Scout

The Scout System makes its first appearance in Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory. By utilizing the scout system the player can alter the dungeons as they like by sending out scouts. The scout system can be accessed from the Scout Board or from the main menu. 

Overview

Scouts are special NPCs that are utilized in the Scout System. By sending them out to the various dungeons in Gamindustri, Scouts can change dungeon effects, find other scouts, find items, locate hidden dungeons, and even find lost places. 

There are several factors that come into effect when using scouts:

• Scout Time: This is the amount of time that will have to pass in a dungeon during a dispatch before the Scout returns with their report. Each dungeon has different scout times. An easy way of making time past is to simply go to the dungeon scouts have been sent to and exit which will have made that time pass. If you have scouts in multiple dungeons then go to a dungeon that has a higher scout time than all of them and then exit.
• Believing and Disbelieving: Whether you choose to believe or disbelieve the findings of your scouts can have different effects. If your Scout brings information on dungeon changing effect and you choose to believe it this could lead to to negative effects if the information was accurate. Likewise, if you choose not to believe then the dungeon will remain the same. Believing and disbelieving also has an effect on lost places.

In addition to the aforementioned factors, Scouts also have their own unique stat parameters that determine their effectiveness in certain fields. These will determine how often or not you should trust their information and whether or not they will be successful in bringing back a variety of different information. They are as followed:

• Judgement: Outline of the information brought back.
• Observation: Details on the information brought back.
• Constitution: Probability of success or dispatch failure.
• Luck: Information access and temporary success.
• Stamina: Item number available.

In order to use a scout you must pay them a fee. As they level up you can pay them more and influence their dispatch reports such as the items they bring back.

Amount	Level Obtained	Item	Report Change
100 Credits	1	Only field items.	Low
500 Credits	3	Enemy drops and and maybe field items.	Low to Medium
1000 Credits	3	Half and Half ratio of enemy drops and field items.	Medium
10,000 Credits	5	Powerful enemy drops mixed in with the aforementioned drops.	Medium to High
100,000 Credits	5	Risky enemy drops, rare materials mixed in with aforementioned drops.	High

Dungeon Effects

By choosing the to believe of disbelieve the scouts, different effects can become active within the dungeon. There are a total of five effects that can occur in each dungeon. It should be noted that effects do not stack and so choosing to believe one effect while another is already active will cause the previous effect to be replaced.

Name	Effect	Flag Up	Flag Down
Enemy Position Change	Depending on the flag position, this will change the normal powerful enemy into a Risky Foe or Tough Foe.	Risky Foe	Tough Foe
Harvest Shift	Will change the items that can be found at harvest spots inside the dungeon.	Idea chips can be found at harvest spots.	Monster Materials can be found at Harvest Spots.
EXP Up/Down	Will either increase or decrease the amount EXP gained from battles in the dungeon depending on if the scout has given accurate information.	-------	-------
Credits Up/Down	Will either increase or decrease the amount Credits gained from battles in the dungeon depending on if the scout has given accurate information.	-------	-------
Drop Rate Increase	Will increase the item drop rate of the enemy.	-------	-------

Scouts

Scout	Name	Find	Init./ Max Lv.	Judge.	Observ.	Const.	Luck	Stam.	Characteristic
	Iffy	Chapter 7 Start	7	4	4	7	1	4	Enemy Position Change +20%
			10	7	7	10	2	7
	Shakeko	Initial	1	?	?	?	?	?	Harvest Shift +10%
			10	6	7	7	8	5
	Kakuneko	Initial	1	?	?	?	?	?	Scout Discovery +10%
			10	7	9	5	5	3
	Dengeki Lass	Initial	1	?	?	?	?	?	Enemy Position Change +15%
			10	5	10	9	1	3
	Famitsu	Initial	1	?	?	?	?	?	Dungeon Discovery +10%
			10	4	9	3	0	5
	4-Gamergirl	ZECA Ruins no. 2	1	1	1	1	0	1	Enemy Position Change +11%
			10	7	7	5	0	5
	Kamraman	ZECA Ruins no. 2	1	1	1	0	0	0	Dungeon Discovery +10%
			10	9	8	4	0	2
	Wonderous Chef	ZECA Ruins no. 2	1	0	1	1	1	1	Drop Rate change +10%
			10	0	8	3	5	10
	Player 2	Soni Wetlands	3	1	2	2	0	2	Credits Change +10%
			10	6	9	9	0	9
	Maryo	Soni Wetlands	3	2	1	2	1	2	Drop Rate change +20%
			10	9	6	9	5	7
	Amamiya Lint	Rud Arms Sewer North or Ario Plateau (pay more than 1000 credits)	7	5	5	5	5	5	Enemy Position Change +10%
			10	8	8	8	8	8
	Cat	Castle Exterior or Rud Arms Sewer North	2	1	1	1	2	1	Item Discovery +10%
			10	3	3	10	10	2
	Shiro Pluto	Castle Exterior or Ario Plateau	1	0	0	0	1	1	-
			10	5	5	8	10	10
	Misuo	Wanderer's Cave or Soni Wetlands	3	0	0	3	3	3	EXP change +1%
			10	0	0	8	10	8
	Ikuwa	Reload Grasslands or Rud Arms Sewer North	7	3	3	4	1	7	Credits change +15%
			10	4	4	6	1	10
	Lord Man	Lego Island, PS DImension, or Ario Plateau (pay more than 1000 credits)	7	4	6	7	4	5	-
			10	6	9	10	6	8
	King of Some Cosmos	Rud Arms Sewer or Castle Exterior	2	1	1	0	0	1	EXP change +10%
			10	10	10	0	0	10
	Financier	Soni Wetlands	3	2	2	2	2	1	Harvest Shift +10%
			10	5	7	8	6	4
	Kotatsu Kid	Soni Wetlands	4	4	4	2	0	0	Harvest Shift +10%
			10	9	9	5	0	0
	Madame Pupa	Soni Wetlands	4	2	3	2	0	2	Enemy Position Change +10%
			10	6	8	5	0	5
	Keppy	Halo Forest	7	3	8	3	6	5	Lost Place Discovery +30%
			10	5	10	5	9	8
	Kirara	Halo Forest or EM ES Magma Cave	6	0	3	5	0	5	Scout Discovery +10%
			10	0	5	8	0	10
	Subway Penguin	Halo Forest or EM ES Magma Cave	2	0	0	0	0	2	Item Discovery +10%
			10	7	6	7	6	10
	Magical Girl	Halo Forest, Nekutoki Forest, or EM ES Magma Cave	7	5	6	5	0	1	EXP change +10%
			10	8	9	8	0	2
	Deer Girl	Halo Forest	7	0	1	7	4	7	Dungeon Discovery +20%
			10	0	1	10	5	10
	Home Security	Halo Forest, Nekutoki Forest, or EM ES Magma Cave	4	0	0	0	1	1	-
			10	0	0	0	10	10
	Beep	Send scouts to ZECA Ruins no. 2	1	1	1	0	0	1	Scout Discovery +5%
			10	10	10	5	0	10
	ASCII	Send scouts to ZECA Ruins no. 2	1	0	1	0	0	0	Dungeon Discovery +5%
			10	8	10	8	7	8
	Jinguji Kei	DLC "Scouts Pack"	9	8	7	8	8	6	?
			10	10	8	8	9	7
	Mina Nishizawa		9	7	8	7	6	9	?
			10	8	10	8	7	9
	Chika Hakozaki		9	6	6	10	8	7	?
			10	8	7	10	9	8

