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* Quick Scans (With or without Deep Space Probes).

Deep space probes are primarily useful in very huge system. However, they are very weak, making them less useful than other probes for finding anything but deep-safe-spotted ships in very large systems.

* Sites only seem to spawn in a sphere a few AU around planets.

If you are scanning large reaches of empty space, you might find mission sites and abandoned drones, but probably not much else.

===Quick and Dirty How-To ===

*Drop as many probes as needed to cover the system. This can be as few as one Core probe, but larger systems may require more. Scan, and use the filter to limit your results to what you want to find.

*Once you get a result, position probes to cover that result. This may be as easy as moving them around a little, or covering a sphere. Either way, keep in mind results from long range scans are ''very'' inaccurate sometimes.

*With luck, you will get one result. If you get circles, or more spheres, your initial guess was off and you need to reposition and try again.

*Once you get it down to one result, close probes in, bring them to the same plane as the result, drop scan radius, and re-scan. 4 probes with enough strength is all that is required to find anything. One way to do this is to position the probes in a square around the result, with 4 of the slide arrows touching the result-circle.

*Repeat the process of dropping range, positioning arrows on the result circle, and rescanning until you get your result, or you hit minimum range and still have poor strength- in this case, you need stronger probes! (Core probes should be used to find sites, even with high scanning skills, combat probes will have a hard time finding sites, and deep space probes even worse.)

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 * Quick Scans (With or without Deep Space Probes).
 Deep space probes are primarily useful in very huge system.  However, they are very weak, making them less useful than other probes for finding anything but deep-safe-spotted ships in very large systems.
+* Sites only seem to spawn in a sphere a few AU around planets.
+If you are scanning large reaches of empty space, you might find mission sites and abandoned drones, but probably not much else.
+===Quick and Dirty How-To ===
+*Drop as many probes as needed to cover the system.  This can be as few as one Core probe, but larger systems may require more.  Scan, and use the filter to limit your results to what you want to find.
+*Once you get a result, position probes to cover that result.  This may be as easy as moving them around a little, or covering a sphere.  Either way, keep in mind results from long range scans are ''very'' inaccurate sometimes.
+*With luck, you will get one result.  If you get circles, or more spheres, your initial guess was off and you need to reposition and try again.
+*Once you get it down to one result, close probes in, bring them to the same plane as the result, drop scan radius, and re-scan.  4 probes with enough strength is all that is required to find anything.  One way to do this is to position the probes in a square around the result, with 4 of the slide arrows touching the result-circle.
+*Repeat the process of dropping range, positioning arrows on the result circle, and rescanning until you get your result, or you hit minimum range and still have poor strength- in this case, you need stronger probes!  (Core probes should be used to find sites, even with high scanning skills, combat probes will have a hard time finding sites, and deep space probes even worse.)