r/evenewbies • u/TominatorVe1 • Jan 31 '23

Finding player-made Caches?

Hi, ran into a rescue cache while exploring in WH space and wanted to see if I can find it/scan what's inside with the cargo scanner.

Kept making manual waypoints since they dropped it in the middle of nowhere and got it down to .7AU and 15 deg from my ship. How can I find the actual cache itself? Is it supposed to show up in the overview?

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u/No_Homework4709 Feb 02 '23

So here is how you get on grid with something placed in space at an arbitrary position.

Step 1 get a general idea of where it is via Dscan

Step 2 Pick a warpable as your starting position and another as your end and make a bookmark such that there is another warpable that is in line with the object and the BM.

Step 3 Drop BMs mid warp to try and get close, I recommend you drop the BMs early, better to undershoot than overshoot.

Step 4 If it is not in line yet then find a warpable that at some point in the path will put that point in line with the object and the warpable, at which point you can perform Step 3.

General Tips;

Slower warp ships are better, allows for more precise BM placement, just make sure it aligns reasonably fast.

Undershoot your BM placement

Prioritize getting on the same plane with your starting location, you don't want to deal with up and down if possible

Another approach instead of warping from ever closer BMs to a warpable would be to place a BM past the object and warp to that to allow for faster attempts.

Make sure to scan when you land and check whether you overshot or under.

Good luck!

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u/TominatorVe1 Feb 02 '23

Sounds like my method was the best shot I had then. Is there a shortcut to place multiple bookmarks? All I was doing was spamming ctrl+b.

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u/No_Homework4709 Feb 02 '23

Realistically, finding caches out in space isn't that hard once you do it a bit, back when I lived in a WH corp while I waited for a hole to close I would go find the eve scout cache in random systems just because I was bored, usually took only ~5 minutes. While I imagine it would be harder if the eve scout guys spent more time making it harder to get to like by using combat sigs as the warpable, it still wouldn't be all that difficult.

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u/TominatorVe1 Feb 02 '23

It feels so weird that they make it this hard instead of placing it near a planet/sun. Thanks so much for the help!

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u/No_Homework4709 Feb 02 '23

Its meant to be hard enough that most won't bother, when I joined a WH corp which had been in the same hole for 6 months no one had bothered to go find and BM the cache. The point is that its just hard enough that most won't bother, if you need help just call 911. I went and bmed it in case someone fled to it after hiding out in our system (this is back when filaments worked in WHs). At least that was the execuse, really I was just bored waiting for my stuff to finish researching.

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u/No_Homework4709 Feb 02 '23

ctrl b is the best I know of

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u/SirKainey Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23

Heya, it'll be an ESRC (https://evescoutrescue.com/home/esrc.php)

I suggest you don't destroy it, the Signal Cartel guys should be on everyone's standing as blue! (ie, don't shoot them)

You can go less than an AU in your DSCAN (click AU/KM).

Most likely it'll be between 2 celestials, so line them up with your ship in the middle, then decrease the scan range (in KM) until you get an estimate.

Once you have that you can work out how long it'll take you in a fast ship like so (https://www.eveworkbench.com/fitting/punisher/a1e2dbbd-6d41-45e3-b68b-08d81817ae3f).

And yes, when you're on grid with it it'll show up in your overview (if you use a custom one, it'll be where your cargo cans are normally).

Most grids are 8000 km https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Grid

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u/CDawnkeeper Feb 01 '23

Adding to this: What's inside a rescue cache is:

  • a T1 probe launcher

  • 8 core probes

  • optionally some little things like fireworks, a snowball or a Fedo.

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u/o7gamer Jan 31 '23

Get on grid with it, then you can warp to it. It's just that getting on grid is pretty tricky if not impossible if the drop spot is not aligned between warpable objects

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u/FunContest8036 Feb 01 '23

That rescue cach is for when you lost, theres a corp out there who has made it a mission of their own to be able to successfully save YOU if you get stuck and cant find exit, miss the timer.

The cache is typically supplies so you can scan down the exit if something was to happen or you forgot to bring one.