Friday, September 23, 2011

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. 

Osprey_Explorer

EFT_Osprey_Explorer

EFT_Osprey_Miner

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.

Imicus_scanning

EFT_Imucus_scanner

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

ScanningPower

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.

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