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Abel Taron
Doomheim
#1 - 2013-01-19 10:01:07 UTC
Hi,
I want to make it easier to recognize at first glance what current bookmarks i have, and which signatures came new over night.

I thought I would write the signature ID into the bookmark like "C2 -> C3 ABC-1234". Now someone told me that the ID's are useless cause they would swap with every new person to scan them.

Is that true? Or is the sig ID the same for everyone who does scan the system until the site vanishes?

Thx!
Swordfingers
The Swollen Horse Society
#2 - 2013-01-19 10:02:22 UTC
They are the same until down time.
Abel Taron
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-01-19 10:04:32 UTC
So after the DT the same site gets a different ID, if it stays alive for say 3 days it would get 3 different ID's? That correct?

About the WH, it would be irrelevant as they are dying every day?
Anuki Peime
LM Industry and more
#4 - 2013-01-19 10:06:55 UTC
Siganture ID is the same for every pilot, on down time ID changes, but the are nearly at the same place they were before DT +-8000m

Sorry for my bad english, spelling errors are for general amusement, if you find a grammar error you can keep it !!!
Swordfingers
The Swollen Horse Society
#5 - 2013-01-19 10:10:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Swordfingers
Abel Taron wrote:
So after the DT the same site gets a different ID, if it stays alive for say 3 days it would get 3 different ID's? That correct?

About the WH, it would be irrelevant as they are dying every day?

Yes. The good thing about WHs is that, when they spawn after DT, it's easy to identify them quickly because of the ID that deviates from others.
Abel Taron
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-01-19 10:13:44 UTC
Aight thx all.

One last question.

Is there a trick to highlight bookmarks on the screen? A grey bookmark on a blue background, probably covered with the grey probes makes it a pain in the a** to see it.
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#7 - 2013-01-19 10:52:40 UTC
Bookmarks on the map are a pita. Try seeing which wormhole bookmark it is under the "Unstable wormhole" icon.

If someone knows a workaround or a setting to disable the "Unstable wormhole" signs, I'd love to hear.

.
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-01-19 14:28:56 UTC
Yes they change each DT.

I don't know if it is the best, but our naming convention is to just use the 3 letters from the ID (the entire ID is redundant as the letters are unique).

So as an example

PDP Vast Frontier reservior

For wormholes we do something like

RGF WH U210 1800 Which is a WH of type U210 that was first warped to at 1800 eve time.

I know some WH corps don't bother with the ID's We like them because it can help reduce scanning IMO.

After a DT, if I am the first in for example. I can start by doing a wide scan. Then I drop to 1AU and scan each existing bookmark, updating their SIG as I go, which is faster than scanning them from scratch.

Then someone who comes in later in the day can quickly know which ID's are up to date and which ones are new and not scanned yet.
Oxandrolone
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-01-27 04:35:08 UTC
They swap at downtime which makes t very easy to see new sigs (mostly new wh's) when you jump into a new system.

so if i jump into a system at 11pm and the sigs are

aaa
aab
aac
aad
xug
aae
aaf

xug stands out and screams to me its a new sig and most likely a wormhole.

Also my corp using a inhouse built mapping tool which is friggin awesome. I type my probe strength into a box, drop a deep safe at 256au at the sun and it tells me based on the sig strength where the k162's are and where the static is.

I think there are some tables someware that kinda do the same thing.
Paikis
Vapour Holdings
#10 - 2013-01-27 05:02:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Paikis
Oxandrolone wrote:
aaa
aab
aac
aad
xug
aae
aaf


This is not how it works. The last letter will be the same, the rest can be ignored.

asd
iud
kjd
tyd
mnd
tgd
xau
hgd

It would look like that.
Daenor Falknor
HunTim Trading Corp
#11 - 2013-01-29 15:46:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Daenor Falknor
Paikis wrote:
Oxandrolone wrote:
aaa
aab
aac
aad

This is not how it works. The last letter will be the same, the rest can be ignored.
asd
iud
kjd
It would look like that.

Both wrong, but Paikis is closer. It progresses with last letter held constant until 2nd letter gets to z, then it bumps up and 2nd letter goes to a. I assume it would roll to ?aa when both 2nd and 3rd hit z.
wsd
xsd
ysd
zsd
atd
btd
ctd