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What skills/loadout/implants are required to scan boosting t3
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Feffri
Dead's Prostitutes
The Initiative.
#1 - 2012-04-28 23:29:30 UTC
pretty much my subject. looking to get the minimum to scan down a t3 boost ship e.g loki boost. thx for any help
Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-04-29 01:35:47 UTC
Need max skills + virtues

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mxzf
Shovel Bros
#3 - 2012-04-29 01:56:55 UTC
It depends on how much ECCM the T3 is packing.
Feffri
Dead's Prostitutes
The Initiative.
#4 - 2012-04-29 03:14:02 UTC
is that really the minimum max skills plus full scan loadout helios + a full set of virtues .. that seems extreme.. and lets say a previously unprobably loki set up since it would be the hardest to scan down.
Mfume Apocal
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-04-29 07:50:52 UTC
Feffri wrote:
is that really the minimum max skills plus full scan loadout helios + a full set of virtues


No, it's not. You don't even need maxed scanning skills with a full lg-virtue set, even off a unbonused hull. With bonused hulls (covops, probing T3s, etc.) the requirements are fairly reasonable (maxed skills or 2 or 3 lg-Virtue out of the set) but the practical results are hit-and-miss.
Geoscape
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2012-04-29 13:30:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Geoscape
You need 8 probes and a probe scan strength of 78.4 or more.

Edit: not sure what probe scan strength is needed using 7 probes or less. And i am assuming that OP means T3 boosters with lots of eccm.
Feffri
Dead's Prostitutes
The Initiative.
#7 - 2012-04-29 17:25:53 UTC
thanks geoscape and mfume apocal ... and yes i am talking about a loki with eccm and the sig reducing boost running with max skills. ok so thats not too bad. I was gonna be bummed if i had to spend 2bil in implants just to scan one of these things down. And thanks for the precise numbers of 8 probes with 78.4 scan strength... awesome!

feff
marketjacker
Mr. Clean Corp..
#8 - 2012-04-29 17:33:08 UTC
Not sure why they aren't just telling you the simple facts.

You need the LG set, complete, and a bonused hull with sisters launcher/probes. Even then it will take you some time and only someone who is afk will get caught, unless they are ********.
marketjacker
Mr. Clean Corp..
#9 - 2012-04-29 17:33:56 UTC
Also you can't even PVP without diaf unless you have a blob so why bother trying?
Feffri
Dead's Prostitutes
The Initiative.
#10 - 2012-04-29 18:02:50 UTC
why try?... eh because normally you guys have twice our numbers plus boosts so it will give me something to do why we are docked up or safed :) plus maybe i'll get lucky and you guys wont click over to your boost character since you'll be busy ganking somebody... never know :) Thanks for lettin me know i'll just go buy the full set and finish training the last scan skill i need to 5.. thanks everybody for your help.
Geoscape
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2012-04-29 19:29:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Geoscape
You can shorten the time needed to probe it down considerably by d-scanning the precise distance and angle to the T3 booster and then moving the probes over roughly where it is.
I'm guessing that most people with unprobeable boosters are multiboxing and probably won't be paying attention to the booster, especially if stuff is going on elsewhere.

However, they won't let their booster get ganked a second time, believe me, i know.

I'm going to run some tests on sisi tomorrow with various combinations of implants, probe count and probe formations.
Borun Tal
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2012-04-29 20:51:14 UTC
Jack Miton wrote:
Need max skills + virtues


Nice. Smile
Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-04-29 20:59:27 UTC
78.4 strength is the 10% prospector implants + the lowest 3 virtues.
I'm not so sure this is accurate since even with a full set, I need to get the probes pretty much right on top of the target and i have a probe strength of 97.

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