Long Range Scanners?

[Tnarg]

What exactly do the long range scanners do? Do they detect ships in another sector, or do they detect what a ship is packed with in the same system?

[Suicide Junkie]

They allow you to see the design, damage and cargo of an enemy vessel, as long as it is within the scanner's range.
- The ship must be visible, within range, and have no ant-scanner components. Scattering armor and/or scanner jammers will defeat your scan
- A sector refers to one square on the system map, not the galaxy map.

[capnq]

Be sure to take notes on what you see with the scanner, because as soon as the ship is out of scanner range, the program will "forget" what was there.

[DavidG]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by capnq:
Be sure to take notes on what you see with the scanner, because as soon as the ship is out of scanner range, the program will "forget" what was there.<hr></blockquote>

I just started building scanners in a simultaneaous movement game. So does this mean that in such a game a scanner would only be usefull if you happened to end your movement within scanner range of a ship? (which I believe is only 1 with the first level) If so they seem kind of useless.

[Suicide Junkie]

Scanner range does increase quickly, but I suspect you could use the stepped movement replay and catch the ship with your scanner as you fly past.

[Lisif Deoral]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by capnq:
Be sure to take notes on what you see with the scanner, because as soon as the ship is out of scanner range, the program will "forget" what was there.<hr></blockquote>

Aren't the scanned designs added to your enemy ship designs archive? (Last time I used scanners was more or less 10 months ago http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Suicide Junkie]

But there is still no record of the cargo and/or damage possessed by an individual ship.

[capnq]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> Aren't the scanned designs added to your enemy ship designs archive? <hr></blockquote>No, they're not, according to this thread (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=23&t=003942).

[ 11 April 2002: Message edited by: capnq ]</p>