EVE General Discussion

I have encountered 5 so far, I scan for 1 hour only to have it stuck at 70-79%. Most will say "get better scanners" and I did, still stuck at 70% values, even with 1 time mod, 4 that increase strength, sister's gear, 2 rigs and the racial scanning frigate. SO, I started calling them Omega sites (and they are high sec sites only). My question is then, why are some sites limited to just Omega accessibility? high sec no less. I assume that Omegas can get even better scanning gear and could easily scan them down. The second issue I found with them is that when I try to align with the yellow mark it lowers my scan percentage even if aligned to the millimeter, max zoom, on all 3 dimensions. I found it is more accurate to scan over and over and watch where the yellow jumps, it shows a sphere of where it could be (would be every pixel cubed so... 400^3?) Even with the inching method it only goes up 0.1% and it doesn't tell if you are going the right way... 91 scan strength is not enough to take them down apparently, so, why are they high sec sites and not low sec sites where it might matter?

Sounds like you found some Sleeper sites; perhaps Superior Sleeper sites. Yup, those are a real pain in the stern to pin down. I am not aware of any new or harder sites introduced recently. The Superior sites may hang around for quite some time as most pilots are unable to pin them down enough to warp to the starting gate and those than can sometimes elect to go elsewhere (for some strange reason). They show up in all sec levels/systems; you may have not have found any in lo/null sec because more pilots there are skilled enough to pin them down and loot them.

Train all relevant scanning skills to 4.

There's not a site in this game that can't be probed down with all astrometric skills to 4 and sister's core launcher/probes on a t1 scanning frigate.

The scanning upgrades only make it faster.

Besides skill level, the amount of probes and their formation might be a problem as well. I have no problem getting 100% signal strength using 5 probes with max scanning skills, Sisters equipment, a scan bonus ship and an Astrometric Rangefinding AR-806 Implant.

If you have everything listed above like I do, then the 5 probe formation listed below will work.

Place the 1st probe centered on the signature sphere with it's radius covering the signature completely. Check by viewing both horizontal and vertical aspects in the system scan screen. Then place 4 more probes on the same horizontal plane as the 1st probe. Set those probes on North, South, East and West compass points with the radius of each of those 4 probes halfway overlapping the signature covered by the 1st probe.

If you don't have max scan skills, then place 2 more probes on the vertical plane centered on the 1st probe, one probe on top at 12:00 and one probe on bottom at 6:00 with their radius also halfway overlapping the signature covered by the 1st probe.

Scan, then move the entire formation of probes so that the 1st probe remains centered on the signature. Reduce the radius of all probes and move all of the outer probes in closer to the 1st probe, making sure to keep the radius of those outer probes halfway overlapping the signature covered by the 1st probe.

Scan and repeat the procedure listed above, continue doing that until you get 100% signal strength. Hopefully I explained it correctly. Good luck to you.


DMC

Because CCP needs your money.
There are things you could improve:
Skills
Ship with bonuses for scan strength
Modules and scan probes with bonuses for scan strength
Rigs with bonuses to scan strength.
Implant with bonuses to scan strength.
Repositioning probes so tight, they nearly form one sphere in your scanning window. Useful when you cant bring their radius smaller, and you still need a few percents to 100%

But those difficult to scan sites usually have a lot of traps and tech I hacking devices is a sure way to fail the sites repeatedly. In some your ship can be destroyed.

I haven't had any issues with standards. As far as superiors go, if you can't probe it down, you'd probably die running it anyway.

Nope, I've done it. Then again, I did it when the sleeper sites first came out, to see if I enjoyed running them. I don't recall CCP changing the difficulty to probe them down, but being able to do so without implants is not misinformation.

You just special snowflake then, good luck on trolling. You propably forget that you have implants on your clone, because with them it's possible.

Well, thank you for all your help, I see now that I will not be able to scan them down for a long time (I'm an alpha) even with all skills at alpha max and such... oh well, guess i'll have to find other ones