Timestamps: Start (0:00) Why wormhole exploration (1:05) Wormhole systems explained (1:47) Relic vs Data site loot (2:43) Skills for scans (3:49) How I earnt my first hundreds of millions (5:20) Tip for finding good wormholes (5:33) How to tell the type of wormhole (6:10) Always bookmark wormholes (7:00) Making a safe (8:12) Good to go through other wormholes (9:26) Anoik.is website (9:47) Static & Wandering wormholes (10:03) D-scan explained (12:21) Setting D-scan filters (14:15) Pinpointing objects with D-scan (15:36) Get into the habit of D-scanning (17:00) Class of wormhole systems to explore in (17:56) Zkillboard to look up info on people (18:30) How if a wormhole is bad without going in it (21:20) Relic/Data sites you NEVER want to do (22:05) Tell the type of space the wormhole leads to (23:05) Finding quiet high-sec systems (23:22) Exploration ISK is variable (23:50) Checking if a wormhole system has hunters with Zkill (25:42) Nasty cloaky exploration hunters (27:22) Best types of Data cans (27:50) Where the system core usually is (28:32) Hacking buffs (29:30) Hacking Random white circle (31:00) Failing hacks (33:55) Keep close to hacking cans (34:10) Rule of six revision (34:45) Turn off MWD when hacking (35:35) Setting destinations in wormholes (38:30) Benefit of Corax in PVE (39:00) Perimeter trade hub explained (40:08) Downside of basing in a citadel (40:52) Selling items and getting CASH! (41:46)
So I watched all of your videos, did everything as directed (except for Gallente). With 10 hours under my belt and 2 Imicus frigates in my hangar, I venture out to a wormhole for the first time, following your guide. Except I missed the part about not warping to a Perimeter/Frontier data site ... first anomaly, boom, one-shot death. No worries, I had nothing in my cargo bay, ship was insured, and I had another Imicus in the hangar. So right back out I go. Very first data site ... 13 million pull. Another in that same system yielded another 5 million. Found another wormhole ... nobody there, lots of anomalies. Lots of unsuccessful hacks and low pulls gave me 14 million over about 90 minutes, for a total of 34 million in my cargo hold ... starting to think about heading home, given that is more than 3x of ISK in my newbro bank account (10.6 million). Of course I'm D-scanning the whole time ... suddenly, in the middle of a relic site hack, my D-scan picks up probes. I think about abandoning the hack and jumping to my saved Safe Location, but naaaaahhhhhh, the yields have been crappy the last few sites and now I'm greedy ... WAIT, A HELIOS! 7 km!! I click "Warp to 0 km" for Safe Location, and.... nothing. I'm warp scrambled. Boom. Pod jettisons. Boom. Pod destroyed. Bye bye 34 million ISK on my very first exploration run. So I message the guy who killed me, telling him I must have just missed jumping away by a split second, because I clicked as soon as he popped up on my D-scan. He said he was hunting a Cheetah in the system, and I was just collateral damage ... he asked me what I did, I told him, he said I did everything right, but he's been playing since 2008. I said "I've been playing 10 hours lol." Next thing I know 55 million ISK appears in my account, he gives me an invite to his corp, and says "keep harvesting those wormhole systems ... but next time, trust your instincts and jump to the safe zone before trouble arrives." I LOVE THIS GAME. And sorry about your 2.2 billion loss the other day Ace......
So cool to hear your story and how it worked out for you like that 😁👍 also a good way to know if a type of hacking site is safe is if it has a pirate name in it eg (Sansha, guristas, angel, blood raider) these are all safe ones.
Just put this one into practice today after a day of moving home to Jita. spent 1.2m on a nice explorer ship, 2 hours spent in three wormhole rooms, all wormholes to C4/5 wormholes :(. took a break for the maintenance, then 1.5 hours in one wormhole room, 3 data sites and a relic site later I had a cargo space filled with 60m worth of loot and a nervous pilot back to Jita hammering my dock button as i hit my dock marker. so probably 40-45m profit (still selling after a few hours)
I can't stress enough how much this whole series helped me out. Great deal of basic knowledge in a pill that can be easily digested. Loved it! Tried my first explo run today and got blown to pieces lol. So I've quickly fitted out another ship and this time used advice with searching for area that was not used by any pilots. After 45 mins of jumping in wormholes I've came out with 18 mil worth of stuff. It's such a great feeling
Just started playing again after a 6 year break. Thanks for your guides. They really helped me a lot, to get back into the game. And im sure they will be helpful for many others. Thanks a lot, from germany :)
Great guide, helped me a lot! Today I had my first travel to wormhole space and it was successful. Got 6mil after completing few sites. Honestly, I was a bit scared :D Unknown space, strange sounds, atmosphere, some guy following me, everything was so spooky :D Anyway, im so hyped now, gonna do more wormholes exploration this week :)
Thanks for this! I went out last night for the first time and ran across an old Data site. I cleared around 36 mil of goods from it. Not a lot, but not a bad haul for my first time out.
Hahah I finally made it to Episode 8. Thanks for these videos man. I know you may not have a lot of views on them but you are helping us all out and the future Eve players. Keep it up.
Hey Aceface, I just tried WH exploration for the first time using your tips, and it was a lot of fun! First WH I entered had a Relic and Data site and I got 26mil estimated in loot. And was with two failed hacks. That Heron is fun! I’m gonna get my skills trained for Astero though. Thanks for your videos!
You are not gonna believe this but just as I gave up, my pinpointed exit from the 1st wormhole diappeared and by trying to scan it I came across a datasite with loot worth of 7mil. Very nice for a first time!
