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Ter Fordal
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Posted - 2007.10.14 19:53:00 -
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Guide to cosmic anomalies
Okay most people have probably tried a few of these by now and found that a lot of them are pretty pointless. However some of them are actually very lucrative so here is a guide and some of the less well known facts about this new content.
You find these anomalies using the onboard scanner. They can be turned on in the overview (under Celestial) so the easiest way to find them is to scan within 5au of each planet of the whole system to establish there are some to find, then set the range of the scanner to 750,000,000 (5au) and find a planet that the anomaly can be scanned from. Run a scan using the onboard scanner (you may need a few goes to pick up the harder ones, possibly 10 or more times) until you get a hit.
Now the cosmic anomaly will be listed with a signal strength and a distance. At 0 au distance the signal strength will either be 12.5, 2.5, 1.25, 0.625 or 0.3125. At a distance of 3.47 au the strength will be half of this and at 5 au it will be 0.37 times this so you can easily tell which strength of anomaly you have found. The lower the strength the harder the anomaly is and the less the chance of finding it on each run of the scanner is.
I think that the strength corresponds to the probability of finding it, so the lowest strength anomaly at max range will only have about a 1 in 10 chance of being detected in each 30s scan. You can also check what you have found by initiating and cancelling a warp to the hit which will cause the name of the site to appear on the map.
There are ten different types of anomaly for each rat type and 9 or 10 drone ones. The easiest 4 or 5 are available in high sec, the hardest 5 in 0.0 and the middle 5 in low sec (so there is some overlap). You can tell which level you have found by the true signal strength (what it would be at 0 au). There seems to be little difference between the different rat types, just each ship replaced by the equivalent class ship of the different rat type (i've only tried a couple that are not serpentis so I am not sure. So for serpentis and drones, the names and signal strengths are:
SS / Rat Site Name / Drone Site name
High Sec
12.5 / Serpentis Burrow / Drone Collection
2.5 / Serpentis Hideaway / Drone Gathering
1.25 / Serpentis Refuge / Drone Cluster
0.625 / Serpentis Den / Drone Gathering
0.3125 / ****** / ******** Not sure / these exist
Low Sec
12.5 / Serpentis Den / Drone Gathering
2.5 / Serpentis Yard / Drone Surveillance
1.25 / Serpentis Rally Point / Drone Menagerie
0.625 / Serpentis Port / Drone Herd
0.3125 / Serpentis Hub / Drone Squad
0.0
12.5 / Serpentis Rally Point / Drone Menagerie
2.5 / Serpentis Port / Drone Herd
1.25 / Serpentis Hub / Drone Squad
0.625 / Serpentis Haven / Drone Patrol
0.3125 / Serpentis Sanctum / ******* Never found one
For rats other than serpentis the names are the same but with serpentis replaced by the name of the faction.
Now most of the harder anomalies have a lot of missile batteries that pound you pretty quickly when you jump in and I normally warp in and out a couple of times whilst I clear these out. Generally these are hardly worth doing but it is an easy way to find a few battleships in low sec if you want to raise security status.
The hardest two in 0.0 (Haven and Sanctum) don't have these batteries and have an exceedingly high battleship count with about the same number of other ships.
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Ter Fordal
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Posted - 2007.10.14 19:54:00 -
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Serpentis Sanctum contains dozens of Corelum Lords (they are mission rats unfortunately but they still have a 1.2M bounty) that appear in waves of up to 7 Lords with just a few other ships. As well as this, they all appear in the same place and they cannot use MWD whilst you can. I clear these out using an alt in a frigate who can take agro all day long (they cannot hit or catch you) and a full damage fit blasterthron. In this way you can literally be pumping 1000 dps into high bounty battleships virtually continuously for an hour. Bounties total about 40M and you do get plenty of 1M modules dropping and some decent named stuff occasionally. I have never seen any Shadow Serpentis or Officers in these anomalies, can anyone confirm if this is possible? For a low skill character + alt I think this is one of the best earners to be found in 0.0. Another possibility is getting a few of these anomalies in adjacent systems for a virtually perfect way of raising security status.
