Ship Builds & Load Outs Question About FSD Wake Scanner

[oflow]

I'm trying to farm up some engineer mats and I've mostly been scanning wakes of ships coming and going while sitting outside a busy station.

Today I was in supercruise and had a ship targeted and when he high-waked it gave me some scan mats. I didnt have to 'activate' the scanner it just popped up in the info pane when he jumped out that I got three scan mats. From what I had gathered I thought I couldnt scan high wakes while in supercruise.

Is this how this is supposed to work? If so thats really good to know.

 

[Ceekay]

The scan mats you got are from the sensor array possibly shield/data related, FSD specific data only comes from high wake scans using the wake scanner, the best source is at a distribution centre in systems with famine state

Try this link

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/317617-FSD-Range-Modding-101?highlight=dr+kali

 

[oflow]

Yeah I already knew about famine sites. I wasnt having an issue with finding mats I was just wondering about the mechanic itself. The data came in when he high waked. They were definitely wake related mats I cant remember specifically which ones they were.

I was under the impression that I always had to manually activate the scanner to get mats. In this circumstance it was the first time I had ever seen it give me mats just for having a ship targeted. I cant remember what they specifically were I wish I had took a screenshot.

The target I had targeted was an actual player not an npc, maybe that makes a difference?