Love the series for sure. Feel bad I haven't commented until now, ill have to go back and comment lol love the series. Have had an account for almost a year but stopped for about 10 months. These videos have helped out so much to get back into it
WH Exploration is probably THE best way to get started if you're brand new and don't have anyone feeding you ISK. It's very RNG, but if you're using anoik or other 3rd party WH planning tools you'll hit a 100+mil jackpot at some point. This is way better than anything else you can do brand new. Couple things Aceface didn't do that I think are a huge step up: When centering your probes on a reading, click the reading so it centers on your map, double click anywhere on the map and it will either give you a straight top down or straight side view. Center your probes from both angles to yield the best reading per scan. Start as Gallente, not Caldari. Everyone will debate about which T1 explorer frigates are best so flying an Imicus vs a Heron isn't really any different, BUT the Astero (Sister's of EVE faction ship) is a phenomenal exploring ship, and requires lvl 3 Gallente and lvl 3 Amarr frigate skills to fly. This ship is expensive, but it should pay for itself in one successful outing. Don't fly it until you can fit a covert ops cloaking device on it. Bring a Small Standard Container with you. If a wormhole has multiple sites you want to hack go back to your "safe spot" between each site, set out your can, and store your loot in it. Now even if someone ganks you at a site you're not losing your whole trip's worth of isk. If you were book marking your route appropriately you can hop back to WH space and go get your can. Get a cloaking device asap. Even with just the prototype cloaking device you should be 99.99% safe if you properly made safe spots to idle at while you're scanning and you cloak up. Combine this with storing your loot in a can at safe spots and your risk of losses mitigated substantially.
For scanning down sites i find it much easier to use left alt+ mouse wheel to increase or decrease the probe scanning field, also left ctr you can move the probes into tighter formation.
Thanks for the guide man!!! Found a few concord crates in high sec that had 20m ISK worth of things in like an hour of looking, compared to the other methods I was trying for ISK, this is definitely way better, subbed, cheers
Have fun dude :) make sure to get as many concord sites as you can. They're only there for a limited amount of time (I think a week left) because there's an event going on right now
Thanks!!! I did exactly like you said. On my first expedition I earned 30mil, the second one nothing. The third one another 30mil. On my last one 25mil. Lost a ship because disregarged you advice on perimeter and frontier sites. Also failed a couple of hacks (~30mil lost lol) Doing great so far.
Just wanted to say thanks for these guides, I've just done my first WH (day 2 of Eve) in a Probe Minmatar frigate and got out with $4m worth of isk as I got the 5m shutdown warning and left some behind in the WH. That covers 3 full explorer Probes so it's a great start. I've been watching this whole beginner series from you so thanks. I'm glad I signed up with you referral now (I will be getting Plex as I work full time and am impatient!).
Thanks for these guides! Really useful, especially this exploration one. I've just started EVE with maybe max 20h into the game. I did hi-sec exploration which was a bit boring after a while, but this guide for wormhole exploration has both increased my income and interest. I've done just a couple of max 2h runs into wormholes and have got ~20mil pretty easily even though I have failed a few difficult hacks. And accidentally jumped into frontier relic site (nothing more needs to be said about that 😀).
I don't think you mentioned it, but you can use the cargo scanner to check the loot in any of the relic/data nodes to prioritize any of the best loot. As for your upcoming PVE guide I suggest mentioning the better ways to grind corp standings, and the benefits/punishments that standings can bring. Personally I find it very beneficial to grind standings for the NPC corps in the area for where I decide to settle down in, for getting access to LVL 4 missions along with some reduced station costs. And also be sure to be wary of doing too many combat missions that target the opposing empires.
Ye true I prefer not to use the scanner in case I fail then dont feel so bad I failed the hack haha. I actually have one of those videos scheduled ;) though not in this series. Lower tier missions pay really bad and it takes a bit of time to get to l4s.
@@Aceyface Ya, I myself rarely equip the scanner, but it is good to know about. As for the standings, finding a good grinding spot is pretty important. Especially if you can locate in the same system as a generic storyline agent for the corp you are grinding for. That way when you trigger a storyline mission after every 16 missions you can fully take advantage of the larger standings boost.
This was incredibly helpful I just feel like mentioning the thing about perimeter data sites being deadly could have come up a bit earlier. My nooby self warped right into one thinking I hit a jack pot and do my great despair I lost my whole new ship.
Just tried exploration for the first time using your heron fit. I ended up lost for about half an hour but i made it back to jita eventually and with 23 mil isk in loot. :)
The way you move your probes is really sub optimal imo, use the buttons on the bottom rightto switch to over head or side view, move the probes in one plane, then double click in the window to swap to the other plane and position the probes in that plane, then scan.
i plexed two accounts on the past doing exploration! xD had some crazy situations with more than 20 pilots chasing me on null hahaha xD btw ty for remenbering me the importance of the Dscan! ;)
After watching your vids and making the explorer career missions, I took my super cheap probe and ventured into the wormholes. I found a data site and the inventory says I got 7.2 million worth of loot. I saw noone but on my way back, my original entry was gone and it took me about an hour to find an exit, which was 18 jumps from my home base, lol. At least it was 0.5 high sec :D I had to go through several 0.5s but in the end I came back home alive. Need to go to bed quickly - zZz
It took a coyple of weeks to build up my first 300m+ isk from exploring. But even if you come back with only 10m in loot, you still paid for 8-10 new Herons. I think one important thing about alpha exploration is to know when to log out and come back later. That's in low, null, and j-space.
Excellent video! You still in BRAVE? Been watching the Dojo videos but don't think there's one of yours. This one deserves a place in the Dojo for sure...
