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Randal Zentier
Aurora Security
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Posted - 2007.12.13 21:10:00 -
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OK, admittedly I am a complete exploration noob. In fact I am yet to actually find my first site. I've done my homework though and have a pretty good grasp of how it all works and I have all of the relevant skills up to lvl 3 or higher. I am very confident that I am doing all of the right things. That being said here is the situation I have come across...
I jumped into my target low sec system and dropped my multispec probe. Bingo! I got a Gravametric signal. I killed that probe and scattered my quest probes checking and double checking that I had good coverage.
From there I sat there scanning through the entire life of my probes with nothing found except for a cosmic anomaly. Having read all of the guides and all of the posts asking questions and explaining how it all works I don't see this as being anything out of the ordinary.
I was running out of time, so I decided to jump into the anomaly and bookmark it to come back to later.
Now I've done a lot of Anomalies and have never come across one like this. It was a big "hidden" asteroid belt with a few Rats flying around. Exactly what I would expect to find had the signal come back as a deadspace signature that I'd probed out except that the only rocks out there were veldspar.
So my question is... Is it at all possible that the gravimetric signal I saw with the multispec is this anomaly? Or is it just coincidence and I should keep hunting?
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Bart Roberts
Minmatar
Loc-Nar Support Services
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Posted - 2007.12.13 21:25:00 -
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If this were pre-Trinity I'd have said no ... but now, who knows? Will be interesting to see if any other such reports come in.
That being said, keep scanning. You can't assume that the grav isn't still out there; it may just be ultra-hard to find.
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Yoinx
Caldari
JET FORCE
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Posted - 2007.12.13 21:32:00 -
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Unless I'm mistaken...
gravimetric signatures = Hidden belts
You got a gravimetric hit, and found a belt... Not sure what the problem is.
When you got the 'unknown' where you using gravimetric probes? If you were using another type, they may have still seen the anomaly, but couldnt identify it since they were the wrong type.
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Randal Zentier
Aurora Security
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Posted - 2007.12.13 21:34:00 -
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lol I was afraid that might be the case. The thought that it might just be a new anomaly or simply one I've never come across before certainly entered my mind.
If it is just an anomaly it should despawn if I kill all the rats right?
Then another multispec would quickly tell me if there is still a grav signal in the area?
Assuming nobody finds it in the next hour before I can get back in-game.... (There's not many people in my area who bother with these things. They are almost always still there when I do like now... bookmark and come back a couple hours later.)
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Randal Zentier
Aurora Security
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Posted - 2007.12.13 21:37:00 -
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 Originally by: Yoinx
Unless I'm mistaken...
gravimetric signatures = Hidden belts
You got a gravimetric hit, and found a belt... Not sure what the problem is.
When you got the 'unknown' where you using gravimetric probes? If you were using another type, they may have still seen the anomaly, but couldnt identify it since they were the wrong type.
The scan results with my quest probes came back "cosmic anomaly", not "deadspace signature". That along with I'm a total rookie at exploring just makes me wonder is all.
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Angel DeMorphis
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.12.13 21:43:00 -
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Originally by: Randal Zentier
Edited by: Randal Zentier on 13/12/2007 21:39:17
Originally by: Yoinx
Unless I'm mistaken...
gravimetric signatures = Hidden belts
You got a gravimetric hit, and found a belt... Not sure what the problem is.
When you got the 'unknown' where you using gravimetric probes? If you were using another type, they may have still seen the anomaly, but couldnt identify it since they were the wrong type.
The scan results with my gravimetric quest probes came back "cosmic anomaly", not "deadspace signature". That along with I'm a total rookie at exploring just makes me wonder is all.
Well, perhaps you should be scanning with Cosmic Signature selected, instead of Cosmic Anomaly? If you are scanning without cosmic anomaly selected you shouldn't be finding any cosmic anomalies.
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Randal Zentier
Aurora Security
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Posted - 2007.12.13 21:50:00 -
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Originally by: Angel DeMorphis
Well, perhaps you should be scanning with Cosmic Signature selected, instead of Cosmic Anomaly? If you are scanning without cosmic anomaly selected you shouldn't be finding any cosmic anomalies.
For many of my scans I was only searching for signatures with no results, but with the last couple scans before my probes expired I went ahead and selected anomalies also. I was almost out of time anyway and figured if I found an anomaly it at least wouldn't have been a total waste of time.
