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Dotlan moon materials accuracy
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Netan MalDoran
Noir.
Shadow Cartel
#1 - 2015-10-18 22:39:49 UTC
Quick question, how accurate is the dotlan data for moon materials? I assume that the stated material are true, but if it states that a moon is empty, is that valid? Or should I spend the millions to probe ALLLLL the moons in a system? Shocked

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Mephiztopheleze
Laphroaig Inc.
#2 - 2015-10-19 00:23:40 UTC
Personally, I'd scan the moon myself before anchoring a tower.

DOTLAN should give you a decent idea what's there, but the cost of a basic probe is piddling compared with discovering you've made a mistake.

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erg cz
Federal Jegerouns
#3 - 2015-10-19 12:13:10 UTC
I do not thing Dotlan data about moon minerals has any real value. My corp was mining moon minerals in systems, where Dotlan displays nothing at all.

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Saeko Allas-Rui
Crazydiamond The Works
#4 - 2015-10-19 14:05:51 UTC
Short answer: Not very. And it's incomplete as hell out of empire regions. And I don't think any of the 0.4 systems have been added.
If the system you target has a list, you can use it as a reference but it's possible that someone put bogus moons or didn't declare the interesting ones.
It might even be accurate but checking yourself is the only way to be sure.
And store the results of your searches for yourself, even if you find nothing on a moon. Moon probe results don't survive if you log out, dock or quit the system.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#5 - 2015-10-19 22:16:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
There have been moon surveys posted for various regions.

Valuable moons tend to be deleted from some surveys.

Quick searching:
http://eve-moons.com/
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4786282#post4786282
https://marlonasky.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/all-fountain-moon-minerals-mapped-and-public/
Netan MalDoran
Noir.
Shadow Cartel
#6 - 2015-10-20 22:47:11 UTC
Saeko Allas-Rui wrote:
Short answer: Not very. And it's incomplete as hell out of empire regions. And I don't think any of the 0.4 systems have been added.

You can't mine in 0.4

Ok, so basically what I thought, relatively incomplete, ty for replies!

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Substantia Nigra
Polaris Rising
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2015-10-20 23:12:13 UTC
Having now been involved in several successful region invasions, and the stock-taking aftermath, my experience has been that what is in DOTLAN is usually mostly correct but also that the information there is very incomplete.
It’s been a couple of years now but we sent out masses of folk scanning and cataloguing all the moons in our newly-won regions. I have no doubt that other large groups in eve have done the same and hold similar detailed ‘databases’.

If I was planning to setup a moon-goo operation, which (having done so in the past) I most certainly am not, I would use DOTLAN as a rough guide but check and confirm the information for myself before committing the necessary setup funds and effort.

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Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2015-10-21 18:13:51 UTC
Netan MalDoran wrote:
Saeko Allas-Rui wrote:
Short answer: Not very. And it's incomplete as hell out of empire regions. And I don't think any of the 0.4 systems have been added.

You can't mine in 0.4


https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4707013#post4707013


CCP Greyscale wrote:
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The tl;dr: You cannot do moon mining in .4 or higher.


0.5 or higher as of Crius. We changed a >= to a > so the code does what the authoring was always assuming it did. I just fixed the display text for the attributes this afternoon to reflect this, but the code should already be in place
Netan MalDoran
Noir.
Shadow Cartel
#9 - 2015-10-21 19:08:28 UTC
Elena Thiesant wrote:
Netan MalDoran wrote:
Saeko Allas-Rui wrote:
Short answer: Not very. And it's incomplete as hell out of empire regions. And I don't think any of the 0.4 systems have been added.

You can't mine in 0.4


https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4707013#post4707013


CCP Greyscale wrote:
Quote:
The tl;dr: You cannot do moon mining in .4 or higher.


0.5 or higher as of Crius. We changed a >= to a > so the code does what the authoring was always assuming it did. I just fixed the display text for the attributes this afternoon to reflect this, but the code should already be in place


Ah, I am corrected! Didn't notice this in Crius.

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