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Eddie Haskell
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Posted - 2006.03.17 09:25:00 -
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How do you use these suckers. I have read all kinds of goop on these things biut no answers. Pirates can find you, blah, blah, blah. Oh you just align them to 180 degrees and fire away. So does any body now how to use these prety light things.
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Amanda Cron
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Posted - 2006.03.17 10:51:00 -
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you'll need scan-probes and a scan-probe launcher in order to use it
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Butter Dog
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Posted - 2006.03.17 11:00:00 -
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Just use your scanner to find your target, get a rough distance on him, then drop 3 appropriate scan probes in the same place.
Rinse and repeat until you are within 1 AU, then drop three 3AU probes in one place, and you'll warp straight in on them.
Its a lot easier than many people imagine - forget the traingulation thing, its more hassle than its worth.
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Grey Area
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Posted - 2006.03.17 11:28:00 -
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Let me get this right...if the target appears on the scanner at 180AU, I can just drop the three 192AU scan probes all on the same spot and that's good enough?
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Heikki
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Posted - 2006.03.17 11:37:00 -
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 Originally by: "Grey area"
on the scanner at 180AU
Scanner works up to 15AU (or 2100 million kms).
There should be millions (stickied) threads about using scanners probes:
So with probes, the fast way:
- Warp around till you <75M kms (0.5AUs) from the target in scanner, drop 3 Snoop probes, scan, warp to target (15-90km off)
The slower versatile way:
- Drop one observator probe, make a few scans, BMing each spot and warping between them till you get the target in scanner. Keep warping/BMing till you at <75M away and use 3AU probes.
The generic really slow way:
- Scan for target with observator 3 times, dropping 192AU probe on each spot. Scan with them, dropping 48AU on given result. Iterate further with 12AU and finally with 3AU probes, always using the last 3 probes you dropped.
-Lasse
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ArchenTheGreat
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Posted - 2006.03.17 12:04:00 -
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One thing to remember: all probes but the Deep Space Observator have only 1AU vertical range. So if target is too far ABOVE/BELOW you you will not scan him. At least not in reasonable time. I heard DEVs mentioned about changing the way probes work but for now probes suck.
They are usefull only to find stupid people who make safespot 300km from planet. Oh, and if you train for DSOP you can make unbustable safespots because results from DSOP are often out of plain and quite far.
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ArchenTheGreat
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Posted - 2006.03.17 12:06:00 -
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Originally by: Heikki
Originally by: "Grey area"
on the scanner at 180AU
The slower versatile way:
- Drop one observator probe, make a few scans, BMing each spot and warping between them till you get the target in scanner. Keep warping/BMing till you at <75M away and use 3AU probes.
Will Observator return BM's at the same plane as scanned target? AFAIK not which makes a problem because of 1AU vertical range of other probes.
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Dahin
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Posted - 2006.03.17 12:08:00 -
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Search for my posts on the subject of scanning with deep space probes.
Will not post the same stuff for the 100th time :P
search
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Eddie Haskell
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Posted - 2006.03.17 17:39:00 -
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Thanks Dahin and the rest of you, now how about the ore side of things. My goal is to hunt for people and to skip the whole check every belt for types of ore thing. Just take a 10-15 trip and launch a probe at every jump point.
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