How do the scanners work?

[jediturkey]

I'm a little confused. I have scanners on my space station and they warn me about incoming imperial ships, however I cannot tell where they are coming from. Am I missing something?

 

Thank you.

[Slocket]

Yeh, you would think the would show the stupid Rebel fleet icon or something.

 

Incoming, but there in NO picture showing you what planet is being attacked.

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Look over at your driod advisor and he will show a two second pop-up message of what planet is being attacked.

[wswordsmen]

your little droid buddy tells you

 

Fleet incoming at Kasheek

[Darth_Fetto]

That's right, BUT

 

sometimes Fleets attack without warning, although there are scanners and the wealthy upgraded spacestation s gona be smoked!

[jediturkey]

It seems the text comes up very quickly and fades. I wish the text for the warning would stay up longer until we clicked it. The text mentions where they are heading.

[kaboom1701]

I agree, some sort of icon warring would be nice.

[Shadue]

Ok I am really confused.

 

So you put a scanner on your space station, and all it does is warns you about an attack that will inevitably happen within a couple seconds anyways... *scratchs his head*

 

From what I read on the description of the upgrade, I thought it would basically do what the probe droid does but only to adjacent planets to what ever space station has the upgrade.

 

Really... what is the point of this upgrade? What does it matter if you know 5 seconds ahead of time that a planet is going to be attacked... it changes nothing nor does it allow you to prepare for it...

[lordzack]

It does if you can get a fleet to that planet before they'res arrives.

[{TNC}Pabby]

I use it to show enemy traffic, its great for surprise attacks if you watch where the arrows go along the hyperspace routes and move in on the planet they just left from, you can set up great pincers that way, if theres two planets moving back and forth attack the one that just sent something along and then you have the second one cornered, its basically to give you an idea of enemy traffic.

[Cavkov]

once your planet is under atack you only have a few seconds more to react but other wise its good for monitoring nearby planets

[lRatchetl]

The scanner can be useful in space combat because it reveals a large amount of the map but usually it doesn't reveal the enemy.

Although on a couple of occasions it has revealed the enemy fleet and my space station attacked them staright away.

[CLONECOMMANDER501]

Well, with all the glitches it's useless.....