Spent about an hour in my heron and finally managed to fully scan a data site. Warped to it and immediately almost got destroyed by the npcs that were chilling there Edit: I was in a class 4+ wormhole and went to a frontier site. Let's not talk about it.
my first ever wormhole exploration i got 20 mil from a data site, since then I can’t stop lol but it’s not like i mind, it’s fun to do and high reward xd
I think it's actually "Forgotten" or "Unsecured" sites you want to avoid, not "Frontier" etc. Forgotten or Unattended indicates enemies are present. Covert indicates it is a Ghost site. I found this stuff out the hard way.
For people who are starting to play EVE like me, data sites in high secs are extremely profitable, compared to relic sites, even in wormholes. Managed to pull 20 mil from a single one today in high sec. The issue is, you need to be fast, because they are quickly discovered by other players. Also, the one in wormholes are really difficult, and it's not uncommon to get killed or fail all of them.
Now here is my story: I come back to eve after 6 years thanks to yours eve guide videos :D. I start new account, go through all tutorials and decide to be Explorer. So i get from very nice GM some starter pack for this profession after short "hello style" talk. I go for the first adventure to find some WH-space. I find c1-c3 Class around 10 jumps from my home system. I was very excited because that would be my first expedition after 6 years. So i start scanning and spamming D-scan. I found some sleepers data and relic sites. But after some time YES there it is serpentis data site. I fly having hope that noone will camp there. So i find first data cache and start hacking. I see that this is hard one. First attempt fail but second one is lucky for me. "Ok my first cache after 6 years yey" I open and... 140mil ISK worth loot xDDDDDDD "Yan Jung Tachyon Stetoscope". I open rest and after one site I have in my cargo 160mil ISK. Thank you EVE and loot fairy for soooo warm welcoming me back xD
Decided to give it a go, 1st 1.5 mil starter heron died instantly on the other side of the wormhole, got 10 mil coz it was a new char from the guy who shot me, corp policy or something. Was quite nice either way. Tried again a month later with my main, got 60 mil worth of stuff from yeeting myself to null and wormholing home. Died at Ahbazon stupid gatesmartbombcamp. 3rd try got 80 mil and actually got home. 1st trip was only like 5 mins. :D Second was 3-4 hours, finding my way to HS took longer than the actual exploration and third was about 3 hours as well. Still isk positive, thanks to the basically free heron build. After a few victories might as well try the buzzard.
Tis a good thing every time you go through a worm you can scan your position with 0.25 au than you can get rid of 1 signature that is your “home” worm..
I have been to a wormhole a couple of times but i never ever found a data or relic site. I started in June 2022 but took a break and returned now. I never found any data and relic sites in any wormholes. This one time i found an unsecured perimeter data site in a c2 wormhole but i warped at a distance so i survived, but then a pacifier came out of nowhere and blapped my imicus. The person was kind so here shared a few tips with me that's all. Now I'm questioning whether i should go for a second round or not? I live in dodixie.
Can you recommend a ship that will be good to move towards from here, heard the astero was pretty good, and reply with a good fit. Also, I don't have omega and I'm still deciding whether I want it so could you try to keep out parts that need omega. Thanks in advance and thanks again for the great series, it helped a lot.
While you can fly an Astero as an alpha, you can't fit the covert ops cloaking device on it, which is what makes it so good. If you don't end up getting Omega game time, stick with your faction T1 explorer frigate. Fit them cheap. You'll get ganked quite a bit without having a cloaking device, but they're so cheap that one good WH run can buy the ship back 10-20x over.
So I've been exploring and I lost 2 ships in my last 2 sites. 1st site was in High-Sec and I succesfully was hacking the containers, then randomly a bunch of Gurista pirates showed up and killed me. (Gurista Watcher killed me) 2nd site was in Low-Sec (doing for AIR mission) and it was an AEGIS Security Enforcer that killed me. Were these the wrong kind of Data sites you briefly mentioned? Or do the pirates show up no matter what after a while? Ive heard someone say pirates can show up if you fail a hack or something but I never failed any. Thanks for your videos!
How come when I scan with probes I cant move around the probes like you. You have a box an arroow icon pop up to move it around, that doesnt happen for me
Only go to sites that are Pirate sites, these have the words Guristas, Sansha, Angel or Blood raiders in them. Anything else do not go to because they can be sleeper sites which kill you easily. You can read more about them here: wiki.eveuniversity.org/Relic_and_data_sites#Sleeper_sites
there is any kind of build to explore and be able to fight back? if im going to get my ship destroyed why not fight back!!? would be nice if there was something caple of that
playing for 2 hours now to find something... found 6! wormholes and 1 data and 1 relic site both covered in npc's... tried to come close, lost my ship.... Why not use drones or a weapon to atleast shoot back? I have the same Heron setup like in the vid. On the other side, really helpfull series man, watched them all. lost of good intel. thanks
Hi. Is it better to align to random celestial during hacking each can or orbit at high speed? Whats the most efficient way of escaping sites traps? I recently bought fully fitted t2 exploration and want to know this before I replace my former t1.
to stay "aligned" so that you instawarp you have to be at minimum 75% max speed so eventually you will drift out of hacking range, so no not possible to be aligned for an extended time when hacking. but what i do is orbit without prop mod on. orbiting at high speed takes longer to get to 75% max speed to enable warp.
@@Aceyface I hope I wont have to instawarp. Decloaking ship needs a couple of seconds to lock me and my ship has 3.43s align time. Thanks for the response. It was rather quick. Using magnate I was already orbiting at 2500m and having my overview pointed on random moon to be able to quickly run away, however no one tryed to kill me so far, even though I did 10-15 sites, although one astero was acting weird but I managed to run away to other wh systems. However I am scared that they could bump me so I lose my align for a moment.
