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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.22 14:03:00 -
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With the exception of using the directional scanner and looking for cosmic anomalies I have never done any exploration and have only ever entered a wormhole three times; all of them on orders from my FC, usually to the misfortune of some hulk capsuleer. None of my characters even had astrometrics one trained.
As such I decided after receiving the awesome looking Zephyr and watching the scanning tutorial narrated by StevieSG decided to go exploring and keep a log of my efforts and adventures in some distant 0.0 system or previously unvisited wormhole.
In the Beginning:
All stories need a protagonist, a main character with whom the audience can focus on and hopefully, empathise with. Thus Zephyr Song was born, with the (currently) sole purpose of exploration, to spend as much time in wormhole space as possible and see what there was to see, to boldly go where no person in a pod has gone before. And not get blown up in the process. It will be hard to replace these ships all too soon I fear.
My first step after training astrometrics to level two, thus enabling me to use five probes was to pick up my Zephyr and the probes. However rather concerning to me at the time I had stored the ship in Jita. I was worried that suicide gankers would be about, in particular the ones blowing up Zephyrs for their daily lulz intake.
With the exception of a battleship targeting me at Jita 4-4 undock I had no problems once I jumped out of that wretched hive of s****and villainy.
Noob Mistakes
After jumping through five or six systems with no luck finding a wormhole, or any cosmic signature for that matter, I realised that the default setting for the probes 4AU was way to small and after clicking around for a few seconds I managed to get the probes set to 32AU. Very quickly I found a cosmic signature in Sivala and narrowed it down without much trouble. Luckily for me it was a wormhole, thus upon reaching 100% I recovered my probes and warped my ship, Anemoi, to the entrance and jumped in.
With that note I properly began my adventure.
Day One: Maiden Voyage
Rather naturally for any eve player my first instinct upon entering J164938 (B274) was æIs there anyone here that wants to kill me?Æ After bookmarking the wormhole I created a safespot and activated the directional scanner. There was no one else is the system as far as I could tell, however there was one POS with a couple of warp disruptors. I have no idea who it belonged to, with the exception that the Amarr control towerÆs name was in Russian. Either way I decided to leave it alone and see what else there was.
Now even though CCP said that Sleepers wouldnÆt attack Zephyrs I was half expecting to be podded and back in some station faster than you can say Petition GM. Fortunately for me CCP didnÆt screw up and I made some new friends at the Perimeter outpost. It was a pretty awesome place to check out, with sleeper ships flying around oblivious to my existence and hovering around what looked like the Gallante version of Deep Space Nine. I figured it was probably one of the safer parts of the solar system and started looking for a new wormhole.
Easily enough a new wormhole was found and I jumped into J171420 (0477) remembering to bookmark both sides. Scanning within this system proved harder than before, there were several cosmic signatures with most being Ladar or Gravimetric sites, full of gas clouds or Veldspar asteroids accompanied with frigate sized sleepers. It also appeared to be completely empty of other players, as none of the moons had a POS around them, which seemed strange to me as people on the forums had been complaining about all the moons in WH space occupied.
After a lot of messing around I found another wormhole but this one emerged in Fasse, a low-sec Gallante system. Although it was empty this wormhole didnÆt look like it would last long so I jumped back into J171420 and logged for the night.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.22 14:08:00 -
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Damned character limits and posting restrictions :(
Day Two: RAEG!!!!
I logged onto Zephyr Song about an hour and a half before downtime and found that the two wormholes had collapsed. That is when the trouble started. I again had lots of cosmic signatures to dig through and slowly and surely my agitation grew as they turned out to gravimetric this and ladar that, I eventually just started ignoring hits that werenÆt unknown.
I opened up Firefox at that point and re-watched that youtube tutorial along with some light Googling. After 20 minutes or so I started probing out an unknown cosmic signature that I felt was finally a wormhole. With about 10 minutes to Downtime I got the unstable wormhole to 90.11%, but nothing I did got it to 100%.
I kept moving probes closer and closer, always in high 90 percents and at that point I took middle probe away, getting slightly better hits but no cigar, downtime is only ten minutes way so I was getting annoyed. Put the fifth probe back in and put it under the other four, below and in the middle. 99.08%, five minutes before DT. Put it slightly closer, no luck. Put it above the four other probes this time. 99.62%. 6 minutes left. Kept moving the probes closer and further away. Down to 99.05%, 5 minutes left, with cluster shutdown message up. Moved one of the other probes below still no luck 99.83%, 2 minutes 20. One minute left last chanceà.and failure, so I recovered my probes and wait the last few seconds before DT.
So now I need to know, why couldnÆt I get the WH to 100%? Is it skills or am I just not good enough personal skill wise?
