New stuff in X²
Scannerrange Didn't it bother you that you could track all ship movement the moment you enter a sector? Doesn't quite fit to X - after all this is about exploration. X² will find a remedy here! Ships and stations will have a certain scannerrange within which they can track other objects. A postive side effect is that the manual targeting of station to identify them becomes obsolete - a station that is in range will be identified automatically. When a stationary object is out of range its last known position is displayed. In many games this effect is called "Fog of War".
Additionally there will be a new upgrade for your ships: range-enhancements. These are availabe in two versions and do exactly what the name suggests ;) It would not make much sense to explain this system in greater detail as pictures say more than a thousand words.