EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi all.



Yep so i did the tutorial for Space Exploration. probably got to the third mission before calling it quits. the one where you have to find the Gravimetric site. i spent literally 3 and a half hours trying to pinpoin the dang thing i cant for the life of me do it i end up slipping up and lose the circle compleltly. i realized then and there i was not patient enough for this type of scanning heh.

Once you "get" it sites can be found in just a few minutes.

My standard advice: make sure your filters are cleared.

Checking the signature type that you want to find will not speed up the process but does exactly the opposite.

It all gets easier, but none of it is required to scan.

In fact, the reason why it gets easier is because by that time you've been practising a lot and you have gained your own skills to do it faster and efficiently. You don't need any rigs or T2 probe launchers to get successful scans.

I use 6

Howdy,
My biggest issue was when doing the tutorial I had duplicate signatures for a site within .25AUs of each other. This happened to me twice doing the tutorials and was just plain cruel. Trying to arrange the probes to just focus on one of the signatures to determine if it's the real one when they are both inside the minimum scanning range is not fun. I had to recall probes, dock at base and walk away from the computer a few times in order to spare myself the cost of replacing my keyboard and monitor. The thing is, if it weren't for a couple of rough bits with the tutorial I could really like scanning and exploration.

Griffton

Triangulation takes 3 points of reference.

scanning may not seem exciting at first but it is a very important skill to learn. Also once you max out the skills and get the right equipment it is a lot easier. After awhile it is automatic.


you can find all sorts of interesting things especially when you get into wormholes.

2 things to remember.

Shift - Move, Adjust Scanning range
Alt- Move (keeps the Probes proportionaly at the same distance)

Makes probing so much easier

Scanning is mandatory in wormholes since everything has to be scanned down, but it's perfectly possible to play the game without scanning otherwise, it's only used for exploration or to locate ships in space, so it's very likely that at least one guy in the corp might have half a brain and figured it out to scan stuff for others, usually it's the guy that's always logged on, but had to log just before you needed to scan something and won't be back before a couple days.

So... it's not important, but one day, you might find yourself in need of something scanned down, so knowing the process can be handy, but since OP just wanted to tell how he gave up on it, *shrugs* why force the guy into trying again? sounds like a trial that won't be subbed.