I tried exploring today and got unlucky , every data and relic site had enemies lol and I even lost my wormhole cuz I didn’t save the location , but I was able to scan it down again xd
I started doing WH exploration yesterday. I cannot believe how bad my luck is, I got 2 mil from the 1st day and I got ambushed and killed on the 2nd day. I'll try doing more tomorrow and spam the V key, right now I'll go High sec mining haha.
i dont get it. there are always enemys. and i have no idea how strong they are.. lost alrdy 2 Magnate.... im i just unlucky or what is this.. and its like 10 system has 1 relic....
Hey, how can i use the site to know which WH im in while im in game? Since i only have a laptop and no secondary monitor, been questioning this since it would help me a lot while playing
@@joseantoniovargas6548 In-game, press escape. Under the "Display & Graphics" tab. You should see in the top left of that window "Display." The windowed or full screen option is the one you want to play around with. Windowed mode adds borders similar to your web browser, full screen is probably what you have now, and fixed window is the similar to the first, except you have no border around :) Then you can alt tab in and out of the game without it constantly closing down to the bottom every time.
ooooof nice man :)))) You will find more soon! Also make sure to watch part 10 before doing the abyss stuff in part 9 because part 9 is a bit outdated.
Its really easy I find them all over the place. You have to scan down "cosmic signatures". Another way (a bit riskier) is to go to low sec, there are often better wormholes there because fewer go there. But you should find very fast in high sec. Yesterday I got tired of findinig them because i was looking for combat sites.
Agh man sorry for what happened :( A tip could be that when you enter a new wormhole paste the name of the system J... something into zkillboard.com/ You can then see if people have recently died giving you an idea if people are hunting a lot there. I for one have many times gone days without coming accross a single hunter.
I've been in these worm holes for 4 hours now and have found absolutely nothing! Keep getting forgotten and perimeter relics and data sites. SOOO UNLUCKYYY
Hope you recover dude, sometimes people just camp these in cloaked ships and there isnt a whole lot you can do about it. But as long as you keep an eye on d scan for combat probes and or hunter ships, youll avoid most of the dangerous players and earn much more than you lose. Sorta gotta just factor in that losses are inevatiable.
lucrative but tedious af. I have to scan wormhole after wormhole till I find a relic site, all I find are the sleeper and combat sites. like in 3 hours I found 1 relic site. I got 10mil out of it which I make from abyssal in 30 mins.
Timestamps:
Start (0:00)
Why wormhole exploration (1:05)
Wormhole systems explained (1:47)
Relic vs Data site loot (2:43)
Skills for scans (3:49)
How I earnt my first hundreds of millions (5:20)
Tip for finding good wormholes (5:33)
How to tell the type of wormhole (6:10)
Always bookmark wormholes (7:00)
Making a safe (8:12)
Good to go through other wormholes (9:26)
Anoik.is website (9:47)
Static & Wandering wormholes (10:03)
D-scan explained (12:21)
Setting D-scan filters (14:15)
Pinpointing objects with D-scan (15:36)
Get into the habit of D-scanning (17:00)
Class of wormhole systems to explore in (17:56)
Zkillboard to look up info on people (18:30)
How if a wormhole is bad without going in it (21:20)
Relic/Data sites you NEVER want to do (22:05)
Tell the type of space the wormhole leads to (23:05)
Finding quiet high-sec systems (23:22)
Exploration ISK is variable (23:50)
Checking if a wormhole system has hunters with Zkill (25:42)
Nasty cloaky exploration hunters (27:22)
Best types of Data cans (27:50)
Where the system core usually is (28:32)
Hacking buffs (29:30)
Hacking Random white circle (31:00)
Failing hacks (33:55)
Keep close to hacking cans (34:10)
Rule of six revision (34:45)
Turn off MWD when hacking (35:35)
Setting destinations in wormholes (38:30)
Benefit of Corax in PVE (39:00)
Perimeter trade hub explained (40:08)
Downside of basing in a citadel (40:52)
Selling items and getting CASH! (41:46)
So I watched all of your videos, did everything as directed (except for Gallente). With 10 hours under my belt and 2 Imicus frigates in my hangar, I venture out to a wormhole for the first time, following your guide. Except I missed the part about not warping to a Perimeter/Frontier data site ... first anomaly, boom, one-shot death. No worries, I had nothing in my cargo bay, ship was insured, and I had another Imicus in the hangar. So right back out I go. Very first data site ... 13 million pull. Another in that same system yielded another 5 million. Found another wormhole ... nobody there, lots of anomalies. Lots of unsuccessful hacks and low pulls gave me 14 million over about 90 minutes, for a total of 34 million in my cargo hold ... starting to think about heading home, given that is more than 3x of ISK in my newbro bank account (10.6 million). Of course I'm D-scanning the whole time ... suddenly, in the middle of a relic site hack, my D-scan picks up probes. I think about abandoning the hack and jumping to my saved Safe Location, but naaaaahhhhhh, the yields have been crappy the last few sites and now I'm greedy ... WAIT, A HELIOS! 7 km!! I click "Warp to 0 km" for Safe Location, and.... nothing. I'm warp scrambled. Boom. Pod jettisons. Boom. Pod destroyed. Bye bye 34 million ISK on my very first exploration run. So I message the guy who killed me, telling him I must have just missed jumping away by a split second, because I clicked as soon as he popped up on my D-scan. He said he was hunting a Cheetah in the system, and I was just collateral damage ... he asked me what I did, I told him, he said I did everything right, but he's been playing since 2008. I said "I've been playing 10 hours lol." Next thing I know 55 million ISK appears in my account, he gives me an invite to his corp, and says "keep harvesting those wormhole systems ... but next time, trust your instincts and jump to the safe zone before trouble arrives." I LOVE THIS GAME. And sorry about your 2.2 billion loss the other day Ace......
