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Two red dots - same Cosmic signature
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MInting Osterberg
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2016-02-11 17:37:10 UTC
When i was exploribg for first time i got into à wormhole. Took me to à new system. There i started to scan.

Find à few Cosmic signature and made à few to red dots on map. Warped back to high-sec. Logged off. After à while i logged in warped back again into wormhole. Started à new scan.

Now i have two red dots with same name AIH-308 (something like that) and not on same spot. What did i do wrong?
Do i need to clear scan result or what?
Paranoid Loyd
#2 - 2016-02-11 17:42:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
Look at this guy with his fancy "à" Lol

Move the probes closer to one of the two dots and bring the scan range down.

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#3 - 2016-02-11 17:42:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Lucas Kell
That just means that your current scan attempt hasn't got a high enough strength to pinpoint the location, so it's giving you two rough areas it will be in. Kinda like how you get the sphere to say "it's somewhere in here", just a little more accurate, so it will be near one of those sigs. Move your proves in closer to each and maybe shrink the scan range down and you should see how the actual sig appears near one of them.

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Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#4 - 2016-02-11 17:43:09 UTC
That's normal, it just means that your probes have narrowed the sig to two possible locations, one will be the actual location of the sig (or close enough, depending on scan deviation) and the other is a sensor double.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2016-02-11 17:58:48 UTC
FYI it's always the other one .


By that I mean its always the one further away from the centre of the probe formation,
seems counter intuitive but the closer one has always been a red herring for me.

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Iain Cariaba
#6 - 2016-02-11 18:28:42 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
Kinda like how you get the sphere to say "it's somewhere in here"

Side note: it's not "in" the sphere. It's "on" the sphere. Same with when you get the ring. Smile
Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#7 - 2016-02-11 18:29:58 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
FYI it's always the other one .


By that I mean its always the one further away from the centre of the probe formation,
seems counter intuitive but the closer one has always been a red herring for me.


Yeah that's usually my experience as well
Ginnie
Doomheim
#8 - 2016-02-11 18:37:25 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
FYI it's always the other one .


100% true, ever time I have had two dots, and its probably happened what a couple dozen times, its always the other one! Always! Statistically Impossible!

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
Insidious.
#9 - 2016-02-11 19:12:42 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
FYI it's always the other one .


By that I mean its always the one further away from the centre of the probe formation,
seems counter intuitive but the closer one has always been a red herring for me.


Someone once explained to me the reason behind this but I zoned out due to :math:. Something to do with the way the probes work and their overlap.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#10 - 2016-02-11 19:12:52 UTC
An excellent way to illustrate for yourself how the system works is to drop and bookmark things in mission pockets (,drones, mtus ect) and then combat probe around the area after its been turned in.
because you can see where the bm is it should help you interpret the visual feedback from the probes.

I also think every one should know how to combat probe so...

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Ned Thomas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2016-02-11 19:33:06 UTC
Here's a video that explains what each of the different probe results means. Well worth a watch if you're going to be spending a lot of time scanning. Note: This is done with the old probe window, not the new one, but the functions of the probes are the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHPIOek6aFY&feature=youtu.be
Droidster
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2016-02-11 19:33:22 UTC
The intersection between three spheres is two points.

I got an "A" in geometry when I was a little boy. Big smile