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==== Dscan ==== | ==== Dscan ==== | ||
The Directional Scanner is often your primary source of intelligence regarding what else is in system with you. When jumping into a w-space system, you should always, always, always check your D-Scan while holding your jump cloak. No matter how recently you were in the same system, or if you have a friend in system, check your D-Scan. Things can change very quickly, and any warning at all will help. | The Directional Scanner is often your primary source of intelligence regarding what else is in system with you. When jumping into a w-space system, you should always, always, always check your D-Scan while holding your jump cloak (after bookmarking the hole, of course!). No matter how recently you were in the same system, or if you have a friend in system, check your D-Scan. Things can change very quickly, and any warning at all will help. | ||
Many pilots will use certain overview filters to aid them in determining what is in system with them. These filters are often personalized, and can be added gradually as a user becomes adept at using D-Scan. | Many pilots will use certain overview filters to aid them in determining what is in system with them. These filters are often personalized, and can be added gradually as a user becomes adept at using D-Scan. | ||
This is not a class on D-Scan, however it's worth mentioning that d-scan can be used in a variety of creative ways, including roughly locating things, telling if a ship is in a certain place (at an anomaly for instance), or telling if multiple ships are in the same fleet (if they use the same naming convention). It can be used to covertly locate things whilst you are cloaked, by changing the range and narrowing the angle and pointing your ship camera or solar system view camera at things. This is useful in combat scanning particularly, as you want to have your probes visible for as short a time as possible. | |||
==== Ship Naming Convention ==== | ==== Ship Naming Convention ==== | ||
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==== Bookmarking ==== | ==== Bookmarking ==== | ||
Unless you happen to want to go to a | Unless you happen to want to go to a celestial or a cosmic anomaly, you will always need a bookmark to go somewhere in w-space. Every time you warp somewhere new, you must bookmark it to be able to return without aid or doing work all over again. Nota bene: If a wormhole is bookmarked from the scan result window, it will be inaccurate up to approximately 5km. Instead, a bookmark should be made from the overview once on grid with the wormhole. | ||
In addition, although it is impossible to warp to a wormhole via the right click contextual menu, you can bookmark it, then warp to the bookmark. | In addition, although it is impossible to warp to a wormhole via the right click contextual menu, you can bookmark it, then warp to the bookmark. | ||
In addition to the basic bookmarks such as an entrance or exit wormhole, other points such as a hostile control tower, observation points, group safe spots, or bombing points can be very useful. | In addition to the basic bookmarks such as an entrance or exit wormhole, other points such as a hostile control tower, observation points, group safe spots, or bombing points can be very useful. This has been a great update for W-Space since prior to that the only way to share bookmarks was through the use of a jet-can. While any corporate member may create corp bookmarks, and edit/delete his own bookmarks, only those that have the Corp role "Communication Officer" may edit/delete corp bookmarks that are not his own. In EVE University that role is assigned to the Sophomore title. Copying Bookmarks is still required however if you are part of a group that is not all in the same corp (no, there are no Alliance Bookmarks). | ||
==== System Occupancy and POS Intel ==== | ==== System Occupancy and POS Intel ==== | ||
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==== Cloaking ==== | ==== Cloaking ==== | ||
Once a person is cloaked there is no way to detect them. Therefore, with very rare exception, as long as you are cloaked you are safe. There are tactics to try to decloak possible covops or recons, such as anchoring containers near drag bubbles, especially on approaches to POSes. If you have a cloak, keep it up as much as possible. There is nothing to gain by being visible, and safety comes in being invisible. | |||
==== Anomolies vs. Signatures ==== | ==== Anomolies vs. Signatures ==== | ||
Although everything has to be scanned down, not everything needs probes to find. While in a cosmic signature you have reasonable expectation that there will be probes in space before any unfriendlies arrive, although they may only be out for under a minute before company arrives. Also be aware that hostiles may have visited your system earlier and already have bookmarks for all the signatures, making it unnecessary to launch probes. | Although everything has to be scanned down, not everything needs probes to find. While in a cosmic signature you have reasonable expectation that there will be probes in space before any unfriendlies arrive, although they may only be out for under a minute before company arrives. Also be aware that hostiles may have visited your system earlier and already have bookmarks for all the signatures, making it unnecessary for them to launch probes to find you. | ||
In an anomaly, hostiles can enter through a wormhole out of D-Scan range, cloak, warp to your nearby planet, on board scan, d-scan to narrow down your anomaly, warp in at range, and position themselves next to you.... and there's no way you can see them coming. The only way to detect this intrusion is to be constantly probing for new signatures... and to remember that every ship can find your site while you're in an anomaly. | In an anomaly, hostiles can enter through a wormhole out of D-Scan range, cloak, warp to your nearby planet, on board scan, d-scan to narrow down your anomaly, warp in at range, and position themselves next to you.... and there's no way you can see them coming. The only way to detect this intrusion is to be constantly probing for new signatures... and to remember that every ship can find your site while you're in an anomaly. | ||