MILLIONS in ISK Waiting - Ghost Sites & Sleeper Cache Complete Breakdown! — Transcript

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1. 0:00In a recent video, we got ourselves
2. 0:01started with exploration, one of the
3. 0:03best income paths for new players. So,
4. 0:06how do we go to the next level with
5. 0:08exploration? There are a few exploration
6. 0:10sites in EVE that can pay insane amounts
7. 0:13of ISK, but they also punish explorers
8. 0:15who don't know what they're doing. In
9. 0:17this video, I'm going to show you two of
10. 0:19them and how to walk away with the loot.
11. 0:25Hello everyone. My name is Lynn Rakken
12. 0:27and today I'm going to guide you through
13. 0:30some of the more challenging exploration
14. 0:32sites to deal with in New Eden. In my
15. 0:34last exploration video, I gave you
16. 0:36guidance on how to get started with
17. 0:38exploration and start experimenting with
18. 0:41mechanics like scanning, hacking, and
19. 0:44the different hidden rules that will
20. 0:46take the activity from frustrating to
21. 0:48financially rewarding. Now we'll be
22. 0:50taking this further. You should be
23. 0:52familiar with the basic exploration
24. 0:54sites by now. Maybe even taking your
25. 0:57exploration frigate into low sec for
26. 0:59some spicier loot. And maybe some of you
27. 1:02have found sites such as ghost sites,
28. 1:04not the besieged ghost sites. Those are
29. 1:07combat sites and not hacking sites.
30. 1:09You'll die in a scanning ship. And
31. 1:11sleeper caches. That's what we're going
32. 1:14to be tackling today, ghost sites and
33. 1:17then the limited sleeper cache, the
34. 1:19first of three levels of sleeper caches.
35. 1:22These sites offer a massive rewards, but
36. 1:24linger too long or fail a hack and there
37. 1:26goes your ship and everything you
38. 1:28collected to this point. This is why I'm
39. 1:30making this guide so you can more
40. 1:32confidently take on these sites and walk
41. 1:35away with the loot as safely as can be.
42. 1:39Before we get into the mechanics of
43. 1:40these sites, we're going to talk about
44. 1:43the fits. I have two fits for you today,
45. 1:46one for Omega pilots and one for Alpha
46. 1:48pilots. We're going to start with the
47. 1:51Alpha version. We're going to continue
48. 1:53progressing down Caldari and we're going
49. 1:54to use the Heron Navy Issue. This is a
50. 1:58relatively cheap alternative to
51. 1:59something like the Astero while giving
52. 2:01us some improved hit points and
53. 2:03survivability while still retaining that
54. 2:05large cargo hold from the Heron and
55. 2:07being bonus for hacking. And though an
56. 2:10alpha pilot still cannot cloak, this
57. 2:12gives you a cheap way to progress
58. 2:14towards a covert ops frigate like the
59. 2:16Buzzard. A lot of these modules we've
60. 2:18talked about before in other videos, so
61. 2:20I won't rehash why we have them
62. 2:22equipped. Instead, I'll explain the
63. 2:24overall concept of why we have this
64. 2:26setup. You'll notice here we're actually
65. 2:29maximizing our explosive resistances
66. 2:31because if we fail a hack, we will be
67. 2:33able to absorb the explosion damage from
68. 2:36a ghost site. And they only do explosive
69. 2:38damage. We should be able to absorb a
70. 2:41low sec container. Though, make sure
71. 2:43your micro warp drive is not on when
72. 2:45you're failing a hack. We've also
73. 2:48upgraded our probes, not the launcher,
74. 2:51the probes themselves, to Sisters Core
75. 2:54Scanner Probes. This will give us just a
76. 2:56little extra hand when scanning sites
77. 2:59down. With a mobile depot in our cargo
78. 3:01hold as well, we have the ability to
79. 3:03swap fitting in space as we need to for
80. 3:06things like sleeper caches where we need
81. 3:08to be able to run data and relic
82. 3:10containers while still remaining tanky.
83. 3:13Lastly, you'll notice that I have a
84. 3:15cargo scanner in my cargo hold. This is
85. 3:17for refitting with the mobile depot.
86. 3:19That's because when we are in ghost
87. 3:21sites, we rarely will be able to hack
88. 3:23all the cans. We'll want to hack the
89. 3:25most valuable one or two cans and get
90. 3:27out before the NPCs arrive and start
91. 3:30destroying the leftovers or start
92. 3:31shooting you. So, with these sites, you
93. 3:33don't need to worry about cherry picking
94. 3:35because as soon as you arrive in a ghost
95. 3:38site, you're on the clock. And then the
96. 3:40site will respawn somewhere else. This
97. 3:42alpha Heron Navy Issue is about 22
98. 3:44million ISK at the time of this video.
99. 3:46Now, I'm going to show you a omega
100. 3:48variation of this fit. It still can't
101. 3:51cloak, but again, you should be working
102. 3:53your way up to that little by little.
