Scanning updates?

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I’m looking through, and it looks like there was an update done to scanning ships and modules… I thought I remember Astero’s having a +20 bonus to virus strength, while the racial ships had a 10%… it looks like it’s now all at 10%, while the T2 modules are at +30 vs +20… so, effectively, as far as virus strength goes, it looks like it doesn’t matter anymore whether using a T2 ship or the Astero… Were there changes that were made? Could someone point me to patch notes so i can see what was all updated?

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https://www.eveonline.com/article/patch-notes-for-rubicon

Astero

  • Amarr Frigate Bonus: 4% bonus to Armor Resists
  • Gallente Frigate Bonus: 20% bonus to drone hitpoints
  • Role Bonus : 100% reduction in CPU requiement for cloaks, 37.5% increase Scan Prob Strength and +10 Virus strength for Relic and Data Analyzers
  • Can fit Covert Ops Cloaking devices
  • Slot layout: 2H, 4M, 4L; 2 turrets, 0 launchers
  • Fittings: 32 PWG, 170 CPU
  • Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 540 / 600 / 600
  • Capacitor (amount) : 430
  • Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 312 / 2.87 / 975000 / 3.88s
  • Drones (bandwidth / bay): 25 / 75
  • Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 37km / 620 / 6
  • Sensor strength: 13
  • Signature radius: 35
  • Cargo Capacity: 210

Astero has +10 bonus since initial deployment and I don’t think that anything was changed over the time.

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Better question is - do I need to max out Ammar and Gallente frigate skills to get better overall stats for Astero or they are not relevant?

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What stats? You have clearly stated specific racial bonuses that are affected by those skills.

Pro tip: they don’t help with scanning.

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On Scanning, I know that having Covops to IV or V will push the racial ships to scan better than the Astero.

I could have sworn when I looked at the racial ships 2 years ago the max Virus strength was 30, where the Astero had a better bonus and so pushed it to 40.

Looking at the link for when the Astero was introduced, that clearly states that it was +10 virus Strength, which it still is now. Don’t know where I messed it up then.

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Hah, ok. Just visited eve wiki
Gallente Frigate bonuses (per skill level):
20% bonus to Drone hitpoints
Amarr Frigate bonuses (per skill level):
4% bonus to all armor resistances

I guess this answers my question. Thought so far that having higher skills in firgate’s more than required to fly Astero doesn’t give extra effect. I was wrong.

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