So cool to hear your story and how it worked out for you like that 😁👍 also a good way to know if a type of hacking site is safe is if it has a pirate name in it eg (Sansha, guristas, angel, blood raider) these are all safe ones.
I checked a Guristas data site and got killed instantly by an npc... Not safe..... 39 mill boom.
@@anubishun3299 must be a trap site where unsuccessful attempt would spawn npc
"but next time, trust your instincts" xD the guy's a menace 💀
I explored and dude gave me 5 mil ISK after killing me, so I can happily say I made profit
Wholesome kill
Tell him thank you *gun cocks* or else..
Chad
Same, but for me it was a 100 mil ISK!
Haha I got 10mil tonight after getting ganked from the esteemed gentleman
Just put this one into practice today after a day of moving home to Jita. spent 1.2m on a nice explorer ship, 2 hours spent in three wormhole rooms, all wormholes to C4/5 wormholes :(. took a break for the maintenance, then 1.5 hours in one wormhole room, 3 data sites and a relic site later I had a cargo space filled with 60m worth of loot and a nervous pilot back to Jita hammering my dock button as i hit my dock marker. so probably 40-45m profit (still selling after a few hours)
Good job dude ;)
Great play
Keep doing this videos mate, u will eventually get recognised!
My first venture into a wormhole netted me about 60 million. Thanks for these videos!
I can't stress enough how much this whole series helped me out. Great deal of basic knowledge in a pill that can be easily digested. Loved it! Tried my first explo run today and got blown to pieces lol. So I've quickly fitted out another ship and this time used advice with searching for area that was not used by any pilots. After 45 mins of jumping in wormholes I've came out with 18 mil worth of stuff. It's such a great feeling
Just started playing again after a 6 year break. Thanks for your guides. They really helped me a lot, to get back into the game. And im sure they will be helpful for many others.
Thanks a lot, from germany :)
Glad to hear it! Thanks a lot man ;)
Great guide, helped me a lot! Today I had my first travel to wormhole space and it was successful. Got 6mil after completing few sites. Honestly, I was a bit scared :D Unknown space, strange sounds, atmosphere, some guy following me, everything was so spooky :D Anyway, im so hyped now, gonna do more wormholes exploration this week :)
Good luck dude and congrats on your first successul exploration run! Look for those relic sites, youll be so hapyp when you hit the 80mil+ jackpot ;)
Thanks for this! I went out last night for the first time and ran across an old Data site. I cleared around 36 mil of goods from it. Not a lot, but not a bad haul for my first time out.
Hahah I finally made it to Episode 8. Thanks for these videos man. I know you may not have a lot of views on them but you are helping us all out and the future Eve players. Keep it up.
Thanks a lot ;)
Hey Aceface, I just tried WH exploration for the first time using your tips, and it was a lot of fun! First WH I entered had a Relic and Data site and I got 26mil estimated in loot. And was with two failed hacks. That Heron is fun! I’m gonna get my skills trained for Astero though. Thanks for your videos!
So cool man, keep up the good work ;)
You are not gonna believe this but just as I gave up, my pinpointed exit from the 1st wormhole diappeared and by trying to scan it I came across a datasite with loot worth of 7mil. Very nice for a first time!
Love the series for sure. Feel bad I haven't commented until now, ill have to go back and comment lol love the series. Have had an account for almost a year but stopped for about 10 months. These videos have helped out so much to get back into it
WH Exploration is probably THE best way to get started if you're brand new and don't have anyone feeding you ISK. It's very RNG, but if you're using anoik or other 3rd party WH planning tools you'll hit a 100+mil jackpot at some point. This is way better than anything else you can do brand new.
Couple things Aceface didn't do that I think are a huge step up:
When centering your probes on a reading, click the reading so it centers on your map, double click anywhere on the map and it will either give you a straight top down or straight side view. Center your probes from both angles to yield the best reading per scan.
Start as Gallente, not Caldari. Everyone will debate about which T1 explorer frigates are best so flying an Imicus vs a Heron isn't really any different, BUT the Astero (Sister's of EVE faction ship) is a phenomenal exploring ship, and requires lvl 3 Gallente and lvl 3 Amarr frigate skills to fly. This ship is expensive, but it should pay for itself in one successful outing. Don't fly it until you can fit a covert ops cloaking device on it.
Bring a Small Standard Container with you. If a wormhole has multiple sites you want to hack go back to your "safe spot" between each site, set out your can, and store your loot in it. Now even if someone ganks you at a site you're not losing your whole trip's worth of isk. If you were book marking your route appropriately you can hop back to WH space and go get your can.
Get a cloaking device asap. Even with just the prototype cloaking device you should be 99.99% safe if you properly made safe spots to idle at while you're scanning and you cloak up. Combine this with storing your loot in a can at safe spots and your risk of losses mitigated substantially.
I have watched a lot of exploration videos but just learned that the different cans can be prioritized data, mainframe, tower. Thanks again.
For scanning down sites i find it much easier to use left alt+ mouse wheel to increase or decrease the probe scanning field, also left ctr you can move the probes into tighter formation.
Thanks for the guide man!!! Found a few concord crates in high sec that had 20m ISK worth of things in like an hour of looking, compared to the other methods I was trying for ISK, this is definitely way better, subbed, cheers
Have fun dude :) make sure to get as many concord sites as you can. They're only there for a limited amount of time (I think a week left) because there's an event going on right now
Thanks!!! I did exactly like you said. On my first expedition I earned 30mil, the second one nothing. The third one another 30mil. On my last one 25mil. Lost a ship because disregarged you advice on perimeter and frontier sites. Also failed a couple of hacks (~30mil lost lol) Doing great so far.
