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Hawk Moth
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Posted - 2005.02.04 13:12:00 -
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I have tried these in test and in live and I have had no joy whatsoever. I have identified ships on the scanner, made sure that they are more than 1AU away and have analysed for the appropriate ship type.
I did file a petition and got a next-to-useless response telling me that I need to use 3 at a time. It would appear that the help desk peeps don't know as much as you would expect.
I have tried since the last patch in the hope that a bug had been identified and fixed, but still no joy.
I have tried everything I can think of and just wondered if I was the only person having difficulty with this.
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Eyeshadow
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Posted - 2005.02.04 13:19:00 -
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u do need to use 3, in a triangle. Drop 3 at various points in the system, use the long range ones first. Scan, warp to the BM. drop a shorter range probe, scan, warp to that BM. drop the shrotest range one you have, scan, warp to BM and it will land u between 600 and 60k from whatever it is you are scanning for.
Problem with them is they only scan on a 1AU flat plane. If anything is above or below you (if u get wot i mean) by more than 1AU ur probes wont find them
They do work, and when they do work, they work very well.
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Hawk Moth
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Posted - 2005.02.04 13:31:00 -
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I'm afraid you are making the same mistake as the help desk peep. For the observator, you only need to launch 1 probe. I did try to launch multiple probes and select more than one, but you just cant do it. The observator is supposed to search the whole system and get you within range to use the 192AU, 48AU, 12AU and/or 3AU probes. You need Astrometrics lvl 5 to use them and I am starting to wish I hadn't bothered.
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Artegg
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Posted - 2005.02.04 13:57:00 -
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Edited by: Artegg on 04/02/2005 13:58:40
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Eyeshadow
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Posted - 2005.02.04 14:40:00 -
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Edited by: Eyeshadow on 04/02/2005 14:40:43
oh sorry mate, i dont know the exact names of the probes so dunno wot this one is. I didnt know there was one u could drop to scan the entire system.
Sorry cant help you out then 
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Vicker Lahn'se
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Posted - 2005.02.04 14:43:00 -
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Hawk, do you need to select a specific class to seach for? Also, I thought you had to be at least 12au away to use the deepspace probe or something like that.
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qtip
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Posted - 2005.02.04 14:45:00 -
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you should file a bug-report, not a petition.
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Hawk Moth
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Posted - 2005.02.04 18:54:00 -
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Bug report filed. Thanks
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Hawk Moth
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Posted - 2005.02.05 11:27:00 -
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They haven't got back to me yet, but i just noticed something very interesting on the new system scanner layout. The other probes when activated, create a red ring with a radius of 3au, 12au, 48au or 192au depending on which probes you use. The observators appear to create a ring of 1au radius. It may be that the programmers have misinterpreted the specification and have coded these so that they only find objects within 1au when the design would indicate that they should find objects outside of this range. We'll see when the devs look at my bug report i guess.
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Chribba
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Posted - 2005.02.05 11:34:00 -
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I also spent the time training to use them, and so far I've scanned ALOT using them, from targets 1AU away up to 100+AU and got ZERO results on all scans so I have no idea how they are supposed to work at all.
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Ordo Abchao
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Posted - 2005.02.05 14:02:00 -
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 Originally by: Chribba
I also spent the time training to use them, and so far I've scanned ALOT using them, from targets 1AU away up to 100+AU and got ZERO results on all scans so I have no idea how they are supposed to work at all.
That's just the thing, they don't work.
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KrogothZero
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Posted - 2005.02.05 15:07:00 -
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Sigh they were still not fixed in the latest patch. Look at the attributes and you can see why they dont work how you want them too... :
Scan range: 1au
Flight time: 1 hour
Probes to analyse: 1 <- yay =s
Minimium scan deviation: 19.20 AU <- If you get a bookmark it will be this minimum distance away from the object
Maximum Scan deviation: 96.56 AU <- The bm could be that far away from the target..
Due to the fact it only scans one au this is kinda useless atm. Unless those scan deviations are changed alot the only way this probe will ever be useful is if scan range = 1000au.
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Hawk Moth
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Posted - 2005.02.07 12:59:00 -
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In the description, it actually says it should find things outside its range (1AU - infinity). However, I wonder if the coders have misread this and made it the maximum range (0-1AU).
I guess that time will tell, if CCP ever get to fix this.
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Nafri
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Posted - 2005.02.07 13:37:00 -
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Well thats why I stopped training for it 2 month ago 
Wanna fly with me?
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Hawk Moth
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Posted - 2005.02.11 10:26:00 -
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Good News \o/ \o/
It would appear that something has been done to fix the observator probes as I actually got results from one on the test server last night.
Unfortunately, my other char got ganked by a FoE camp whilst trying to get a probe launcher and probes to me to try out in live, so I don't know if the fix has been applied to both. ;(
Go get them SS ships. ;-)
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ElCoCo
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Posted - 2005.02.11 10:37:00 -
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Originally by: Hawk Moth
They haven't got back to me yet.
They don't reply to bug reports... 
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Chribba
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Posted - 2005.02.11 17:00:00 -
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The Deep Space ones worked on TQ today...
Found a lot of noobie ships ;)
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