Missions & Complexes

Hi!

With my current skills and fittings (Sisters Core Scanner, Sisters Probes, PPH-0) my sensor strength (based on EFT information) is 79.8.

Still I sometimes, even on High-Sec space, run in the sites which are hard to get 100% even with 0.25 resolution. Sometimes I have to give up and move on because even when I try to re-position my probes better I can't get over 90%.

My question is: What is your sensor strength and do you have ever that kind of problems? Is my sensor strength too low for every site or is it just that my scanning pattern with probes is not good enough.

Ummm, I don't know.....I supposedly have a scan strength of 117 and I couldn't lock down a grav site the other day with 8 probes out. I managed 96% at best. I don't know what the problem is either because this was the first time in months that I haven't been able to lock something down.

And never before have I had to use 8 probes. 5 has always been enough.

Same problem here!
Can't seem to get a lock on anything!
Also sigs keep disappearing even though they were there a moment ago =/

I've had sigs disappear before, but I wrote it off to a Radar site that someone has completed and it despawned.

Hmm...I thought five is max what is needed. So far used only five. Have to buy new probes then if that helps. Thanks for the tip.

You will be able to tell if it's the worthless filter.

When you get to 25% strength the sig will vanish from both the system map and the scan result window, assuming it matches your filter settings to not be shown.

The problem however is that once you lose 25% on the sig that got filtered it will show up again on the sig list. Since it is no longer a grav (for example) but is now just a 'cosmic sig'.

Make sure all your filter boxes are turned on then you can go about your scanning like nothing happened. IE scanning to 25% r/click ignore the ones you don't want.

I also have 117 scan strength - there is absolutely nothing that I can't scan down with 5 probes. I do think that sometime when you login, and you don't login to a station that there is *sometimes* a glitch that doesn't apply your ship modifications. That's just a feeling though. I got no concrete proof. I dock up and undock to resolve it.

The disappearing is a result of the recent patch - you need to update your filters. They changed the ones around signatures. So once you've got enough strength on a site and it knows the type - it disappears.

This is what's confusing a lot of players including me at first.

Frankly, the new filtering system just adds confusion, with signatures disappearing and reappearing as soon as you move probes elsewhere. It sucks. totally.

If you're like me, you've given up on what could have been a nice feature, and just gone back to using a filter for all signatures, with a deep space probe to identify sig types.

I believe we now (Crucible expansion) have T2 Core and Expanded Probe Launchers, which will have the same bonus as the Sisters' ones, with higher fitting reqs, but a much cheaper price (hopefully).