One final and very interesting fact that I was tempted to keep to myself but I thought it would be quite interesting to make this well known. The 0.0 anomalies are available in low sec systems with a true-sec rating of 0.05 or below. I do not have a complete list but from looking through Ombey's maps there only seem to be about 10 of these systems. So if you want 0.0 rats in low sec, you know where to go. Make sure you form an orderly queue!
So to summarise, 0.3125 and 0.625 signal strength anomalies in 0.0 are very lucrative and as easy as pie with an alt (TBH these need balancing CCP), these can also be found in a tiny number of low sec systems.
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Faridah
Solar Storm
Sev3rance
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Posted - 2007.10.14 22:11:00 -
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I did get a True Sansha <something big> BS from Sanctum once. 13M Bounty and dropped a Slave Beta,a BPC and the tag iirc.
It was a real pain in somewhere behind to do solo in a domi tho. I burned a full cargo of 800s using dual T2 repper. Lucky for me I got several wrecks with 800s so I was towing a can around with spares.
yeah... I'm lazy and use my PvP domi for plexes.. Only change hardeners.
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James Grand
Knights of Chaos
Chaos Incarnate.
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Posted - 2007.10.14 22:47:00 -
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Generally speaking encounters have a small chance of a commander (e.g. Shadow, Domination, etc.) spawn in the final wave. I have never heard of someone getting an officer (e.g. Brokara, Estamel, etc.) spawn in an encounter though.
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Uncarian
RennTech
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.15 01:07:00 -
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Yeah that guide about covers it. And told me some handy stuff I didn't know. All in all, imo I think it's more fun than belt ratting since you get the thrill of getting an exploration hit. What I do is that I first put out a multispec to check for deadspace sigs, then proceed to check for anomalies (just using directional scanner, then on-board scanner or just a quest-probe for high hit chance).
Yesterday I got 3x DG spawns from encounters in anomalies, which is much more lucrative than ratting with 5 others in a system.
So go out and check them out, it's fun :)
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Herring
Pimpology
Free Trade Zone.
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Posted - 2007.10.15 03:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Ter Fordal
0.3125 / Serpentis Sanctum / ******* Never found one
Drone Horde @ .3125
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General Apocalypse
Amarr
Ship Research
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Posted - 2007.10.15 08:19:00 -
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Most of the time it's not worth it. I only wish that we'd get a msg . The's not a commander here . Also Sanctum and heaven require a double rep/crystal xl tank if you're going solo.
Originally by: CCP Morpheus
nerf ccp plz
Originally by: CCP Oveur
To the gankmobile!
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Kurst I
Simtech Productions
Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.15 11:20:00 -
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On a sidenote: the sites seem to come in different shapes.
For example there seem to be 2 types of Guristas Sanctum, the one with all those ring-shaped thingies (usually 5x5 BS plus some small ships, easy to solo) and another one with 2 structures, a factory and a pirate station if i remember correctly. The guris spawn as soon as u shoot the pirate station, last time i did it the spawn was 10 BS and lots of smaller ships...I guess its the same for the other factions as well, unfortunately i can't remember if the base signal strength of the 2 were different.
Kurst I
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Ter Fordal
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Posted - 2007.10.15 11:58:00 -
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Edited by: Ter Fordal on 15/10/2007 11:58:23
Yeah you are right there do seem to be some different flavours, I am pretty sure I have had a single missile battery on a sanctum before. I've never even tried to solo a Sanctum but I am not surprised you need a pretty heavy tank, first time I saw seven Serpentis Lords warp in my eyes nearly popped out of my head. I had never even been to deep 0.0 or done lvl 3 missions at that point. Lets have more content like this in low sec and 0.0 pls CCP. There is some nice pirating potential with these anomalies as well as they are just that little bit more secure than belts thus lulling people into a false sense of security. Personally in low sec I pop my wrecks as I go to avoid leaving clues as to what I am doing.