Lost Places

PlaneptuneLastationLoweeLeanboxEdenHello ContinentPC Continent

Discovery	Trust/Distrust	Lost Place	Available items
First	Trust	Old Locomotive	Action RPG  Healing Drink
Second		A Winged Capsule?	Industry's first!  P.SP charge
Third		The Golden ax	Killer Aim  Healing Drink
First	Distrust	Kinda Decaying Building	Quiz  P.SP charge
Second		Some Sorta Foundation?	Gorilla  Heaingl Drink
Third		A Huge Ring	Strategy  P.SP charge

Discovery	Trust/Distrust	Lost Place	Available items
First	Trust	Old Mako Reactor	Fighting  Healing drink
Second		Huge Dice	MO  P.SP charge
Third		Freaky Ruins	Male-oriented Healing Drink
First	Distrust	Amazing Ruins	Shooting  P.SP charge
Second		An Abandoned TV	1-Player Online P.SP charge
Third		Some Atelier	Communication play  Heal Drink

Discovery	Trust/Distrust	Lost Place	Available items
First	Trust	Emblem of Fire Castle	Parameter Tweak Healing Drink
Second		Mushroom With Eyes	All Nighter Healing Drink
Third		Woopa Twoopa Shell	Special Gauges  P.SP Charger
First	Distrust	Sword In Some Stone	Polygon  P.SP Charger
Second		Hollow Mountain	Monster  P.SP Charger
Third		Broken Cart	Mediamix Strategy  Healing Drink

Discovery	Trust/Distrust	Lost Place	Available items
First	Trust	Red Light House	Western Game Healing Drink
Second		Big X-Shaped Building	Fighting  Healing Drink
Third		An Alien Corpse?	Older Man  P.SP charge
First	Distrust	Restaurant Remnants	Drill  Healing Drink
Second		Scratched Disc	Killer Aim  P.SP charge
Third		A Mission (?) Board	Investigative P.SP charge

Discovery	Trust/Distrust	Lost Place	Available items
First	Trust	Some Shuttle?	Auto save  P.SP Charge 2
Second		Legendary Tree	Silhouette  Healing Field
Third		Bee Art	Adventure RPG  Healing Field
First	Distrust	Engine-Like Object	Fan Disc Healing Field
Second		Big Ol' CD Drive	Moe Burnin' P.SP Charge 2
Third		Broken Airship	Puzzle/Logic  P.SP Charge 2

Discovery	Trust/Distrust	Lost Place	Available items
First	Trust	Mysterious Transceiver	Million Aim  Healing Field
Second		Card Shop Ruins	MMO  P.SP Charge 2
Third		Coin Shop Ruins	Maiden Game  Healing Field
First	Distrust	Humanoid Mushroom	Life Game Healing Field
Second		Sign Squirrel	Near future  P.SP Charge 2
Third		White Dog Statue	Zombie P.SP Charge 2

Discovery	Trust/Distrust	Lost Place	Available items
First	Trust	Really Tall Tower	Motion Controller  Healing Field
Second		Ambitious Battlefield	Soccer  P.SP Charge 2
Third		Burned Down Game Dev.	Metafiction  Healing Field
First	Distrust	Apple Artistry	Includes Videos  P.SP Charge 2
Second		A Vase With 2 On It	Stage Editor P.SP Charge 2
Third		95 Shards of Glass	True Story, Bro  Healing Field