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Valion Audeles
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2012-05-07 09:45:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Valion Audeles
Well, I swapped to using 6 probes - 4 in an horizontal plane and 2 in vertical plane. Takes a few more seconds to set up but most of the time I dont need to go all the way down to 0.25AU for a positive lock. Got the sisters launcher too. Cant use a 7th yet, still waiting on astrometrics to level.
TriadSte
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-05-07 15:25:16 UTC
mxzf wrote:
Kalin Trose wrote:
Which is exactly why high sec exploration is not a viable source of isk and a total waste of play time. If you really want to explore and do sites that are viable as sources of income with potential to find hidden diamonds then you have to go null sec.


Hmm ... I wonder what that 10B+ ISK I made from highsec exploration is then ....

And if you can't lock sites with 73 you're doing it wrong. All sig bands are the same (high, low, and null), meaning that if you can scan any site in highsec, you can scan any site in nullsec. And if you're choosing to only use 5 probes, then it's your fault that you're having issues finding sigs.


He didn't say he had 73 scan strength, the OP did.

Locking some of the rarer 8/10s nullsec sites down with 73 is not possible even with 7 probes. You need 7 probes with anything under 120 though.
Caldari Citizen 786478786
#23 - 2012-05-07 16:52:32 UTC
Kalin Trose wrote:
high sec exploration is not a viable source of isk and a total waste of play time


You mean the A,B,C-Type Invulnerability Fields that drop from Highsec DED sites and sell for 500mil - 1bil ISK do not make for a viable source of income? Interesting, and here I was thinking that being able to PLEX my account with a single drop was OP as ****.
Coolsmoke
State War Academy
Caldari State
#24 - 2012-05-07 18:00:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Coolsmoke
Caldari Citizen 786478786 wrote:
Kalin Trose wrote:
high sec exploration is not a viable source of isk and a total waste of play time


You mean the A,B,C-Type Invulnerability Fields that drop from Highsec DED sites and sell for 500mil - 1bil ISK do not make for a viable source of income? Interesting, and here I was thinking that being able to PLEX my account with a single drop was OP as ****.


Just to clarify - Since Escalation, Gistum A-Type Invul Fields no longer drop from 4/10's in highsec. B-Types never have. C-Types now do, and are still worth a few iskies :)

Dunno about the Pithum versions..
drdxie
#25 - 2012-05-07 19:58:55 UTC
You need to go to the more remote areas, out of all the places I did exploration in, amarr was the worst.. seems ever wh in eve spawns there, yea I know its random, but from living in a wh.. its not that random.. maybe its the size of the amarr region.
The best place was Caldari as it is less populated.. people are scared to mission against guristas as the jam. Also the closer you scan to after down time, the better the results. so best to worst for me was caldari, minmatar,gallente then amarr. Try and find a location with no station and a lower sec status.

Caldari Loving needed.. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1608277&#post1608277
Mnemosyne Gloob
#26 - 2012-05-07 22:17:20 UTC
TriadSte wrote:
Locking some of the rarer 8/10s nullsec sites down with 73 is not possible even with 7 probes. You need 7 probes with anything under 120 though.


I curently have close to 80 strength and i can scan down any signature with 7 probes (just barely for the hardest tho) - that would mean even a 10/10 in null. I don't know what a 'rarer 8/10' is, but you don't need 120. Granted most people would rather choose a dedicated prober in a bonused ship, but it's not like an unbonused ship won't do.

drdxie wrote:
The best place was Caldari as it is less populated.. people are scared to mission against guristas as the jam. Also the closer you scan to after down time, the better the results.


Caldari less populated? Seriousely?

Close after downtime ... now that's interesting. What this recommendation will achieve is to strengthen the believe that 'plexes spawn after downtime'. In fact finding sites at those hours might have more to do with a not so high server pop (as it is in the hours before downtime) and 'being the early bird'. However, it's not like theres no other explorers starting after server down, if only to map their area.
drdxie
#27 - 2012-05-07 23:20:58 UTC
Well this is my experience roaming new eden with 5 toons for the last 2 and half years in HS, Null sec and wh's.
The least populated server time is the 3-4 hrs before DT, which happens to be my normal play time, so unless I stay up after DT I will generally get nothing.. and yes I get the whole random thing and sites need to be run somewhere else first... but it still doesn't fit in to what I have experienced, so unless CCP tells me I have it wrong, i will work with my experience.

Caldari Loving needed.. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1608277&#post1608277
XXSketchxx
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
#28 - 2012-05-08 02:18:18 UTC  |  Edited by: XXSketchxx
drdxie wrote:
Well this is my experience roaming new eden with 5 toons for the last 2 and half years in HS, Null sec and wh's.
The least populated server time is the 3-4 hrs before DT, which happens to be my normal play time, so unless I stay up after DT I will generally get nothing.. and yes I get the whole random thing and sites need to be run somewhere else first... but it still doesn't fit in to what I have experienced, so unless CCP tells me I have it wrong, i will work with my experience.



You're the guy that posted those great findings aren't you?

Nope, different guy.

Either way, plenty of stuff to find after DT.
Callduron
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#29 - 2012-05-08 05:49:17 UTC
How do you see your scan strength?

I write http://stabbedup.blogspot.co.uk/

I post on reddit as /u/callduron.
St Mio
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#30 - 2012-05-08 05:56:15 UTC
Callduron
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#31 - 2012-05-08 10:34:34 UTC
Ah thanks!

I write http://stabbedup.blogspot.co.uk/

I post on reddit as /u/callduron.
Eternal Montage
Myriad Sequence
#32 - 2012-05-09 14:02:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Eternal Montage
This post was extremely helpful to me. Thank you guys. Can anyone post a link to the deep space scan probe "Trick" that I've heard about? The one posted before doesn't work for me... Thanks again

Edit: NVM got it to work!
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