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Lustralis Tiny Industries	Posted - 2008.03.23 21:13:00 - [1] Ok so I decided to do a little exploration (I'm new to this malarky). Astometrics at 4, Pinpointing at 2, Triangles at 2, Signature Aquisition at 2, flying a Helios. I've been to 7 systems so far (low sec) with my multispec's and not a single signature have I found. So my question is I guess, are they that rare? What is the average "hit rate" you'd expect? Or otherwise, have I arsed up my scan settings somehow that even if anything was there, I won't see it when the scan finishes? I'm looking for hidden belts mostly I guess, so I'm carrying Gravimetric Goosberries. Any info on this? (I read the exploration guide)
Lustralis Tiny Industries	Posted - 2008.03.23 21:24:00 - [2] Ok so, I made this post, flew to another system, launched a probe, found a site. Therefore, I conclude this thread officially CLOSED.
Commander OTG Logistic Exposium Industries	Posted - 2008.03.23 21:24:00 - [3] Exploration and probing in general has increased in popularity in the recent weeks. It is to the point where you have to be quicker the the others in order to get to the site. They are somewhat rare to answer your question. I can find one in the first probe or might jump 10 times before I get a hit. One thing that seems to help me is to set up far out from the normal areas. I jump clone out there and do my probing. I keep a radius of about 10 jumps or so. The grav sites I have been giving to the local miners out there..... Good luck to you. Just remember that exploring is not an easy thing. It takes patience and luck to be successful. Quote: Originally by: GM Faolchu It is within the rules of the game for someone to enter your mission and steal the loot/salvage.
Lustralis Tiny Industries	Posted - 2008.03.23 21:37:00 - [4] Originally by: Commander OTG Exploration and probing in general has increased in popularity in the recent weeks. It is to the point where you have to be quicker the the others in order to get to the site. They are somewhat rare to answer your question. I can find one in the first probe or might jump 10 times before I get a hit. One thing that seems to help me is to set up far out from the normal areas. I jump clone out there and do my probing. I keep a radius of about 10 jumps or so. The grav sites I have been giving to the local miners out there..... Good luck to you. Just remember that exploring is not an easy thing. It takes patience and luck to be successful. Thanks OTG, I just wanted to give it shot - I don't feel like I'm getting good value for money if I don't touch every aspect of the game .
Lustralis Tiny Industries	Posted - 2008.03.23 21:43:00 - [5] Actually I'm not sure what to do next. I've got my quests out at all planets in the system. Do I select them all and click analyse, or select them one at a time and do it.... do I just keep clicking analyse until I get a hit?
Commander OTG Logistic Exposium Industries	Posted - 2008.03.23 22:40:00 - [6] Place the quests at all planets that you can. Try to overlap their radius if you can. Select all probes at the same time and analyse. It can take one scan or many. it really is the luck of the draw, but you will get it eventually. careful when you warp into site....could lose your helios if its a site with disruptors and such. Exploring can be quite lucrative once you get the technique down and search out the nice little low sec/0.0 spots. I cross hidden belts that have 350 million in them easy. Quote: Originally by: GM Faolchu It is within the rules of the game for someone to enter your mission and steal the loot/salvage.
Lustralis Tiny Industries	Posted - 2008.03.23 22:58:00 - [7] Originally by: Commander OTG Place the quests at all planets that you can. Try to overlap their radius if you can. Select all probes at the same time and analyse. It can take one scan or many. it really is the luck of the draw, but you will get it eventually. careful when you warp into site....could lose your helios if its a site with disruptors and such. Exploring can be quite lucrative once you get the technique down and search out the nice little low sec/0.0 spots. I cross hidden belts that have 350 million in them easy. Ok, cool, I'm making progress here. So if I get a "deadspace" signature with my quest, is that likely to be an asteroid belt, or some kind of complex with nasty rats in? btw, is it possible to arrive and cloak or warp out before you get targetted, just to scope it out to see what's around? This is exciting
Tewdric Sheba Industries Imperial Republic Of the North	Posted - 2008.03.24 01:00:00 - [8] Ok, cool, I'm making progress here. So if I get a "deadspace" signature with my quest, is that likely to be an asteroid belt, or some kind of complex with nasty rats in? btw, is it possible to arrive and cloak or warp out before you get targetted, just to scope it out to see what's around? This is exciting Yeah it's possible to do it, just have to be really quick the second you stop warping, however things like natural gase clouds depending on where you drop out of warp will prevent you from cloaking
Asteroid Bandit NOPHEX PRISIM	Posted - 2008.03.24 15:38:00 - [9] When you find a sig with your multispec it will tell you the type of sig you are scanning for: Gravimetric - Hidden Asteroid Belt Magnometric - Salvage/Archeology Site Radar - Hacking Site Ladar - Gas Cloud Site (Low sec mykoserocin - synth boosters, 0.0 cytoserocin - combat boosters) Unknown - Combat Plex (Can be found with any probe type) Make sure you have near total planetary coverage with your probes otherwise you will be wasting a lot of time switching probe placement after they die (Learn the art of warp between bookmarks). Find an area (constellation or 2) that you like and stick to it so that you build up a nice library of BMs. If you start making decent isk, invest in a faction probe launcher, it is the best purchase a prober will ever make. The better the site the harder to find, some sites can take hours if not days to probe out. Faction probes are useless, forget about them. Scanning implants are 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other. The class 1 implants are decently priced and can shave off some extra seconds, and add that little extra bit to your probe strength. Triangulation implants are useless, how close you get to the site is too variable for a 6% increase to be worth it. Last bit of advice, high sec is useless. Low sec is ok for radar, mag, and grav sites. 0.0 is where the money is at, get out there and get with a good probing team, then you can start raking in isk hand over fist.

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