EVE General Discussion

Didn't they make the probing modules you fit in your mid slots active?

If that's the case, did you turn them on?

Hey dudes o/

Anybody having issues with probe scanning lately? Most of the time it's only a matter of a few well-placed scans and boom goes the fleet warp. My scans have had problems resolving themselves lately... everything's great until I get to around 8AU ... I place the probe constellation [like a boss] resize the scan range and scan ...... pinngggg pinngggg .... bloop. Nothing. Wtf?! So then I resize the scan bubbles for a larger scan range and yeah dude, plain as day, there goes the offending party, right where I thought they were. vOv

After several cycles of probing large and small only to realize that, yes, the ship is in fact there, but can't be scanned down ... I dunno man, wtf? I've been unable to scan down anything some days despite the system being full of fat-sig stuff... structures, marauders, cruisers etc. No dice.


... human error is certainly a possibility but I don't think that's the case in this instance.

If it's disappearing after 8 AU and then reappears when larger again it's DEFINITELY a filter issue. Make sure new ship classes such as a prospect (which would be a new entry under "Expedition Frigate") is checked on your filters.

And remember, dscan uses the overview to filter things, but the scan probes don't.

It's not the echoes issue. If filters have not changed throughout the course of scanning how would they be an issue?

As an example:
Your scan filter setup that you are currently using has all ships shown except "Expedition Frigate."

You scan at 8AU and there's a ship. It shows up in the list as "Ship", and since you have any ships selected in your filter, it shows up in the list.

You scan again at 4AU, and now you can get a good enough hit to determine the type of ship. It's an expedition frigate, and since you've told the game (via filter settings) that you don't want to see expedition frigates, it doesn't show up in the list.

So you go back out to 8AU, and once again your probes are too far out to determine the type of ship, so it shows up in the list as "ship" again.

No idea if this is related but I scanned a wormhole sig to 100% but could not warp to it today.

Rescanned it and that time it was fine.

It did seem more difficult to scan a couple of those down today than normal, but I am no expert at scanning. I only post this because it sure seemed strange I could scan it to 100% but still could not warp to it.