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Pesets
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Posted - 2009.12.22 22:23:00 -
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You can use "Sisters Core Scanner Probes" instead of regular ones. They are much more expensive, but can help narrow down those last few percent.
Being able to launch six or seven probes at once helps too.
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Posted - 2009.12.23 00:19:00 -
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Edited by: Pesets on 23/12/2009 00:20:07
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron (a.k.a "triangular pyramid").
Octahedron formation (one probe in each arrow's direction) is arguably easier to set up, and can help if your scanning skills aren't as good.
Also, shift key is your friend.
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Pesets
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Posted - 2009.12.23 03:36:00 -
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 Originally by: Zephyr Song
Admiral Cain I understand exactly what you mean. You're threatened. Threatened by these upstarts who with a free toy promise by their very nature to destroy your way of life. You are proud of your exploration abilities and have attached a great deal of emotion to this profession, I can respect that. Zephyr fleets sailing throughout the vast emptyness of Wormhole Space increases the number of people who possess your hard earnt skills and as a result makes you unimportant.
It has more to do with the fact that by scanning out entrances to "their" systems you invite potential trouble for them, and by warping to the sites you may trigger the spawns they don't expect when first warping there, or kick off site expiration timers, or stuff along those lines. Of course wormholes were supposedly never meant to be settled in the first place...
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Posted - 2009.12.24 07:14:00 -
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It is somewhat of a pattern, wormholes tend to link to systems of similar "difficulty", so if you're scanning out in hisec you're most likely to find a wormhole to an "easy" w-system, in which you will most likely find wormholes to other "easy" systems or back to hisec.
This may also be the reason you aren't seeing many POSes - easy systems are not very profitable, and at the same time are riskier to settle in some ways (everyone and their mother scans stuff out in hisec, including people who wouldn't mind simply disrupting your activities for giggles).
Wormholes to "dangerous unknown" (deep w-space) are most likely to spawn in 0.0. Of course wormholes from "dangerous unknown" will tend to open to random parts of 0.0 as well, so don't plan on returning to hisec easily.
Also, you may consider not posting the names of the k-space systems with wormholes to space you're currently in.
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Pesets
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Posted - 2010.01.13 07:18:00 -
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Originally by: Zephyr Song
Again the POS did not shoot at me or even begin targeting. I was under the impression that POS guns automatically fire on those without friendly standings. Nonetheless I left it alone lest the POS changed its mind.
That depends on how the POS is set up. You can make it shoot anyone on sight (including yourself) or not even return fire. Also, individual POS structures have their own activation proximity ranges, and for some it may take quite forever to get a lock on you, so a small ship will generally have enough time to gtfo.
Originally by: Zephyr Song
Now at this point I got a little confused for I detected a mobile warp disruptor but whenever I scanned at the planets I could not detect it. Now either my directional scanner skills are woefully inadequate or I can detect objects through wormholes.
You cannot detect objects through wormholes. I also don't think you can scan down bubbles with probes (definitely not with Core ones). They may have indeed tried to put a bubble between two celestials (though it's pointless because bubbles don't work off-grid). They also may have left it at a warp-in of some site and never recovered it.
Nice to know you're keeping it up btw.
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Pesets
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Posted - 2010.01.31 09:14:00 -
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You can kinda try to guess the anomaly type by the signal strength, but that of course depends on your probe's position as well. I believe that using seven probes also helps. And i'm not sure that you normally see that many sites in a single system.
Also, with a rigged and bonused ship, you can usually skip steps - but Zephyr is neither bonused nor riggable, and as such isn't the best ship for scanning stuff down to be honest.
On an unrelated note, i feel compelled to warn you that some gravimetric sites have "gas clouds" that damage your ship (similarly to Recon 3/3 mission). The damage could be just about enough to destroy a Zephyr in one wave, so you may want to avoid warping there.
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