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Aricaan
Rum and Quafe
#1 - 2012-08-26 16:42:49 UTC
Wasnt sure where to ask this, and im worried that some of my google searches are turning up old info(Im an older player, coming back from about a year break).

I wanted to create a Scanner alt, but I wasnt sure if the skills in the Cartography cert also applied to scanning down other players. Do you use probes for that? Or is it just directional scanner?

thanks in advance!
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-08-26 17:13:38 UTC  |  Edited by: J'Poll
Aricaan wrote:
Wasnt sure where to ask this, and im worried that some of my google searches are turning up old info(Im an older player, coming back from about a year break).

I wanted to create a Scanner alt, but I wasnt sure if the skills in the Cartography cert also applied to scanning down other players. Do you use probes for that? Or is it just directional scanner?

thanks in advance!

Both.

Though with D-scan will take a long time and lots of safe spots.

Combat probes are used to scan for ships.

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Tolrok Qorte
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-08-26 21:02:56 UTC
You can use the D-Scanner to see the direction a player's ship is in, and by relating that to celestials in line, you can track them down. A few have gotten very good at using the d-scanner and mid-warp bookmarks to actually locate a player's safespot without probes, but that takes a lot of practice and a couple hundred bookmarks usually.

Using scanner probes is a much easier way to lock down a player ship, though they can see the probes on their d-scan, and so may know you're coming or leave the safespot before you're able to get a lock on them.