News Chapter Four - Exploration Reveal
Sounds good to me, looking forward to updates and beta testing in the coming weeks/months whenever 
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The way I see it FDev bowed to community's will that wanted something similar as the SRV's scanner. This will be the electromagnetic one, and that should provide a quick overview of whether there is anything unusual - just not in a visual way. And I do hope, that more interesting stuff will be added too.
I'm not much of an explorer, but this all sounds amazing! I'm looking forward to the new probe systems.
Personally, I don't mind going back as long as it's for something that can add to exploration. Getting a better game is more important to me right now, and if things are taking longer to do but they have more reward and feeling of accomplishment, then I'm all for it.
You can only discover stellar bodies in the system you are currently in.
- All those lovely undiscovered Neutron stars I've scanned this will be 'first tagged' by riff-raff.
- Still no Imperial Explorer
+ Everything else.
+ First tagged reset will encourage exploration.
+ Still hope for Imperial Explorer.
+ Currently 3810 users browsing this thread.
The Imperial Explorer is in EDRPG
Sadly for you, both it and the Boa MK III are huge ships and can't dock with starports, but here's a look at it just for you: [haha]
Agree with this 100%. Whilst it looks great, it looks VERY time-consuming. We need a quick summary after the initial ADS honk; if the system looks interesting to us then we scan in more detail. This new system looks time-consuming just to get the intial system details.
Like that!
I am sorry, but why you guys have to design something that looks so complex in my eyes at least.
All the work you describe is for 20th century computers, not for human pilots, even science officers if we had the role in Multi Play.
I mean a simple exploration procedure should look like this: (IMO always)
1. You enter the system.
2. You honk with your ADS and you get the system bodies.
3. You launch probs to planets. (easily synthesized)
4. after some seconds reports from the probs start to coming up
5. you read reports and select some POIs they unveiled.
6. The navigation system place some waypoints on POIs you selected from the reports
7. You fly to the waypoints and from orbit (when in range) you scan the general area with your surface scanner that will unveil more information about the POIs.
8. Based on those information, you decide to land and use the SRV to take a close look and maybe take a treasure, an artifact, an alien weapon you can bring to an engineer to attach on your ship, something interesting. I mean geysers are beautiful but well after the second time, they are just geysers.
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For Multi Player:
Your copilot can scan the planet flying above the planet, to pinpoint the exact location while you are on the ground with your SRV. The ship can send the info to the SRV navigation computer and design a route to visit the nearest POIs.
A surface map with info would help a lot. You know press M for Map?
Also MP SRVs please?
All the work you describe is for 20th century computers, not for human pilots, even science officers if we had the role in Multi Play.
I mean a simple exploration procedure should look like this: (IMO always)
1. You enter the system.
2. You honk with your ADS and you get the system bodies.
3. You launch probs to planets. (easily synthesized)
4. after some seconds reports from the probs start to coming up
5. you read reports and select some POIs they unveiled.
6. The navigation system place some waypoints on POIs you selected from the reports
7. You fly to the waypoints and from orbit (when in range) you scan the general area with your surface scanner that will unveil more information about the POIs.
8. Based on those information, you decide to land and use the SRV to take a close look and maybe take a treasure, an artifact, an alien weapon you can bring to an engineer to attach on your ship, something interesting. I mean geysers are beautiful but well after the second time, they are just geysers.
-
For Multi Player:
Your copilot can scan the planet flying above the planet, to pinpoint the exact location while you are on the ground with your SRV. The ship can send the info to the SRV navigation computer and design a route to visit the nearest POIs.
A surface map with info would help a lot. You know press M for Map?
Also MP SRVs please?
Will current mods be converted? I have a grade 5 long range DSS, I'd prefer not to have to re-engineer it from scratch with all the materials I have invested (some of that data is rather rare...).
Well I'm glad every one else is liking it - fraid I'm not much. Would quite like to see the two scanners knocked into one, but my main dislike is losing the overall "rough" system view from initial "honk".
At the minute if I'm taking a "fast" run over to the Gnosis (55 jumps or thereabouts) - I can get a "quick" look at every system I pass through and if I spot something ineteresting I can divert to have a nosey - say an earthlike with rings or somesuch.
New system sounds like I'd either get 55 suns and nothing else or I'd have to search each one completely to check if there was anything of interest to hunt down.
I'm not looking for great fidelity on that initial scan - could easily be less than now, but now't but the star I'm right next to...... yech.
If that's how it works I suspect it will make the universe seem a lot emptier.
At the minute if I'm taking a "fast" run over to the Gnosis (55 jumps or thereabouts) - I can get a "quick" look at every system I pass through and if I spot something ineteresting I can divert to have a nosey - say an earthlike with rings or somesuch.
New system sounds like I'd either get 55 suns and nothing else or I'd have to search each one completely to check if there was anything of interest to hunt down.
I'm not looking for great fidelity on that initial scan - could easily be less than now, but now't but the star I'm right next to...... yech.
If that's how it works I suspect it will make the universe seem a lot emptier.
- All those lovely undiscovered Neutron stars I've scanned this will be 'first tagged' by riff-raff.
- Still no Imperial Explorer
+ Everything else.
+ First tagged reset will encourage exploration.
+ Still hope for Imperial Explorer.
+ Currently 3810 users browsing this thread.
Where are you getting a "first tagged reset" from. From the first post:
There are new "mapped by" tags being added, which start empty. You keep your "discovered by" tag, someone else might get the "mapped by".
Taking me out of supercruise when using a DSS to go to a new UI...I can't say this specific aspect of the change is a good idea. There is no good to come from taking one's hands off the wheel whilst driving.
Players will automatically gain the location of starports and outposts when they enter the system.
^^^this here. I feel this will get very old, very fast.
I really hope I'm wrong and this is all amazing, but with what was written and the few screen shots, just not sure.