I hope to continue this blog of sorts for some time to come and especially see how long I can last. Also If you find me in a wormhole please be kind and at least give me a head start before trying to pod me. :D
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Vyktor Abyss
The Abyss Corporation
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Posted - 2009.12.22 14:30:00 -
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A nice read, been meaning to try this out myself...
As a veteran of 1 wormhole jump I can only offer this advice:
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Attia Wyn
Amarr
Mindstar Technology
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Posted - 2009.12.22 14:34:00 -
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Skills definately affect your ability to focus in on those last few percentage points!
Good read! - keep it going! :)
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el caido
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.12.22 14:42:00 -
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As shiney as the Zephyr is, you really want a cov ops if you want to do any serious exploration. The Zephyr is a toy, the cov ops is the genuine tool. But good luck on your adventure.
/me hums the Zephyr Song for the rest of the day
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Miranda Cho
Caldari
Ammatar Free Corps
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2009.12.22 16:29:00 -
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You were screwed by a confluence of two factors. First, low scan skills, and second a ship without bonus to scan strength. A standard core scan probe has a strength of 40. A bonused probe ship, good probe skills, and faction scan probes puts my probe strength at 104. That has a huge impact on the radius of probe you can use to scan down any given site, and at the hard end of the spectrum what sites you can scan at all. Technique counts for a lot, that's why you were edging ever closer as you tweaked your probe positioning, but skills help a lot. If you want to keep exploring in a Zephyr, see about levelling your scan skills up, particularly the one that increases your scan strength. Otherwise, look into your race's probe frigate, the one that has a <racial> frigate skill bonus to probe strength.
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Transmit Failure
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Posted - 2009.12.22 16:39:00 -
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This was really well written. I look forward to future posts about your adventures in wormhole space!
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Zakarazor
Amarr
Inadeptus Mechanicus
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Posted - 2009.12.22 16:57:00 -
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I would recomend traying the scan strenght skill a level or two. Might be hard if you havent already bought it though
My best advice in that case is to keep trying. Sooner or later you will get a hit.
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Igus
M. Corp
Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2009.12.22 18:13:00 -
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Edited by: Igus on 22/12/2009 18:13:49
Getting your skills up will help a lot. There are 3 skills I think that are very important to have to 4 or 5.
Also you probably want to get your self a full set of sister's core probes. They are pretty cheap now, and make a pretty decent difference.
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Uhg, I think I need a flux capacitor
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Bel Amar
Amarr
Paragons of Order
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Posted - 2009.12.22 21:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Miranda Cho
You were screwed by a confluence of two factors.
Three factors actually, if the OP was following the probe layout given in the guide. The 5 probe layout makes easy sites easier to find, but hard sites harder to find, due to the way signal strength diminishes when the angles between two probes is less than 90 degrees
Get rid of the fifth probe, push your remaining four probes closer to the signature bit by bit. If you still can't get a hit that way, you need to put your probes in the shape of a tetrahedron, and surround the signature with it
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Pesets
The Hunt Club
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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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Miranda Cho
Caldari
Ammatar Free Corps
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2009.12.22 22:38:00 -
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Four probes, one tetrahedron. The One, True Path.
In all seriousness, a tetrahedron pattern is very easy to set up on the fly, and produces very, very good results. Even with a ton of scan probe skills, the only time I ever space more than four probes is if I'm trying to get an overview of a very large system. Whenever I get around to training Astrometrics V, I'll probably keep a brace of combat probes watching an area while I scan with another 4 core probes, but that's because I'm paranoid like that. |
Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.22 23:59:00 -
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Thank you all very much for the replies and advice on solving my current conundrum.Looking through evemon I think that the skills I need to train are Astrometric Rangefinding and Astrometric Pinpointing. Astrometric Aquisition seems to only speed up scans but that would be useful as well I suppose.
I did consider at the time getting sister probes but they are expensive and I didn't know if I would survive the day at that point. There should be a new update later today, or tomorrow depending where you are on the world.
Now if you excuse me I need to go find out what a Tetrahedron is.
PS. Does anyone know how long it takes before I no longer have an exclamation mark for a face?
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Pesets
The Hunt Club
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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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Admrl Cain
Caldari
Unbound Incorporated
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Posted - 2009.12.23 02:07:00 -
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I very rarely troll... but I will this time:
I hate each and every one of you noob wannabe explorers. Train for a cov-ops exploration ship or gtfo. You're just introducing more chaos into an already chaotic game feature known as W-Space, a LOT of us that live in W-Space don't want you there, and I PERSONALLY have killed 8 Zepthyr scanner frigs since they were released. They are annoying and they must all be blown up. STAY OUTTA MY WH! =P grrr.
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Triethylene
Minmatar
Native Freshfood
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Posted - 2009.12.23 02:19:00 -
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Originally by: Admrl Cain
I PERSONALLY have killed 8 Zepthyr scanner frigs since they were released. They are annoying and they must all be blown up. STAY OUTTA MY WH! =P grrr.
