Wormholes

good skills, and at least a t1 probe ship, some neatty probe formations and patience

I know it probably doesnt matter to you now that you are in this pickle and i bet your going to say you have learned this lesson already but, you had one actual scanning ship in your home system. you tested murphies law out and found it to still be in perfect working order.

Raise your skills I ca pick up any sing with enough patience with a scorpion, no rigs and a t1 launcher with regular probes.

Alrighty. I'm checking my skills now and here's where they're at...

1. Astrometrics IV
2. Astrometric Rangefinding III
3. Astrometric Pinpointing III
4. Astrometric Acquisition I


I'm sure there's something I'm missing here. I assume "Astronometrics" was a typo?

Awesome, alright :D Now I just need to find an exit so that I can purchase a few things lol Maybe like 10 probe boats and 50 probes!

Yes,
As you know now, living in the WH requires redundancy. That goes for every ship. Scanners, PVP ships (no fun Pewpew if you die and have nothing to reship at the POS).

All of my scan ships carry double the probes (16 cores, 16 combats, 4 DSP). And I have at least 2 per type needed.

None of that helps you now.

For future, I know it is Poo Poo'd but I really like deep space probes. I have found them very helpful in many cases. When I have gotten stuck in some other WH it has saved my butt. I got an orca stuck in an active C5 with C3 static. (major derp).

They were turtled up in their POS (I had just shot at them running sites in my home). but off dscan from the WH. So i quickly scanned out their new C3 static. Even with pretty good skills in an orca and 8 probes I just barely got a lock. Raced to the new C3. Which luckily had a HS static.

I knew it would be sort of a race. As soon as they realized I collapsed the static they would scan down the new one. If they beat me to the exit they could easily capture my orca.

Hit scan with a DSP. 33 sigs! (ugh). But given the scan strengths, I was able to narrow the possible HS static to 9 of the 33. Got it on the 6th sig.

Now if you don't have DSP's you can still do it sort of using signature size (read up on sig size etc on wormnav).

The other option is to quickly narrow down sigs as fast as you can. What I do (windows 7 is handy for this), is do a full scan of the system. Then use the windows 7 snip tool to take a screen grab of your results window (makes it easier to keep track.

Then scan each planet at 8AU. You only need a 25% lock to get the sig type. I eliminate all that i can first that way, corring them off my screen snip as I go. Then you can do the same around planets at 4AU, knocking as many off as you can. Any WH's you can scan down to 100%. Doing this method I have gone through systems with 30-40 sigs to find the exit in about 25 min in an unbonused HIC with just a core probe launcher.

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BTW all of my main toons have:
1. Astrometrics V
2. Astrometric Rangefinding 4
3. Astrometric Pinpointing 4
4. Astrometric Acquisition 3

You just opened my eyes.

What hole do you live in? If you can tell us that or if you use "siggy" or any of the other mapping sites then it will tell you what size signatures you are looking for in your hole for your static.

Size 10's holes are going to be K162's INTO your system from elsewhere. This could be from anywhere, though in my experience (somewhat limited) the lower down the holes you go, the more likely you are to find a known system exit.

Generally speaking if you want quick transport through holes, you should scan all 10's (possible incoming connections) and the sigs sizes that match your static.

On another note.... you state (somewhat tongue in cheek I'd imagine) that you are going to purchase 10 scanning ships and 50 probes...... that still only makes 5 probes per boat!!

If it were me, I'd have two covops ships, and I have around 21 sisters combats in each of mine and then a T1 prober with the same amount of probes in them. THEN you need a stock of probes too. If you leave them all in the hangar and not in the ships then you will slowly dwindle the pile down to the point where someone takes the last one and then, Murhpy/Bob comes to visit and you jump into the T1 prober to find that it has no probes.

I use SIggy and you can enter your skills and it will tell you how to recognize sig sizes based on a max range scan (whatever probe type). It will also tell you your static size.

Regards

Barrak

Use 8 probes set to 4AU, setup 6 to make two lines of 3 (forming two overlapping boxes), and put the final 2 at the center of each box. Be sure that they are close enough to create a big area of overlapping sensors down the center. Then keep them in this formation and move them across the system like a rake. The sensor strength will be strong enough to immediately register wormholes as "unknown" sigs, and also the easier sigs to find like ladars. The rest you will be blank, as if it doesn't display something then its generally falls into one of the harder to find sigs, such as mag sites.

Of course, the sig needs to be towards the center of your line, if its above or below and not within the overlap then it will still register them as a blank sig. So be sure to be systematic with your sweep. I generally find using this tactic can enable you to quickly locate wormholes over other sig types, as wormholes require far less sensor strength before they are shown as an "unknown".

Initiate warp to all sigs and they will de-spawn in a couple of days..