As long as that ADS is an optional module that would be fine. The idea of having the pinpoint coordinates, knowing where they are and then having to find them again in the FSS would destroy it for me.
No different to the FSS then.
Like I said, a mix and match approach as you see fit.
If the FSS is completely your jam, then don't fit an ADS.
Mr. Trump, is that you?
I'm not sure you understand how the FSS works.
Wasn't that the early days of space exploration though? An orbital scan for basic composition and installations, is/was low res.
The resolution is higher now, and to explore the system you actually have to fly your spaceship, to map for geological sites and so on.
Probes are the new old discovery system? Drink one finger?
Get you and a qualified yes. But what's wrong witrh - if you want to select a specific planet type without going through the whole lot - tune a planet frequency, resolve those and ignore all the rest, you're there. Represented in a different way graphically yes but same thing.
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Let me correct myself, do you find turning the n o b of the car radio amusing?
You already know whether there are geological/biological sites from the FSS.
Mapping performs no purpose on non-landable bodies, or on bodies which have no geological/biological sites - it doesn't provide any actual information, just a tag and some extra credits.
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.
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.
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