Reaver Glitterstim
Resurrected Darkness
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Posted - 2012.03.25 22:23:00 -
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For scanning, your Imicus is an excellent ship to use. Similar to it are the Magnate, Heron, and Probe. Which of those four is best depends on your racial frigate skills. If you put 1 or 2 Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrades into your rig hardpoints, your ship's scanning ability grows even stronger.
The skills you'll want to train are:
Astrometrics (to launch more probes, and for use as a prerequisite for other astrometrics skills)
Astrometric Acquisition (to reduce the scan time)
Astrometric Rangefinding (important, to increase scan strength)
Astrometric Pinpointing (important, to decrease scan deviation)
Astrometric Rangefinding and Pinpointing are extremely useful for using scan probes, as they have a multiplicative effect with each other. If you have both of these skills trained at least to 3, you'll note that you can often skip scan ranges and find something in half as many scans, ie. at 16 au straight to 4 au and then 1 au.
You won't find any ships with much better probe strength bonuses, but you can get other things that are helpful. You'll want a cloaking device if you do any scanning outside of highsec, and you can eventually fly a covert ops (such as a Helios), which has the same scan probe bonus that your Imicus has, but also can fit a Covert Ops Cloaking Device which allows you to warp while cloaked. A covert ops cloak will keep you much safer in lowsec because you can cloak after jumping through a stargate, even as you align for warp. That makes it virtually impossible for ambushing pilots to target you. Also, if you land inside a warp disruption bubble, the covert ops cloak will allow you to move much faster while cloaked, making it a lot harder for players to ram you and pop you out of cloak.
A strategic cruiser can be fit to have scan probe bonuses, just as they can perform almost any other common ship functions. Strategic cruisers are extremely flexible and are among the most powerful ships in EVE, though they are very expensive.
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