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Posted - 2015.01.23 20:24:32 -
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Pod Panik wrote:
From what I understand, you pick a direction (facing screen), pick an angle and a signal distance strength. You then execute the scan and it tells you what objects/items are in that range. Then what?
Then nothing. It shows up on your scan. But two things:
1. You dont need to pick a direction. If you do a 360 scan, it will tell you everything around you.
2. You can set your Dscan to sync with your current overview settings. Which means that, for example, if your overview settings are set so that you only see player-owned ships, your Dscan will only show player-owned ships. If your overview is set to only see POS towers, your Dscan will only show POS towers. Its useful to filter out the noise/garbage and concentrate on what youre actually trying to find.
3. The only time you want to pick a direction and an angle, is if you want to scan something specific down, but dont know where they are, dont have any probes to scan them down, and dont want to risk warping around.
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- How can you get more precise information avout a specific item? For example, class of ship, distance, etc
It tells you both the name of the ship, and the class of the ship. Always look for the class first. Some people name their ships differently to confuse players. Class never lie.
Distance can be determined manually by changing the scan range. I.e. If you set the scan range to 4 au, and you see someones ship appear, but when you set it down to 3 AU you no longer see it, it means the ship is between 3 and 4 au distance from your location.
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- Can you warp to that item? Or how can you get to the identified item (other ship, wreckage, etc)?
No. But you can always determine if he is in, for example, an asteroid belt, or a Customs office, and warp to there instead.
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- Can you imporve the D-Scan effect in game? Does different ships have different D-Scan?
No.
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- Is there a way to hide yourself from other D-Scans?
Cloaking, and the new Force recon changes have allowed some recon ships to be undetectable by Dscan.
Generally speaking, though, most people scan when they jumped in, or are on route to another gate. And the scan range is only 14 Au. So if you are 20 au from all gates in a system and none of the routes between the gates comes within 14 au of you, chances are they wont find you on Dscan.
Also, you open up the Dscan menu from the button at the very bottom of your screen, right next to your sheild/armor/hullpoints and capacitor sphere, and press "Scan".
you can read up on it more here.
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Directional_Scanner_Guide
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