Wake Scanner broken on NPCs?

[Steve50]

Just wondering if the FS Wake scanner is broken on NPC's or I'm dumb and doing something wrong.

I've been attacked 6-7 times in the last couple of days and as soon as I fight back the attacker jumps away, so I use my Scanner to find the system they jump to and off I go but I've not once yet found them?!

Does this not work with NPC's or am I doing something wrong?

 

[Steve50]

Hmm.. Anyone?

 

[scimon]

I hate to say but it works for me. I had a sidewinder that interidcted me than ran away. I scanned him and followed him to the next system. He dropped out of frameshift near a station I targetted that wake, followed him in and took him out before he hit the no fire zone.

That'll learn him.

 

[ME-tan]

It's not working for me, either. I've only tried it twice but both times the NPC is nowhere to be seen in the system they jumped to. The second NPC jumped to an empty system with no planets or stations either, so it is like he just vanished into thin air.

Edit: After reading another thread I'm a little confused. Do we hit jump while we have the wake targeted or do we select the destination manually? I've been doing the latter and it sounds like that might be tossing me into a separate instance.