Today I couldn’t scan a lvl3 relic site past 40%, and I went ‘huh??’. I was in the same ship I have been doing the event relic sites the last few days. I thought about it some, docked, switched the expanded launcher to core launcher and scanned the site.
I’ve noticed for some time /weeks?/ scanning seems more difficult. Got frustrating, but as it’s not all the time, I thought it’s probably fit related, as I’ve been using different ships and fits. I stopped fitting cloaks and nullifiers and kept to hisec. (BTW does the -% scan resolution affect this type of scanning at all?). Then thought maybe skill related, just leveled up some skills hoping to see an improvement and plugged +2% pinpointing implant.
However, today’s experience makes me wonder - are there recent changes to some rigs or modules (or signatures? or skills?) that could affect the scanning? Am I missing something obvious?
What’s your scan probe strength? I did notice that I was barely able to scan down an event relic site in an unbonused ship with a Sister’s Core Probe Launcher and Sister’s Probes and thought it was strange. No problems in a Covops or Sunesis whatsoever.
This particular fit says ‘base sensor strength 123’ with the core probes both with the expanded and the core launcher.
edit: BTW I sometimes have no problem scanning them in unbonused hulls. Sometimes I have problems scanning even wormholes in both unbonused and bonused.
You should be able to scan it down at that strength. I wouldn’t put it past CCP to have ■■■■■■ up something with the introduction of the new sites that requires re-boarding the ship at the sun to fix, sounds like a bug.
I ran into an issue like this once, when out in lowsec scanning down a gas site. It turned out to really be a pirate combat site. The thing hung at 98% or something like that, and I finally grabbed some sister probes to finish it. But then I found out the hard way it was really a combat site and a total waste of my efforts.
If you find any gas site labeled with a pirate ID followed by chem lab or gas processing, there is no gas, only pirates. I wonder if your relic site, could be something akin to this bogus gas site?
It was an event relic site, as I did scan it easily to 100% when I switched the launchers /or maybe dockind and undocking fixed it?/.
Since I’ve been wandering in highsec after I noticed my scanning deteriorating, the issues are with the typical lvl 1-3 sites. E.g. instead of scanning them like usual in 2 steps 4-1, I need to go 8-4-2-1, and sometimes even 0.5-0.25. Though I don’t think up to now I ever had to add manual moving the probes and still get only 40% like this relic site.
That’s exactly what happens to me. I maybe notice it more when I’m in the covops explo, as I expect scanning in it to be easier because of the hull bonus /I have covops 5/. Do you use expanded or regular launchers? Maybe I should try to pay more attention to figure whether the issue is limited to the covops or to the expanded launcher.
Well, these tend to disappear midprobing, because someone already finished the cans while you were at work locating the site. This happens quite often during events.
i have scanned dozens of sites these last days with no problem. So it does not seem to be a problem. And with a scan probe strength of 123 you should be able to scan everything including superior sleeper caches. So there is something wrong, myabe your probe formation, i don’t know, but without screenshots hard to answer