This character was created as a challenge. The rules:
- Use an alpha account.
- Do not pay for anything.
- Reach the alpha skill cap.
- Do not log into other characters until done.
To accomplish these goals, a lot of alpha daily skill injectors were required. The income that made it possible came first from running missions, and later exploration.
Alpha characters cannot use cloaks, so it was necessary to learn to explore without them, which is perfectly fine, just fit weapons, neutralizers and Nosferatu modules on the high slot where most explorers would fit a cloak.
A way to compensate for not having a cloak is to use speed while scanning. The explorer flies to a safe bookmark in space, created while in warp, and head on a random direction (up or down) with a propulsion module active. Most explorers would use a microwarpdrive, which makes the ship fast enough. If the pilot is distracted and the ship is scanned by combat probes, an attacker will first warp to the ship’s position when the scan was completed, forcing him to probe again to get another fix when the explorer is at least 150 km away, so that he can perform a short warp again before engaging. At this point he’ll have to decloak (if he was cloaked) to activate his own propulsion module to catch up before targeting and warp-disrupting the explorer’s ship, and his combat probes will have been deployed longer in space, increasing the chances that the explorer will notice them on d-scan and warp somewhere else.
If not using a cloak, and when not actively engaged, safely log off from the game to avoid being destroyed.
There are freeport stations in multiple Anoikis systems. Check out Wormlife Freeports. This can be a good base of operations.