School of Exploration

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New Players	PVE	PVP	Exploration	Industry
Newbee Survival School	PVE School	PVP School	School of Exploration	Industry School

How to Scan

Launch your probes, it is worth noting that after launching you can cloak up if your ship has a cloak fitted - but bare in mind your probes will still appear on DScan You need to discount your own fleet (not needed if you’re alone), click “center formation on current ship” and set scan distance to 0.5AU - then scan and ignore all ships that appear on the results. (make sure the filter is set to ships only)

Launch the spread formation at 16AU and scan from the centre of the solar system, you can reduce or increase the size based on the solar system, but 16AU will cover most.

When you have a signature, click on it to show the sphere or a circle. The ship is somewhere within the sphere. Drag your cube onto the X in the centre, making sure you two this on both the x and y axis.

• A red sphere means that only a single probe has the target within its range. As such the ship is somewhere on the SURFACE of where the target is.
• A red circle means that two probes have the target within their range. The ship is somewhere on the line.
• A red dot is where atleast three probes have detected the target, the ship will be within several AU of this red dot.

Your goal now is to get a red dot, if you haven’t already. Change to a pinpoint formation and set the distance so that the entire sphere or circle is within it, and scan again.You should now have a red dot.

You should now have your target, if you don’t then your skills might be lacking, you can make up for this by manually moving your probes, you can do this by holding shift and getting your probes as on top of each other as possible - you should save this custom formation, as it will come in handy in the future.

• If you still can’t get the target, then your skills and/or ship just need improving first. Smaller targets are harder to probe down than larger ones and will take longer / will need better skills.
• The ease or difficulty in probing down a ship depends on two factors. It’s Sensor Strength and it’s Signature Radius - Remember, you won’t catch everything and this is ok.

cosmic signatures

• data & relic
• ghost
  • → can’t tell, just show warning
• sleeper
  • → can’t tell, just show information
• gas
  • → link to some gas huffing page
• wh
  • → link to some wh guidance page
• combat
  • → link to some wiki for combat anomalies

how to hack (data & relic)

• nodes
• utilities
• rule of 6