Kill Warrant scanner - Issue?

[Martin1956]

Okay I was caught out and not paying attention when I upgraded my kill scanner.

I have a Cobra that has been upgraded across the board but not with the kill scanner, so I decided to splash out on a Grade A scanner, dashed out into the wider universe to see what improvements it made compared to my Grade C scanner and dashed to a Resource extraction site where sure enough a tasty little pirate arrived right on cue, deployed the hardpoints, and splosh lost all power and everything and became a sitting duck for a few moments.

The new scanner uses 22% of system resources, the old one was 5% that pushed me up to 108% so I had some quick turning off to do and boosted away in a hurry.

Surely no scanner should take that much power?

What do I get for that and the 1,500,000 credits it cost, What does it do for pity sake....

Anyone care to enlighten me so I don't feel such an absolute muppet

 

[Cubed]

I'm pretty sure the range has been at least doubled possible faster scanning but I can't say for certain.

If you are still low on power change the priority of the FSD and cargo hatch to 2 as you don't need them while hardpoints are out.

 

[Martin1956]

I'm pretty sure the range has been at least doubled possible faster scanning but I can't say for certain.

If you are still low on power change the priority of the FSD and cargo hatch to 2 as you don't need them while hardpoints are out.

Thanks, I would have done that If I had twigged beforehand, but it came as a shock. Gone back to the Grade C scanner, not worth the hassle. Though I may try a grade B one if I find one.

 

[prasak]

Its allways like that, the A grade scanners are probably ment for bigger ships. My power grid is allways pushed to the limit and scanners are one of the first things I sacrifice and go with D or E class.

 

[ycodryn]

Those scanners are bugged and poorly thought because I bought a scanner with 4 km distance but is working below 3.4km so where are those 4 km? For a basic thing that it does and lets be real it does not scan the ship for blind spots or weak points or something like that it consumes to much energy and it takes to much. 10 seconds to find some info? And really if the ship is not in front of you it begins to undo the scan lol.