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==Scanning & Probing Techniques and Tricks==

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See [[Smurfprime's Probing Guide]] for a complete guide on how to probe down a signature.

Other miscellaneous tips:

* Holding Shift modifies all active probes at once.

This is VERY useful for setting range on all probes at once.

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*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~~.)

*Repeat the process of dropping range, positioning arrows on the result circle, and rescanning until you get your result. If you hit the minimum probe range and still can't get 100%, try repositioning your probes more carefully. There are some sites that you may not be able to probe -- to get them, you can use Sisters probes, rig your ship, buy hardwired scanning implants, and/or train higher levels of the relevant skills.

* You can increase scanning strength, in extreme cases, by placing a 5th probe on top of the signal, carefully arranged between the other 4 probes.

* Note that core probes can go to twice the strength of combat probes. When scanning difficult sites, you may need to switch to core probes.

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 ==Scanning & Probing Techniques and Tricks==
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+See [[Smurfprime's Probing Guide]] for a complete guide on how to probe down a signature.
+Other miscellaneous tips:
 * Holding Shift modifies all active probes at once.
 This is VERY useful for setting range on all probes at once.
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 *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.)
+*Repeat the process of dropping range, positioning arrows on the result circle, and rescanning until you get your result.  If you hit the minimum probe range and still can't get 100%, try repositioning your probes more carefully.  There are some sites that you may not be able to probe -- to get them, you can use Sisters probes, rig your ship, buy hardwired scanning implants, and/or train higher levels of the relevant skills.
+* You can increase scanning strength, in extreme cases, by placing a 5th probe on top of the signal, carefully arranged between the other 4 probes.
+* Note that core probes can go to twice the strength of combat probes.  When scanning difficult sites, you may need to switch to core probes.