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Gallente Citizen 1356
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2007.04.11 16:47:00 -
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Edited by: Gallente Citizen 1356 on 11/04/2007 16:43:48
Why is it you can use scanner and can find a gazillion npc wrecks, players ships and all kinds of other stuff, but can't scan for actual npc ships?
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Mdram
Caldari
Eastern Heritage
O X I D E
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Posted - 2007.04.11 16:48:00 -
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because people were using it to look for special npc spawns.
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Thread Winner
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.04.11 16:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Mdram
because people were using it to look for special npc spawns.
Thats bad because . . . .
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RedFall
Irreligion
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Posted - 2007.04.11 16:50:00 -
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Originally by: Thread Winner
Originally by: Mdram
because people were using it to look for special npc spawns.
Thats bad because . . . .
Other than absolute anarchy and chaos? What's next, dogs and cats living together?
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Thread Winner
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.04.11 16:51:00 -
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Originally by: RedFall
Originally by: Thread Winner
Originally by: Mdram
because people were using it to look for special npc spawns.
Thats bad because . . . .
Other than absolute anarchy and chaos? What's next, dogs and cats living together?
Maybe. . .
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RedFall
Irreligion
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Posted - 2007.04.11 16:52:00 -
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Originally by: Thread Winner
Originally by: RedFall
Originally by: Thread Winner
Originally by: Mdram
because people were using it to look for special npc spawns.
Thats bad because . . . .
Other than absolute anarchy and chaos? What's next, dogs and cats living together?
Maybe. . .
CHAOS!
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Sebastien LeReparteur
Minmatar
SpaceTravelers Freelance Corp
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Posted - 2007.04.11 16:52:00 -
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CCP's nerf this and that...
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qantua gnartians
Gallente
The Silent Rage
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Posted - 2007.04.11 16:58:00 -
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rumor has it it a part of the new optimization code CCP thinks it lovers database load by not touching certain classes of objects before someone lands in the same grid as them. exactly how and wry i dont know, and i cant remember where i got the idea from, some patchnode a few patches back i think.
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Vana Gank
Gallente
Kebabtossers
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Posted - 2007.04.11 17:02:00 -
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- You can't "probe" for NPC's
- You can "scan" for NPC's (using the scanner)
And because many spawn actually wont "trigger" until you warp "in" somewhere, I guess this explains why there's no point "probing for a spawn that hasnt been created yet".
And that may explain why you can't probe for the existsing one's either.
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Lucifer Fellblade
Ore Mongers
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.04.11 17:05:00 -
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Originally by: Vana Gank
- You can "scan" for NPC's (using the scanner)
- No, you can't. (at all)
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ArtemisEntreri
Art of War
Cult of War
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Posted - 2007.04.11 17:07:00 -
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The reason they did it is so that you can't just scan exploration sites, you have to probe them.
But at the same time they nerfed everyone else 
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Vana Gank
Gallente
Kebabtossers
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Posted - 2007.04.11 17:14:00 -
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Originally by: Lucifer Fellblade
Originally by: Vana Gank
- You can "scan" for NPC's (using the scanner)
- No, you can't. (at all)
Uh, so scanner has been nerfed as well now? Damn, I wasnt aware ... cheers.
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SonOTassadar
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2007.04.11 17:30:00 -
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There was a dev post/blog about it somewhere. CCP doesn't want you being able to scan for NPCs because people were using it to find faction/officer spawns. The reasoning behind it (and I agree) is that there needs to be some risk involved. It takes all of about 90 seconds to warp into a belt, grab the faction spawn, get the loot, and warp back to your safespot/station/POS. Now, if you're going from belt to belt for a 30 minute period, chances are you may forget to look at local, someone can warp in on you quickly and give you a fight, IE Risk to belt ratting.
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Riley Craven
Caldari
Copacetic Corporation
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Posted - 2007.04.11 18:34:00 -
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Originally by: SonOTassadar
There was a dev post/blog about it somewhere. CCP doesn't want you being able to scan for NPCs because people were using it to find faction/officer spawns. The reasoning behind it (and I agree) is that there needs to be some risk involved. It takes all of about 90 seconds to warp into a belt, grab the faction spawn, get the loot, and warp back to your safespot/station/POS. Now, if you're going from belt to belt for a 30 minute period, chances are you may forget to look at local, someone can warp in on you quickly and give you a fight, IE Risk to belt ratting.
Actually you are wrong. The reason was so you cant scan down explo sites without probing them. Nice try tho.
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Nicholas Barker
Caldari
Black Bands
Privateer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.04.11 18:36:00 -
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me and boldylox once ran into a*****y git in a raven tanked against kinetic and thermal because he was ratting guristas, i was in a crow and bold a blastathron. He could tank us both easily, and he had 5wcs fitted so we couldn't tackle him. So we waited untill he had a full 3BS + cruisers spawn on him and then ran in bumping him, the extra DPS ment we could kill him. But we can't do that anymore because we can't scan to see if the belt spawn is good enough :'(
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