The overall benefit of scanningskills are a bit obscure but there is some benefits that the community seems to agree on: When scanning people: Perception - helps you when hunting Probing - helps you when mining Computer- helps in all crafting intelligence - basic skill for your avatar When scanning animals: Zoology - helps you when you taming mobs Probing - helps you when mining Computer- helps in all crafting intelligence - basic skill for your avatar When Scanning Robots: Electronics - helps you when crafting electronics #-o Mechanics - helps you when crafting mechanics #-o Probing - helps you when mining Computer- helps in all crafting intelligence - basic skill for your avatar Read some of kejtils numbers here: Scanner thread on EF You will also get other skills but im not sure what the purpose of them is Maybe someone else knows
scanning mutants (maffs, feffs, calamusoids etc) gives you genetics, but I have not a clue what that's used for!
that only makes you one in the crew ;) up til now Genetic skill is good for nothing(as the genetic chips)! But im sure MA have a plan for that skill as well so it will probably not hurt you in any way to raise it but i cant tell you for what purpose ;)
Im sceptical of the Probing skill being a help to mining. I think there may be some confusion between 'Probing' and the 'probes' used to find enmatter. You dont get skill in 'Probing' when looking for enmatter. You do however get skill in 'Perception' so using a scanner for that skill may help mining. As far as I know, nobody really knows what Perception does anyway.