Thats odd, I don't see a single Zephyr kill on your Battleclinic record?
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Zeredek
Gallente
Red Federation
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Posted - 2009.12.23 02:22:00 -
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Originally by: Triethylene
Thats odd, I don't see a single Zephyr kill on your Battleclinic record?
Originally by: Admrl Cain
I very rarely troll... but I will this time
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Triethylene
Minmatar
Native Freshfood
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Posted - 2009.12.23 02:38:00 -
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Originally by: Zeredek
Originally by: Triethylene
Thats odd, I don't see a single Zephyr kill on your Battleclinic record?
Originally by: Admrl Cain
I very rarely troll... but I will this time
Ah. My bad.
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Fishsticks Fred
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Posted - 2009.12.23 02:52:00 -
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Needs moar autonomous orcas eating things.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.23 03:12:00 -
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Originally by: Admrl Cain
I very rarely troll... but I will this time:
I hate each and every one of you noob wannabe explorers. Train for a cov-ops exploration ship or gtfo. You're just introducing more chaos into an already chaotic game feature known as W-Space, a LOT of us that live in W-Space don't want you there, and I PERSONALLY have killed 8 Zepthyr scanner frigs since they were released. They are annoying and they must all be blown up. STAY OUTTA MY WH! =P grrr.
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. All these alt characters learning how to scan, how to explore reduces your profession from something honourable, something to be aspired to, into a basic skill that is expected of every pilot like knowing how to make a safespot.
This is not just a challenge to your livelihood or even to your place in your community, in your corporation; It is a threat to your manliness. With the rusty scissors of change I have removed your manliness for the entire world to see, and for you to watch as what defines you drops and bounces around on the dirty floor of mediocrity.
But you are not without hope. Gather what remains of your manhood in your hands and with effort you can stitch yourself together again. Your hope lies in becoming the finest cov-ops pilot in Eve. Become the Chribba of scanning. let your reputation spread far and wide, your abilities making any potential target to surrender upon seeing your greatly feared and respected name enter local. Be a god among men.
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Zeredek
Gallente
Red Federation
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Posted - 2009.12.23 03:25:00 -
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Originally by: Fishsticks Fred
Needs moar autonomous orcas eating things.
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Pesets
The Hunt Club
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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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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.23 05:50:00 -
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Edited by: Zephyr Song on 23/12/2009 05:50:02
Day Three: I Want to Break Free
Am I doomed to float through space like some ratting fleet mourning the passing of its only probing ship? Will I have to trust in the kindness of strangers to deliver me from my prison without walls?
With the system still empty of any other human life and protected by the ever-present Sleeper bodyguards I continue my task. One by one I discover Ladar and Gravimetric sites, ignoring all those that are not what I seek. I need a wormhole, but this time I desire to return to empire space for I am not prepared for the rigours of exploration, I need more skills.
Success! A wormhole, even though it leads into low security space hopefully it shall be safe enough for a trip into a high sec trade hub. I emerge in Vitrauze (X702), a low security Gallente system in the Essence region. This system seemed quiet and sleepy, eight people in local, possibly all docked up. I had intended to leave low sec in search for the skill books I seek (the Astrometric support skills) but the local station most conveniently for me seeded all the books. Training I one I could and putting the other two in my cargo hold for later injection I prepared for my next trip. I decided to go to the system next door and the relative safety of 0.5.
I docked up in the Creodron warehouse station in the Droselory system for a short break and reflection. At this point I have weaved in and out of highsec, probably a good thing in hindsight, but I need to go deeper and emerge not in the centre of the galaxy barely 10 jumps from Jita but on the edges, in Omist or Outer Pass and see what there is to see.
I jumped into J151431 (B274) from Droselory and after book marking the WH (ALWAYS bookmark the wormhole kids!) I warped to planet IX. I admit I was rather surprised because I didnÆt expected habitable looking planet in wormhole space, it really looked nice, like Caldari Prime. Turns out that it was a temperate planet and there were four more Temperate planets and two Oceanic planets, the rest were uninviting. If CCP were ever to release a sim city/civilisation expansion J151431 would be an excellent spot to send some colonists.
Once again this system appeared empty with no POSs at the moons, and I was feeling like it was time to move on.
Most regrettably I have yet to find the Orca or its herd of hulks feasting on those rocks of the stellar plane. But hope springs eternal and in time I shall sail alongside those majestic and terrible beasts.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.23 13:07:00 -
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Speaking about the Sister probes I looked through the attributes and compared them to the normal core probes, I must be going blind because I couldn't see the difference between them. What makes them worth the extra isk?