Just wanted to say thanks for these guides, I've just done my first WH (day 2 of Eve) in a Probe Minmatar frigate and got out with $4m worth of isk as I got the 5m shutdown warning and left some behind in the WH. That covers 3 full explorer Probes so it's a great start. I've been watching this whole beginner series from you so thanks. I'm glad I signed up with you referral now (I will be getting Plex as I work full time and am impatient!).
this is amazing, thanks a lot for creating such a great content!
My pleasure! ;)
Thanks for these guides! Really useful, especially this exploration one. I've just started EVE with maybe max 20h into the game. I did hi-sec exploration which was a bit boring after a while, but this guide for wormhole exploration has both increased my income and interest. I've done just a couple of max 2h runs into wormholes and have got ~20mil pretty easily even though I have failed a few difficult hacks. And accidentally jumped into frontier relic site (nothing more needs to be said about that 😀).
Do project discovery you can get 1-2mil every 5 mins
I don't think you mentioned it, but you can use the cargo scanner to check the loot in any of the relic/data nodes to prioritize any of the best loot.
As for your upcoming PVE guide I suggest mentioning the better ways to grind corp standings, and the benefits/punishments that standings can bring.
Personally I find it very beneficial to grind standings for the NPC corps in the area for where I decide to settle down in, for getting access to LVL 4 missions along with some reduced station costs. And also be sure to be wary of doing too many combat missions that target the opposing empires.
Ye true I prefer not to use the scanner in case I fail then dont feel so bad I failed the hack haha.
I actually have one of those videos scheduled ;) though not in this series. Lower tier missions pay really bad and it takes a bit of time to get to l4s.
@@Aceyface Ya, I myself rarely equip the scanner, but it is good to know about.
As for the standings, finding a good grinding spot is pretty important. Especially if you can locate in the same system as a generic storyline agent for the corp you are grinding for. That way when you trigger a storyline mission after every 16 missions you can fully take advantage of the larger standings boost.
This was incredibly helpful I just feel like mentioning the thing about perimeter data sites being deadly could have come up a bit earlier.
My nooby self warped right into one thinking I hit a jack pot and do my great despair I lost my whole new ship.
Ah sorry rip man, hope you recover soon!
thank you so much for the help. just did my first run and got 12.7 mil from 1 relic site.
i got after first 3 days like 110Mio was so happy:) very solid guide u helped me a lot !! thanks
Thanks ace for making these vids this really helped me out a lot keep up the great work
No problem man ;) Glad I could help!
Just tried exploration for the first time using your heron fit. I ended up lost for about half an hour but i made it back to jita eventually and with 23 mil isk in loot. :)
Great job! And you are just getting started hehe 😉
The way you move your probes is really sub optimal imo, use the buttons on the bottom rightto switch to over head or side view, move the probes in one plane, then double click in the window to swap to the other plane and position the probes in that plane, then scan.
Ya will do like this in the future people have told me this a lot
@@Aceyface :)
i plexed two accounts on the past doing exploration! xD had some crazy situations with more than 20 pilots chasing me on null hahaha xD btw ty for remenbering me the importance of the Dscan! ;)
After watching your vids and making the explorer career missions, I took my super cheap probe and ventured into the wormholes. I found a data site and the inventory says I got 7.2 million worth of loot. I saw noone but on my way back, my original entry was gone and it took me about an hour to find an exit, which was 18 jumps from my home base, lol. At least it was 0.5 high sec :D I had to go through several 0.5s but in the end I came back home alive. Need to go to bed quickly - zZz
It took a coyple of weeks to build up my first 300m+ isk from exploring. But even if you come back with only 10m in loot, you still paid for 8-10 new Herons. I think one important thing about alpha exploration is to know when to log out and come back later. That's in low, null, and j-space.
Great basic scanning guide. I'd recommend using pathfinder, however. Makes mapping the whs a bit easier and is more automated.
Thanks for the tip!
Excellent video! You still in BRAVE? Been watching the Dojo videos but don't think there's one of yours. This one deserves a place in the Dojo for sure...
Thank you for this tips I'm making $150 mil to $200 mil after this video
Spent about an hour in my heron and finally managed to fully scan a data site. Warped to it and immediately almost got destroyed by the npcs that were chilling there
Edit: I was in a class 4+ wormhole and went to a frontier site. Let's not talk about it.
Live and learn ;) I explain in the vid which types to go to and not to go to
Same has just happened to me XD
my first ever wormhole exploration i got 20 mil from a data site, since then I can’t stop lol but it’s not like i mind, it’s fun to do and high reward xd
I think it's actually "Forgotten" or "Unsecured" sites you want to avoid, not "Frontier" etc.
Forgotten or Unattended indicates enemies are present.
Covert indicates it is a Ghost site.
I found this stuff out the hard way.
For people who are starting to play EVE like me, data sites in high secs are extremely profitable, compared to relic sites, even in wormholes. Managed to pull 20 mil from a single one today in high sec. The issue is, you need to be fast, because they are quickly discovered by other players. Also, the one in wormholes are really difficult, and it's not uncommon to get killed or fail all of them.
....and earn half the isk per hour ;)
Now here is my story: I come back to eve after 6 years thanks to yours eve guide videos :D. I start new account, go through all tutorials and decide to be Explorer. So i get from very nice GM some starter pack for this profession after short "hello style" talk. I go for the first adventure to find some WH-space. I find c1-c3 Class around 10 jumps from my home system. I was very excited because that would be my first expedition after 6 years. So i start scanning and spamming D-scan. I found some sleepers data and relic sites. But after some time YES there it is serpentis data site. I fly having hope that noone will camp there. So i find first data cache and start hacking. I see that this is hard one. First attempt fail but second one is lucky for me. "Ok my first cache after 6 years yey" I open and... 140mil ISK worth loot xDDDDDDD "Yan Jung Tachyon Stetoscope". I open rest and after one site I have in my cargo 160mil ISK. Thank you EVE and loot fairy for soooo warm welcoming me back xD
Wow! Nice haul!
