Well the starports should fine and punish everyone who drops heat sink or chaff around their space in the first place. FD should fix that soon.
3 Weeks WASTED
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Well the starports should fine and punish everyone who drops heat sink or chaff around their space in the first place. FD should fix that soon.
Well the starports should fine and punish everyone who drops heat sink or chaff around their space in the first place. FD should fix that soon.
"Littering is punishable by death"
The difference I think is the fact that heat really isn't an important thing you need to pay attention to unless you're trying to sneak by system scans. It's a less commonly used component of the game so takes up much less space on the hud. In comparison the altitude and compass display when entering a planet is actually kinda necessary when it comes to navigating around a planetary body. This is not a style issue, but one of utility and in trying to keep the hud as free of clutter as possible.
Also, presumably the Pilots Federation may have agreements with security companies to make this information less available to pilots so that the scanning technology being employed isn't rendered completely worthless. The Pilots Federation dictates what systems are available to free-lance pilots, and has their own legal restrictions they need to abide by. Almost surprised they havn't permanently welded signal transponders to our cockpit with the number of pirates flying around.
I'd say the heat thing is more style over (lack of) utility - a second bar next to the heat reading central scanner would be good, and ram home the fact that internal heat isn't the same as external heat signature. But, as experience has shown, we (forumites generally) could argue over 'essential vs. style' on the HUD till the (space) cows come home (and get stuck in the mailslot).
Shhhhh! Don't mention signal transponders. Historic forum reasons. (There was a proposal for players to be able to switch their transponders off, so they would be indistinguishable from NPCs at one point. It was a suggestion that provoked some 'spirited debate')
Shhhhh! Don't mention signal transponders. Historic forum reasons. (There was a proposal for players to be able to switch their transponders off, so they would be indistinguishable from NPCs at one point. It was a suggestion that provoked some 'spirited debate')
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So from a philosophical point of view, would those three weeks have been any more fulfilling if those millions of imaginary credits been added to your imaginary bank account? Did you have an alternative such as going on a world cruise, solving third world debt or similar? Were they actually wasted in the sense that eveyone who is contributing to this discussion is equally three weeks older and presumably has equally wasted much of their lives? Was your time really wasted?
Sorry, sounding a bit random tonight. Must be my evening meds...
Sorry, sounding a bit random tonight. Must be my evening meds...
It wasn't wasted. You've enjoyed the wonderfull travel system of this game!
I wish they'd fix silent running. Sucks having a tool that's not fit for purpose.
Yep, this is the answer. So much fun in my Beluga!
Regardless, I express my condolences to the OP.
you could out run the scan. get far enough away from scanning npc. scan will fail to complete.
silent running is only needed to evade aggressors not for avoiding scans. seeing as i don't run from any i don't need silent running at all.
I watch stuff on my pc while I play ED with VA and occasionally noise from a video would activate commands including silent running and one time killed my ship. I panicked, I was new to the game had to start again, I didn't have rebuy.[mad]
disabled silent running and never looked back.
now FEAR is not in my nature. death is what i dish out.
Actually, I did just that. I also told him that large ships aren't suitable for smuggling / stealth gameplay. You know, a large ship is easy to spot. There are people who can do it (we had a discussion about this a few pages ago), but it requires some skill. No, it's not a bad mechanic, just a player who picked the wrong tool for the job.
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Good thing is, you don't know what you are talking about. I can name dozens of non combat suggestions that made it into the game.
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That's basically already the case, just with different tools and designs. Just because people ignore the mechanics it doesn't mean they are not there. We have heat sinks, silent running, small ships, patrols changing shifts, etc. They all work.
Getting scanned is not related to RNG at all.
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You don't loose lock due to chaff, just your gimballs.
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Took a mission that involved not getting scanned, got scanned, failed mission, created forum account, threw some salt around, rage quit.
The End
As has been said here, there are lots of ways to avoid scans, they don't need to alter the mechanic to make it any easier
Took a mission that involved not getting scanned, got scanned, failed mission, created forum account, threw some salt around, rage quit.
The End
As has been said here, there are lots of ways to avoid scans, they don't need to alter the mechanic to make it any easier
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Until a wild T9 appears in the letterbox. That's why I use all three methods to avoid scans, silent running, boosting and small maneuverable ships.
Lining up 8km from the letterbox isnt necessary if the ship is small/medium. I just boost boost in. On larger ships like the cutter, Ive been less successful. But an AspX can boost in from anywhere, ie as soon as you enter the stations instance. Robigo made me practice this (oh how I miss those smuggling runs) over and over. I still do it now even when I am not smuggling.
However I did start my smuggling apprenticeship at 8km out and lining up. But as I got better and better at it, I now dont bother as ive gitten gud at it.
I will stress that getting scanned further out might require you to boost boost away from teh station and not attempt station entry as you may not make it inside in time. Its a balancing act.
The point is, if you have a scan failure in your mission, you need to be on the ball 100%. No going to the loo, rolling a ciggy or checking panels. Concentrate and win.
However I did start my smuggling apprenticeship at 8km out and lining up. But as I got better and better at it, I now dont bother as ive gitten gud at it.
I will stress that getting scanned further out might require you to boost boost away from teh station and not attempt station entry as you may not make it inside in time. Its a balancing act.
The point is, if you have a scan failure in your mission, you need to be on the ball 100%. No going to the loo, rolling a ciggy or checking panels. Concentrate and win.
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It is if the RNG just decides to drop a police ship into your instance (e.g. I've had a police ship drop in on my whilst dogfighting even with 'report crimes' off. I've also had a police ship drop in and scan me on a tourist mission when on a planet surface outside the bubble - what the fudge was he doing there? Long range operative? It is also related to whether the game picks zero sys. auth. ships in a location around a station, or a handful. Chance of getting scanned probably does have some correlation with # of ships present.
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So, what's the point of passenger cabins that only fit on large ships, and missions for 6+ people that require secrecy, if we're supposed to always use small ships?
Anyway, it may not be a 'bad mechanic', as you say, and there are tools to counter scans, as others have said, however it could/would be better if there was more room to play with (i.e. not always dropping out 8km from the station, and detection possibilities getting a bit of an AI tweak).
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