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Scanning down sites
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Deveraux Erata
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-12-15 22:01:55 UTC
Ok, so I started scanning down anomalies, and I'm doing something crazy wrong. Basically, it's showing me a red ring to tell me something is there, and my probes are on the pinpoint formation so that they all cover the ring (would post screenshot but I don't know how), and it tells me that it's not detecting any scan results, despite the red ring still being there as if to say that there is something there. I really don't understand where I'm going wrong. Help please?

Deveraux

o7
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#2 - 2014-12-15 22:19:29 UTC
Red ring means that only one probe has detected something in it's scan radius to see what you need to make search area larger then the circle and move all probes in middle of it.
If you still cannot find anything despite the above it usually means that the hit was so poor that your scan deviation skills don't cut it.
Once you have a hit keep the probes scanning as wide (16-8AU) as possible until you hit identification at 30%, assuming you have good scan deviation skills you can then just "bomb the dot" by dropping everything to 4AU or smaller while moving probes right on top of the dot which usually gives (depending what equipment and skills you scan with) an instant 100% hit.
Deveraux Erata
Doomheim
#3 - 2014-12-15 22:24:39 UTC
Thanks man, I think it's most likely my scan deviation skills then. Guess i'll just queue a bunch of astrometric skills and wait. Thanks for the clarification.

o7
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#4 - 2014-12-15 22:30:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Think about the intersection of solid spheres.

1 sphere = no intersection
2 intersecting spheres = circular plane
3 intersecting spheres = two points (actually a line between the points)
4 intersecting spheres = single point

I lived in w-space for ~2.75 years, and I managed with only level 2 Astrometrics. Of course, that was just so I could navigate wormholes (slowly), not to find sites.