ok, so im trying to hack for good planets. do you need above a 5% success chance for scanning for planets to be able to do this? or can you have less than the minimum scan success chance and still hack for a planet?

hacking a planet and scanning a planet work on completely different systems. scan will improve your hack success rate however.

ok, because i only have a 3% chance of success to find planets through scanning, and ever since it dropped below 5% i havent hacked a planet.

Neither has any effect on the other. They 2 totally different ways of finding planets. Your scan vs their cloak just increases your chance of getting a critical hack.

ok so say your a rank 59 , available are up to - Quantum Resonance Sensor and cloak up to - Refraction Panels - Mark III and a zolazin jammer , in scan/cloak powe whats the best possible ratio to get those critical hacks?


Scan: 378
Cloak: 95

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Max cloak and scan both, that's the best possible way. You don't neccissarily need to max your cloak, you just need more cloak then they have scan to be able to hack them, but i'd imagine the more cloak over their scan the less likely your able to get a failed hack result. Your chances of getting a critical hack are based on your scan versus their cloak. So obviously the higher your scan the higher your percentage is going to be to get a crit hack, and the lower your percentages are going to be of getting a crit fail. Weather or not you can max out both depends on wether you ship is big enough naturally.

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Here's a guide I wrote on hacking.