Hello commanders,
Please also see "Flight Recorder?" Post and discussion for more details.
The addition of a "black box" would improve exploration by creating a possibility of Data recovery… At a cost. If you have experienced significant time/date of loss due to a catastrophic event during exploration, this discussion is for you. Please consider leaving constructive comments, pro or con, on this issue.
Here are the main ideas:
1. Modern air/space craft have flight data recorders that capture location and other data.
2. Data recorders typically survive crashes, but must be found and recovered at crash sites or kill sites and processed to recover data.
3. The loss of the spacecraft should not necessarily mean loss of the data, if a black box could be recovered.
4. The exploration was done by the player regardless, and loss of the spacecraft will result in paying insurance, going to the crash site to recover the data recorder (Or paying the mission/ransom cost), loss of credits earned for doing exploration, and a possible processing fee (new functionality). It should not mean that the exploration effectively did not occur.
5. Failure to recover the black box will result in the loss of data and permanent data loss after a set period of time (data can expire/corrupt).
6. Purchase/loading of exploration flight recorder (larger data capacity) would be required prior to exploration mission departure, or data would not be recoverable unless the spacecraft returned to a station intact (current method, data stored in spacecraft computer system).
7. NPCS or Players that kill explorers can collect black boxes and receive rewards based on the equipment value (like other salvage cargo) but not necessarily data value (as the equipment would likely be damaged and require processing to access data), but, if ED implemented new methods, the player with the black box may be able to sell the item back to the original explorer at a negotiated ransom rate (new functionality idea).
thanks!
Please also see "Flight Recorder?" Post and discussion for more details.
The addition of a "black box" would improve exploration by creating a possibility of Data recovery… At a cost. If you have experienced significant time/date of loss due to a catastrophic event during exploration, this discussion is for you. Please consider leaving constructive comments, pro or con, on this issue.
Here are the main ideas:
1. Modern air/space craft have flight data recorders that capture location and other data.
2. Data recorders typically survive crashes, but must be found and recovered at crash sites or kill sites and processed to recover data.
3. The loss of the spacecraft should not necessarily mean loss of the data, if a black box could be recovered.
4. The exploration was done by the player regardless, and loss of the spacecraft will result in paying insurance, going to the crash site to recover the data recorder (Or paying the mission/ransom cost), loss of credits earned for doing exploration, and a possible processing fee (new functionality). It should not mean that the exploration effectively did not occur.
5. Failure to recover the black box will result in the loss of data and permanent data loss after a set period of time (data can expire/corrupt).
6. Purchase/loading of exploration flight recorder (larger data capacity) would be required prior to exploration mission departure, or data would not be recoverable unless the spacecraft returned to a station intact (current method, data stored in spacecraft computer system).
7. NPCS or Players that kill explorers can collect black boxes and receive rewards based on the equipment value (like other salvage cargo) but not necessarily data value (as the equipment would likely be damaged and require processing to access data), but, if ED implemented new methods, the player with the black box may be able to sell the item back to the original explorer at a negotiated ransom rate (new functionality idea).
thanks!
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