Massive thank you to FD for letting discover scanners show the surface of planets!

bitstorm

bitstorm
Well was exploring white star systems in the Merope shell last night.

I love the new exploration mechanic.

An ADS scan gives you an overview of the system. The preview is enough to pique your interest, such that you might see one or two interesting landables that you want to investigate further. So you fly out to those particular bodies for a DSS and you're rewarded (or not) with a full 3D imaged version of the planet.

Found a great potato moon last night.

Sure exploration needs more work but I approve of what went in for 2.2 :)
 
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bitstorm

bitstorm
Jex =TE= said:
Can somebody take a screenshot of the scanner with the scanned planet please?
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It looks no different to this :

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Use an ADS and you get the above.

And at this point if you zoom in to a landable you get the old wireframe.

But if you DSS the planet/moon you get this sort of thing instead of the wireframe :

D3-1.png


What are you wondering about?
 
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K-Rose

K-Rose
I just wish the time to scan & scan distance were improved. Approaching to 10-30LS to scan a small moon for 1000CR is really frustrating.

If scan times were 5 seconds & distances increased 5X (50-150LS for small moons) you'd get a lot more players actually scanning systems rather than honking and moving on if they don't see anything.


Yeah I know this caters to the "have everything easy" crowd, but it's just my opinion and a small exploration QOL improvement I'd love to have :)
 

dynamicbob

Banned
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i have to say some speeding up of the mechanics would be nice or better still if there are multiple bodies within range the dss scanner scans them all at once, like an area of effect, this would nullfyin any complaints about individual moons taking so long, get within 10ls and bam 9 at once
 
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Jex =TE=

Banned
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bitstorm said:
It looks no different to this :

https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLaFE4bm9ybmZ4OXc

Use an ADS and you get the above.

And at this point if you zoom in to a landable you get the old wireframe.

But if you DSS the planet/moon you get this sort of thing instead of the wireframe :

https://forums-cdn.frontier.co.uk/images/media/D3-1.png

What are you wondering about?
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Ok well that was disappointing - I was thinking they'd added a scanner you can use in the cockpit LOL

Oh well [blah]
 

Jex =TE=

Banned
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ShadowWolf Kell said:
That's pretty much what Sandro said during the livestream. Future exploration content isn't going to be convoluted, confusing or extremely time consuming because they want to appeal to the most amount of players. The strictly "muh immershion zomg!" crowd were basically dealt a deathblow and haven't realized it yet.
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So exploration is going to be as shallow as every other game mechanic then and never get addressed? Did anything in the DDF get in as it was imagined or was that there to try and fool people into giving FD more cash?
 

Shanaeri

Shanaeri
Current mechanic is just dopey imo

The time you really want the fancy planet graphics is when deciding if it's worth the time going there, not when you are almost there.

Exploration is such a subjective topic, so give players the choice of how they spend their time. After all no one is forcing people to look at the shiny graphics as soon as they ADS

It's sort of like driving to within 2km of the closest/next city before deciding you want to go to that city in the first place
 
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