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Pharago
Gallente
Piratas Leprosos Guineanos
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Posted - 2009.12.23 13:19:00 -
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Edited by: Pharago on 23/12/2009 13:22:27
Originally by: Zephyr Song
Speaking about the Sister probes I looked through the attributes and compared them to the normal core probes, I must be going blind because I couldn't see the difference between them. What makes them worth the extra isk?
don't know exactly how much but i think is a 5% bonus to the scan strengh
also, surrounding the signature in a 'perfect' squared shape with 4 probes helps to overcome that pesky 99% hits, the point is, if you can get to 99 or 97 or something like that, the you can get to 100% if you place well those probes.
astrometric rangefinding and pinpointing skills are really, really worth training at least to lvl3
happy exploring
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Miranda Cho
Caldari
Ammatar Free Corps
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2009.12.23 13:44:00 -
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10% scan strength bonus (40 to 44 base strength). The only better ones are the RSS probes from the Minmatar epic arc, which are 45.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.24 06:46:00 -
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Day Four: A New Day a New Adventure
The wormhole from J151431 to Droselory has disappeared and once again the system is empty, I had really thought I would have detected someone else by now. Found a new wormhole that emerged in Nadohman in the Domain region.
I was at that point that I noticed I was missing four probes and I had no idea what happened to them. I jumped back into J151431 and used the directional scanner around the wormhole in search of my AWOL probes but no luck, I activated the æReconnect to Lost ProbesÆ option and waited five minutes but once again no sign of them. I still had six probes left so I wasnÆt in any danger of being trapped should the current wormhole collapsed but still I have no idea why I am missing four probes.
They were just run-of-the-mill Core Scanner Probes so very little isk lost but still I felt it was prudent to acquire many more backups if the lives of my probes are so temporary. Two jumps away in Ebo I bought fifty brand spanking new Core Scanners, perhaps a bit overkill and they did take up half of my incredibly massive 10m3 cargo hold that I hoped will one day hold various little titbits from my journey but better safe than sorry.
Strangely enough Ebo didnÆt have any cosmic signatures of anomalies as far as I could tell and Esteban the next system over was being particularly annoying in getting anything better than ten percent signal strength. So I went back into Nadohman and jumped once again into J151431 and enjoy its awesome planets.
A new wormhole was discovered and this time it appeared to go deeper into the Wormhole systems. And yet J223853 (D382) is another empty system with no Player Owned Stations. So at this point I decided to find a new wormhole and I had my first facepalm moment in this little trip.
I detected what appeared to be another wormhole and so I spent 10 minutes trying to narrow it down. After a little while I realised it was pretty close to the bookmark for the wormhole I just came through but I thought it was just a coincidence. At 100% I warped to this ænewÆ wormhole and was very pleased that in the info it said it lead to a deeper part of unknown space. I had assumed that the scanner would show up or at least ignore wormholes that wee showing up on the map but no, I wasted my time scanning down an old wormhole.
Nonetheless I did find a new wormhole, and once again IÆm in Gallente lowsec! This time it was Adeel in the Everyshore region. And once again I jumped back into my wormhole, although less aesthetically pleasing than the previous one, to await a better system.
I seem to be having bad luck finding my way out of empire, does anyone know if wormholes are random or is there a pattern to their spawning locations?
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Pesets
The Hunt Club
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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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Amitious Turkey
Gallente
TarNec
New Eden Retail Federation
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Posted - 2009.12.24 08:02:00 -
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Originally by: Pesets
Also, you may consider not posting the names of the k-space systems with wormholes to space you're currently in.
This...
Haunting the forums since '03
BECAUSE OF FALCONDUST!
Originally by: CCP Navigator
We love you all as well <3
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.25 11:58:00 -
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Originally by: Amitious Turkey
Originally by: Pesets
Also, you may consider not posting the names of the k-space systems with wormholes to space you're currently in.
This...
I considered this but didn't think it much of a threat as the wormholes have changed by the time I log on again, although i'll probably censor out what system i'm in if I get stuck in lowsec or 0.0 until i'm somewhere else. Besides having people stalking me would liven up this blog. 
No update today as it's Christmas but touch wood i'll have an update tomorrow.
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Katia Sae
Caldari
Sagan Explorations Inc.
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Posted - 2009.12.25 12:22:00 -
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From one explorer to another, I wish you the best of luck in your journey and your blog. You may want to consider posting on a blog site like podlogs. You can check out my sig for a link to mine. It's free and has enough features for what I'm trying to do.
Happy Holidays.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.26 12:55:00 -
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Day Five: Hello Buttercup
Just a small update for today. For once I actually found another person in the wormhole and he possessed the rather interestingly named Harbinger of Buttercup. Even in my Post-Christmas cheer (read drunk) I knew such a ferociously named battlecruiser could be only trouble. Fortunately for me the pod-pilot, Fyrewynd, turned out to be harmless, well at least to a ship with less than five hundred health.
