Good thing come to those that wait
Another morning run out into low sec. I had a long (50 jump) route planned out and a real feeling that I could edge within reach of my PLEX goal with another good haul. In the couple of high sec systems before reaching my low sec target I scanned down a few sites and got in a bit of early looting. Nothing spectacular but a steady start at least which continued through the first few low systems. A couple of sites here and there, more loot for the loot god. That's about where the good part comes to an end.
The next string of systems were barren. Some systems were occupied by several people so I gave those ones a miss and the rest were pretty much devoid of anything, players and anomalies alike. In a stretch of around 15 systems, mostly 0.3 and 0.4 with the odd connecting high sec system I found less than a handful of sites and the ones I did find were about as barren as the systems I was scanning in.
Not good. I was still flying with about 20 million in the hold so it wasn't all bad but hitting empty after empty after empty was demoralising and frankly boring. I persevered however and was rewarded in the very last low sec system of my trip!
3 anomalies and a bunch of normal combat sites. I warped to 100km of the sun and began scanning, one eye on the currently empty local. The first site, much to my joy and amazement, is a relic site. Yay! I hit warp to and began scanning the second anomaly. While speeding over to the first can I discover that site number 2 is a data site. More yay! I scan the can and have to look twice. That's a lot of Intact Armor Plates. I crack it open. 20 million! Even more yay! MWD over to can number 2 probe scanning away at anomaly 3. Cargo scan can 2 and discover more goodies at the same time as discovering site 3 is another relic site! More yay that you can possibly imagine! Crack the can, grab the loot. Rinse and repeat.
Site 1, 23 million ISK. Warp over to the data site. Hack the cans, grab the loot. Another 8 million. Things are finally coming up Spaktula. Site number 2 cleared. Warp to site 3. It was at this point that I remembered about the blog so actually took some screenshots of site 3.
Here's a couple of examples from site 3 of what you can possibly find while low sec exploring:
I was rather pleased to say the least. And all of this came from the last system. I guess the game decided to reward me for my mindless scanning of wormholes and DED complexes with some nice juicy hacking sites. Also it's really not bad ISK when you consider the low skill requirements and the fact I'm in a ship that costs 20 times less than the contents of one of those cans.
I made my way back to home base with 80 something million in the cargo hold. Deposited it there to await transportation at a later date and moved on to something a little different for a while.
Planetary Interaction (PI) is something I've so far glossed over but am vaguely interested in getting into. After some brief reading up (but no where near enough) I bought a command centre, a new Magnate and 4 tech 2 cargo expanders to transport said command centre. If I wasn't on a trial account I would have just bought a cheap indy ship but meh. Turns out with all the reading I didn't do I missed several key aspects of setting up a successful colony but I actually lucked out a bit. I won't go into too much detail but scanning properly, checking tax rates on the customs office and a multitude of other things are actually pretty important.
I'll probably go into a bit more detail with my PI experience at a later date but for now it was a 2 million ISK sink that will hopefully start making money in the future once I've learned more. Worst case scenario is that I redo the whole thing.
Anyway, not a bad day. Much closer to my target with plenty of time left to achieve it.
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