-Central Average
50mm Reinforced Nanofiber Plates I	1	22 588.89	31 826.47
Armor Plates	1	180 230.79	336 619.18
Charred Micro Circuit	3	188.19	1 278.59
Civilian Shield Booster I	1	267.50	35 027.63
Contaminated Nanite Compound	2	177.63	2 415.96
Dual Light Pulse Laser I	1	5 325.37	78 164.77
Dual Modal Pulse Laser I	1	11 521.06	133 613.02
Formation Layout	1	7 800 009.07	8 068 115.56
Melted Capacitor Console	1	15 074.72	27 335.23
Positron Cord	68	14.65	11 890.76
Sacred Manifesto	3	4 166 425.00	4 818 960.42
Suppressed Targeting System I	1	173.08	51 801.51
Tangled Power Conduit	1	202.58	9 600.11
Tripped Power Circuit	2	69 717.41	69 519.30
Estimate Total		20 676 018.91	24 185 253.71

Bounty Prizes (cumulative): 45 750 ISK

Expenses (cumulative)

Item	Cost
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x 1	385 504.88
Repair	17
Total	385 521.88

Found something…but no paycheck this time

Here are results from my first journey. You can check statistics end of this post but as a summary I found some signatures and scanned every signature at least to 25+% to find out signature group.

Most of sites were Unknown or Cosmic Anomalies but I manage to find two Gravimetric sites, but signals were quite weak and I gave up one of them because I had to go 0,25 AU and just tried to move probes to find if that movement change was good or bad.

Second Gravimetric site based on Type (Small Omber Deposit) seemed not worth of time to use scanning it to 100% and mine after that. Standard Asteroid belts can provide better profit…at least on that case.

 

What I’m going to do to perform better? I already started to increase my skill level on Astrometric Rangefinding to increase probe strength. Also going to buy one Sisters Core Scanner Probe to help some more.

So about 2.5 hours used to this round without paycheck. I’m getting better with probes so maybe next time I find something. At least I think I will do scanning faster.

Statistics

Found sites (on parentheses) and visited ones without.

Time used: 2.5 hours

System	Total	Radar	Magnetometric	Gravimetric
1	2
2	7
3	3
4	0
5	4
6	1
7	1			(1) 0
8	4			(1) 0
9	1

 

Skill updates

Following skills got updates after previous blog report

Scout Drone Operation
Drone Sharpshooting

My starting point for exploration

I wanted to describe better my starting point before undock to explore unknown territories. Beware now experienced players…you might see something newbie things here, so have fun.

Ships and fittings

As I told I have been invested to mining so far and I want to utilize my current ships I have for now. These are not best in a market for this job but something what I’m planning for use during test period.

My main ship is Osprey which is a T1 mining cruiser. I have currently two main setups for Osprey. One set is for clearing rats in sites and fitting either radar or magnetometric sites (Codebreaker/Analyzer). Other set is for mining for Gravimetric sites if I found something to mine. 

For scanning and easy (no rats or only few) radar sites I’m planning to use Imicus. That setup which is on these pictures is more or less scanning setup and I’ll switch Salvager and Codebreaker when entering to sites. We will see how it goes. I might change this setup more faster (Afterburner) from current tanking version if it seems to work better for my playing style. But because I don’t know much what I’m against want to take this approach first.

With my current skills and fitting it will give almost 63 base sensor strength

Skills

I don’t plan to list here all my current skills but wanted to point out a few which might have relevance my performance during this test.

Drones
Combat Drone Operation
Drone Durability
Drone Interfacing
Drone Sharpshooting
Drones
Scout Drone Operation

Mechanic
Salvaging

Missile Launcher Operation
Missile Launcher Operation
Standard Missiles

Science
Archaeology
Astrogeology
Astrometric Acquisition
Astrometric Pinpointing
Astrometric Rangefinding
Astrometrics
Hacking
Science

Engineering
Energy Grid Upgrades
Energy Systems Operation
Engineering
Shield Management
Shield Operation
Shield Upgrades

 

Preparations for route

Experienced players told that it would be good to make route which you go trough while scanning down the sites. Therefore I planned a route which is a loop near my current home station. I don’t want to point out exact route but it is in Amarr space and systems security standings vary between 0.7-1.0 in this initial nine jump route.