Missions & Complexes

I've seen tutorials about how to arrange the probes and what not, but I can't find anything explaining in depth, the different types of icons that pop up.

If someone has the time to explain the following, I'd appreciate it a lot.

For simplification, let's assume that there is only one signature on scan. (Unknown)

I've filled in the ones I'm certain of what means.


1.Red sphere:

2. Red circle:

3.Red dot (often a times there are multiple instances of this):

4.Yellow dot:

5.Yellow 'house' thingie icon(Usually pops up at around 80ish % scan:

6.Green dot: 100% scan. I can warp to.



Reason for this post is, that my signatures somehow disappear from scan, even though I'm certain to have a probe 'bubble' covering it.

Let's say I have a 4AU probe bubble hitting a sig. It tells me that there s sig within a 1AU sphere (I'm guessing that's what the red sphere means). I then lower the scan strength on my 6 scan probes, by setting them at 2AU. I then completely cover the red sphere. I scan and then nothing!

It's starting to annoy the hell out of me :(

Thx for any help.

I use 7 probes, sisters of course.
One in the middle, 4 around it and 1 at top and bottom.

It's all about getting familiar with signatures and sometimes it gets down to a 50-50 chance of hitting right and in other occasions it's about skills and experience.

Firstly train the deviation skill for probing up a few notches, it'll help a lot including the one for strength.
Red sphere is basically that, I'll make sure the core center of my probe setup overlaps the whole sphere and scan it down.
Red circle is usually an indicator for "you have to move your probes up, down, left or right - without changing the radius (depends how big the circle is)". Sometimes this will indicate a signature that is far away from celestials if your probes are centered around a planet. When it does that you just gotta follow what it says and move your probes accordingly.

Two sets of red dots will require you to make an educated guess. It's either there or here. Where are you probes positioned? If one of the red dots is quite close to the center of your setup, but with a low scan strength it's probably not that one or else you would've gotten scan strength higher. This is the 50-50 guess.

In systems with many signatures I tend to circle through all celestials with the setup at 4 au. It'll uncover much signatures (making them yellow so you know what type it is) and then you can decide whether that's what you are looking for or not. Wormholes usually tend to be the signatures farthest away from celestials in w-space. Hence I run with 8-au when searching for a specific wormhole, but then I would use deep space probes as well to narrow the search.

Scanning is great, sometimes I'd do it for hours a day scanning through 20+ wormhole systems.

If you don't have the sigs checked in filters they will disappear at 25%....

Thank you everyone... This was immensely helpful :)

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