Decided to give it a go, 1st 1.5 mil starter heron died instantly on the other side of the wormhole, got 10 mil coz it was a new char from the guy who shot me, corp policy or something. Was quite nice either way. Tried again a month later with my main, got 60 mil worth of stuff from yeeting myself to null and wormholing home. Died at Ahbazon stupid gatesmartbombcamp. 3rd try got 80 mil and actually got home. 1st trip was only like 5 mins. :D Second was 3-4 hours, finding my way to HS took longer than the actual exploration and third was about 3 hours as well. Still isk positive, thanks to the basically free heron build. After a few victories might as well try the buzzard.
I understand marking the "warmy", but why mark the "entry" warmhole?
good video! keep up the good work.
Amazing guide! Thanks alot :))
100 mil in about 4-5 hours so daily 150 mil weekly around 500 to 700 mil isk
Thanks so much for the help!
This video reminded me way too much of great times I had in my Astero years ago. STOP making these videos, my wallet is crying already ;-)
Tis a good thing every time you go through a worm you can scan your position with 0.25 au than you can get rid of 1 signature that is your “home” worm..
I have been to a wormhole a couple of times but i never ever found a data or relic site. I started in June 2022 but took a break and returned now. I never found any data and relic sites in any wormholes. This one time i found an unsecured perimeter data site in a c2 wormhole but i warped at a distance so i survived, but then a pacifier came out of nowhere and blapped my imicus. The person was kind so here shared a few tips with me that's all. Now I'm questioning whether i should go for a second round or not? I live in dodixie.
Can you recommend a ship that will be good to move towards from here, heard the astero was pretty good, and reply with a good fit. Also, I don't have omega and I'm still deciding whether I want it so could you try to keep out parts that need omega. Thanks in advance and thanks again for the great series, it helped a lot.
While you can fly an Astero as an alpha, you can't fit the covert ops cloaking device on it, which is what makes it so good. If you don't end up getting Omega game time, stick with your faction T1 explorer frigate. Fit them cheap. You'll get ganked quite a bit without having a cloaking device, but they're so cheap that one good WH run can buy the ship back 10-20x over.
I’ve started EVE, been watching your videos no I’d like to join your corp. is this possible?
Of course! We're open to everyone even if you are new. Info is here: wiki.bravecollective.com/public/corps/brave-empire/how-to-apply
@@Aceyface application sent, I’ve subbed and ready to roll.
amazing video helped out a lot
So I've been exploring and I lost 2 ships in my last 2 sites.
1st site was in High-Sec and I succesfully was hacking the containers, then randomly a bunch of Gurista pirates showed up and killed me. (Gurista Watcher killed me)
2nd site was in Low-Sec (doing for AIR mission) and it was an AEGIS Security Enforcer that killed me.
Were these the wrong kind of Data sites you briefly mentioned? Or do the pirates show up no matter what after a while? Ive heard someone say pirates can show up if you fail a hack or something but I never failed any.
Thanks for your videos!
I use a cargo scanner to see what the loot is before I hack. Helps so you don’t waste time on junk.
How come when I scan with probes I cant move around the probes like you. You have a box an arroow icon pop up to move it around, that doesnt happen for me
I love the price tag of the corax
I've seen a lot of salvager fits, how do you decide what is worth salvaging and what isn't?
You can narrow the field by holding control while you’re zero’d in on a site that’s sitting at 96% and can’t quite go all the way.
You were explaining why not to go to perimeter after i had just warped over to one
Didnt get it, which data sites are safe to go to without weapons equipped?
Only go to sites that are Pirate sites, these have the words Guristas, Sansha, Angel or Blood raiders in them. Anything else do not go to because they can be sleeper sites which kill you easily. You can read more about them here: wiki.eveuniversity.org/Relic_and_data_sites#Sleeper_sites
I think this is what I have to do to get into this game. How would you spend your starter 1 million sp to get into this sort of gameplay.
Did some exploration yesterday and didnt make crap. Still fun though
on the topic of sites to NOT warp to, i just warped to a "Unsecured Core Emergence" data site and got 1shot by turrets
i didnt understand, what is the purpose of the anoik.is wesbite?
Can't figure out how to open the people and places tab
there is any kind of build to explore and be able to fight back? if im going to get my ship destroyed why not fight back!!? would be nice if there was something caple of that
If it says there are no signatures or anomalies in the system should i just go to another system?
Exactly! In the agency (left toolbar) go in exploration --> cosmic signatures
@@Aceyface alright thanks! (Btw thanks for replying 4 months after the video lol)
I just finished all career agents. would you recommend doing this or SoE first?
probably this , dont exadctly know what you mean with SOe
@@Aceyface Sisters of Eve mission
Found a few sites with 200m first try.
playing for 2 hours now to find something... found 6! wormholes and 1 data and 1 relic site both covered in npc's... tried to come close, lost my ship.... Why not use drones or a weapon to atleast shoot back? I have the same Heron setup like in the vid.
On the other side, really helpfull series man, watched them all. lost of good intel. thanks
I just did my first wormhole relic site got 19 mill out of it and I'm still shaking lol
Hi. Is it better to align to random celestial during hacking each can or orbit at high speed? Whats the most efficient way of escaping sites traps? I recently bought fully fitted t2 exploration and want to know this before I replace my former t1.
to stay "aligned" so that you instawarp you have to be at minimum 75% max speed so eventually you will drift out of hacking range, so no not possible to be aligned for an extended time when hacking. but what i do is orbit without prop mod on. orbiting at high speed takes longer to get to 75% max speed to enable warp.
