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Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#21 - 2012-03-06 07:00:14 UTC
Good discussion, I'm somehow perverse and love scanning, and I'm always on the lookout for ways to improve :)

Substantia Nigra wrote:

A cube is not the quickest 8-probe pattern to use. It's a good pattern for getting maximal probe strength onto ' target' and so you're more likely to be able to resolve a site at, say 2AU, with eight than with 4 or 6.
Using 8 probes in a cube is fiddly and fairly time consuming to setup and doesn't save you a whole lot of time over using 4 or 6. A little but not a lot.

Look around, think a little, and mebbe do some goggle searching.

When you stumble across or think-out some of those other approaches you may well kick yourself .... "Why did't I think of that?" I certainly did (kick myself that is).


I stayed away from cube for some time, because I also regarded it as fiddly, but then I figured out how to make a cube in 7 moves and never looked back. Alt-resizing was a real game-changer :)

Rings and false results are ultra rare, and like you said, probe strength is amazing. I get yellow marker readout results (>25%) at 8AU, 100% at 2AU.

That video technique posted by Jack is interesting and I will try it, but it seems to be much fiddlier to set up and needs two passes just to read a sig type, with the cube I get warpable result in two passes. Combined with an initial DSP scan to filter out unwanted bands, it's so fast it feels almost like cheating.

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Pleasure Boy
LUX Uls Xystus
LUX aRe us
#22 - 2012-03-06 07:25:30 UTC
When only 4 Probes did count I got used to using a square with an additional fifth probe in the middle for easier resizing (done by hand back then) so now I basicly still use the same setup with a second probe in the middle, one slightly above the square and one slightly below. Works fine so I never had a reason to try something else.

But perhaps it's time to learn something new and try out a 7 or 8 Probe setup.
Cyniac
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2012-03-06 15:38:06 UTC
7 probes for me though I'll give Jack's 8 probe setup a twirl, seems to work well.
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