EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm a new player and have completed all the missions but am stuck on the probing. I've looked at some youtube tutorials and other ones but still can't quite figure it out. Any pointers to a tutorial would help.

I get that little box with the arrows centered on a signature from every angle and then it goes from 30% or 40% to zero. I'm lost...

You have to also reduce the scan volume of the probe spheres in order to increase their strength. Focus them, as it were, on the dot you're trying to find. Highlight all the probes, right-click them, and choose 8au 4au or 2au radius for them, smaller and smaller with each scan.

Each time that you reduce the spheres to be smaller, you also need to bring them closer together so they overlap again, a little, over the dot you're trying to find. Hold down CTRL and drag them closer together, until the dot is a little bit inside of every sphere. The spheres will have to intersect just a little.

So it's not just centering the arrows cube over the dot you're trying to find. You also have to shrink the probe spheres, and bring them closer together so they intersect a little over where the dot is.

It is all about the intersection of spheres and where the point is.

* Point inside one probe: the whole sphere glows
* Point inside two probes: intersect is a circular plane
* Point inside three probes: intersect is two points (end-points of intersect line), either one could be the one you want
* Point inside four probes: intersect at single point

Any additional probes are just gravy.


Here's a trick, which still works, last I tried at least:

* Disable all except one probe (there are check-boxes in the probe UI)
* Set the single probe to a large diameter, to cover as much of the system as possible
* Activate a scan.
* Sort the scan results from lowest to highest. [They will all be very low.]

You should notice a pattern; the percentages are grouped together, and there are 3 major groups, with each group roughly 2x the previous group: "small" (lowest), "medium", and "large" (highest).

The vast majority of wormholes are large, some are medium, and there are very few small wormholes. Low-quality mining and gas harvesting sites also tend to be large. The smaller the size, the more valuable the site, so you might want to locate the smallest ones first. Of course, not all systems have all 3 sizes, but once you locate the weakest site, you can tell what size it is by its name.

I know OP has already gotten their answer, but for anyone else looking at this question for help and who's having difficulty with video guides, consider taking a look at https://www.thealphasguide.com/reference/scanning/ . Comes with pretty pictures at no additional charge!