EVE General Discussion

Don't worry guy, probing is one of those things that gets easier and faster the more you practice it. So, less QQ, more pew pew!

Serious answer:
It would take away the flavor.

right now You first d-scan someone until I exactly know how far away and in which direction he is. Then you drop probes for one cycle, immediatly call them in, and have the target nailed. What is so difficult with that?

combat probing during fleet fights is extremely useful and very common.

maybe you just don't know what you are talking about.

(rgd time consumption - my biggest gripe with probing is how slowly the probe launcher cycles)

I actually wish CCP made probing harder that it is now, not the HARD HARD like in the past but not as easy as it is now =|. This would filter out the people who "Ugh, cba doing the same thing over and over again" and would retain those who actually like scanning.

^ I am talking about site scanning, not combat scanning by the way. Its good that you can be probed(pretty) easily.

No No No No No No NO!!!

Probing is fine.

Why do so many come to this game and whine about stuff which actually takes some effort (if you call it effort).

There are alot of things in this game which are too easy atm - lets not dumb it down any more.

Edit (still mad)

Auto probing??? please GTFO.

These two points counter each other.

I can only suggest to do exploration when you feel that it excites you, and not do it when it bores you. I do the same with any activity in EVE. Sometimes I find trading boring, or mining, or PI, etc.. It is not more than a sign of having done something too much and too often. Your idea then is the result of the need for something different and you should not try to kill a profession to turn it into something different for the sake of doing something different.

What I could image as an addition to exploration is to add a feature with a new skill that allows the spontaneous detection of signals without simplifing the current process:

Once a high skill in Astrometrics is achieved will a new skill become available, which gives each probe a 2%-chance of a spontaneous signal detection per level. At level 5 of this skill and with 7 probes in space will there be a 70%-chance that one of your probes finds a signal without scanning.

This would not automate the scanning process, but add a random surprise element to it.

Hey Roi,

your employment history indicates that you are very very new, - (unless this is an alt) ?
you simply may be missing some usefull skills that dont apear under the module prerequisits...

Here is all the ones that apply to probing, make sure you have them, they help alot!
Astrometric Pinpointing
Astrometric Rangefinding
Astrometrics - you will have to have atleast this....
Astrometric Acquisition


And get yourself into a Helios or alnother scanning ship.
Makes life alot easyier.


Hope this helps.


- Dringy

[Edit] - did i miss one?

Funny how many threads on this forum lately are all about making every aspect of this game 1 click = Win or buy 1000 PLEX to instawin the game.

These guys should have been playing in 2003-2006 when the game was REALLY difficult

Now, if Mining was more like probing.... no, that threads been done too...

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Auto-probing can only be done by one very rare Amarr ship called the Sybian. There was only one known BPC with a couple runs on it, but it is believed to have been lost to a black hole.