Agreed. I was on a mission to find a shipwreck, and when I got there the area was on the night side of the moon. Searching in the dark with lamps was quite a challenge (and I also had the option of waiting a few hours for the sunrise) and the new lighting would only make this starker. It was frustrating but also pretty cool to have to use lamps to search with (ie it was the planetary conditions that were frustrating, not the game). I'd like SRVs to rely on lamps at night; it makes them even more different from flying ships, and allows you to select different tools for different jobs.
24 Hours from now, we will witness the future of Exploration
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Watched it just now, and liked what I saw, a great deal.
One thing I remembered when the lads were discussing "discovery" stuff feeding into the general playerbase information pool...
The first day the full ED galaxy went live, a mate and I joined up, and flew around doing stuff. One of the first things I did was to try out
- Flying off to a nearby system
- Scanning everything
- Flying back and selling it
- Asking my friend to "buy" the data for that system, and see what I'd found.
And... it didn't work. Exploration data sold by a player had zero bearing on exploration data subsequently bought by another player.
I remember being quite disappointed at that, because in my mind Universal Cartographics was a central storehouse of knowledge, being added to by us... but it was entirely a one-way affair, and therefore reduced down to nothing more than "here are some credits, thanks for playing".
So... new stuff seems to tick off something I thought should have been working like that in late 2014, lol.
Better late than never!
One thing I remembered when the lads were discussing "discovery" stuff feeding into the general playerbase information pool...
The first day the full ED galaxy went live, a mate and I joined up, and flew around doing stuff. One of the first things I did was to try out
- Flying off to a nearby system
- Scanning everything
- Flying back and selling it
- Asking my friend to "buy" the data for that system, and see what I'd found.
And... it didn't work. Exploration data sold by a player had zero bearing on exploration data subsequently bought by another player.
I remember being quite disappointed at that, because in my mind Universal Cartographics was a central storehouse of knowledge, being added to by us... but it was entirely a one-way affair, and therefore reduced down to nothing more than "here are some credits, thanks for playing".
So... new stuff seems to tick off something I thought should have been working like that in late 2014, lol.
Better late than never!
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No, they did not. Note this part:
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So if you are not exploring but merely traveling, systems you reach will already be scanned. Thus you have all basic information at hand, even without scanning at all.
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In case it wasn't answered, night vision is only available in your ship.
Sooo.. "oh, a nice place to explore!" *land ship* *exit ship* *blind*
Just needed to watch a second time to realize how much fun these new things will bring! Strange enough, I see myself pushed into roles that I always tried to avoid: the completionist or the efficiency junky - both suddenly looking shockingly appealing to me...