the FSS, watching paint dry....
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The FSS is fast moving compared to the old system. That's the main selling point for it. No need to fly to planets, moons and distant stars to surface scan it.
Thankfully I am doing the opposite. If you are doing that more then flying your ship I have to ask, what exactly do you do after you have discovered the planets in the system? Do you bother exploring them or not bother?
Despite it is still a valid option, otherwise you wouldn't have used it, right?
It got alot of use. Appeared in a lot of pictures. Didnt seem right to just trash it. If the honk was to be fully reinstated i might even take it back out.
Some parts of it are faster, some are slower. Personally I would like to see some of the information you get from the FSS to be be when you probe a planet like material percentages. I am happy with it showing what materials (as these shouldn't be too tough to see from your ship sensors/scanners), but the percentages should be done by probing the planet. Maybe a few extra bit of information could be transfered too. But that is a minor issue and not something I will get too worried about.
It definitely is faster for tagging a system and getting discovery credits. However, for me personally, it has slowed me down considerably, and I consider that a good thing. In the old system, I would honk and then visit planets of interest - ELWs, WWs, AMs, terraformables, and certain landables. These days I feel compelled (in a good way) to scan the entire system with the FSS, and then I go map those same planets of interest, so I'm still "flying my spaceship" as much as before, but there's the added gameplay of having to find and identify those planets beforehand using my "space telescope".
I like, no, LOVE the "space telescope" that the FSS essentially is. I'm an amateur stargazer IRL, and the FSS mirrors that hobby - I scan the sky with my high-power binoculars, find interesting stars / planets, and then I use my astronomy software to pull up all the stats on that object and think, "Hmmm, I really want to go there!" That's where IRL stops and ED begins, LOL.
The end result is that I'm spending way more time in each solar system, thus it takes me much longer to move across the galaxy, which in turn restores the sense that the galaxy is FRECKEN HUGE.
Anyway, that's my own personal approach to exploration, and it's why I'm active in this thread, to vocalize my support of these wonderful new tools (IMO) that Frontier has given us in 3.3.
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The new system's big selling point is "you no longer need to explore". Just park and click on the pre-marked circles. How not needing to explore poses an improvement to exploration is beyond me. The old system was poor and bland, but this is actually a regression into something even worse, not moving forward or expanding it.
As the FSS is a combination of the old ADS+DSS this is all that can be compared between the old and new system. FSS is faster, a lot faster, than the old ADS+DSS to achieve the exact same result.
Mapping objects is an addition to the game. Not the topic of this thread that is specifically about the FSS.
Cmon...come on. Restores it? Where did it go?
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Apparently some players consider revealing the system map as "exploration" and others consider flying to the objects and getting detailed data about the objects as "exploration".
I stopped caring about this as the FSS is completely pointless in the bubble and the new exploration system (FSS + mapping) is, for me, beyond pointless.
Guess I'm considering myself now as an ex-explorer
Get off your high horse - the topic is "watching paint dry", if you want to be uranusal about it.
Then again, the more jerky the lot of you are, the less likely Frontier will take you seriously, so please, keep it up
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It will be no consolation when I mention that FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithms have been used for decades to very quickly (in microseconds) calculate the frequency components of any signal, eg. for tuning applications. But while FFT processing is ubiquitous in the late 20th century, perhaps it's been forgotten in 3305. :O
Get off your high horse - the topic is "watching paint dry", if you want to be uranusal about it.
Then again, the more jerky the lot of you are, the less likely Frontier will take you seriously, so please, keep it up
"You are enjoying yourself?! Then you dont like flying ships! You are not a real explorer! You are poopy-pants! POOPY-PANTS!"
In unrelated news, I'm back on my way to Colonia. Never made it there due to the excruciating boredom of the previous system, having tons of fun now. Thanks FD, this poopy-pants is enjoying himself a lot.
"You are enjoying yourself?! Then you dont like flying ships! You are not a real explorer! You are poopy-pants! POOPY-PANTS!"
In unrelated news, I'm back on my way to Colonia. Never made it there due to the excruciating boredom of the previous system, having tons of fun now. Thanks FD, this poopy-pants is enjoying himself a lot.
Make sure you check back in in August when you arrive
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"You are enjoying yourself?! Then you dont like flying ships! You are not a real explorer! You are poopy-pants! POOPY-PANTS!"
In unrelated news, I'm back on my way to Colonia. Never made it there due to the excruciating boredom of the previous system, having tons of fun now. Thanks FD, this poopy-pants is enjoying himself a lot.
Feeling insecure?
No one needed to explore before 3.3. That is a player choice.
That does not find everything that there is in a system. Sure it finds every planet and asteroid belt but that is no different from the old ADS. Or do you think having a first discovered tag on it means you have explored the planet in the old or the new system?
So how do you explore planetary surfaces by not exploring the planet surface and flying there with just the FSS?
How do you see strange steller phenomonen if you don't fly to lagrane clouds and other places with just the FSS?
How do see strange biological things on planets if you don't fly to them and just use the FSS?
How do you explore gas giant rings with just the FSS? How do you look at eclipse (you can't do that sitting next to a star)? How do you see strange planetary alignments. Do you see all those with just the FSS.
The FSS discovers these, like the old system, but it doesn't explore them for you. Now go and explore those places by flying to them and discovering what is there.
What you are saying is like an explorer discovering a mouth of a river and saying they have explored the whole river. They haven't. They have just started with the exploration process and it's same with the FSS, it hasn't ended it, it's only just begun.
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