Thanks for your reply. Yes, only one pulse is sufficient to find large stuff (stations, gates and accelerators) in any direction around your ship when viewed from above the ship (as long as they are within limits of 45o above and below the horizon as viewed from the cockpit). The max range for detecting large stuff is 200 km.Blitz4 wrote: ↑Mon, 10. Dec 18, 20:30I'm still confused about the long range scanner. Is it saying that you only need to do one, and not four pulses to detect stations? Is that why the pulse sometimes looks like a bubble when you use it on the super highways? Does that 360 bubble have a max 200km range?
The 90o part is about the up-down angle when looking out your cockpit (applies to all objects). The 120o part is the left-right angle (for detecting small objects. To detect all small objects (within the 90o up-down angle) we therefore need to do 3 scans while steering/yawing around in a circle.Blitz4 wrote: ↑Mon, 10. Dec 18, 20:30Why does it say the pulse travels 90 degrees in front of you, but then it says the smallest objects can be detected with a 120 degree pulse. What's the difference between the 90 degree and the 120 degree pulse? Do I need to do 3 or 4 pulses when doing 360 scans looking for lockboxes, data vaults and anomalies?
I've adjusted the wiki text a little to try to make it a bit clearer.