103. 3:55And because of our Omega skills, we're
104. 3:58able to fit more powerful variants of
105. 4:01modules we had on the Alpha version. And
106. 4:03we've also upgraded our core probe
107. 4:05launcher from tech one to a Sisters core
108. 4:09probe launcher. Why do we not go for
109. 4:11tech two? Because the tech two version
110. 4:13only offers a 5% bonus to scanning
111. 4:16strength. And the Sisters variant
112. 4:18provides 10% bonus while being less
113. 4:20skill intensive. It is more expensive.
114. 4:22It's actually worth the entire ship by
115. 4:25itself, pushing our ship's price up to
116. 4:2764 million ISK at the time of this
117. 4:29video, but it's definitely worth it and
118. 4:31why it's considered a standard. Just
119. 4:33make sure you can afford three of your
120. 4:36fully fitted ships before committing to
121. 4:39upgrading to a Sisters core probe
122. 4:40launcher. Now, for the purpose of this
123. 4:42video, I will be using my Lynn ranking
124. 4:44character and her skills. However, I
125. 4:47will be limiting myself to the Alpha
126. 4:49variation of the Heron Navy issue. This
127. 4:51should give you a little bit of an idea
128. 4:53how this operates, but just for ease, I
129. 4:56use my Lynn ranking character.
130. 4:58Take that as you will. With all this
131. 4:59set, I'm going to go ahead and undock
132. 5:01and I'll see you when we find a ghost
133. 5:04site. If you want a free 1 million skill
134. 5:06points to use however you want, you can
135. 5:07use my recruitment link in the
136. 5:09description below for 1 million free
137. 5:12skill points to give you a quick boost
138. 5:14in training your skills. However, I
139. 5:16recommend you check out and prioritize
140. 5:18the EVE University core skill plans,
141. 5:21also linked down below. I do receive
142. 5:23rewards if you upgrade to Omega or
143. 5:25purchase Plex. Now, we found ourselves a
144. 5:28standard ghost site. Finally, I had to
145. 5:31scan down literally 100 signatures to
146. 5:35find this ghost site. These go fairly
147. 5:37quick and you need to be working
148. 5:39quickly. I'm going to pause and explain
149. 5:41what's on screen as needed in this
150. 5:43section of gameplay. Firstly, my silly
151. 5:45brain blocked out that we needed the
152. 5:47cargo scanner in the mids and I was too
153. 5:49tanky. By removing the multi-spectrum
154. 5:51shield hardener, we should still have
155. 5:53enough tank to fail a hack and move on
156. 5:56and leave the site in safety. When we
157. 5:58get into the site, I start cargo
158. 6:00scanning and find the top two to three
159. 6:02most valuable cargo containers and I
160. 6:04start working on hacking them. The hacks
161. 6:06themselves are actually not that
162. 6:08difficult. However, if we leave the
163. 6:10hacking mini-game, it is interpreted
164. 6:12[music] as a fail and it explodes. Like
165. 6:15it happened here when I tried to run
166. 6:17from the NPC pirates when they showed
167. 6:19up. Thankfully, I did not have my micro
168. 6:21warp drive on, but I did not have my
169. 6:23explosive shield hardener on, so we
170. 6:24nearly blew up. Suffice to say, that was
171. 6:27a close one. That's the basic principle
172. 6:29for running a ghost site in EVE Online.
173. 6:32Find the most valuable two to three
174. 6:33cans, hack them, and get out. The hacks
175. 6:36themselves are not that difficult. It's
176. 6:38more of the pressure of don't fail. Make
177. 6:41sure your explosive shield hardener is
178. 6:43on and if NPCs are coming in, hurry to
179. 6:46finish the current hack and get out
180. 6:47quickly or face tank the can like I did.
