Ships & Modules

Hey!

If i have implant slots 1-5 filled with Low-grade VIrtue implants.

For the 6th slot, what would u say is most beneficial of *Low-grade Virtue Omega* for 25% bonus to the strength of all Virtue implant secondary effects OR *Proteque 'Prospector' Astrometric Pinpointing AP-602/606/610* for reduction in maximum scan deviation by 2/6/10% ?

The overall goal is to be able to scan down **** as fast as possible.

I plugged this into EFT, using the following ship as the base and All Level 5 skills:


[Cheetah, Cheetah copy 1]
Micro Auxiliary Power Core I
Micro Auxiliary Power Core I
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

1MN MicroWarpdrive II
Medium Shield Extender II
[empty med slot]
Warp Disruptor II

Sisters Expanded Probe Launcher, Sisters Combat Scanner Probe I
[empty high slot]
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II

Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I
Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I

With just slots 1-5 filled with Virtue implants, I get 83.31 for the sensor strength for the scanner probe. Max Scan Deviation is .125.

Adding the Omega implant brings the sensor strength up to 88.17.

Using the 10% Poteque implant, the Max Scan Deviation goes down to .1125.

If it were my money, I would probably go for the Virtue Omega, but I'll be honest that I don't have enough scanning experience to know which is more critical to your overall success.

PS - Yes, I am aware that my Cheetah above is a rather ugly fit. I'm having a hard time fitting the Cheetah the way I'd like to. Without taking the thread completely off topic, if someone has a better fit, I'd be happy to see it.

Yeah im aware of that. Comes down to personal skill mostly. But trying to figure out whatever will benefit me the most through implants. To me, whatever saves me time in scanning down ships, wormholes and i.e mags will be worth it. Just wanna maximize the effectiveness as much as poss too without personal skills taken into consideration

The way i see it more scan strength might benefit the most as pinpointing can be more or less minimized with proper placing of probes if im not mistaken (?) as in preventing the chance to get the same sig in 2 places.

yes, deviation is more useful for the average prober and pinpointing should be skilled to 5 before rangefinding.
however, if youre talking about a full virtue set with omega or 10% deviation, the omega wins by a long way.
it adds so much scan strength that you will get better results even on the deviated sigs than on the non deviated sigs without it.

also, if youre shelling out the 2 bil for the virtue set, may as well go all in.

PS: @ FT Diomedes, nfi where youre getting those numbers but max probe strength with implants and max skills is 198.