Are hotspots supposed to be persistent?

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
I was trying to use an Adder for some core mining. The Adder should be a pretty good ship for this, even though it doesn't have enough module slots to fit all the equipment. It has 5 slots, so that's 3E cargo, 3D collector, 2A refinery, 2A shields, and 1A prospector. What my Adder didn't have room for is a DSS. That should be fine, as I had previously mapped a gas giant and it's rings, one of which had an LTD hotspot.

However, when I swapped to my Adder and SC'd to the ring, the LTD hotspot was gone. No hotspots there at all.

Should hotspots be persistent?
Is this a bug?

Or is it intended behaviour, so mining ships are now required to fit a DSS to use a hotspot?
 

YinYin

YinYin
I don't think it's intended, but you need to keep that thing equipped.

I too would like to split scouting and mining.
 

Bob Lighthouse

Banned
Bob Lighthouse
Yeah I could have sworn they said we should be able to share them.
How does that work if they don't have a DSS equipped or they aren't persistent?
I was disappointed to realize I needed to keep the DSS equipped when I tried to swap ships.

That said, I'm certain I did see some in a system that I hadn't scanned at all.
So I have no idea what's going on, lol!
 
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Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
YinYin said:
I don't think it's intended, but you need to keep that thing equipped.

I too would like to split scouting and mining.
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Yeah, it's quite limiting on the small ships. Next time I take the Adder out, I'm going to leave behind the collector limpets. Manual scooping will be OK for a few high quality chunks.
 

Ouberos

Ouberos
I remember asking if they were persistent across players on the livestream.

I was curious to know if a canny Pirate could locate places where player miners would be working.

Sadly I got no response.

I think there is an assumption that if you find a hotspot then someone else can find the same hotspot but needs to scan it for themselves.
 

Deleted member 115407

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Yeah, you need to have the DSS installed to see them at present.

Also, core mining in a wing is totally hosed. All kinds of problems there, from asteroids that produce no yield, to detonation displays that don't work right.

All the wing stuff, at least, needs to be bug reported.
 
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Underhook

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Limoncello Lizard said:
Try swapping your DSS out of the ship, then trying to find a hotspot that you've already found.

Maybe it's a bug, but the hotspots dissappear.
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I went out with a different ship and could not see the hot spots (not detailed scanner on the 2nd ship. I am also curious to see if its because its a different ship or because the scanner isnt fitted.
 

Henri

Henri
vindelanos said:
Yeah, you need to have the DSS installed to see them at present.

Also, core mining in a wing is totally hosed. All kinds of problems there, from asteroids that produce no yield, to detonation displays that don't work right.

All the wing stuff, at least, needs to be bug reported.
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you shud try multi crew
hahahaha it's hell
 
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