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Jon Baptist
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Posted - 2005.10.30 12:23:00 -
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Following on from the thread on how to use the sector scanner, I have been having a go at this, but it seems impossible to actually reach the objects shown on the display...
I've seen ruined this and wrecked that... but how do I get to it. I can zero in the angle to around 15 degrees and get a range of around 1 million K's, but there seems to be no way to bookmark and warp to the object.
I tried using scanner probes in threes, but they will only search for ships, not objects...
Anyone got any tips on how best to go about this?
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.10.30 14:03:00 -
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It can't. The purpose of the scanner is to find things, not to be able to go to them. It can help you find ships to scanprobe for, or you can find people/POSs/etc in the system. Its not an instant win button, and requires skill to use.
Examples:
1) You're in a low sec or 0.0 system, and you see some possibly unfriendly faces in local. If there's a planet near the gate, you warp to that at 100km. If not, you drain your capacitor using onboard equipment or continually warping-and-canclelling-warp, and then warp to the gate you want to scan. You do this until you're within 14AU (max scan range) of the gate. Once you're either at the planet or in the middle of nowhere within range of the gate, you point your view at the gate, and lower the scan range to ~15 degrees. You scan it with the range maxed, and you can see exactly what is at the gate.
2) You're in low sec, and looking for offline POSs that might have stuff in their corp hangars you could steal. You go to each planet with moons, set the scanner to 360 degrees, with use overview settings (show it doesn't show 50,000 asteroids on the list), and say 25 million km scanner range. Look for the control towers and force fields--if there's fewer of the latter than the former, you've found an offline control tower. You can also do this to scan for POSs before you launch probes at the moons, to make sure you don't get owned by their guns.
3) You're a pirate. You enter a system, and want to know quickly if the locals are out in space in belts. You warp to the planet with the majority of the belts, and scan for nearby ships. You find two ospreys. You then point your ship at the belt, use a 15 degree scan, and find which one has the ospreys. Then you warp to the belt, and pwn them Cool.
Etc.
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Jon Baptist
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Posted - 2005.10.30 14:47:00 -
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I'm not actually after an instant win ticket, just a bit of advice on how to get a bit closer to the objects I am seeing so I can go explore Eve a little bit more.
Here is the situation. I'm in 1.0 sector space. I can narrow the field of my search down between two opposite points 5au apart.
One is a planet and one is a station. From the station, facing the scanner "north" I can see some kind of wreckage and stuff... I can get this setting the range to 1mil and the angle to 30 degres although sometimes I can also see it at 15 degrees.
The other is a moon, if I warp to there from the above station location, turn and face the scanner "south" I can see the object there.
Clearly the object is between these two points.
Problem - I cannot find a way of breaking warp once I am on my way... I warp, I press stop in the middle of warp, it says ship stopping, but in fact the ship doesn't stop until I reach the warp destination - which misses my target...
If I start at point 1 (the station) and simply set sail in a shuttle in roughly the right direction, will I eventually get there? Can you sail between the planets, or is it not in the game mechanics and in reality you are not going anywhere except away from the station?
The ideal would be to break into warp, but I cannot find a way to do this... I thought this was possible to create a safe spot, but either this has been changed or its something else...
Looking for help here really in the way of doing things, not actually looking for an instant win, just want to have some fun and look at some of this stuff I can see on the scanner but cannot seem to get too :(
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.10.30 15:17:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 30/10/2005 15:17:23
You can place bookmarks in warp.
This was used as a hard and slow method of finding safespots before probes.
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Eddie Elch
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Posted - 2005.10.30 15:22:00 -
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Really? You can simply click bookmark while in warp and then warp back to that point later?
Must try that later...
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.10.30 15:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Eddie Elch
Really? You can simply click bookmark while in warp and then warp back to that point later?
Must try that later...
Arrr yes 
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Jon Baptist
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Posted - 2005.10.30 16:30:00 -
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But can you actuall sail your ship out of warp towards something that is not listed on the scanner by distance...
Say it is somewhere 'over there' possibly up to a 1 mill k's from my postion. How long would it take to get there in a shuttle?
Could it actually be done? Or will I simply sail on into space and never get there - reference my original question, can this be done within the game mechaincs?
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.10.30 16:35:00 -
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Originally by: Jon Baptist
But can you actuall sail your ship out of warp towards something that is not listed on the scanner by distance...
Say it is somewhere 'over there' possibly up to a 1 mill k's from my postion. How long would it take to get there in a shuttle?
Could it actually be done? Or will I simply sail on into space and never get there - reference my original question, can this be done within the game mechaincs?
Well the fastest ships in EVE plus implants can get about 10km/s... so no it would take a few days.
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Jon Baptist
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Posted - 2005.10.30 17:41:00 -
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So.... Not such a hot idea then... Best bet is to hop in and out of warp using the bookmarks in warp idea....
How the hell does anyone find anything in this game...?
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.10.30 19:30:00 -
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Originally by: Jon Baptist
So.... Not such a hot idea then... Best bet is to hop in and out of warp using the bookmarks in warp idea....
How the hell does anyone find anything in this game...?
Generally the scanner is used for finding where other players are in a system, and spotting abandoned ships that you can pick up with scanprobes.
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Jon Baptist
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Posted - 2005.10.30 19:40:00 -
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Still, I have heard talk from people on this board that they can find these large colidable objects... I can see cool things like Caldari wall and barrior and stuff like that.... but although I can break warp and zap into the inbetween places, I cannot seem to get near the cool stuff...
How in heavens name is everyone else doing it?
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Jon Baptist
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Posted - 2005.10.30 19:41:00 -
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Edited by: Jon Baptist on 30/10/2005 19:41:26
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Taketa De
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Posted - 2005.10.30 20:02:00 -
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Originally by: Jon Baptist
Still, I have heard talk from people on this board that they can find these large colidable objects... I can see cool things like Caldari wall and barrior and stuff like that.... but although I can break warp and zap into the inbetween places, I cannot seem to get near the cool stuff...
How in heavens name is everyone else doing it?
From what you write I'm guessing you are seeing deadspace areas from other peoples missions. They often contain such items.
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