Cant get hotspots working on Saturn in SOL

[He$$eeTant]

So I have set up a mining craft, I am in SOL and using Saturn to practice before heading out. However I dont seem to be able to shoot a deep surface scan probe at the rings so that the hotspots light up. Every probe seems to be drawn to the planet no matter how close I go to the rings or where I shoot at. Ive searched here and google but nothing concrete turns up except people reporting bugs... Is this a bug does the hotspot identification not work on Saturns ice rings?

 

[Stealthie]

Forget where it says it but there's something ON the DSS screen that tells you if your probes are aiming at a planet or rings.

At a guess, Saturn might be a "special case" so it might be better to practice with a more generic ring-planet.

 

[He$$eeTant]

thanks for the reply I will try and find another planet

 

[He$$eeTant]

worked, went to another system. thanks again. I tried Saturn and Uranus in SOL but no luck at all, however jumped out nearby and immediately worked. Quite a good investment this mining gear

 

[Autoculto]

It may be because Saturn's rings are only 10m deep and doesn't have big asteroids. FDev could have put the ring depth in game to add to the realism. Just a guess though, because I've only ever poked my head in the system so I've not had a good look

 

[Chris Simon]

It may be because Saturn's rings are only 10m deep and doesn't have big asteroids. FDev could have put the ring depth in game to add to the realism. Just a guess though, because I've only ever poked my head in the system so I've not had a good look

I think the idea might be that this far into the future the Sol system is kind of... spent. So the lack of hotspots might simply mean that the rings are all but mined out.

 

[Stealthie]

I think the idea might be that this far into the future the Sol system is kind of... spent. So the lack of hotspots might simply mean that the rings are all but mined out.

The OP said he couldn't get the probes to actually hit the rings.

If that's correct, it would seem to suggest Saturn doesn't act like a regular ring-planet.
Which isn't terribly surprising, TBH.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sol has been modelled a bit differently to generic systems.

 

[Chris Simon]

The OP said he couldn't get the probes to actually hit the rings.

If that's correct, it would seem to suggest Saturn doesn't act like a regular ring-planet.
Which isn't terribly surprising, TBH.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sol has been modelled a bit differently to generic systems.

Well, the answer to that is really simple, actually. It ISN'T modelled by Stellar Forge - It's hand-crafted. So I guess that's that.

 

[Stealthie]

Well, the answer to that is really simple, actually. It ISN'T modelled by Stellar Forge - It's hand-crafted. So I guess that's that.

Just went and had a look.

The DSS does say it's targetting the rings but the probes just fly straight through them.

It might have been explained by the density of Saturn's rings.... except that Saturn's rings have a couple of RES's in ED.

*EDIT*

Just went and had a look at one of the RES's and Saturn's rings are only a single "layer of 'roids, probably not much more than the height of my AspX.

Spoiler

Not bad, FDev. Not bad at all. [up]

 

[Chris Simon]

Just went and had a look.

The DSS does say it's targetting the rings but the probes just fly straight through them.

It might have been explained by the density of Saturn's rings.... except that Saturn's rings have a couple of RES's in ED.

Well, they apparently handle the whole DSS business by some code in Stellar Forge. So they probably either forgot to add it manually for hand-crafted systems, of they deliberately left them out.