Data/Relic Site Difficulty
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@Adam-Parvi As someone else mentioned, I've gotten more empty ruins cans than loot-pinata ruins cans, but the occasional good ruins can can have 20-60m in pirate components. I always hack everything in a C1-3 that isn't a sleeper site, and I'll take my share of empty ruins cans along with a good number of decent remains cans. You'll find that over time, decent remains cans will end up funding you, more than a few jackpot ruins cans. And don't curse the empty cans, the time hacking them is a sacrifice to BoB.
Cargo scanners are the devils plaything and no self-respecting explorer should use them!
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@Nexus-Aivo Just finished covert research facility and Mainframe was definitely harder (bigger) than Databank.
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@Este-DeStirr said in Data/Relic Site Difficulty:
Cargo scanners are the devils plaything and no self-respecting explorer should use them!
Easy there, Tiger.
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Just curious if the scanning difficulty rating for Relic / Data sites has any correlation to the level of loot inside the site. For example, is the loot for a site with a scanning difficulty of IV have better loot than a site with a scanning difficulty of I?
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Sorry, for some reason I wasn't logged in.
That was my question.
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@Skylar-Noob In general, yes. But not always.
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whats the best strategy when hacking a databank or ruins?
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@Adam-Parvi Rule of Six.
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@Thrice-Hapus That, plus the zuegma/blackglass combo.
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I've had very difficult hacks resulting in a red core only to be rewarded with 2 lumps of carbon for my troubles, so I always pre-scan my cans. I'll also cherry pick in J-space as, like others have stated, when you have 100m+ isk in loot, getting ganked for a can worth 40k isn't fun.
I'll always clean up in K-space and null though as you know if your alone or not.
The odds of another explorer scanning the site with that 20min despawn window will be quite low I would think.
I also find it adds just that little extra protection whilst hacking another site as any potential hunters may visit the partially finished site first.
WK
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@witchking42 said in Data/Relic Site Difficulty:
The odds of another explorer scanning the site with that 20min despawn window will be quite low I would think.
If this is true, odds are not in my favor - I sure find a lot of cherry-picked sites.
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Guess who forgot Mainframe cans blow up in J space after the first failed hack?!
This guy.
And I lost my favorite Astero too
. I did manage to get my Helois back in the hole and get the wreck though, so at least I got the Sister's Launcher and some probes back.Oops!
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@Calder-Torres said in Data/Relic Site Difficulty:
Guess who forgot Mainframe cans blow up in J space after the first failed hack?!
They don't normally blow up, just if you're in a covert site.
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@Calder-Torres That does not happen in regular data sites anywhere, hack fails can only cause death in sleeper caches or ghost sites. As this was in J space, it must have been a ghost site, official name "covert research facility". Check the link post below on which sites have npc dangers.
https://forums.eve-scout.com/topic/409/safety-can-i-warp-to-this-site
