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Currently, The Explorer's Handbook is a rough outline - but eventually, it will become your trusted exploration guide to New Eden, Anoikis, and beyond. However, we need your help to make this a reality. Please participate in our Exploration Adopt-A-Page Initiative! Your contributions are greatly appreciated. :)
Overview of Exploration
Exploration in EVE is a term which aggregates the activities and skills required to locate and collect loot from Cosmic Signatures in game, but is also associated with the discovery of landmarks. Primary gameplay loop is;
- Ensure your safety through smart habits.
- Navigate to a system to explore in.
- Locate Signatures and/or Landmarks. This is primarily done via scanning probes, but also can be done via Bookmarks.
- Interact with your chosen Signature/Landmark. This may include hacking, gas huffing, combat or simply enjoying the view.
- Collect the reward (and eventually sell it).
The loop is straightforward and has a low skill floor (a Day 1 player can participate). However, the diversity of signatures, loot and landmarks in game, combined with the unique navigation challenges and PvP elements between K-Space and J-Space make this relatively simple loop have an incredible amount of depth of play.
There are five kinds of exploration sites one might encounter while participating in exploration activities, these being mining sites, gas sites, combat sites, relic sites, and data sites. Mining and combat sites will often appear as anomalies without having to scan them down with a core probe launcher, and work very much like mining and combat anomalies in other aspects of the game. Gas sites operate like mining anomalies, save for that instead of ore or ice to mine, they have gas deposits that one can collect with gas scoops or gas harvesters.
Relic and data sites are unique in that they require specialized analyzers fitted to your ship in order to interact with them. Both of them contain different cannisters one must access with the relevant analyzer module, which opens the hacking minigame. Once the minigame is complete, one can open the cannister to take the contents, which may be anything from an empty cache to tens of millions of ISK worth of scavenged materials.
The sixth 'site' you may encounter, wormholes, are not really a site at all, but more akin to a doorway. They can lead anywhere, from high sec space, to null sec, to the unknown depths of wormhole space. Be careful with these, they won't automatically be marked on your scanner on the other side, so we recommend bookmarking your exits so you can get back if need be.
Treating ships like ammo
Exploration is a high risk/reward activity, every time you undock a ship have the mindset that you already lost it. Signal Cartel provides free fitted T1 Exploration frigates in most of our stations, use them to learn and explore all corners of EVE Universe. A good rule of thumb is to seldom undock something you can not replace twice (there are always exceptions to the rule).
Exploded Explorer SRP
... but you'll live
Skills and Implants
This article discusses the skills and implants that make up the core of the exploration trade, as well as additional useful skills, and information on skill planning resources. If you're looking to up your game as an explorer, upgrade to the next level of gear, or just want to decide what skill to train next, step inside!
Directional Scanner and Overview
short overview
Exploration Ships
An overview of the various Pros and Cons of commonly used exploration ships.
Exploration Ship Fitting Guide
Once you have decided on which ship to fly, you will need to think about how to equip it for exploring New Eden.
short overview
Landmarks, Oddities, Lore and History
From just a beacon in space to a floating titan wreck and a destroyed world, Eve has it all. Find them on the list of landmarks to visit or explore them with our TripTiks
How to Probe and Scan Cosmic Signatures
Scanning is one of the core abilities of a successful explorer, it´s the ability to find and pinpoint those elusive cosmic signatures and turn them into identified sites.
Site Types
short overview
How to Perform the Hack
This article covers how to play the Hacking Minigame, which sites contain hackable containers, and lists the tools of the trade (skills, ships, modules and implants) needed to make a successful hack. In basic terms, the goal of this minigame is to find and defeat the system core without losing coherence to the defensive subsystems that protect the core. This is done by following the various routes through the system, paying attention to the numbers presented. The number indicates how many nodes away a utility system, data cache, or system core is. One can use utility systems as 'power ups' to defeat the defensive subsystems, while data caches my hide either a defensive subsystem or a utility subsystem. This video guide, as well as this follow up, contain a multitude of tips and tricks to make it through the hacking minigame most effectively.
Loot and where to sell it
short overview
Exploration Tips and Tricks
Some useful tips that cover most of exploration topics right HERE
