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Larry Wickes
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#1 - 2012-10-13 21:37:03 UTC
How does a Cargo Scanner work? Not in relation to the game mechanics but in general. How would a Cargo Scanner be capable of scanning a ship and knowing what's in it's hold?

I tried Googling it with no luck, and have searched the forums.

The reason I ask is my Dad damends a scientific ish reason as to how they work since this is a space game, and he won't drop the subject. Lol.
Syrias Bizniz
some random local shitlords
#2 - 2012-10-13 21:55:47 UTC
Fiction:

Due to law enforcement of CONCORD and local police forces, every piece of cargo must be declared. As it is future, this happens electronically and encoded. A ship scanner however just decodes everything and will show you exactly what's in a ship's cargohold when you scan it. And because we are all very nice persons in EVE Online, we never EVER don't declare a piece of cargo. And we always are honest when doing so.
Flurk Hellbron
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-10-14 00:44:45 UTC
Click on target, then on module..................
LoRDa RaMOs
Vicious Traditions
#4 - 2012-10-14 01:17:22 UTC
Flurk Hellbron wrote:
Click on target, then on module..................


Best explanation ever Lol
Marcus Gideon
Triglavian Assembly
#5 - 2012-10-14 03:55:33 UTC
Actually...

The cargo scanner is a marvel of (science fiction) technology. It uses a highly concentrated (science fiction) beam to penetrate the hull of a ship. Once through, the (science fiction) beam searches for trace amounts of (science fiction) particles.
The concentration of these (science fiction) particles is measured and calculated uses a very powerful (science fiction) computer.
As the measurements of (science fiction) particles are processed and tabulated, the cargo scanner is able to render a picture of the actual contents inside a ship's hold.

=)
Alexander Suvarov
Lonercorp
#6 - 2012-10-14 05:46:03 UTC
Just say, "it's like every episode of star trek, but with better fitting clothes"
Exploited Engineer
Creatively Applied Violence Inc.
#7 - 2012-10-14 08:35:24 UTC
Larry Wickes wrote:
How does a Cargo Scanner work? Not in relation to the game mechanics but in general. How would a Cargo Scanner be capable of scanning a ship and knowing what's in it's hold?


Gravimetrics
Backscatter-xrays
Nanoprobes
EVE physics mumbo-jumbo
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#8 - 2012-10-14 14:16:23 UTC
Syrias Bizniz wrote:
Fiction:

Due to law enforcement of CONCORD and local police forces, every piece of cargo must be declared. As it is future, this happens electronically and encoded. A ship scanner however just decodes everything and will show you exactly what's in a ship's cargohold when you scan it. And because we are all very nice persons in EVE Online, we never EVER don't declare a piece of cargo. And we always are honest when doing so.


We always declare cargo because CONCORD has Jovian cargo scanners, described below:

Marcus Gideon wrote:
Actually...

The cargo scanner is a marvel of (science fiction) technology. It uses a highly concentrated (science fiction) beam to penetrate the hull of a ship. Once through, the (science fiction) beam searches for trace amounts of (science fiction) particles.
The concentration of these (science fiction) particles is measured and calculated uses a very powerful (science fiction) computer.
As the measurements of (science fiction) particles are processed and tabulated, the cargo scanner is able to render a picture of the actual contents inside a ship's hold.

=)


So, either don't declare and get guaranteed popped by space officers of the peace, or declare at risk of anyone with a scanner knowing what's inside. Convenient for station managers and pirates everywhere.

There's nothing worse than an EVE player, generally considered to be top of the food chain in the MMO world, that cannot smacktalk with wit and coherency.
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#9 - 2012-10-14 14:20:15 UTC
Tell your dad it is a futuristic backscatter X-ray device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray

The Minmatar use it to capture slave ships heading for Amarr:
http://www.menwithfoilhats.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ELEC_Z-Backscatter_Truck_X-Ray_lg-1-300x157.jpg

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"If you are part of the problem, you will be nerfed." -MadMuppet
Larry Wickes
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#10 - 2012-10-16 16:43:48 UTC
Syrias Bizniz wrote:
Fiction:

Due to law enforcement of CONCORD and local police forces, every piece of cargo must be declared. As it is future, this happens electronically and encoded. A ship scanner however just decodes everything and will show you exactly what's in a ship's cargohold when you scan it. And because we are all very nice persons in EVE Online, we never EVER don't declare a piece of cargo. And we always are honest when doing so.



Thank you very much!

That was both informative and hilarious!