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Ospie
The Python Cartel.
The Defenders of Pen Island
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Posted - 2011.06.23 18:08:00 -
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Well, I feel that individual probe strength has been lowered somewhat. I don't have results from pre-Incarna to compare to, however it does feel less effective with 4 probes now than it previously did.
It does seem that now the system is far more finicky with how you try to set up the probes (I had more luck with 6 probes compared to 8 simply due to the 6 being easier to setup). I'm not entirely sure but I think that a badly setup probe or two can have a more negative result than a bonus, when I was trying to probe an alliance mates unprobable loki (running 4s on all probing skills, though astrometrics 5, +3% implant, rigged covops w/ covops 4 trained) I had more luck with 6 probes than 8, even with 6 probes a very slight position change of two of them resulting a massive jump from 27% hit to 68% hit (working at max zoom since it gets a bit tricky with 6 x .5 au probes).
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Ospie
The Python Cartel.
The Defenders of Pen Island
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:17:00 -
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Eh, I'm content with the way it was dealt with aside from them actually saying "we changed it lots k?", which you find out almost the instant you try probing for the first time after incarna, not to mention that 8 probes working on same strengths as the old 4 would be insane so it would be expected they make some changes. They didn't mess about denying they changed it once we brought it up either.
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Ospie
The Python Cartel.
The Defenders of Pen Island
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Posted - 2011.06.24 05:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Zachstar
Edited by: Zachstar on 24/06/2011 04:22:10
Edited by: Zachstar on 24/06/2011 04:20:04
Originally by: CCP Veritas
Originally by: Emperor Cheney
Ugh.
Well, time to stop scanning for a few weeks (months) until some other brave people figure it out and write a new guide.
Well that's a bit melodramatic don't you think?
All the old ideas are still correct - get probes out, surround your target with them, narrow in from there. Just use more than four probes cause probe 5 and above help now.
That the formula pumping the numbers changed doesn't mean the guiding principals changed.
Oh By the way I tried your "You can use more probes now" thing.
Located a site to be found with 4 got to 3.2 percent launched a 5th and guess what? still 3.2 percent.
IF what you said was correct that 5th probe ought to have given more towards the percent no?
Care to explain?
Edit2: Just tried with 7 and guess what? Three Point Two Percent
As I said earlier, it seems (from my experience so far) that the actual positioning of probes is far more important now. Possibly to the point where 6 well placed probes will give a better result than those same 6 probes with a 7th out doing some random stuff pulling the focus of the probe away. This IS speculation on my behalf based on my testing so far (which is not extensive, but is enough to feel comfortable with the new system).
Again as I stated earlier simply by moving 2 out of 6 probes a very small distance I was able to bring a result on a previously unprobeable loki from 27% to 68% using same strength probes.
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Ospie
The Python Cartel.
The Defenders of Pen Island
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Posted - 2011.06.24 11:32:00 -
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Thanks for the support.
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