Kill warrant scanner/wake scanner?

[Shadowma]

Hi I have both Kill warrant scanner & wake scanner & realize Kill scanner is used in regular space but when I scan someone it never shows anything other than what my general scanner picks up i.e. clean or wanted so not sure I am using it correctly. Also purchased a wake scanner & have tried to use it & not sure is it used in super cruise to detect where someone has dropped out ? I have tried to use it "wake scanner" in regular space as well to try to see where someone has gone or jumped to,but still cannot get it to work. I am sure it is operator error so any advice or info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Shadowma

 

[virosh]

After you scan the ship with the KWS, go look in your contacts tab (to the left).
If the scanned pilot is wanted somewhere else you will see his bounty.
Also if he is already wanted in the local system you will see the sum of all his bounties.

The wake scanner is used in SC or normal space to scan High or Low energy wakes.
After the scan you will know where the ship went and will be able to follow it.

 

[Conestoga]

The kill warrant scanner checks for bounties outside of your current system. Note that they will only show as wanted (and you are only allowed to shoot them) if they have a bounty in the current system. So if I'm clean in the Federation, but have a 1 million credit bounty in the Empire, and we're in Sol, I'll show as clean on your scanner, since Sol is in the federation. When you use the kill warrant scanner, you'll show the bounty in Empire on your contacts panel, but not on your main screen, and I will still be clean. You could, of course, choose to destroy me for that 1 million Empire bounty, but you'll then become Wanted locally because I was clean in that system. You will then have to travel to an Empire system to claim the bounty.

Everyone is clean in Anarchy systems, but the KWS will reveal their bounties from elsewhere.

The wake scanner only works on high-energy wakes. Low energy wakes are people who have gone to supercruise. Follow them.

 

[Steve72]

Just to add if they jump to new system and you follow by scanning their wake and then interdict them again you need to re scan with kws to get the bounties for other systems they are wanted in. I lost 26 k as I only got the localbounty