Originally by: Moonaru Izu

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Originally by: Wizzkidy

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The only way you can tell if your doing a new exporation site or not is down to the signal strength of the plex

I found a Gravametric with a 0.02 Strengh

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hmm, are you saying that you found an encounter (i.e. found it with the onboard scanner) that had the type Gravimetric?

aren't encounters always of the type unknown?

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Originally by: Hoshi

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A few interesting things.
You can now start the scans (both built in and from probes) while cloaked, a covert ops ship can warp cloaked to a planet, scan for a site, find it and warp into it while never uncloaking.

This is a very nice addition that makes finding people doing these sites much easier.

If you are using probes to scan warping does not interrupt the scans anymore. You are free to warp around as you wish while scanning (only limit is you can't start a scan while in warp). This doe snot work with the on-board scanner.

Your probing skills do not effect the built in scanner. Would be a nice touch if at least astrometric pinpointing and astrometric triangulation worked on it as some people have invested a lot of time into these skills.
Or maybe not, using a recon probe launcher and snoob probes with good skill are going to be slightly better (same strength, much less deviation, slightly faster with rigs) at finding the sites than the built in scanner. Maybe that is good enough, not sure.

On the bad side. The interface does not remember the selection of the on-board scanner as it does with probes. You need to reselect it to start a new scan every time. This is a bit irritating.

I did the scanning in tribute, found 3-5 sites per system, half where guristas sites, the other half drone. Too many drone in my opinion. I did not actually finish any site (was in a covert) so I have not checked how site respawn works.

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Originally by: Gaogan

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Originally by: Wizzkidy

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The only way you can tell if your doing a new exporation site or not is down to the signal strength of the plex

I found a Gravametric with a 0.02 Strengh

Couldn't do it on my own so got some buddies in, and wow what a mission is was! the thing spawned around 10 BS in stage 1 then another 15 BS after that, you then needed serpentis cystal tags to get into the last stage, which I got and we got the tanker in there to find a hostile NPC POS with POS guns, tanker stayed alive with bots on him and we pwn'ed the guns and NPC's only to be greeted with another 23 BS spawn (we had a message in local that these ships had "undocked" from the POS we pwn'ed them as well to find it had given us a commander spawn Shadow Serpentis which dropped some nice looking POS faction ammo

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I think you are confused. It sounds like you actually found an unknown exploration plex using a gravimetric probe, not a new encounter.

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Originally by: Hoshi

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Originally by: Wizzkidy

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Originally by: Gaogan

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Originally by: Wizzkidy

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The only way you can tell if your doing a new exporation site or not is down to the signal strength of the plex

I found a Gravametric with a 0.02 Strengh

Couldn't do it on my own so got some buddies in, and wow what a mission is was! the thing spawned around 10 BS in stage 1 then another 15 BS after that, you then needed serpentis cystal tags to get into the last stage, which I got and we got the tanker in there to find a hostile NPC POS with POS guns, tanker stayed alive with bots on him and we pwn'ed the guns and NPC's only to be greeted with another 23 BS spawn (we had a message in local that these ships had "undocked" from the POS we pwn'ed them as well to find it had given us a commander spawn Shadow Serpentis which dropped some nice looking POS faction ammo

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I think you are confused. It sounds like you actually found an unknown exploration plex using a gravimetric probe, not a new encounter.

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No there was no unknown sig in the system only an gravametric sig.

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That doesn't sound like an exploration site/encounter at all. More like some cosmos or static plex.

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Originally by: Princess Jodi

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It was once stated that existing Static Complex sites would cause a higher chance of spawing an Exploration site when Static Complexes are removed. The stated reason was that people had put up infrastructure to farm these complexes, and therefore there would be a greater chance that good Exploration sites would be found.

I think this concept is EXACTLY the WRONG way to go!

Farming of Complexes is an abused area of the game. Regardless of the infrastructure put up, there should not be a benefit in the future in these areas.

In addition...What possible reason would a NPC entity have for continuing to swarm in an area where they are habitually destroyed? Should not the opposite be true - that they moved on to less-dangerous areas to regroup?

I suggest completely reversing the proposed favortism and move the best exploration to areas that currently have NO complexes.

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Originally by: Sadist

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Ok. So.
When will the plexes be returned?


And don't give me the "they are already there, you just have to look for them" excuse. They aren't there. If you'd actually tried looking for them in-game, you'd know the chances of finding one are one in a thousand.

Either make them easier to find, or don't pretend they ARE THERE. Because they aren't.

Already 20 days after the patch, and no news about it. Looks like what I said about a month without plexes is coming true. Please stop lying to us.

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