He was shooting the sleepers in one of the cosmic anomalies and after finding which one he was in we had a nice little chat in local:
Fyrewynd > hello :)
Zephyr Song > Merry Christmas Fyrewind and whoever else may be here o/
Fyrewynd > just me and you so far
Fyrewynd > and im leaving in a min
Zephyr Song > I thought so but paranoia is a virtue in this game :D
Fyrewynd > indeed
Zephyr Song > don't worry i'm not gonna hurt you , see here: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1237607
Fyrewynd > its late im not worried about being hurt lol
Fyrewynd > theres more than you here in your zeph anyways i see more now :)
Zephyr Song > Is that so? Well can the new peoples please say hello?
Fyrewynd > come on Anemoi speak up
Fyrewynd > rude people make me want to shoot my guns
Zephyr Song > lol thats the name of my ship, just as yours is buttercup
Fyrewynd > o thought it was your name
Fyrewynd > my bad maybe just me and you as most the sites have ships
Fyrewynd > some that i cannot take they are hitting for 1kish
Zephyr Song > Fortunatley for me the sleepers don't attack Zephyrs :D
Fyrewynd > indeed
Fyrewynd > goodnight and goodlcuk
Fyrewynd > or goodluck
Zephyr Song > bye
Fyrewind forgot to loot one of the wrecks of the sleepers he was shooting so I helped myself to two sleeper data libraries, my first souvenirs. Found a wormhole to Uzigh barely 6 jumps from Amarr so stayed in J223853 in search of a better wormhole. Another wormhole went to Thakala, a 0.4 system in Devoid. So once again I stayed in my comfy hole. I might have to go deeper into lowsec to find better connecting wormholes.
I also learnt a useful little titbit of information: record the Ids of which wormholes and other cosmic signatures you have identified if you are jumping out and in of systems as the scanner forgets what had previously been detected.
I might have to make a proper blog at that site Katia Sae, got some screenshots that would be good to put up.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2009.12.31 12:03:00 -
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Sorry for making an update, I have my notes just need to get around to writing it up. Enjoy new years eve. O/
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Yokyen
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Posted - 2009.12.31 13:26:00 -
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Nice post and thanks for sharing. As a resident of a WH for 3 months now I find your perspective interestiing. I have ye to see a ephr in my system FWIW
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Cozmik R5
Minmatar
Dock 94
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Posted - 2009.12.31 13:39:00 -
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Nice post. You should really get set-up on Blogspot or Wordpress for some blogging because as you've found out, the EVE-O forums fail horribly at it because of restrictions (hint hint CCP, lighten the frak up).
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Posted - 2010.01.02 12:21:00 -
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.01.02 12:30:00 -
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Day Six: Weaving Through the Stars
I donÆt think anyone had been in J223853 since the previous downtime as the system had to be loaded when logging in and sure enough it was quiet as a mouse. After a little scanning around I found a wormhole to Olfeim in Minmatar lowsec then I finally found a connecting wormhole system.
I jumped into J103716 and probably left J223853 for the last time. I detected an Amarr control tower at planet VII moon one. Belongs to Dark Tribe, a small supposedly mercenary corp. the POS was online and loaded with lots of lasers and faction gear. Got out of there in case it decided to shoot me and shorten my epic adventure.
After scanning around I found a couple of highsec wormholes (Jaswelu in Domain and Nahol in Kor-Azor respectively) and luckily for me another wormhole system.
J125247 lacked any other players or even POSs but was loaded with Cosmic Signatures and took me ages to sift the Ladar and Gravimetric sites for the wormholes.
Also this wormhole J125247 seems to be full of Integrated Terminus, I have not seen these before and I assume there are rather juicy sleeper loot in the Sleeper Archive terminal, but of course I have no method to get at it. I need to read up on the Eve fluff, I have no idea what a Talocan is and why they have Polestars (looks like a giant piece of industrial machinery).
ôHere you are again: another dead end. This impasse is not a physical one, but an ancient one. Why is there a Sleeper station near these Talocan ruins? Why does it seem like these ancient races, long dead and all but forgotten, are intertwined, like star-crossed lovers in the universal play? Perhaps the answer rests in that terminal. Only one way to find out.ö
I found two new wormholes in this system, both to new wormhole systems. J11334 was also empty and wasnÆt of particular note but the wormhole for J102409 led into ôdangerous unknown parts of spaceö.
Dangerous unknown parts of space!? How could I say ænoÆ to that?
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Htaer
Gallente
Order of Celestial Knights
Galactic System Lords Alliance
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Posted - 2010.01.02 13:24:00 -
[38]
This is a very good read! Keep it coming 
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Katia Sae
Sagan Explorations Inc.
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Posted - 2010.01.03 02:18:00 -
[39]
Good to see you still flying. I was just wondering how you were doing just yesterday, so thanks for the update. You really need to get that blog going. If you set one up, you can copy your post from here to it.
Good luck and continued safe flying.