The part that got my head spinning though was the fact that the anomaly turned out to be an asteroid belt and a small bunch of rats. Like I said above I've never found an anomaly like this one, so I just don't know what to think.
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Randal Zentier
Aurora Security
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Posted - 2007.12.13 22:48:00 -
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OK, the anomaly is just that... somebody did beat me back to them. Now there is nothing ther but a bunch of wrecks and no roids... And there is still a grav signal in the area.
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Reverend Revelator
Elite Storm Enterprises
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.12.13 22:57:00 -
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Originally by: Randal Zentier
OK, the anomaly is just that... somebody did beat me back to them. Now there is nothing ther but a bunch of wrecks and no roids... And there is still a grav signal in the area.
Gravs can be hard to pin down, and if it's a large hidden belt it can be V E R Y hard to pin down. Also check your quest coverage, maybe your belt is where you don't have coverage.
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tiewan
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Posted - 2007.12.14 01:00:00 -
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when using probes.. select ONLY cosmic signature.
if you are cruising for encounters.. select cosmic anomaly and do not use probes
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.12.14 01:36:00 -
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If you find a site and aren't sure if it's what you're looking for or not, look at the name of the site on the label in the system map (you may have to zoom in and back out once you've found and warped to the site). Gravimetric sites will always be the format of "Exploration - Size - Ore Types", Radar will always have Hacking in the name, and magnetometric will say ArcSal, unknown plexes and anomalies will have more mundane names like "Serpentis Lair" or "Sansha's House of Ill Repute" or something.
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Zarath Noob
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Posted - 2007.12.14 01:52:00 -
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only select deadspace signatures when scanning and be prepared to lay down the questprobes several times. some of these sites are a real pain in the b...!
or train up in signal aquisition and covops.
Also make sure u place ur probes right, its very easy to miss a spot.
ive been doing this for 2 months now and i already found many sites, gravi, radar magno, never a ladar do.
some sites had signal strenght of 0.03 and u have to be very patient to find these.
Just keep going, be patient and fly safe
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Lyvanna Kitaen
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Posted - 2007.12.14 03:14:00 -
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Grav sites can often be a pain to find. Lots of times I'll find Radar and Mag sites (if there are some in the system) with my Grav quests before I get a Grav hit. It's hard to know sometimes if your coverage is off or the site is just very low strength.
All you can really do is keep trying until you get a hit or get fed up and give it a pass.
I'm currently in the process of building up an alt probing character that I can use ganged with this one to get better system coverage.
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Iracham
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.12.14 11:08:00 -
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Once I wasted 24 hours(!), mostly on sift probes (over 200 sift probes, 181s scan time) on looking for a radar site, only to end up with a very low strength gravimetric site (Exploration - Large - Jaspet, Hemorphite, Hedbergite)  I wasn't happy, because I got the quest hit on the first scan, and I have absolutely ZERO use for grav sites, I ended up selling the bm to a newb for 1m isk.
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Tyler Tharn
Exiles of Chaos
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Posted - 2007.12.14 16:03:00 -
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You'd want to scan for Cosmic Signatures, and look for a "Deadspace Signature" hit. Cosmic Anomaly scanning will only find CCP made Unknowns for noob exploration using your ship scanner. Encounter style unknowns for exploration will be found under Cosmic Signature.
Simply put, when scanning, always use the Cosmic Signature tab.
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tiewan
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Posted - 2007.12.14 18:11:00 -
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Originally by: Tyler Tharn
Cosmic Anomaly scanning will only find CCP made Unknowns for noob exploration
I wouldn't quite say it is just for noobs... the anomaly's in 0.0 can be a bit of a challenge. it's just a way to do exploration and have fun finding stuff instantly.
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Randal Zentier
Aurora Security
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Posted - 2007.12.14 18:17:00 -
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Originally by: tiewan
Originally by: Tyler Tharn
Cosmic Anomaly scanning will only find CCP made Unknowns for noob exploration
I wouldn't quite say it is just for noobs... the anomaly's in 0.0 can be a bit of a challenge. it's just a way to do exploration and have fun finding stuff instantly.
Yes, some of them can be a bit challenging. I like doing them during my lunch break. They are usually easy enough to find and between killing the rats and looting/salvaging the wrecks I generally have just enough time to find and clear one before it's time to go back to work. It's funner than just ratting in the belts for an hour anyway.
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