EVE General Discussion

After spending the past couple days scanning (a lot, as in nearly 200 systems), I have determined the new "DSP" method for getting signature sizes. It's actually quite simple..

Jump into a new system, and look at the initial scan signatures. Ignore anomalies and sort by distance. The "closer" the signature, the larger the signature.

You can still use SwiftAndBitter's DSP guide located here: http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/dsp/index.html

Now, with the signatures sorted by distance...

6.22 AU = Size 10
6.96 AU = Size 7.5
7.33 AU = Size 5
7.56 AU = Size 4
7.89 AU = Size 2.5
7.95 AU = Size 2.2
8.00 AU = Size 2.0

Compare to the DSP chart, and you now know what signature types are (probably) in the system.

Just realized that I missed size 4.. Will update upon finding if nobody else replies first.

I am relieved to know that whatever system I jump in to that the incoming WHs will always be close to me.

I guess the size 10 incoming WHs to my system will always spawn around my POS since that's where I log in the most, and radars will always be at the other end of the system.

Thank god.

What if I move the pos?

Yeah, I've gotta think that's a bug. They pretty intentionally removed signal strength from the system scanner, and the distance column basically does the same thing.

the highest band correspond to the "4 AU distance"

Yes, this is a bug I am pretty sure. When I was playing around with this on the test server the distances were actually displaying pretty accurately. Now the distance will be shown as 4au for example when the actual signature is 30au away. So surely a bug.

Well that just means now is the perfect time to do some old school DED farming, since the info isn't widely circulated yet and a patch will take time to implement.

I guess this is one of those "They did WHAT?" moments the devs have from time to time. Lets see, if this gets accepted, just like jetcan mining did.

I can confirm that this looks like a bug. You should be able to figure out some kind of info through the amount of uncertainty (the size of the circle in space and on the solar system map) - but the distance column in the probe scanner should display the estimated distance to the signature (and not the uncertainty value).

I am pretty sure, that you can expect changes to this (but with the disclaimer, that I am not a game designer).

Thank you to whoever wrote a bugreport about this.

So. He does indicate that the 'uncertainty' should be an indicator -- which is to say, if you calculate the spread, then you've got sig sizes again.

So this chart will still be useful -- you'll just have to do a tiny bit of mental math.

Hilarious!

I also wonder if using the percentages in the scanner will be 'frowned' upon after that. The underlying problem is that the bands (sig sizes) are STILL THERE. Just randomize them a bit and this whole issue will go away. The actual scanning is now faster than ever anyway.