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Olympus Carrier
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Posted - 2010.01.03 02:34:00 -
[40]
Great thread, It's good to see someone document their ventures in a Zeph.
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Eternum Praetorian
Retribution. Inc.
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Posted - 2010.01.03 03:01:00 -
[41]
On Da Zephyr
This thread is now complete 
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Lyris Nairn
Caldari
Hashimoto Corporation
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Posted - 2010.01.03 04:32:00 -
[42]
Originally by: Eternum Praetorian
On Da Zephyr
This thread is now complete
Your video raises the question: how does a ship powered by solar sails approach a star?
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Grendelfreak
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Posted - 2010.01.06 02:29:00 -
[43]
Originally by: Lyris Nairn
Originally by: Eternum Praetorian
On Da Zephyr
This thread is now complete
Your video raises the question: how does a ship powered by solar sails approach a star?
Very Carefully :D
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Herzog Wolfhammer
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2010.01.06 03:39:00 -
[44]
Why do I get the feeling this is not going to end well?
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.01.06 04:01:00 -
[45]
Day Seven: A Cunning Plan
Well my loyal followers and hopefully not a too few sycophants I jumped into that dangerous unknown part of space called J102409. And once again It seemed empty except for an Amarr Control Tower at Planet VIII-14 belonging to the Antrad Corporation, from what I can tell a thirteen man carebear corp.
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. After scanning around for a little while and not finding much of interest I found another wormhole to the ôdangerous unknown parts of spaceö and thus jumped into J125929.
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.
No matter, a single warp disruptor is harmless against me (I think). I decided to see what cosmic signatures and anomalies were present and I found my first lot of Sleeper information Sanctums.
ôData is eternal, immortal, immutable. Even when the engineers and intelligence behind its creation are gone, information, facts, and knowledge never die. Throughout this deadspace pocket, information lives and breathes, whispering hidden meanings through conduits and cables. Serene though it may be, there are forces at work û mechanical by nature, artificial in existence, enlightened by unnatural choice û that do not want information to be shared. They are unsleeping guardians protecting the universeÆs slumbering god, knowledge.ö
I also found a wormhole to an ôunknown part of spaceö, they seem to be a lower level of wormhole systems and as you are no doubt aware of my earlier adventures seem to connect to highsec so with a quick look around of J172028 and after finding my first Solar Cell I jumped back into the previous system
ôAstrophysicists studying Sleeper sites have noted that some Sleeper structures are still operational û and by design, no less. Outposts run basic life support systems, engineering stations buzz with running motors, and stations glimmer with light, energy, and mundane activity. No known reason exists for this persistent operation, but a few clues emerge.
This cluster of thermoelectric converters is common around large solar bodies, supposedly for collecting radiation and storing energy for use throughout Sleeper colonies: a persistent generator for a dead race. Even to this day, this structure is operational, although how it distributes its energy and for what purpose is still unknown.ö
Originally by: Herzog Wolfhammer
Why do I get the feeling this is not going to end well?
That is of course a possibility, even a probable one, after all the seas are littered with the wrecks of would-be explorers, but what would be the alternatives be? For the Zephyr to gather proverbial dust in my hangar until I sell it for a quick buck or my subscription lapses? Or as a fancy vehicle for my industrial alts until they get destroyed by some moronic suicide ganker after the ever important carebear tears?
I have a feeling that the Zephyr is not only an interesting Christmas present from CCP but perhaps a trial run for what may come in the future.
Second half will be up in a few minutes, stupid character limits.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.01.06 04:07:00 -
[46]
Day Seven: A Cunning Plan Part B
By staying in J125929 I wished to try out a Cunning Plan, which was as cunning as a fox that used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on, and is now working for the UN at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning.
I hoped to find either a radar or gravimetric site. I read that there is ôcansö that can be looted in the more difficult sites but naturally the websites and forums were lacking in more specific information. I wished to see if I could just fly up to one of these cans and like a catburgler take the sleepers stuff without alerting the Sleepers.
Well I found an Unsecured Frontier Digital Nexus and it seemed to be exactly what I was looking for:
ôOut in the darkness, a curious deadspace signature taunts brave and reckless explorers alike to try and uncover what secrets may be hidden in the depths. Electronic interference floods through your shipÆs systems only moments after your warp drive locks on and activates, growing in ferocity as you are hurled towards the strange phenomenon.ö
Along with the usual sleepers this site contains twelve ôobsolete sleeper databaseö, and as far as I could tell from 70km away are just the same as jettison cans. But of course there is no such thing as a free lunch as I found out once I was close enough to open the can:
ôYou cannot open obsolete sleeper database without specialised equipmentö
So much for my hope for discovering a new way to make iskies. And I donÆt even have a Baldrick I can blame on for my failures. It was at that point that I had yet another cunning plan:
What if I get another alt flying a Zephyr but instead of probes had the skills to hack into these metal pi±atas, so that Zephyr Song would scan down at warp to the cans then the Burgler would warp to Zephyr Song and get the delicious sleeper loot? This way with perhaps the help of a hauler depending of the size of cumulated loot we would become rich without having to shoot, or be shot at a single sleeper/
But of course not, that would be too good to be true. To open those cans requires a piece of hardware called a Codebreaker II and the required skills to run however the standard model Zephyr possessing a single high slot and the Codebreaker II is, naturally, A Mid Slot item.