I remember one of the first I did in 0.0 with my friend who had just started playing. He was taking agro in an Atron whilst I had gone to a GSC full of ammo in the neighbouring system (that is one problem with these, you use ammo on an industrial scale). This pirate came into my friends system, hit scan and saw about 30 Battleship wrecks with a 3 day old character in an atron flying around. He was just like wtf?
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Metaller
Ocean Dynamics
Dark Matter Coalition
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Posted - 2007.10.15 20:07:00 -
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all encounters have 2 variants. that was confirmed by a dev.
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Galk
Gallente
Autumn Tactics
All the things she said
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Posted - 2007.10.15 22:21:00 -
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Did a bunch of these against the blood faction.
Bored silly, i only had a couple of battlecruisers in the area... but if you had the chop chop gank machine on the roll, you could easily clear these in 5 or so minutes each, as there repeating insta spawns.
I was averaging an area commander battleship every 10 or so... cruiser about every other 5..
Crystals/db med reps.. pos blueprints...
If your looking for something different.. aka the faction spawns... and not towering isk from generics, then go for it..
Take a gank snipe ship though, as like i said.. gets boring fast.
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Ginger Lynn
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Posted - 2007.10.16 00:55:00 -
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Just tried this in drones...
got a cosmic anamoly 1au away. 0.29 strength = should be Drone Horde.
No message on warpin too.
7 turrets...
then 3xdrone bs +4xstrain frigs spawn
second wave is 4x bs +4xstrain frigs.
I'll update... as I continue.
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Isean
eXceed Inc.
INVICTUS.
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Posted - 2007.10.16 02:58:00 -
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New to these...how do you get the anomaly waves to come? I can sometimes do it by killing random stuff, but i don't know what to do exactly that makes the next wave come sometimes.
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ElCoCo
KIA Corp
KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.17 13:05:00 -
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Originally by: Metaller
all encounters have 2 variants. that was confirmed by a dev.
What do you mean?
Each type of anomaly has either X or Y things spawning?
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Caldorous
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.10.17 16:04:00 -
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Originally by: Kurst I
On a sidenote: the sites seem to come in different shapes.
For example there seem to be 2 types of Guristas Sanctum, the one with all those ring-shaped thingies (usually 5x5 BS plus some small ships, easy to solo) and another one with 2 structures, a factory and a pirate station if i remember correctly. The guris spawn as soon as u shoot the pirate station, last time i did it the spawn was 10 BS and lots of smaller ships...I guess its the same for the other factions as well, unfortunately i can't remember if the base signal strength of the 2 were different.
Kurst I
Originally by: Metaller
all encounters have 2 variants. that was confirmed by a dev.
This is what he means 
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ElCoCo
KIA Corp
KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.18 20:05:00 -
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Stupid question...
Er.... how do you give the anomalies names? 
I did a serpentis one in 0.0 with 0.2523 signal strength.
It had a few roids and two structures... Pirate and Factory Complex
As soon as I shot the structure named "Pirate Complex", a spawn appeared with some 5 Bs's, 4 cruisers,3 frigs.
I think I got in total 6 or 7 spawns with 5-7 BS on each wave.
By doing it solo in an ishtar, I finished it in about 2.5 hrs, yielded some 40mils in bounties and around 20-30mils on modules and salvage.
Shooting the structures did nothing, although after destroying the pirate complex one (took ages lol) the message "Dust and debris spews forth from the station as it quickly breaks apart" appeared but nothing happened.
So ummm... bleh 
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ardik
TunkbwahCorp
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Posted - 2007.10.18 20:07:00 -
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Originally by: Ter Fordal
So to summarise, 0.3125 and 0.625 signal strength anomalies in 0.0 are very lucrative and as easy as pie with an alt (TBH these need balancing CCP), these can also be found in a tiny number of low sec systems.
Hell yeah, everything in eve should need AT LEAST! 3 chars to do  
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