Whilst trying to figure out whether i wanted to sign up for a subscription account (I did, so I did) I tried a new character on a trial account. I ran all the tutorial agent missions and had a bash at doing some mining. That coupled with the plan I was formulating about storylines and in-game activities convinced me that I needed to re-subscribe. Running the missions as a Minmatar I found that it was...not so much easy...but not that difficult.
Not so for the Caldari.
I have found, since birthing Chim into the world, that Caldari are supposedly the chosen race of CCP. I cannot for the life of me understand why.
I have my reasons, and it won't mean that I will change races or anything. But man...the ships suck. I can only assume that they get better later on. In one of the missions very early on (the one with the pirate guy who has a tower that webs you, whilst two guys wail on you) i get destroyed so quickly it doesn't even seem worth it until i can get into the Merlin.
I have to train for it anyway. Which means 6 hours of not being able to do the mission. I'm thinking i'll just have to do business missions...or exploration. But i remember quitting exploration when it got to the part with learning how to use scan drones. Those things are completely fucking useless. Or maybe I just need to be a higher level at that too.
I have watched all the tutorial videos, asked for help on the rookie channel. Everything. And whenever it gets to the bit where i'm supposed to see a red ring around the bit i need to be searching within. The red ring doesn't show up. So i'm blindly making the search area larger and smaller until i can get back to finding a 33% gravimetric reading to start again. And then i just stop bothering.
Apart from that, no probs.
Scanning is a very difficult tutorial, but here are some tips that may help you.
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2) set your probes in a square-ish fashion, with the this section in the middle overlapped by the scan bubbles of all 4 probes, but not scan bubbles actually touches the box representing a probe.
3) a red dot means "reduce range one step, place dot in center section with overlap of 4 probes"
4) red ring means "somewhere on this red ring is your signature", not somewhere inside the ring. It's usually easiest to expand the scan bubbles one step and place that ring in the middle section talked about above.
5)two red dots means "pick one". the correct one is usually the one closest to the plane of the solar system.
6) a red sphere means "only one probe sees the signature" There are various ways to handle this, such as moving your probes to place the red sphere covered by only one probe inside that middle section, or by expanding the scan radius a step and trying to place that sphere in the middle section.
hope it helps.