I have never tried to be a hunter/killer in this game before. I have come up with an Idea as to how I would hunt live prey. Would you be so kind as to critique my plan as to how I will do such activities?

Objective: The hunting of Sequencial travelers

I set up a level 30+ probe (sensor/Sentry) and I place it in a sector with 20 warp links in it. Warp links would be sequencial (1,2,3-20 and so on) I set in safe sector ready to pounce and scan for new warp trails with the probe and not with my ship.

Now, if this is working in your mind. imagine having 5 to ten of these probes sector scaning...

Now: will it work? and this is where you critique my idea.

theyre good for alerting you of players passing by. they wont help for spying on anyone once they been through there though.

They report warp trails in adjancent sectors and level 30 sensors would show the warp trails and report the sector they traveled to....

It works so great in my mind..... It is time to test it out.......

ah yes, i know how you like to play. go for it buddy.

I built one test Probe with Level 30 sensors; I push view (from the Probe menu) and after one day the listed warp trails has changed; Now..... One experienced hunter, did not think that the Warp trails would change instantly in the report. If it will not report the info instantly, How useful with the warp trail info be?

My next experiment will be to see if the probe report (from the probe menu)will change instantly, when a new warp trail is present in the adjancent sector?

watch out for minefields!

It works....... I am rebuilding my Ships after losing 2 battles with Sector Defenses...... After the rebuild, I will check to see if the probes report warp trails in real time in the adjacent sectors.....