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4 probes in formation?
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Ariane Johanson
Inevitable Outcome
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#1 - 2016-04-26 08:14:25 UTC
Hi,

is it possible to put 4 probes into formation, i am rookie in this game and have mission for agent, my probes are not in formation and i can not join them together anymore .... if i recall them into ship and releas them again they are still in the same formation before i took them in ? tutorials from eve are useles becose they heve one with 8 probes, and 8 probes you can always put into formation
Lugh Crow-Slave
#2 - 2016-04-26 08:28:18 UTC
Why would your ever use less than 8 post oydecy

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Ariane Johanson
Inevitable Outcome
E.C.H.O
#3 - 2016-04-26 09:31:11 UTC
sorry, i just found out that i can use 8 probes ... read somewhere that as rookie you can take only 4 ...
Hawke Frost
#4 - 2016-04-26 10:03:56 UTC
That is very outdated info, you should probably ignore anything you read from that source as EVE has changed quite a bit over time.
Wanda Fayne
#5 - 2016-04-26 12:55:52 UTC
Ariane Johanson wrote:
Hi,

is it possible to put 4 probes into formation, i am rookie in this game and have mission for agent, my probes are not in formation and i can not join them together anymore .... if i recall them into ship and releas them again they are still in the same formation before i took them in ? tutorials from eve are useles becose they heve one with 8 probes, and 8 probes you can always put into formation


You just need to deploy them and change the formation. The two defaults are "pinpoint" and "spread". You can also set your own formations.

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Ka Plaa
Doomheim
#6 - 2016-04-26 20:38:25 UTC
Sustrai Aditua
Intandofisa
#7 - 2016-04-26 22:36:18 UTC
I use five 'cause I'm just that good. Four? You need that center focus. Minimum? Go with five.

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Tau Cabalander
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Working Stiffs
#8 - 2016-04-27 00:11:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
FYI, you can use as many probes as you want.

You can disable individual probes. Explore the probe window Blink

I still like to do one-probe scans to quickly identify signature types by their size (relative signal strength). Example: One-probe scan, sort the results by signal strength, and notice that there are roughly 3 groups of signal strengths: 1x 2x 4x. Wormholes tend to be 4x, with a very few exceptions. High-quality sites tend to be 1x, so I target those first. Of course you may find only 1x 4x, but if you only see 1x 2x or 2x 4x they are not distinguishable until you identify at least one site.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#9 - 2016-04-27 04:36:30 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
FYI, you can use as many probes as you want.

You can disable individual probes. Explore the probe window Blink

I still like to do one-probe scans to quickly identify signature types by their size (relative signal strength). Example: One-probe scan, sort the results by signal strength, and notice that there are roughly 3 groups of signal strengths: 1x 2x 4x. Wormholes tend to be 4x, with a very few exceptions. High-quality sites tend to be 1x, so I target those first. Of course you may find only 1x 4x, but if you only see 1x 2x or 2x 4x they are not distinguishable until you identify at least one site.

Sphere size should give you the same information without even launching probes.....
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
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#10 - 2016-04-27 09:35:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
Ariane Johanson wrote:
sorry, i just found out that i can use 8 probes ... read somewhere that as rookie you can take only 4 ...

Was ages ago when you had to train for more probes. These days you get 8 and you can place them as you like or a standard 2 formations: spread and pinpoint.

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Ariane Johanson
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#11 - 2016-04-28 07:36:16 UTC
thx to all of you, i was new eden member long time ago, and now i am back:) ... great game, i need life outside my real life:)