EVE New Citizens Q&A

A diamond shape only has 4 sides

Sorry, I'm not part of the 1%... I only see things on my computer in 2 dimensions

Reset your search filter. They disappear at 20% because you identify the type of site but your filter is set not to show that type (or any type.)

I dont know the cause of this but i've had it happen a few times after patches.

Add Strategic Cruisers (T3's like the Tengu are used)

If you are probing with filters on and a signal disappears it is usually because you have got close enough to identify it and filtered it out. Its annoying as you then don't know if you have gone off the target, the target moved, or you filtered it. So filters are pretty pointless. Filters are reset to default after major patches so you suddenly find it acting different again.

hmm it seemed to be filters cause i can now correctly probe ships :p

but there are still some issues :p

i think i'm missing some kind of ships in my filter

dunno which though

EDIT :
well the problem is that it seems that filters are applied only when i reach about 20% signal strengh
and i dont remember it was like that when i played EVE.

I remember that when i find any signature, its one of the ship i filtered.

I'm using Heron atm :p
so what you are saying is that you dont use any filters at all ?

You just random scan and see what happens ?

My goal is to ninja-salvage.
I have to put lvl 4 mission's runner's ships :p else it will take me a lot of time.

the problem ( and it seems to have changed since my last playtime on EVE - 7 months ago - ) is that when i just filter " Battlecruiser, Battleship, Command ship, Marauder and Strategic Cruisers " I'm able to find ( at 20% or less ) other signatures that are NOT in my filters. This is driving me crazy :p
I can't remember that it was like that 7 months ago.

Any ways to only scan what is in my filter ?

I'm here to help you. For a beginning ninja salvager, set your filter to:

Battleships, Battlecruisers, Elite Battleships, Marauders and Command Ships. Make sure everything else is NOT checked. Tengus in their untold numbers are a bit tough for new scanners to get a warpable hit so, you'll do better ignoring them. You can always add them later. Make sure you're in a spot where there are plenty of missions happening. To find this out, go to Dotlan EVE Maps, find the region in which you propose to work, and use the filter "NPC Kills". One or two of the systems in the region will be far more active than others and that's where you should be. For example, I just took a look at The Citadel and the map would suggest there is active mission activity going on in the Waskisen/Irjunen/Inari hub. This is because the agent (in Irjunen if memory serves) will send the mission runn to one of those 3 systems.

Launch your probes into the diamond pattern that you described, but place a 7th probe in the center. Align your others so that their outer edges just touch this center probe. It should be one step smaller than the others. For initial scanning you might use 6 probes at 16 AU and the center one at 8 AU. You can then re-size them down on a "yellow hit" and move them to the center using the Alt keep.

If you need help with All Things Ninja, join Ninja Dojo chat channel. You can also chat with me or any of my crew in QA Public.

Probes can't be stolen. But they do expire if you leave them out too long (there's a timer next to them). Just recall them before the timer, then relaunch them, to reset the timer (you'll need to reload them into the launcher, obviously)

If you jump out of system, or dock, you'll lose your connection to them as well. But if you return to the system or undock, there's a reconnect button to hook back into them (as long as their timer hasn't expired)

Couster, though not a Newbie System, is a "Career Agent" system and therefor you're not likely to find ANY level 4s going on. If your roaming takes you into a system where you expect to find lots of wrecks fields, and yet you sit on the undock seeing only frigates and dessies undocking, you've probably came to the wrong place.

Once you've an idea of where the Lv 4 missions are going on, with decent skills, you can find plenty of missions to pillage in only a matter off moments. A mere 6 jumps away from Couster is Eglennaert and you'll find plenty of missions there.