News Chapter Four - Exploration Reveal
I assume they have to explore the system first.
No more random USS is the best change ever.
i have a exploration boner right now for this
You had me at Holistic. 
But really this sounds awesome. At (so very long) last a little bit of meat on the bare bones of exploration, and it's precisely the kind of gameplay I had been hoping for.
And the bit about USS? Yes please. Those things have been my biggest pet peeve for so very long, and seeing any improvement to make them feel a little bit more persistent/part of the world and less like the random theme park attractions they are is good in my book. That they no longer just magically spawn around me will help a lot with believability for me, I might even start playing with them finally.
I don't think so, the point of making these changes improvements to existing modules rather than new modules entirely was to spare explorers who are out in the black from having to come back and refit their ship, for that reason it would be weird for them to take up cargo space.
But really this sounds awesome. At (so very long) last a little bit of meat on the bare bones of exploration, and it's precisely the kind of gameplay I had been hoping for.
And the bit about USS? Yes please. Those things have been my biggest pet peeve for so very long, and seeing any improvement to make them feel a little bit more persistent/part of the world and less like the random theme park attractions they are is good in my book. That they no longer just magically spawn around me will help a lot with believability for me, I might even start playing with them finally.
I don't think so, the point of making these changes improvements to existing modules rather than new modules entirely was to spare explorers who are out in the black from having to come back and refit their ship, for that reason it would be weird for them to take up cargo space.
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These updates all sound like spectacular fun, but most of all they contribute to "Immmmeeeeeeeersion!" to quote a particular commander.
For systems with a nav beacon, the ADS should pull in the system information on the honk. I think that would satisfy everyone worried about bubble travel.
May have to fire up my ED again I left 2 years ago, got bored and burned out, I am an explorer not so much a fighter. But first I'd need a new computer, My gaming rig fried.
Q: How many probes would the average say 20 body system take to map fully? And how many would the player carry. I read it as these ultimately would be synthesised while exploring away from civilisation.
Q: Will this make it more difficult to hunt material in USSs, ie instead of slow-cruising the player will now have to jump out and back in again to refresh? Essentially for players seeking things, system cruising will become system jumping.
Q: Will this make finding "known" locations more difficult, ie you find a YouTube video that says "go to Neoflops AB 2C", you have that system unmapped and are then faced with trying to figure out which disturbance could be AB 2C?
Q: Will this make it more difficult to hunt material in USSs, ie instead of slow-cruising the player will now have to jump out and back in again to refresh? Essentially for players seeking things, system cruising will become system jumping.
Q: Will this make finding "known" locations more difficult, ie you find a YouTube video that says "go to Neoflops AB 2C", you have that system unmapped and are then faced with trying to figure out which disturbance could be AB 2C?
Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
Scan the nav beacon.
No. They'll be like AFMU.
Please consider the ability to launch them from normal flight. Simple reason: interdictions. When there might be a pirate coming to disturb me, I am rather in normal flight while scanning all the moons of a gas giant, than being pulled out of supercruise (and teleport around by that process to boot) in the middle of a scan.
Also, I think it would generally feel better to not have to be in supercruise to scan stuff. For example, I might land on one of the planets and want to scan from the ground everything above the horizon!
He means when there is no nav beacon.
