Missions & Complexes

Why don't you test it and find out?

There are 8 different base signature strengths (or bands) 3 out of those only apply to wormholes and gravimetric sites.

for an exploration starter guide take a look at:
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Exploration_guide

for more info on base signature strengths (aka signature bands) take a look at:
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Base_Signature_Strength

for information about your Probe's Sensor Strength take a look at:
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Signal_Strength

For a list of all the articles on exploration: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Category:Exploration

In the base signature guide he says 0.37 is in the 1/5 band (but this is 20.0%) so how must we interprete this? Does he actually mean 0.20%?

I believe you are referring to the sensor strength of the ship. Basically it is your targeting strength. Each different race has a different scanning sensor (Minmatar = Ladar, Amarr = Radar, Caldari = Gravimetric, Gallente = Magnretometric).

As far as I know this does not affect scanning probes and the strength of the signatures. What this sensor strength does affect is the performance of ECM (electronic countermeasures) jammers. If an ECM jam works on you, your targeting systems malfunction and you lose your targets and your ability to target for the duration of the jam. With a higher sensor strength, you are less susceptible to ECM jamming.

Well i used the DSP method and i find it not very useful, why?? I had a strenght of 7.5 so i got 0.14 (that could be a radar, unkown, grav, magnotmetric) or a 0.07 , same thing exept lesser unkonws (i mean fewer). I think the method is not bad but you still have to scan down to 25% to see if it is a radar or not. And except for (i think 3 signal strenghts) i'll scan down every one of them, still not knowing wat it could be. Well so yes i will probably scan those 3 signals as well (only 3, i do it very fast,so not many time wasted) .I can say that i can better gues with the sister probes and see (and saw) that it was a radar or a mag sites, wich i 'm hunting ive scanned more radars using my sisterprobes with a sister launcher then using DSP.
I think the method (DSP) would be very usefull if every type (mag, radar, unknown, ladar, grav) has its own strenght. exampl:Radar =0.14 (7.5 str dsp)
grav= 0.07, and so on

I think you don't fully understand the purpose of DSP. Nor do you seem to understand that the purpose we use them for was likely not an intended purpose by CCP.

Hi guys,
I am also 'very new' to exploration and I think I would need your advices on the 'how to' thingy.

Basically I am still T1 Arbitrator fan until I can go for T2 and later Legion.. at least if you can help me getting started to make some money :D

I got good skills in exploration and can fit DSP. I would like to scan down Radar and Magneto sites to start with and go for DED sites with T2 or Legion.

BUT: I was scanning high-sec for the last 2 weeks and I can't find much sites. I told myself it's because of so many ppl scanning the systems and I am just too slow. That made me coming up with a low-sec route. I fitted a cloaking device and headed to low-sec in hope of finding fun Radar/Magneto sites for my Arbitrator to make some money. (I have to say that I made about 10mil with exploration the last 2 weeks and thats not what I expected.. Thats about 1,5h mining for me and I would like to have a similar result with exploration)

So Nose (thats me) went to low-sec, well prepared with looking on the 'ships destroyed' and 'average pilots in space' statistics. I was pretty safe with my Safespots and scanned about 10 systems in Minmatar low-sec.
I could not believe that I was not able to find a single Radar/Magneto site!!!

Of course I found cosmic anomalies.. but all of them Ladar sites with some WHs. I am seriously doubting if exploration is the right thing for me although I would love to get into this exciting profession.

I hope you guys can help me and/or tell me what I am doing wrong. The systems in high-sec were located in Metropolis and low-sec was Molden Heath.

Thank for any advice you could give!
Nose

Hi all,

This thread has been very informative as I still consider myself a noob at exploration.

However, since the rebalance of ships I've been using Sir Livingston's approach, which is to make an All In One exploration vessel.

I currently use a Vexor (T1), fitted out with the mandatory equipment (Salvager, Codebreaker, Analyzer, Core 1 probes etc), and this has netted me quite a few sites, most were wormholes, and I have been quite successful in finding mag sites.

Indeed a T3 cruiser like a Tengu or similar would be more successful, but as everyone knows, hard work pays off, and exploring sites does take time.

Keep at it, and your skill at finding sites, be they mag, radar, ladar or grav will increase, but bear in mind that CCP doesn't have the same site, at the same point, in the same system, or everyone will be fighting over the really good sites.

Let me pick up on this real quick, please refrain from using the Standard or RSS Core Probes. They pale in comparision to the Sister's Probes and these are not all that expensive. If you have money to spend, also invest in a Sster's core probe launcher to go along with it.

I know, fitting a 40 mil module on a 5 mil ship isn't exactly what a lot of people think is a smart idea, but really: going cheap on exploration rarely gets you anywhere.