Science & Industry

Only astrometric acquisition decreases scan time. astrometric pinpointing decreases deviation which can decrease scan time, but also increases accuracy. And astrometric rangefinding increases your probes strength, making it easier to scan down more complicated sites.

You should use a ship that gives a bonus to scanning, fit scanning rigs and scanning related modules and see if this helps.

Also have someone in your corp who has scanning skills / setup find a site for you and see if you can scan it down. Depending on where you are and security status you may simply not have the skills needed to scan down the sites or they could all be getting grabbed by other players. They are pretty popular and if you're in a heavily populated area they will be the first to go since they require no PVE skills or fittings.

LOL, this isn't a problem per se, at least not as far as it being a bug is concerned. Data and relic and gas sites are a lot rarer than wormholes and combat sites: keep at it, you'll find some eventually.

Well at least now I know it isn't unusual..

Since Combat sites are all over the place maybe add some guns and go for those while searching..

The combat sites have the best earning potential anyway. most of the high sec sites can be done in a kestrel with light missiles as u can kite beyond the range of the rats. The rest are doable with moderate drake skills. Just google the site before you run it.
mostly u will get rubbish loot but the 100-300 mill drops that you sometimes get make it all worthwhile

So would I switch over to a fighting machine and leave the Probe docked?

Maybe try a Gnosis. It was designed for exploration. It even looks like a sextant.

Another thing to try if you are patient enough is to go to one of the systems that has the training sites in it. While you will have to sort through a lot of chaff (Training sites), I frequently find data and combat sites and have no competition, due to people not wanting to deal with all the junk returns.

The sites are either there or they aren't, no skill, ship bonus, or luck, affects whether you find a site or not. if your skills are low it is possible to find a site you have great difficulty getting to 100%, but you will at least see it. I found a lot of relic and data sites when I was exploring in the days following Odyssey, but have not done exploration in the last few weeks.

I would say chances are other explorers are just beating you to it. Now that every noob in the game can find sites with minimal effort, they do not last long. get into systems with less traffic and you will find them. generally if a system only has a couple signatures they will be wormholes and combat sites. you want to find systems that show 6 or more signatures when you jump in.

The big issue is with all signatures now showing in the ship scan explorers can quickly travel through systems, only stopping when they find systems with several to scan down. The same changes that make exploration easier, have also made it more competitive. You could consider some one else always beating you to the sites as bad luck, but really you just need to look in systems with much lower traffic. Sites are not just spawned at down time, but every time a site de-spawns after it gets completed, it re-spawns somewhere else. I have seen back water systems with 10-12 signatures. Just keep in mind the majority of signatures are combat sites and wormholes. With gravametric sites gone, data and relic sites are the rare ones. You just need to learn where, and when to look. luck really has very little to do with it. When you jump into a system after Odyssey every signature there automatically shows on your scanner. you just have to scan them down to 100% before you can warp to them. Higher skills will not find sites not already on the list. You can cover way more systems now, with out even putting out your probes until you find a place you want to stop.

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