Comments on: Alas, Poor Dingo

By: Marlenus

Marlenus — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:59:25 +0000

Awesome, that’s good to know. It matches my experience, but I haven’t scanned down very many frigates so I wasn’t sure.

By: Kahega

Kahega — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:18:19 +0000

It’s unclear to me how much help this provides, to be honest. Highly skilled and well equipped probers can scan down a frigate-sized signal almost as quickly as they can scan down an unaltered industrial. However, if you have some goober in a battlecruiser who has shoehorned an unbonused probe launcher into his fit, it might help a little bit.

Not sure if quotes work here, but as someone who has scanned down frigates quite a bit..

It actually makes quite a big difference. Keep in mind that my scanning boat is relatively pimped. All of my scanning skills are at IV, covert ops at V…I use faction probes and a faction launcher, and 2x rigs on my scanning Cheetah.

Scanning down that Buzzard we found in w-space, I had to set .5 AU probes, and even then it required putting the probes very close together. Contrast that with, say, Marauders (Huge sig radius + small sensor strength), which I can find easily with 8 AU probes. BCs I can usually find with 2 AU probes.

By: Marlenus

Marlenus — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:58:22 +0000

I think it was more a confusion between sig radius and scan signature; they could see the modules in the killmail, but they didn’t see any (because there aren’t any) that reduce sig radius, so they didn’t understand what I was talking about.

By: Notquiteasstupid

Notquiteasstupid — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:25:11 +0000

I can’t believe someone had to ask that question when the killmail said it all already.

By: Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior"

Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior" — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:43:19 +0000

Ah thanks for the tip!

By: Marlenus

Marlenus — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:51:56 +0000

The “signal strength” of a scan target is defined by a ratio of the target’s sig radius (which cannot be reduced by modules so far as I know) and it’s sensor strength (which is affected by active ECCM modules in the midslots and by backup arrays in the lowslots).

It’s unclear to me how much help this provides, to be honest. Highly skilled and well equipped probers can scan down a frigate-sized signal almost as quickly as they can scan down an unaltered industrial. However, if you have some goober in a battlecruiser who has shoehorned an unbonused probe launcher into his fit, it might help a little bit.

By: Alpha

Alpha — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:32:21 +0000

Gas mining = Win
AFK gas mining in wormholes = Uber Win

Tell your corpie he is a winner. :)

BTW- I would also like to know which of his modules was decreasing his signature.

By: Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior"

Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior" — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:30:02 +0000

But what modules decrease signature?*

By: Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior"

Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior" — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:29:28 +0000

Hey if he’s got protection then I also think this is a way of mining :)