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Basic probing - So your target is sitting in afk in a safe spot and you want rs gold to find him? This is how it’s done.
First warp around a bit and see if you can find him on the directional scanner. If you can see him; get to the closest object and drop the needed probe.
Use the range option on your scanner to determine which probe is needed. 5 au = 750.000.000 km, 10 au = 1500.000.000 km. So if you can get within 750.000.000 km use the 5au probe etc. Max range of the directional scanner is 14.5 au.
If you can’t find him on the scanner you need to use longer range probes, probably Observatory Deep Space Probes or possibly 40 au Ferret probes.
After you launch the probe open your scanner, select the System Scanner tab, select the probe and select the “Ships” group (you might as well include as many groups as your astrometry skill allow, there is no penalty in using several groups).
Click “Analyze” at the bottom of the window. A timer will appear counting down. If you want you can cloak now but do NOT warp away. If you do the scan will fail. You can switch to the Directional Scan tab and use that without breaking the probe.
