Whats the point in updating your scanner in SP?

There are 5 replies in this Thread. The last Post () by NucNuc.

    I tried search and could not find a specific answer.


    In SP is there really a reason to spend the money to upgrade my scanner if I don't care about scanning ships? (No plan to be a pirate...) Is it just for scanning ships or does it also effect finding jump holes, bases, wrecks, etc?


    Thank you

    nope, just ships

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    Excellent, thank you. Is there also any real point in upgrading my tractor beam other than I might not have to fly a little closer to something?

    just the range

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    Don't discuss with idiots. They only drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience there.


    This is ten percent luck,
    Twenty percent skill,
    Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
    Five percent pleasure,
    Fifty percent pain,
    And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

    Sorry OP, but I experienced something slightly different :


    A better scanner doesn't help finding wrecks stations, jumpholes better, .... but LOOT.
    Sometimes after you shot on a wreck the loot splashes over the range of the standar scanner AND tractor.
    Looking around for it can be _ sometimes, some places - quite "hazardeus". ;) , esp. early in game and in
    "early" systems.
    ... and sometimes extremly frustrating in a "late" and alienwise VERY hazardeus system with a most interesting
    loot (weaponwise).


    For SP I would recommend at least Deep Scanner and Medium Tractor Beam.


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