Oh well, such if life. And with that note I logged off in J125929 and see if tomorrow wormholes to better systems will spawn.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.01.09 10:46:00 -
[47]
Day Eight: Minor Update
I am still in J125929 and so is the Mobile Warp Disruptor and as far as I can tell from directional scanning and using the probes on the solar system map as visual aids it seems strangely enough to not be at any planet. It seems to be between planet IV and V but not at any of the moons. And because it is still present when all the (scanned) wormholes have gone I can only assume it was left there deliberately or the loot from an industrial.
If anyone knows how to find where exactly it is please say so.
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Sumelar
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Posted - 2010.01.09 11:15:00 -
[48]
Zerphyr can't fit anything but the probe launcher it comes with, very likely for the exact reasons you're attempting.
Incidently, should you come across a tower belonging to Blacksteel Mining and Manufacturing, let us know you're in system, we tend to be very aggressive but I imagine we could make an exception for a simple explorer.
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lollerwaffle
Sileo In Pacis
THE SPACE P0LICE
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Posted - 2010.01.09 11:29:00 -
[49]
Fun read, reminds of quality forum posts made back in the day before jaded vets and trolls would ****poast every thread on the forums.
+1 internets to you, sir!
Would be nice if you could include screenshots, even if they were just links, to relevant parts of your story. I feel it gives it a bit more substance and perspective, plus they can always be doctored for extra humour.
Do keep it up and goodluck/flysafe etc
Originally by: salva dore
Cloak should not be AFK solution.
What do you think?
Originally by: AFK Cloaker
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Callista Sincera
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.01.09 11:54:00 -
[50]
Originally by: Lyris Nairn
Your video raises the question: how does a ship powered by solar sails approach a star?
Read this about sailing in general (applies) and this about solar sailing.
TLDR: "There is a common misunderstanding that solar sails cannot go towards their light source. This is false. In particular, sails can go toward the sun by thrusting against their orbital motion. This reduces the energy of their orbit, spiraling the sail toward the sun, see Tack (sailing).[6]"
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.01.13 05:31:00 -
[51]
Bumpity bumpity bump. Been busy with RL but i'll have a new update soonish (I hope).
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Pesets
The Hunt Club
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Posted - 2010.01.13 07:18:00 -
[52]
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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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.01.15 08:39:00 -
[53]
Day Nine: Friendly Natives
I woke up in J125929 without needing to wait for the system to load; this gave me hope that there is a wormhole to somewhere interesting. During my routine directional scanning I momentarily picked up an Iteron but it disappeared. Later detected a Scorpion but it also disappeared. I even said good afternoon in local but people are so rude these days. I guessed I spooked whoever was around.
After jumping through a couple of Dangerous Unknown wormholes it appeared I had stumbled upon the much-fabled space whales. I counted two Orcas with my directional scanner along with a small pod of industrials and other mining ships, all-sitting within a POS at one of the moons.
I mused to myself what they were doing in such a place. Perhaps they were resting from the ordeal of a never ending migration, or perhaps hiding from the space Japanese and their whaling ships. Just as I was about to take a closer look at one of natures most wonderful sites a strange event occurred: A Mastodon landed right on top of me at the wormhole.
After a brief and no doubt heart-racing few minutes Kait Sith of the corp that owned that station and all those ships, Spectral Forces, Private convoÆd me. It turned out that he had previously read this thread and knew whom I was. It also turned out that the ships I had detected previously belonged to members of his corporation. They probably just jumped out without looking at local.
I was Kait SithÆs first visitor to his home system in about three months. Kait Sith and his corpmates had been living in this system for a while, mining and doing the various spawns the connecting WH systems had to offer.
After my lamenting of CCPs foresight of not allowing the Zephyr to become a flying WIN button (I really wanted to be able to loot sleeper cans) and Kaits description of a somewhat insane strategy of becoming rich off sleepers we both logged for the day.
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thecunning mrfox
Minmatar
The Littlest Hobos
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2010.01.15 09:45:00 -
[54]
Originally by: Zephyr Song
Day Seven: A Cunning Plan Part B
as cunning as a fox that used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on, and is now working for the UN at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning.
i believe you have my plan good sir.
very nice thread, keep up the good work.
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.01.20 01:56:00 -
[55]
Bump me up before you go-go, don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo.
