This is an extract from the Pandemic Horde forums from 2025. Should still be valid today. :D This was written by Robbert deLaMeMe, one of the leaders of the NBI program inside Horde. Can easily be adapted to other alliances. He has this available in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian as well.
What is Intel?
Intel, short for intelligence, refers to the information that we gather and disseminate on any entity, or group, or structure, or the like that is not friendly within friendly or hostile space.
TLDR
Bare Minimum:
- Join Bean Intel
- If you see a neutral or hostile pilot in system, drag system name, pilot name and estimate number of enemies in the local chat channel into Bean Intel.
- press 'enter'.
More info below:
What are intel sources?
In EVE, there are three, perhaps four ways to gather intel on any subject:
- Local Chat [Accuracy Difficulty: Easy]
- Local chat will include all pilots in your system, provided that you are located within K-Space (Anywhere that isn't a Wormhole, in Pochven, or Zarzakh, etc.)
- You can estimate the number of present pilots in system as their number will be shown on the top of the chat window.
- It is also possible to know what group intruders belong to by right clicking a neutral or hostile Pilot's name and selecting "Show Info" and reading what Alliance they belong to.
- Directional Scan [Accuracy Difficulty: Moderate]
- You can use your directional scanner (D-Scan) to collect more information on what intruders may be flying in the system you're in, provided that they are detectable and located in range of your D-Scanner (14.3 AU).
- You can adjust the aim, range as well as the surface scanned by your Directional scanner within the D-Scan window for more accurate scans. For instance, if you see twenty neutrals or hostiles in local with about 15 Exequror Navy Issue (ENI) ships as you aim your D-Scan towards the ESS you can assume that hostiles are in an ENI Fleet.
- Grid, and what you see on overview and in space [Accuracy Difficulty: Easy]
- You can confirm what you see on your Directional Scanner by looking at your grid: If ships seen on D-Scan match the ships you see on your overview, on grid.
- You can glean further details and note them. For example: If the hostile fleet is gathered on a perch near a gate, If the hostile fleet is shooting an ansiblex, or if the fleet warped towards a certain celestial object, or the like.
- Zkill [Accuracy Difficulty: High]
- Reading the Zkill of pilots is a skill that takes time to acquire, generally what you ought to look for are the recent kills of a pilot, number of involved pilots in said kills, as well as the ships that pilot is in. If you see a pilot who loses Buzzards that are fitted frequently with a covert-ops Cynosural field generator then you can assume it's a potential hotdropper.
- Reading what systems they are most active in can tell you the type of gameplay they engage in the most. For example: If you see many kills in wormhole systems (EX: J012345) on a hostile or neutral pilot's Zkill you can assume they engage in wormhole pvp a lot. (Note that some wormholers may engage in nullsec & lowsec pvp more than J-Space pvp)
Crucial information that should be found in intel channels:
The most crucial things to look out for when reading, or to report into an intel channel are as follows:
- Who: Pilot name, the entity they belong to, (alliance or corporation).
- Where: What system they are intruding upon, mention the system name.
- (Note that reporting intel in hostile territory is not needed in home space intel channels.)
- What: The ship types hostiles are flying. you can find this on D-Scan.
- How many: If there are more than a single pilot, mention the number of neutrals / hostiles in local, +n (n= number of enemy pilots).
- Activity / Status: What they are doing in system. For example: if they are detectable on D-Scan on the ESS grid, or if they are linked to the ESS.
- D-Scan link: If there are any D-Scan links containing a scan of what was detected.
Intel channels and you:
The current situation has members of our coalition using a plethora of intel channels, each having their own purposes and covering certain regions of our space:
1. Bean Intel: This is the main intel channel for Pandemic Horde members and covers Cloud Ring, for now.
Good and Bad Intel:
Posts in the intel channel need to be brief, a single post should include: intruder pilot name, number of intruders, system name, and visual status (NV if no visual, or ship types detected on D-Scan)
Below are examples of good and bad intel:
Intel Tools:
Use PH dscan or dscan.info to paste the contents of your D-Scan ingame.
You can also include information in your local chat window.
Walkthrough:
- CTRL+A after selecting an item on your D-Scan to select everything
- CTRL+C to copy that information
- CTRL+V to paste that information into https://dscan.pandemic-horde.org/ or dscan.info
- click on submit
- CTRL+A on local chat member list
- CTRL+C to copy
- CTRL+V into the local scan section
- Manually add, if any, force recon ships that are undetectable by D-Scan.
- Submit Query
- Copy and paste into the appropriate intel channel with the system name and provide more detailed information on any actions.
Localthreat might also be a helpful tool to analyze neutrals / hostiles
SMT tool that gives warnings when something is detected in intel channels.
Glossary:
Neut: Pilots in system with neutral standing.
Hostile: Enemy pilots, usually in alliances that are at constant wars with us and have negative standing (-5.0 or -10.0) .
Spike: Sudden and high increase of enemy pilot numbers within a system (example: from 1 hostile to 50+ hostiles in system)
NV: "No Visual", used to signify that there is no visual (Grid or D-Scan) detection of hostile ships, paired mostly when neutral or hostile pilots are detected in a system.
Clr: short form of "Clear"; used to indicate that a system has no hostile or neutral pilots.
D-Scan: Directional Scanner
ESS: Encounter Surveillance System
Local: Local chat channel
NC. : Northern Coalition
SLYCE: Solyaris Chtonium
Check out this video guide, Courtesy of Tzophiyah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXgVQjca04s&ab_channel=Tzophiyah
This post is being made in collaboration of the NBI team as well as the various corporations that form Pandemic Horde. Thank you all for your contributions.
Kudos to tlg3 for making the original post and this video , you can read that post for a more detailed overview of the topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1OTjnBNpDE
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