Just spent the last 2 hours of game time looking for a 1C Advanced Discovery Scanner

Trotsky21 · Dec 16, 2018

And none were to be had. None. I used EDDB and other online resources. I went to stations that had reported them available within days, even hours, on these external API driven resources. None to be had.

Not a very acceptable state of affairs, Frontier.

Robert Maynard · Dec 16, 2018

From the patch notes:

Will Flanagan said:
New Features

Exploration

Discovery Scanner upgraded to include access to the new Full Spectral System (FSS) scanner mode

Players use the FSS Mode to discover stellar bodies, stellar phenomenon, USSs, scenarios, distress calls, mission targets and more

There is now only one Discovery Scanner available in game, which is based on the basic variant. Commanders that have purchased either the intermediate or advanced scanners will receive a credit refund

Trotsky21 · Dec 16, 2018

There were no discovery scanners of any type at any station I went to.

Para Handy · Dec 16, 2018

Trotsky21 said:
And none were to be had. None. I used EDDB and other online resources. I went to stations that had reported them available within days, even hours, on these external API driven resources. None to be had.

Not a very acceptable state of affairs, Frontier.

Didn't you wonder why your previously fitted disco scanners were now just empty slots?

Mind you if they bothered to release an up-to date manual that might help - in the meantime you should maybe have a quick scan of the patch notes as our Mr Maynard indicates. You are in for some interesting times without doing so.

Trotsky21 · Dec 16, 2018

Para Handy said:
Didn't you wonder why your previously fitted disco scanners were now just empty slots?

Mind you if they bothered to release an up-to date manual that might help - in the meantime you should maybe have a quick scan of the patch notes as our Mr Maynard indicates. You are in for some interesting times without doing so.

No I did not. Because the one previously fitted scanner I have on the DbX is still there.

Trotsky21 · Dec 16, 2018

Robert Maynard said:
From the patch notes:

I appreciate your reply. A clearer statement in the patch notes would be something like this: "No discovery scanners of any type are necessary on your ships. All ships are equipped with an FSS suite, which can be given a pulse of energy to perform a discovery scan."

Misty_Dark · Dec 16, 2018

Trotsky21 said:
No I did not. Because the one previously fitted scanner I have on the DbX is still there.

are you sure you are not mixing that one up with the detailed surface scanner? That module is still available

Para Handy · Dec 16, 2018

Trotsky21 said:
No I did not. Because the one previously fitted scanner I have on the DbX is still there.

I'll bet there is not a Discovery Scanner fitted in an optional internal modules bay. You might have a Detailed Surface Scanner still fitted, although that should now be renamed the planetary darts probe launching module.

Trotsky21 said:
I appreciate your reply. A clearer statement in the patch notes would be something like this: "No discovery scanners of any type are necessary on your ships. All ships are equipped with an FSS suite, which can be given a pulse of energy to perform a discovery scan."

Nope - it is quite correct. You have a Discovery Scanner inbuilt in every ship, the Discovery Scanner has a passive discovery facility that "discovers" stuff within a "short" distance and is used to provide the activation pulse which enables the FSS analysis system. You can still bind the Discovery Scanner to a fire button so that you can see how many bodies are in a system without going into the FSS analysis mode.

Does that help?

P.S. It is good to see that nobody suggested you could buy one at Hutton Orbital.