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The Discovery Scanner is basically a new visualisation of the former on-board scanner, with a few additions. Every time you enter a system the Discovery Scanner will start to search for cosmic anomalies and signatures. You will see a scan sweep moving from one side of your screen to the other and further all around the system. | The Discovery Scanner is basically a new visualisation of the former on-board scanner, with a few additions. Every time you enter a system the Discovery Scanner will start to search for cosmic anomalies and signatures. You will see a scan sweep moving from one side of your screen to the other and further all around the system. | ||
[[File:scansweep.jpg|200px|thumb| | [[File:scansweep.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Discovery Scanner in action]] | ||
Along with this, if the system has any anomalies or signatures, you will notice icons poping up in space, similar to the brackets of stations or stargates. These icons will not only mark the position of exploration sites, but also indicate your progress of pinpointing them. Anomalies will allways be at 100% signal strength right from the initial scan sweep, just like they do now. Signature results will only tell you the very rough area where they are located but will have 0% signal strength at the start, requiring you to further probe scan them down (see the next section). You can also interact with those icons via a tooltip window that will pop up when you hover over them. | Along with this, if the system has any anomalies or signatures, you will notice icons poping up in space, similar to the brackets of stations or stargates. These icons will not only mark the position of exploration sites, but also indicate your progress of pinpointing them. Anomalies will allways be at 100% signal strength right from the initial scan sweep, just like they do now. Signature results will only tell you the very rough area where they are located but will have 0% signal strength at the start, requiring you to further probe scan them down (see the next section). You can also interact with those icons via a tooltip window that will pop up when you hover over them. | ||
[[File:Discovery_full.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Discovery: Full Signal Strength]][[File:Discovery_low.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Discovery: Poor Signal Strength]] | [[File:Discovery_full.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Discovery: Full Signal Strength]] | ||
[[File:Discovery_low.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Discovery: Poor Signal Strength]] | |||
At any time you can hide the Discovery Scanner via the new radial menu for scanning (read more about this in section 9.). | At any time you can hide the Discovery Scanner via the new radial menu for scanning (read more about this in section 9.). | ||