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Newcomer / Intro Surface- and Discovery scanner, what's the difference?
- Thread starter Zeromancer
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InMemoriamSirocco
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The discovery scanner is the one you have to equip in a firegroup and charge like firing a weapon or an ECM system. Once it is fired, it "discovers" astronomical objects in a certain radius around your position. It also automatically discovers any astronomical object sufficiently near you, for example the sun that you jump out at in an uncharted system.
The basic discovery scanner your starter Sidewinder has equipped has a range of 500ls
The intermediate discovery scanner has a double that range.
The Advanced Discovery Scanner's range is only limited by the borders of your current star system. It will reveal the whole system map.
All discovered astronomical objects will turn up as "unexplored", though. To "explore" them, you will have to supercruise towards them and point your crosshair at them until a scan starts automaticall in your left bottom corner panel. Once that scan is over, you receive some information about what type of planet this is. You also get more money for a planet you have "explored" instead of just "discovered".
Equipping a "Detailed Surface Scanner" will automatically buff your "exploration scan" of any planet or star significantly, as in: you get more detailed information and much more money for the data. It is merely an addon for your Discovery scanner, which you need to have equipped, too. Otherwise having a Detailed Surface Scanner does not do anything for you.
You do the same as before you bought and installed that Detail Scanner. You fly up to a planet and wait until the scan starts automatically. When it is finished, a popup-message will tell you that you have successfully finished a Detailed Scan:
The basic discovery scanner your starter Sidewinder has equipped has a range of 500ls
The intermediate discovery scanner has a double that range.
The Advanced Discovery Scanner's range is only limited by the borders of your current star system. It will reveal the whole system map.
All discovered astronomical objects will turn up as "unexplored", though. To "explore" them, you will have to supercruise towards them and point your crosshair at them until a scan starts automaticall in your left bottom corner panel. Once that scan is over, you receive some information about what type of planet this is. You also get more money for a planet you have "explored" instead of just "discovered".
Equipping a "Detailed Surface Scanner" will automatically buff your "exploration scan" of any planet or star significantly, as in: you get more detailed information and much more money for the data. It is merely an addon for your Discovery scanner, which you need to have equipped, too. Otherwise having a Detailed Surface Scanner does not do anything for you.
You do the same as before you bought and installed that Detail Scanner. You fly up to a planet and wait until the scan starts automatically. When it is finished, a popup-message will tell you that you have successfully finished a Detailed Scan:
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