That only works if you're mainly interested in body type.
Could Frontier please demonstrate how to use the FSS enjoyably?
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That only works if you're mainly interested in body type.
I find tuning the dial on my ham radio very fulfilling. What's your point?
Then be specifc in why you would choose one target - in your suggested upgrade - over another?
Again I think it depends on why you prefer flying up to because if it's the headspace of "I actually want to see the planet I diiscovered up close' those are two reasons to go there. They don't have to fit your headspace to be valid as reasons to go, they're just game provided reasons to go.
I have been using it everytime I play on my way to beagle point. I know exactly how it works.
So you tell me how I don't understand how the FSS works?
Without getting anything from it, probably not much. But as I get a preferred radio station at the end of my turning it ends with a lot of enjoyment, which is what its all about.
It varied greatly, but the point is that being able to make that determination requires a better system overview than the waveform.
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Oh sure, it's totally about how I personally have fun. The FSS gets in the way of my fun, by not allowing me to separate locating a body from resolving it's characteristics, leaving me with only mapping as a reason to visit a body - and since I don't feel that mapping actually performs any significant purpose, and requires no skill whatsoever, it's just a time-sink to me. For this reason, I don't think that the fact that the FSS is quicker to be a point in it's favor - which was the comment I responded to which started this discussion.
The FSS does not require you to fly around the system to explore it.
Yes it does.
Do you honestly think by using the FSS you have explored the whole system. That is very funny if you think so.
If I visit a system containing only stellar bodies and use the FSS. What exactly do I have left to explore?
Respectfully though, I think you're assuming - even if all explorers do it the same way - the FSS/DSS are only for explorers. The DSS does serve a specific purpose if you're into volcanics for example and I also think it's a bit much to say there's no skillage in it at all. Potoato worlds might be simple to probe but ringed gas giants do take some doing, especially if you test yourself to do them quickly.
I do take your point about data appearance but to migrate that across I think classification of planets is a bit of an unknown quantity presently, mostly because atmospheric planets are a totally unknown quantity still. Classifying planets includes atmospheres and for me is most likely why the data comes in the honk by default, because we have to assume when models for atmos come in, things like storm systems would come under the (detailed) probe view. At the moment it obviously doesn't but the data is for now still held in the (programming) 'safe space' of the ADS, that's likely where the database always was held.
Not much, but it was not much different to the old system. The only thing the old system do was give a tag saying I WOZ ERE when you got close enough and even then you didn't need to be able to see it properly, it could just be a dot in the distance. Great exploring there. Most of the time you don't even need to move from your position to scan seller bodies.
Not what I would call exploring, but each to their own.
So NOT exactly like the ADS then. Glad you finally admitted that.
Exactly, now modern day cars can autotune the stations, is that a bad thing?
Do you do it on hours at a time?
But can they detect a USS from 5,000 light seconds away. That's what I want to know. Arf.
Never said they were exactly the same. I just said you need to fly your ship to explore systems even when using the FSS.
I'm very much only talking about my personal opinions of the FSS and DSS. I know people use them in different ways and for different things, and get enjoyment out of them. This is why I've been calling for more CHOICES in exploration equipment, so that exploration becomes enjoyable for a wider range of exploration gameplay styles.
The DSS functionality is fine, and will hopefully be better when/if atmospheric planets become a thing. The gameplay however needs a lot of work.
Auto tune is fine if it made any sense. The tuning part is there for you to decide what type of planet you want to search for. It doesn't find the planets for you. So an auto tune would be pointless.
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