I don't get this
- Thread starter Commander Commander
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Ah, now that I actually opened the manual from the launch screen and saw the full manual I see what you mean. My "paper manual" is actually only Quick Start Guide and covers pages 8-25 from the Full Manual, my bad [noob]
I didn't know that as well.It has, ED launcher - upper right corner. Quite a nice one too, if you must.
Basically: Elite is a game made by sadists and every chance, you give it; it will. Have fun.
A combat zone.
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Reasons to appear as a hollow Triangle to other Players in SuperCruise :
- you activated an Interdictor
- you clicked on the "Deploy Hardpoints" button (yeah it's weird - but apparently it (currently) still works, although it doesn't display or do anything obviously)
- you honked the Discovery Scanner
- you use the FSS (after honking Scanner)
- (not 100% sure) : you arrive in a new System with a Discovery Scanner as active Fire Group, even prior honking it (it used to auto-deploy in the past)
Most Explorers are entirely unaware of their Discovery Scanners making them a hollow Triangle in SC.
I think I bug-reported it several years ago, but it was ignored. Apparently "working as intended".
So a Ship hugging SC in idle can be somebody waiting to cause trouble - or someone sitting in the FSS Screen, panning around the System. From the SC picture, there's no difference.
Only a SubSystem scan will ensure whether it's a Criminal or an Explorer.
- you activated an Interdictor
- you clicked on the "Deploy Hardpoints" button (yeah it's weird - but apparently it (currently) still works, although it doesn't display or do anything obviously)
- you honked the Discovery Scanner
- you use the FSS (after honking Scanner)
- (not 100% sure) : you arrive in a new System with a Discovery Scanner as active Fire Group, even prior honking it (it used to auto-deploy in the past)
Most Explorers are entirely unaware of their Discovery Scanners making them a hollow Triangle in SC.
I think I bug-reported it several years ago, but it was ignored. Apparently "working as intended".
So a Ship hugging SC in idle can be somebody waiting to cause trouble - or someone sitting in the FSS Screen, panning around the System. From the SC picture, there's no difference.
Only a SubSystem scan will ensure whether it's a Criminal or an Explorer.
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Ahh, I've wondered this myself (it's obvious when not in SC, less so, when in it). To complicate things even more, now we have two modes. Seems kinda silly to show as a hollow triangle if you're in discovery mode, but I guess, you could mode switch or something to ambush people.
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