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Probe for a Mobile Depot
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Cluellix
Cluelix
Wrecktical Supremacy.
#1 - 2014-07-03 19:46:03 UTC
I want to find my lost depot in a system... I said no problem. Got my Expanded Launcher, and got to work on it.

Problem is...

There are zillions of structures in that system and filtering for Mobile Depot does NOT filter out all those zillion of POS structures.

So for those who know how to do this... Help!!!

How do I probe for a Mobile Depot w/o going through 100 POS structures first?

This is not anymore about lost mobile depot, but more about learning to do such a task...
SFM Hobb3s
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-07-03 20:35:43 UTC
1. Kill THREE bs rats
2. Buy new depot
3. SAVE 15% on next car insurance....Profit!!!!
Hakaari Inkuran
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2014-07-03 21:35:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Hakaari Inkuran
Use overview settings with D-scan to filter out the POS modules as best you can, then use D-scan with narrowed range and changing the distance to determine possible locations of your depot. Use probes with a small radius to check those places. If you put your depot in a safe well away from any celestials you should manage to find it without TOO much trouble.

Oh yes, and D-scan works WITH the system map up, which is what you definitely need.

edit: Honestly it will be even faster just to manually hit "ignore" individually for any structure near a celestial and then scan down and check the remaining signatures. Again, i hope your depot isn't near a celestial or you're done for.
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
New Eden Tech Support
#4 - 2014-07-03 22:08:59 UTC
Hakaari Inkuran wrote:
Use overview settings with D-scan to filter out the POS modules as best you can, then use D-scan with narrowed range and changing the distance to determine possible locations of your depot. Use probes with a small radius to check those places. If you put your depot in a safe well away from any celestials you should manage to find it without TOO much trouble.

Oh yes, and D-scan works WITH the system map up, which is what you definitely need.

edit: Honestly it will be even faster just to manually hit "ignore" individually for any structure near a celestial and then scan down and check the remaining signatures. Again, i hope your depot isn't near a celestial or you're done for.


You can create a custom filter that only shows Mobile Depots. Click the 4-bars to the left the filter-selection drop down box.

Thank me later :D
Hakaari Inkuran
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-07-03 23:18:26 UTC
I love you.
Cluellix
Cluelix
Wrecktical Supremacy.
#6 - 2014-07-04 00:57:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Cluellix
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley wrote:
Hakaari Inkuran wrote:
Use overview settings with D-scan to filter out the POS modules as best you can, then use D-scan with narrowed range and changing the distance to determine possible locations of your depot. Use probes with a small radius to check those places. If you put your depot in a safe well away from any celestials you should manage to find it without TOO much trouble.

Oh yes, and D-scan works WITH the system map up, which is what you definitely need.

edit: Honestly it will be even faster just to manually hit "ignore" individually for any structure near a celestial and then scan down and check the remaining signatures. Again, i hope your depot isn't near a celestial or you're done for.


You can create a custom filter that only shows Mobile Depots. Click the 4-bars to the left the filter-selection drop down box.


Yeah, be my guest in trying that. I thought so too... :)

It does not work. It will list everything until you get signs over a certain percent. I selected ONLY "mobile depot" group from the filter and all I got was "8 filtered" out, dunno why 8. ALL the rest of structures where still chillaxing in the list.
Cluellix
Cluelix
Wrecktical Supremacy.
#7 - 2014-07-04 00:59:27 UTC
Hakaari Inkuran wrote:
Use overview settings with D-scan to filter out the POS modules as best you can, then use D-scan with narrowed range and changing the distance to determine possible locations of your depot. Use probes with a small radius to check those places. If you put your depot in a safe well away from any celestials you should manage to find it without TOO much trouble.

Oh yes, and D-scan works WITH the system map up, which is what you definitely need.

edit: Honestly it will be even faster just to manually hit "ignore" individually for any structure near a celestial and then scan down and check the remaining signatures. Again, i hope your depot isn't near a celestial or you're done for.


I think this is the only solution. However, d-scan works with the system map up? What exactly do you mean by that?
Cluellix
Cluelix
Wrecktical Supremacy.
#8 - 2014-07-04 01:00:18 UTC
Hakaari Inkuran wrote:
I love you.


Don't jump to conlcusions. Try first. It just does not work and you will waste your love. Lol
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2014-07-04 01:04:22 UTC
Good info.

However, I'd like to add one more thing - always make a bookmark. Whether it's wrecks, safespots, POS / Depot locations, etc, ALWAYS BOOKMARK

It's much easier and faster to delete or erase a bookmark later then it is to relocate an area you were at previously.



DMC

'The Plan' | California Eve Players | Proposal - The Endless Battle
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
New Eden Tech Support
#10 - 2014-07-04 01:04:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
Cluellix wrote:
Hakaari Inkuran wrote:
Use overview settings with D-scan to filter out the POS modules as best you can, then use D-scan with narrowed range and changing the distance to determine possible locations of your depot. Use probes with a small radius to check those places. If you put your depot in a safe well away from any celestials you should manage to find it without TOO much trouble.

Oh yes, and D-scan works WITH the system map up, which is what you definitely need.

edit: Honestly it will be even faster just to manually hit "ignore" individually for any structure near a celestial and then scan down and check the remaining signatures. Again, i hope your depot isn't near a celestial or you're done for.


I think this is the only solution. However, d-scan works with the system map up? What exactly do you mean by that?



*removed what Hakaari already said. oops :)

i wonder if the custom filters are bugged? ... i remember having a similar issue with things showing up on scan that weren't included in the filter.

ah well. we all learned something today, eh? o/

Thank me later :D
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
New Eden Tech Support
#11 - 2014-07-04 01:18:47 UTC
Totally off-topic but... vOv ... I remember learning about the Stack All command... mindblown.

Also, the Auto-link feature Big smile

Thank me later :D