181. 6:50And for our trouble, we warped out with
182. 6:52loot worth 200 million ISK if you factor
183. 6:55in the implants. Keep in mind, the
184. 6:58margins on implants is very thin. So,
185. 7:01doing data and ghost sites will help you
186. 7:03collect most of the material need in
187. 7:05order to actually make the implants
188. 7:07instead of buying the materials to make
189. 7:09the implants. When I was wrapping up my
190. 7:12session, well, get to the limited
191. 7:13sleeper cache here in a moment, I found
192. 7:15a lesser ghost site, which is the high
193. 7:17sec version of these ghost sites and
194. 7:20much easier to run and I made about 100
195. 7:22million ISK in this site if you include
196. 7:25the blueprints I got. Now, we can start
197. 7:26looking for a sleeper cache. I'll get
198. 7:29back to you with it after we find it. If
199. 7:31you are considering purchasing Omega or
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209. 7:54these codes. We found ourselves a
210. 7:56limited sleeper cache. So, what are
211. 7:58sleeper caches in general? Essentially,
212. 8:00they're all puzzle dungeons full of
213. 8:02environmental hazards and things you
214. 8:04need to hack in order to manipulate the
215. 8:06room to safely reach loot. There's three
216. 8:08levels of sleeper caches currently in
217. 8:10the game: limited, standard, and
218. 8:12superior. We'll be talking about the
219. 8:14other two sleeper caches in a future
220. 8:17dedicated exploration video. Today,
221. 8:19we'll be focusing on the beginner
222. 8:22version of these caches. After scanning
223. 8:24the signature, you land in an entry
224. 8:26pocket containing a container called the
225. 8:28hyperflunct generator. We need to hack
226. 8:31the hyperflunct generator. When we
227. 8:33successfully hack this, a spatial rift
228. 8:36will spawn and it'll act like a gate
229. 8:38that'll get us into the main puzzle
230. 8:39room. If we fail, it starts a 2-minute
231. 8:42timer. If we don't succeed a hack within
232. 8:45that timeframe, the entire site
233. 8:47despawns. Once we successfully hack the
234. 8:49site, go ahead and enter the rift. When
235. 8:51we arrive in the main area called the
236. 8:53ransacked storage site, it's important
237. 8:55to see what kind of environmental
238. 8:57hazards exist here. We have damage
239. 8:59clouds, structures that explode if we
240. 9:01get too close to them, and a force field
241. 9:04that will activate if we get too close
242. 9:06to a depot. The recommended process is
243. 9:09to cargo scan all of the containers
244. 9:11first and decide which ones are worth it
245. 9:12so that way we know which puzzles we
246. 9:14need to go for. This matters because
247. 9:16some containers require extra puzzle
248. 9:18steps. I didn't do this because I wanted
249. 9:21to show you how to get to each
250. 9:22container. We're going to start with
251. 9:24disabling the gas cloud, the pressure
252. 9:27control puzzle. One storage depot sits
253. 9:30inside of a damaging cloud. Nearby is a
254. 9:32structure called the remote pressure
255. 9:34control unit. We're going to hack the
256. 9:37remote pressure control unit. When we
257. 9:39successfully hack it, the gas cloud
258. 9:42temporarily shuts down, giving you a
259. 9:44short two to three minute window, so we
260. 9:46can approach and loot the depot safely.
261. 9:48If you ignore this and you enter the
262. 9:50cloud, your ship will start steadily
263. 9:52taking damage. Next, we have the plasma
264. 9:55chambers. The plasma chambers are highly
265. 9:57unstable. If you move by them too close
266. 10:00and too quickly, they will explode and
267. 10:02cause some damage. So, we're going to
268. 10:04move slowly, keeping these plasma
269. 10:06chambers around 7 km from us. Any
270. 10:09closer, we risk explosions. This puzzle
271. 10:12is mostly about being slow and
272. 10:14methodical. Once we've hacked the
273. 10:16containers, we can move on to the final
274. 10:18puzzle of the limited sleeper cache, the
275. 10:21force field. One storage depot is
276. 10:23protected by a force field generator
277. 10:26that will activate if you get too close.
278. 10:28Nearby, between some plasma chambers, we
279. 10:30have the remote defense grid unit. What
280. 10:32we're going to do is we're going to hack
281. 10:34the remote defense grid unit. And on a
282. 10:36success, the force field protecting the
283. 10:37depot won't activate when we approach
284. 10:40it, so we can hack it. Failing this hack
285. 10:42may trigger an explosion near the
286. 10:43defense unit that deals a decent amount
287. 10:46of damage. Though, interestingly enough,
288. 10:48I got very lucky. See, there's a chance
289. 10:52that nothing happens if you fail the
290. 10:53hack on the remote defense grid unit and
291. 10:55you can try again. I got very lucky with
292. 10:58the RNG and was able to disable the
293. 11:00force field and collect the last
294. 11:01container. And there we have it. You
295. 11:04just finished your first limited sleeper
296. 11:06cache and warped away with about 50
297. 11:08million ISK in value before considering
298. 11:10the blueprints. I recommend making sure
299. 11:12you have all of your loot dropped off
300. 11:13somewhere before attempting this site,
301. 11:16as it can be very dangerous and you will
302. 11:19likely die in your first few attempts. I
303. 11:21still die in sleeper caches on occasion
304. 11:24and that's okay. Now, I ignored a lot of
305. 11:27exploration sites specifically trying to
306. 11:29find these examples for you. So, my
307. 11:32exploration run could have been way more
308. 11:34profitable if I were scanning and
309. 11:36hacking all of the data in relic sites
310. 11:38as I went along. So, keep that in mind
311. 11:40when considering how much these sites
312. 11:42are worth. Remember, your ships in EVE
313. 11:44are like ammo. They will explode, and
314. 11:47hopefully you can make some ISK between
315. 11:48the explosions and come away making
316. 11:50billions doing exploration. As you get
317. 11:52more advanced and comfortable and
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319. 11:55into covert ops ships, which will be the
320. 11:58subject of our next exploration guide
321. 12:00video, where we'll be going over the
322. 12:03standard and superior sleeper caches.
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