Scouting allows you to gather information about player cities and their defending troops, available resources and technology bonuses. You can also scout mines to find out how many enemy troops are gathering resources on a tile. Tap on a chosen tile and select the Scout button to send out your Scout Drone.

Scout marches require a march queue like troop marches but travel at higher speed.

The amount of information you get in your scout report depends on the Levels of your Spy, Intel and Recon. These levels can be increased by building Improvements in the Scientific District.
Scout features breakdown can be seen below:

Spy

LevelPointsEffect
11Scout Report shows approximate army amount currently at the targeted location, without any unit separation
22Scout Report shows approximate army amount for all reinforcements in a Players Base, without player or unit separation
34Scout Report shows exact amount of the Current and the Total Base Defense of the targeted player base
46Scout Report shows names and HQ Levels of players who are reinforcing players on the targeted location. Also display Approximate army amount for each player, without unit separation
59Scout Report shows approximate army amount per unit type for all player forces currently at the targeted location, without exact unit tiers
612Scout Report shows approximate army amount per unit type for all reinforcing forces per each player currently at the targeted location, without exact unit tiers
716Scout Report shows approximate army amount per unit type with exact tier for all player forces currently at the targeted location
822Scout Report shows approximate army amount per unit type with exact tier for all reinforcing forces of each player currently at the targeted location
930Scout Report shows exact unit types, tiers and numbers of all player armies currently occupying the targeted location
1040Scout Report shows exact unit types, tiers and numbers of all reinforcement armies currently occupying the targeted location
11UBERScout Report shows ability status and cooldown times when scouting a player base

Intel

LevelPointsEffect
13Alerts for incoming marches show the HQ level of the Player, marching towards your army regardless of position (Reinforcements, Base, Camp, Mine)
24Scout Report shows the exact amount of the four basic resources in the targeted Player Base
36Alerts for incoming marches show research bonuses of armies, marching towards your army
48Scout Report shows research bonuses of the targeted player
512Alerts for incoming marches display talent bonuses of armies, marching towards your army
616Scout Report shows talent bonuses of targeted Player Base
720Alerts for incoming marches show currently used equipment of the player, marching towards your army
826Scout Report shows the equipment of target player's General
932Alerts for incoming marches show all active Boosters of the player, marching towards your army regardless of position
1040Scout Report shows the Active Boosters of the targeted player

Recon

LevelPointsEffect
12Alerts, World Map objects and Alliance battles show the name and avatar of the player/s, marching toward your army regardless of position (Reinforcements, Base, Camp, Gathering)
23Alerts, World Map objects and Alliance battles show the exact coordinates of origin for armies, marching towards your army regardless of position (Reinforcements, Base, Camp, Gathering)
35Alerts, World Map objects and Alliance battles show exact arrival time for armies marching towards your army.
47Alerts, World Map objects and Alliance battles show full name and avatar of the owner of any march on the World Map.
510Alerts, World Map objects and Alliance battles show exact coordinates of origin for all armies on the World Map, regardless of marching direction.
514Alerts, World Map objects and Alliance battles show exact time for any march on the World Map regardless.
518Alerts, World Map objects and Alliance battles show approximate size of the army, marching towards you only. (Overall number only, without unit separation)
524Alerts for incoming marches show approximate size of the army, marching towards your army regardless of position by unit type, without exact tiers.
532Alerts for incoming marches show approximate size of the army, marching towards your army regardless of position by unit type and exact tiers for each unit
540Alerts, World Map objects and Alliance battles show the exact size of the army, marching towards your army regardless of position with exact tiers (for alerts only).

* You can view details about your current Spy, Intel and Recon levels by selecting your science district and choosing the 'i' button to view your Science District's current progress.

Uber Scouts

With each scout, there is a small chance that you can get a better report than expected. This is what we call Uber Scouts. When you get such a report, the information contained within it will be one level above your current one. The percentage depends on the difference between yours and the targets HQ level. The larger the difference, the smaller the percentage. Abilities and their status can be viewed only within a Uber Scout report.