Here is the thought:
- I enter the system I'd like to explore and do the initial scan (the honk)
- I launch one or more scanning capable probes
- Probes begin their super-cruise maneuver to approach various bodies in the system (maybe different strategies available as to how to prioritize bodies)
- When a probe is close enough to a target body, it does the scan and continues to a different body
- I do the standard scanning with my ship of only those bodies I'd like to see from vicinity
- When I am done I send the probes a return-to-mother ship signal
- Once probes are inside my ship again, I can jump to another system
It has several advantages over unrealistic 'godly' scanner module capable of scanning everything on just one button press.
It would still take some time, it would cost some credits (as a module) and it would let explorers fly only to interesting bodies, yet still letting them scan the whole system.
Just a very early stage of thinking about this, I'm just waiting for my plane at the airport having nothing else to do
- I enter the system I'd like to explore and do the initial scan (the honk)
- I launch one or more scanning capable probes
- Probes begin their super-cruise maneuver to approach various bodies in the system (maybe different strategies available as to how to prioritize bodies)
- When a probe is close enough to a target body, it does the scan and continues to a different body
- I do the standard scanning with my ship of only those bodies I'd like to see from vicinity
- When I am done I send the probes a return-to-mother ship signal
- Once probes are inside my ship again, I can jump to another system
It has several advantages over unrealistic 'godly' scanner module capable of scanning everything on just one button press.
It would still take some time, it would cost some credits (as a module) and it would let explorers fly only to interesting bodies, yet still letting them scan the whole system.
Just a very early stage of thinking about this, I'm just waiting for my plane at the airport having nothing else to do
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