About radar scanning for resources

[bcloss]

Bought the game several days ago, liking it so far. It seems the dev is pretty active in the forum here so thought I'd ask - in regards to scanning for specific resources using the radar, it seems pretty random whether it will find something or not. Does the act of scanning have, for example, a certain % chance to spawn that resource node somewhere, or does it only look for nodes that have already been generated on entering the system?

And if it is the latter, then is the scanned resource node a normal one that could otherwise be found by travelling there or via probe, or is it some sort of "hidden" node that can only be found by scanning for it?

I'm just trying to figure out if it's worth entering a new system and scanning for the rarer resources right at the start, or if I'd find them anyway through visiting the planets.

P.S.: It seems every time I enter a new system and scan for a derelict ship, it always finds one right next to me. Either it spawns it in when running the scan, or I've just been lucky several times in a row.

[rj1963]

"P.S.: It seems every time I enter a new system and scan for a derelict ship, it always finds one right next to me. Either it spawns it in when running the scan, or I've just been lucky several times in a row."

This has been my experience for quite sometime, you scan for a derelict and then suddenly, there it is right outside your porthole so I think you may be correct about the spawning while running the scan. Quite sometime ago (around about a year or so) derelicts would spawn on the other side of the system occasionally so something must've changed I guess.

[HMIMH]

If I'm not mistaken, and in my experience:
- Resource scanning is for everything that is in the galaxy, which is generated when you start the game. This is 'realistic' so you can scan anytime
- However, derelict ships are randomly generated when you scan for them, so you can never run out of them

But yeah we would need confirmation

[spajus]

Scanning does not generate resources. It runs in the current star system and finds undiscovered things if it can.

It is a little trickier with derelict ships, there is a "budget" of how many derelict ships can be found in each star system. Scanning for a ship will spawn a derelict and will reduce the budget. Initially you can find 1 or 2 derelicts per system, however this budget regenerates over time.