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Scan ships while cloaked
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Ana K
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-02-13 23:23:11 UTC
Is it possible to scan a ship's cargo or fitting while cloaked? Thanks!
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-02-13 23:27:31 UTC
No. Because both of those actions require that you lock a target and activate a module. You can't lock anything or activate any modules while cloaked.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-02-13 23:28:37 UTC
No that isn´t possible because to be able to scan inside cargholds or scan a ship for it's fittings you need to lock it. You can't lock onto anything without decloaking first. What you mostly see is people decloak, insta-lock stuff and quickly scan what they need and then unlock agian to recloak.

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Gerrick Palivorn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-02-15 09:04:19 UTC
If you are looking to scan cargo or fits without the 'subject' aka victim knowing, I reccomend the use of a Passive Targeter which will allow you to scan the ship and detarget before they are even aware that you did anything.

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Ana K
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2012-02-15 16:33:46 UTC
Thanks, was not aware of passive targeters. That should help!