Originally by: Imperator Jora'h

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Edited by: Imperator Jora''h on 08/05/2008 11:51:24

Originally by: FlameGlow

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I have bookmark sets like that for over 40 systems, and if I look at ecliptics plane then all 4AU circles around each planet are covered. This is sufficient in most cases. However space is 3D and there are small areas above and below plane left outside probe coverage. It's way too much effort to get bookmarks above and below ecliptics in the right spots for actual 100% coverage.

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I am using bookmarks to get complete coverage. Unless the deadspace sig is so on the edge that being 70km above the ecliptic is an issue I should have complete coverage.

If that is actually the case that seriously sucks. I would be amazed if probing is that sensitive when working on multiple AU scales to fail on a few tens of kilometers.

I have dropped a new multispec everyday...grav and unknown site are still there.

I am getting hits on Deadspace Signatures. Looking at my system map they show as red or yellow dots with the "Medium" or "Low" label. Are those the grav and unknown site? I generally ignore those as last time I bothered it was just a combat area and frankly lame (cost me more in probes than I made from the site).

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Interpreting Results

If you think a system's taking too long, then by all means go elsewhere, but the site is there to find, somewhere. If it's hard to find it's often also very valuable/difficult, so it's up to you whether or not to keep trying. You may also need to rework your probe placement - scan strength decreases as you get further from the probe, so if you have one probe covering two planets, consider shifting it to the other planet to give it some more loving.

Eventually, if you're persistent enough and your probe placement doesn't suck, you will get a result.

Results come as several columns:

- Type. This should be "Deadspace Signature", if you're doing it right
- Signal Strength. This is a nice big number that tells you the exact probability you had of getting this result. It's a value derived from various numbers and unique to your particular situation and probe placement, rather than a value attached to the site itself.
- Distance. This is how far the result is from where you are right now
- Accuracy. This is the exact distance from the result to the actual site

If you don't see all four columns, expand your system scanner window and/or resize them until you do

Signal Strength can tell you a lot, if you know what you're looking for. For example, an exceptionally low number may suggest that you've found the wrong type of site. As you gain more experience you'll get a feel for signal strengths and learn what's high, what's low and what they tend to result in. This is just something you'll need to practice, though.

Also note that it is possible to find the "wrong sort" of site with a particular probe. If you look at say the Gravimetric Quest probe, you'll see it has a Gravimetric Sensor Strength of 250, and a Sensor Strength of 50 for the other types. This means it's five times more likely to find a Gravimetric site than it is to find another site of the same difficulty, but it is still possible to find one of those other types. As some sites are harder than others, you may find your Gravimetric probes are finding an "easy" Radar site faster than a "hard" Gravimetric site, for example. This is just something you have to get used to; Unknowns are a particular pain in this regard as any probe will find them, so if you're looking for something else and there's an Unknown in system, you'll probably pick it up at some point...

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