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Snarfster Ekoki
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Posted - 2010.01.20 15:42:00 -
[56]
Very good read, makes me want to break out the zephyr :)
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Feyd Y'eldi
Gallente
Orsus Enterprises
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Posted - 2010.01.20 16:05:00 -
[57]
Great read, after recently getting back into the game I am really enjoying the new scanning mechanics.
Found my first wormhole on Sunday night, took me from a 0.7 system to somewhere in nulsec. Did a little exploring but warped out after a while as I was not sure if my Vexor could handle any Rats I might bump into. Quite exciting flying around in there though.
Feyd
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.01.31 01:21:00 -
[58]
Day Ten: Kindness of Strangers/ Bloody Ladar!
I hadnÆt logged on in about a fortnight and so I was still in J121558. Turned out I wasnÆt alone, fortunately it was a corpmate of Kait Sith. Quip Transkar had read this thread before and was kind enough to fleet invite me so I could warp to a new wormhole that lead to another dangerous unknown part of space.
J103104 gave me a new message I hadnÆt seen before, something about spatial anomalies affecting my ship. However I had no idea what it was so I did a bit a scouting around the system to see what I could find. With the exception of occasionally picking up Quip TranskarÆs Scorpion of directional scanner it was empty of any other form of human life.
And this is the point I started getting way too stressed from a game. I began my customary search for a new wormhole by the usual method of by identifying the type of a cosmic anomaly and ignoring it if it isnÆt a wormhole. But one by painstaking one I got each anomaly to around forty percent only to see it was yet another Ladar site.
This is the list I made before DT occurred:
YFH-102 unstable wormhole to J121558
SXE-297 Ladar
RSM-846 ladar
JSZ-155 ladar
XRH-509 Ladar
COM-326 Ladar
SUR-111 Ladar
PDV-171 Ladar
MHF-565 Ladar
QZP-632 Radar
OAA-483 Ladar
ULW-546 Gravimetric
This was far too tedious, I need a better (faster) way of determining the types of anomalies. Currently I am using five probes at once, one in the middle with the other four about half overlapping the middle probe and slightly each other. If that wasnÆt clear enough it was the way scanning was done on the CCP video tutorial.
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Thelma Todd
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Posted - 2010.01.31 02:55:00 -
[59]
Great thread, keep it coming. Hope you don't get too bored and manage to find what you are looking for.
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Pesets
The Hunt Club
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Posted - 2010.01.31 09:14:00 -
[60]
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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Korben90
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Posted - 2010.02.21 23:27:00 -
[61]
+1 great read!
Took out the Zephyr for a spin today (first time) and found a wormhole. Jumped in ... but alas, I don't have the fame yet. Got jumped and the Zephyr got taken out. Managed to jump out. Going to scan more but i'm only going in Wormholes with a Fleet behind me ;-)
Still keep it up!
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Kolatha
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Posted - 2010.02.22 02:11:00 -
[62]
Originally by: Zephyr Song
This was far too tedious, I need a better (faster) way of determining the types of anomalies. Currently I am using five probes at once, one in the middle with the other four about half overlapping the middle probe and slightly each other. If that wasn’t clear enough it was the way scanning was done on the CCP video tutorial.
I tend to use 4 probes set in a tetrahedral pattern like this. After some practice it is a lot quicker than using 5 probes and more accurate than using 4 probes in a square.
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Lashnar
Caldari
New Eden Recon Force
Beyond-Control
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Posted - 2010.02.22 03:14:00 -
[63]
Originally by: Zephyr Song
This was far too tedious, I need a better (faster) way of determining the types of anomalies. Currently I am using five probes at once, one in the middle with the other four about half overlapping the middle probe and slightly each other. If that wasnÆt clear enough it was the way scanning was done on the CCP video tutorial.
I hope you're still doing this, it is a very interesting read. Just a hint, right click on a wormhole signature, and click on: Ignore other signatures. No ladar, gravemetric, mademetric, or radar signatures will appear. Only wormholes.
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Greygal
Gallente
Sephray Industries
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Posted - 2010.02.23 02:28:00 -
[64]
10/10
Highly enjoyable read :) Awaiting the next chapter - keep it coming!
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Zephyr Song
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Posted - 2010.02.23 05:54:00 -
[65]
I am still doing this when I can it's just RL plus my Main eve life decided to intervene. But don't worry i'm still in some dangerous wormhole just waiting to be ganked.
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Monva
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Posted - 2010.02.23 10:57:00 -
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Edited by: Monva on 23/02/2010 10:57:40
So where is this wormhole? *powers up sock launcher*
Nah just kiddin', have this thread added to 'favourites'. I keep checking and hoping. Did something similar when I was playing Morrowind, wrote a huge log of my adventures and it really spices up the gameplay. Keep 'em comin'!
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