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Slave 18742 |
Posted - 2007.09.29 21:28:00 - [ 1]
Moved from EVE General Discussion to Missions & Exploration forum - Jacques
I have been sitting less than 3 au from a mission running carrier for more than 1 hour now trying to scan him down.
WTF is wrong with the probes. Is it just impossible to scan something down thats running missions or?
Slave |
Arvald
Caldari
Drunken Space Irish
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Posted - 2007.09.29 21:46:00 - [ 2]
 Originally by: Slave 18742
I have been sitting less than 3 au from a mission running carrier for more than 1 hour now trying to scan him down.
WTF is wrong with the probes. Is it just impossible to scan something down thats running missions or?
Slave
how i mine fish? |
Gamesguy
Amarr
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers |
Posted - 2007.09.29 21:58:00 - [ 3]
Originally by: Slave 18742
I have been sitting less than 3 au from a mission running carrier for more than 1 hour now trying to scan him down.
WTF is wrong with the probes. Is it just impossible to scan something down thats running missions or?
Slave
Pretty much, mission runners whined till it got nerfed. You have like a 3% chance to scan down someone in mission deadspace. However, if you can get within 4 AU, use a regular scan probe launcher and use the quest scan probes(use the one specific to the race of the ship you're trying to probe down). Those have like 250 scan str, giving you a much better chance to scan them down. |
ollobrains
5th Front enterprises
Chain of Chaos |
Posted - 2007.09.30 05:04:00 - [ 4]
Originally by: Gamesguy
Originally by: Slave 18742
I have been sitting less than 3 au from a mission running carrier for more than 1 hour now trying to scan him down.
WTF is wrong with the probes. Is it just impossible to scan something down thats running missions or?
Slave
Pretty much, mission runners whined till it got nerfed. You have like a 3% chance to scan down someone in mission deadspace.
good advice, glad to see my repeated scanning of 2000 mission runners got aresponse
However, if you can get within 4 AU, use a regular scan probe launcher and use the quest scan probes(use the one specific to the race of the ship you're trying to probe down). Those have like 250 scan str, giving you a much better chance to scan them down.
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Petrothian Tong
Gallente |
Posted - 2007.09.30 06:40:00 - [ 5]
you need to be in a covert ops with triangulation, pinpointing and signal acquistion at lvl 4 atleast to find anyone consistently and reliably now a days.
but it is not impossible though, just have to click click click click click with short cycles =P |
NightF0x
Gallente
Intergalactic League of Terrorists
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Posted - 2007.09.30 07:45:00 - [ 6]
you can try turning on drones/fighters in your overview. Drones are easier to find than ships (go figure) though I'm not sure if the same logic works on fighters. |
annoing
Amarr
Dirt Nap Squad
Dirt Nap Squad. |
Posted - 2007.09.30 08:07:00 - [ 7]
All probing is fubared atm. Exploration is a joke since patch day, and regular probing gets to be not worth the expense. Its no longer a question of skill but a question of luck. Are you feeling lucky punk? Was it 5 probes or 6 that I dropped? You know, in all the excitement I lost count myself... so are you feeling lucky.... are you?....punk? |
Neal Cassady
Mutually Assured Distraction
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Posted - 2007.09.30 08:17:00 - [ 8]
Edited by: Neal Cassady on 30/09/2007 08:17:17 Originally by: Gamesguy
Pretty much, mission runners whined till it got nerfed. You have like a 3% chance to scan down someone in mission deadspace.
However, if you can get within 4 AU, use a regular scan probe launcher and use the quest scan probes(use the one specific to the race of the ship you're trying to probe down). Those have like 250 scan str, giving you a much better chance to scan them down.
if this were true id be flat broke. you need all skills at least to 4 and the hardwirings help too. |
Lem0nparty
Amarr
Hedion University
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Posted - 2007.09.30 08:18:00 - [ 9]
xd, i dont have much problem scanning missions runners with 5 and 10 AU probes..you got to be doing something wrong...and my skills r at l3 atm... |
Zephirz
Cruoris Seraphim
HYDRA RELOADED |
Posted - 2007.09.30 09:02:00 - [ 10]
I scanned my first mission raven yesterday.. after 3 5 au's (15mins of scanning) I finnaly got a hit.... Its kinda not worth the trouble really... |
lofty29
Aliastra
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Posted - 2007.09.30 09:13:00 - [ 11]
The amazing 3% chance of a hit you get on an entity in deadspace makes it so rewarding.
CCP should bring back the probing system pre-nerf. No the old triangulation-based one, but the one which would get a hit if you were in range. A smart missioner wouldn't die in lowsec, even with insta-hit probes. |
Zephirz
Cruoris Seraphim
HYDRA RELOADED |
Posted - 2007.09.30 09:14:00 - [ 12]
Originally by: lofty29
The amazing 3% chance of a hit you get on an entity in deadspace makes it so rewarding.
CCP should bring back the probing system pre-nerf. No the old triangulation-based one, but the one which would get a hit if you were in range. A smart missioner wouldn't die in lowsec, even with insta-hit probes.
\o/ |
Qui Shon |
Posted - 2007.09.30 16:11:00 - [ 13]
Hey I thought this was M&E, not C&P? Jacques, this pie whine belongs in C&P, please move it again. |
Leandro Salazar
Quam Singulari |
Posted - 2007.10.01 09:31:00 - [ 14]
Edited by: Leandro Salazar on 01/10/2007 09:32:27 Originally by: Zephirz
I scanned my first mission raven yesterday.. after 3 5 au's (15mins of scanning) I finnaly got a hit.... Its kinda not worth the trouble really...
The clue is dropping multiple probes that create a lot of overlap, not just dumping one somewhere and scanning away... But doh, that might take some effort! Onoes! Plus what is so bad about maybe 20 minutes of work, not risk and half a mission raven as loot? |
OneSock
Crown Industries
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Posted - 2007.10.01 09:56:00 - [ 15]
3au ? Drop a quest probe and bingo. Should be no problem.
Dunno if CCP intend it to work but it does. |
Koppite
Caldari
UK Corp
-Mostly Harmless- |
Posted - 2007.10.01 13:58:00 - [ 16]
find a mission system then drop a spook probe at star in middle of system. alwyas get a hit within the probes time limit. |
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