It’s showing you whether the plant is scannable (green) or already scanned (blue). If blue then you need to travel farther away to find green, scannable samples.
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Aye - the most recent incarnation, 'Carmageddon: Max Damage'. One of the best stress-relieving games ever made
The secondary trigger on the bio sampler triggers a shortish range scan pulse any targets in range glow for a while the colour of the glow indicates
Green = next valid sample.
Blue = right species but insufficient diversity ie not far enough from previous sample
Purple = wrong species ie not the same as the one you are currently sampling also not one you have already sampled
when you trigger a pulse if you here a return ping it indicates an illuminated bio the direction the ping came from is where the bio is.
Quite possibly, there used to be regular queries about jumps failing after refuelling in the three years from when I started until you joined the forums.
I am not sure the route plotter was much worse back then just more short ranged.
It's very useful in edge regions, where star density is sparse. You can have a near-empty tank to increase jump range, without using jumpbonium. It's good to know how far you can go without it.
Oh, I agree it is a useful information how jumprange changes with consumed fuel - it is the single most important info in the ship panel of the right hand panel. But the unladen, meaning totally empty, jumprange in outfitting (and is it also shown in the route plotter settings?) is totally useless.
No, it's not, for the same reasons. You know your absolute limit, and can build from that.
If the info is useless to you, then don't use it. But for max-range ship builders and edge region explorers, it's very useful info.
Edit: also, i think that it's shown in outfitting because you can't switch to the ship panel from there and check. Same for the Galaxy map.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I can't test in game.
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No, you can't access the ship panels while in outfitting. In that sense, yeah, it's good to know. Personally, I don't pay attention to that number at all.
Just to be nit picky it isn’t the absolutely empty tank figure but the figure for a tank containing one jumps worth of fuel, which of course won’t be enough for the jump if you stooge about to long first.
But I agree it is a rather niche bit of information other than as a comparison between builds.
You know, after all this time I never noticed there was a 3rd color. I tested it today, and sure enough!
Purple means "you haven't scanned this yet but your scanner is busy so screw you!". I never knew that before
Very helpful information once again, cheers.
Sometimes, one just has to stand there and watch in awe.
Been there myself and I think I've got a tee laying around somewhere in my closet...
Grats!
Congrats! \o/
Quain is still using the neutron superhighway to get to Sphiesi HX-L d7-0 which is the most 'westerly' system that can be reached. It takes a final 159ly jump to get there, I worked out today. Good job I did built an Anaconda with an 81ly+ unladen jump range.
Here are a few edsm.net POIs on route and some stuff I stumbled across in the dark.
Here are a few edsm.net POIs on route and some stuff I stumbled across in the dark.
Sounds like quite the adventure!Quain is still using the neutron superhighway to get to Sphiesi HX-L d7-0 which is the most 'westerly' system that can be reached. It takes a final 159ly jump to get there, I worked out today. Good job I did built an Anaconda with an 81ly+ unladen jump range.
Here are a few edsm.net POIs on route and some stuff I stumbled across in the dark.
I can't wrap my head around how you did that... If I try this in Coriolis, all I get is this: Plain Annie.
It will be an extreme build probably with one of the trick double engineered modules or something with guardian tech, without those I can design something that will do 80+ as shown below the real trick is to find someone daft enough to fly in it.
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A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous
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Now I get it. Kinda. Sorta. This doesn't really look like a build that one would use for the neutron highway...It will be an extreme build probably with one of the trick double engineered modules or something with guardian tech, without those I can design something that will do 80+ as shown below the real trick is to find someone daft enough to fly in it.
Coriolis EDCD Edition
A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous
