Probe Manipulation & Bookmarking

Instructions:

1. open the Probe Scanner window with Alt + P
2. click "Launch Pinpoint Formation"
3. set Probe Size to its smallest value
4. click "Center current formation on your ship"
5. with the cursor over the Solar System Map window, hold Control and spin your scroll wheel down, triggering 75 ingame audio ticks
   • you don't have to count them out precisely. actually, you can just scroll down furiously for a while if you're impatient
   • this further shrinks the formation's size
   • fwiw, 75 ticks makes probes show up at 5.5-6-5 km for me
6. click Analyze (or hit B, the shortcut)
7. if multiple probes don't appear on-grid, keep scrolling in the Solar System Map then re-Analyzing until they do
   • if all 8 probes appear haphazardly positioned instead of 1 above, 1 below, 5 horizontally and 1 inside nearer to your ship, you've shrunk too much
     • so scroll up a bit rather than down and Analyze again until they're on-grid and usefully spaced
8. save useful formations with the "Save Current Formation" button

Notes:

• other people can save your probes' locations, too!
• at grid scale, single wheel-tick increments can make meaningful changes
• this makes having a Core Probe Launcher in a utility high slot even more useful (and don't forget sixteen core probes in cargo)
• you can do more stuff with probe manipulation. making off-grid BMs is nowhere near the extent of the possibilites! experimentation is worthwhile