@@Aceyface I hope I wont have to instawarp. Decloaking ship needs a couple of seconds to lock me and my ship has 3.43s align time. Thanks for the response. It was rather quick. Using magnate I was already orbiting at 2500m and having my overview pointed on random moon to be able to quickly run away, however no one tryed to kill me so far, even though I did 10-15 sites, although one astero was acting weird but I managed to run away to other wh systems.
However I am scared that they could bump me so I lose my align for a moment.
I keep finding wormholes with lots of perimeter and frontier sites... is there a way to avoid this?
Yes, only go to c1-c3 wormholes, in c4+ you only find frontier/perimeter
I tried exploring today and got unlucky , every data and relic site had enemies lol and I even lost my wormhole cuz I didn’t save the location , but I was able to scan it down again xd
Can Alphas pinpoint in a Class 1 ? think i was in a Class 3 and got to 94.5% on a Data Site, can't pinpoint it and training is Omega now.
also try eqcuipping scannin gupgrade modules
Why don't you use scanner to check if it's worth your time ?
I started doing WH exploration yesterday. I cannot believe how bad my luck is, I got 2 mil from the 1st day and I got ambushed and killed on the 2nd day. I'll try doing more tomorrow and spam the V key, right now I'll go High sec mining haha.
you can also try abyss its quite a bit better than hs mining. Hopefull next time you go in a wormhole it works out better ;)
Pro tip scan your 1st saved wh location.
i dont get it. there are always enemys. and i have no idea how strong they are.. lost alrdy 2 Magnate.... im i just unlucky or what is this.. and its like 10 system has 1 relic....
Each wormhole I find is guarded by plenty of NPCs who destroys me at sight…
Hey, how can i use the site to know which WH im in while im in game? Since i only have a laptop and no secondary monitor, been questioning this since it would help me a lot while playing
use borderless windowed mode and alt+tab
@@Aceyface how do I access this borderless mode?
@@joseantoniovargas6548 In-game, press escape. Under the "Display & Graphics" tab. You should see in the top left of that window "Display." The windowed or full screen option is the one you want to play around with. Windowed mode adds borders similar to your web browser, full screen is probably what you have now, and fixed window is the similar to the first, except you have no border around :) Then you can alt tab in and out of the game without it constantly closing down to the bottom every time.
@@atkingsolomon1 Ah, thanks so much for the answer!
hey, I'll try my luck and see if this work for me. Thanks a lot for the guide, gl n hf
17.5m on 1 relic
ooooof nice man :)))) You will find more soon! Also make sure to watch part 10 before doing the abyss stuff in part 9 because part 9 is a bit outdated.
I'll do then ;D
Am I doing something wrong? I find it incredibly hard to find a wormhole. Is there a certain place I should be going for higher chances?
I'm using the imicus fit thst I found in "beginner fits" chat
Its really easy I find them all over the place. You have to scan down "cosmic signatures". Another way (a bit riskier) is to go to low sec, there are often better wormholes there because fewer go there. But you should find very fast in high sec. Yesterday I got tired of findinig them because i was looking for combat sites.
@@Aceyface I start at Jita and I guess have had no luck. Does exploration fits matter? Because I just use the beginner imicus
You did not mention to check lifetime of that Wh you came in... Its bad for new player to get into WH and entry hole decay.
can i grill things in combat sites with a corceer
high-sec yes if you put enough tank, in wormhole no
I dont get it I'm either really bad at scanning or i just keep getting really unlucky
Is this still viable? Seems like sites now have stronger guard ships.
Yes it is viable I talk about which sites to not go to
Got some lucky relic sites and a total of ~50 mil isk in inv and got ganked near a wormhole :P
Great guide but the moment I enter some guy hunted me
I died 2 times lol
Agh man sorry for what happened :( A tip could be that when you enter a new wormhole paste the name of the system J... something into zkillboard.com/ You can then see if people have recently died giving you an idea if people are hunting a lot there. I for one have many times gone days without coming accross a single hunter.
ah i see thanks
Why do all these sites have enemies i was in -0.2 wormhole are all those dangerous
I've been in these worm holes for 4 hours now and have found absolutely nothing! Keep getting forgotten and perimeter relics and data sites. SOOO UNLUCKYYY
make sure its a class 1-3 wormhole, class 4 and up dont have them! You can google the J-code at top left to see what class the wormhole is.
I'm getting the feeling that the other Heron was as afraid as you as you were of him, and was making the same moves for the same reasons you did.
I'm one of those "very nasty people" in lowsec you mention. In real life I'm an angel though.
Got blapped by some random guy waitting for me on the other side of the wormhole, should have paid more attention
Hope you recover dude, sometimes people just camp these in cloaked ships and there isnt a whole lot you can do about it. But as long as you keep an eye on d scan for combat probes and or hunter ships, youll avoid most of the dangerous players and earn much more than you lose. Sorta gotta just factor in that losses are inevatiable.
really nice guide. too bad my first try endedup on being ganked right away. oh well, thats EVE Online
Never done this before
I always get more loot from data, maybe i'm cursed lol
undock trick not working
lucrative but tedious af.
I have to scan wormhole after wormhole till I find a relic site, all I find are the sleeper and combat sites. like in 3 hours I found 1 relic site. I got 10mil out of it which I make from abyssal in 30 mins.
also i got oneshot in a data site called SCC secure key storage in a low sec system so .. dont go to these ones i guess