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Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
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Posted - 2011.11.14 20:37:00 -
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I've tried explorjing in my Heron and I have, just the twice, found something.
But most of the the time I am getting my five probes in a pattern and then at the smallest resolution find that after an hour I can't get more than 50% signal on a site.
My main problem seems to be that I can't get to grip with my probes' movement; I try to drag the thing and it goes elsewhere. Or if I do get a signal then one whole probe goes red.
I've read guides and they seem to refer to skills which I can't find and to probe types that I can't locate.
So, I assume (perhaps wrongly) that CCP have changed things. In this case can someone point me to a guide, especially for the ham-fisted, which can help me get a lock onto that signal.
I have Astrometrics to IV and Astrometric Pinpointing to III. I am in a Heron so I must have the right skills. So, what am I doing wrong?
Do I ned to get Persuit. Comb and Sift probes still? I can't find them on the market but, yet, they are referred to in the guides. |
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Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
48
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Posted - 2011.11.15 08:27:00 -
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Thanks all. I must have stumbled across an old CCP maintained page that I took all the gudes from. I have five guides here and none of which mentions the Shift and Alt controls and four of them refer to old probes.
I did find a Dev Note but that didn't have the Alt conrol on it neither, so that must have come later. And it seems that the Alt key is what I was missing.
So, I was looking at stuff but, clearly, old stuff.
Printer printing and bookmarker bookmarked. Thanks ever so much or putting me right as it was this last Alt business which I was lacking and is the most frustrating part.
Diolch yn fawr pob. |
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Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
48
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Posted - 2011.11.15 19:50:00 -
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Therefore a pilot's spatial problem-solving skills will be a factor in how long it takes to scan down a signature.
Oh, dear. |
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Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
48
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Posted - 2011.11.15 20:08:00 -
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Great tips these, thanks.
Anything to get me away from the mind-numbing mining. |
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Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
48
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Posted - 2011.11.16 10:10:00 -
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FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:One of these days I'm going to make a video showing some tips and tricks on probing. A lot of people don't know how to control their probes well, and that's usually the bulk of their problems.
That will be me, I am not ashamed to say. I managed to sort out a scan last night and I did it, like in all the worst movies, with just fifty seconds left on my probes.
The last fifteen minutes were spent getting from 95% to 100%. I hope that the new skill (finishes Friday) helps me with this last extra push.
I found a mining site and then ran away when something big, hairy and nasty hove to. But it makes a change from normal mining, you are dead rigtht.
I am not in Buzzard at the moment but I will see what I need to get in there. I have my Heron cloaked which is good.
I was hoping to have another run into the filed before downtime but it looks as if I have to do some Real World stuff as today is going to be a busy day.
The tip which has helped me the most is the Alt key. I was able to find the centre of the anomoly rather quickly with that. The using the arrows to adjust individual probes is essential. My mouse sometimes borks its movement and I can then find a proble about 10AU from where it ought to be.
I've only been trying four probes in a tetrahedron; I will try the next time with five.
Now, one further question. Does anyone bother to sell mining sites or if not, why not?
Thanks again one and all
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![Myfanwy Heimdal Myfanwy Heimdal](https://images.evetech.net/characters/90256919/portrait?size=64)
Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
48
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Posted - 2011.11.16 16:50:00 -
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I went in a .6 High Sec site yesterday and the then found my miner's armour melting all around me.
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![Myfanwy Heimdal Myfanwy Heimdal](https://images.evetech.net/characters/90256919/portrait?size=64)
Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
49
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Posted - 2011.11.17 19:16:00 -
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Ah, wait. Hang on.
Perhaps not going into a Site whilst there's an Incursion going on may be beneficial.
- Ore and minerals obtained: about 200 ISK for the positive side of the balance sheet.
- Bits of ship melted away and drones lost/fused to asteroids: about 200,000,000 ISK on the other side of the balance sheet.
Oh Jove, can anyone learn as slow as I? |
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