Explorer's Ship Kits
- Thread starter Becky
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Please build out a selection of exploration ship kits.
Solar Panels
Scanning Dishes (both round and rectangular)
Probe Launchers
Rock retrieval arms
Drills
etc
We want all these things
I like that idea a lot
Yes, please. A high-gain antenna dish would look great on an Asp!
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Please build out a selection of exploration ship kits.
Solar Panels
Scanning Dishes (both round and rectangular)
Probe Launchers
Rock retrieval arms
Drills
etc
We want all these things
I would like to take this one step further and suggest this be useable scientific equipment for an exploration revamp. I would love it if we could equip a 1t module on the Utility slot called "Scientific Suite" that would contain a series of devices mappable to fire groups that would contain things like, a geologic drill (that you could only use while physically landed.) Mobile Lab to analyze your samples either landed or in space, a variety of spectrographic scanners, IE, geological, biological, chemical, etc.
A different analysis would lead to different data types that could be used by engineers or even just sold to a "Science" shop, like UC. And perhaps through this, we explorers could even find mining sites that we then could sell to some kind of prospector's store.
This, in turn, would allow miners to buy said data for their own use and allow explorers to contribute to the world directly with the efforts of our explorations actually affecting other players with this new information and in turn, allow explorers to be able to have a dedicated career out of exploration and scientific endeavors
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So much yes in this. +1
Something akin to what I suggested years ago before launch. My notion is this, that mining is a job and as such it needs to be involved as to be immersive. Right now I point a laser and use limpets. Without room for limpets there was more work involved.
I always liked the idea you had to scan an asteroid field and it would, in a way not dissimilar from the SRV scanner, suggest peaks in ore. You would need a mining scanner module for this. Then, you fly in closer and do a scan on an asteroid. Right now all you can do is use a prospector limpet or drill once and see if it has what you need.
I would think that the more expensive the scanner, the more types of a category it would pick up, categories being minerals or metals and chemicals. It would be more expensive in several ways.
1: Range, to get an general overview of a large section of a ring e.g.
2: Detail, when in the field, scan for target signals and hone in on specific roids.
3: Type, so that you get scanners who will do great finding metals, but not chemicals.
4: Specific, so that a module will pick up a specific type of ore much clearer.
And all at the cost of another parameter. I suppose Engineers could enhance this further. This way you can create a niche for yourself as a Master Bauxite Miner but it will cost you millions to get a module to pick up Painite, for balance purposes.
Personally I want a mining scanner to create a better overlay on the asteroid belt so I can see what roids I probed rather than flying up to it now and see its depleted. This will help people with impaired spatial awareness
I also like the idea of actually closing on a rock and performing a Deep Scan. And then the rock will show where the good stuff is and you get a sort of mini-game where you have to aim your laser to maximize ore release. At 10 minutes in you can see how STO does it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he3x1iqzfsA
What would a Deep Scan look like? Maybe an overlay of semi-transparent vector graphics. Might be easy since these objects are 3D models made of triangles anyway.
Since it will take more time because it is more involved, yields could be bigger to compensate. The sense of achievement will be greater. Of course, you could simply be a mining surveyor, not an actual minder and sell the information on the market for miners to buy. And the more valuable the lodes found, the higher the cost of the intel.
This will add also the possibilities of buying crooked data in flight from an NPC. And data bought expires in some way if you wait too long to get there as other miners will have depleted that locality. Even a pirate can buy the info and plan his piracy if the info was sold to many miners. In that case I suggest that Mining Info Datasets get a counter on them, to see how often it was sold, with a maximum of sales. So 2/6. Two times sold, 4 remaining.
Amazing post but - ship kits are for vanity only and do not effect game play.
Feel free to raise a new post in the 2.4 beyond stuff where they are looking at making mining "Dangerous"
Right up until it gets torn off during an atmospheric landing
I imagine the top of the mailslot would resemble a porcupine after I'd visited a few times
Totally good...
I imagine the top of the mailslot would resemble a porcupine after I'd visited a few times
Drop it off on the way in, pick it up again on the way out
Something akin to what I suggested years ago before launch. My notion is this, that mining is a job and as such it needs to be involved as to be immersive. Right now I point a laser and use limpets. Without room for limpets there was more work involved.
I always liked the idea you had to scan an asteroid field and it would, in a way not dissimilar from the SRV scanner, suggest peaks in ore. You would need a mining scanner module for this. Then, you fly in closer and do a scan on an asteroid. Right now all you can do is use a prospector limpet or drill once and see if it has what you need.
I would think that the more expensive the scanner, the more types of a category it would pick up, categories being minerals or metals and chemicals. It would be more expensive in several ways.
1: Range, to get an general overview of a large section of a ring e.g.
2: Detail, when in the field, scan for target signals and hone in on specific roids.
3: Type, so that you get scanners who will do great finding metals, but not chemicals.
4: Specific, so that a module will pick up a specific type of ore much clearer.
And all at the cost of another parameter. I suppose Engineers could enhance this further. This way you can create a niche for yourself as a Master Bauxite Miner but it will cost you millions to get a module to pick up Painite, for balance purposes.
Personally I want a mining scanner to create a better overlay on the asteroid belt so I can see what roids I probed rather than flying up to it now and see its depleted. This will help people with impaired spatial awareness
I also like the idea of actually closing on a rock and performing a Deep Scan. And then the rock will show where the good stuff is and you get a sort of mini-game where you have to aim your laser to maximize ore release. At 10 minutes in you can see how STO does it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he3x1iqzfsA
What would a Deep Scan look like? Maybe an overlay of semi-transparent vector graphics. Might be easy since these objects are 3D models made of triangles anyway.
Since it will take more time because it is more involved, yields could be bigger to compensate. The sense of achievement will be greater. Of course, you could simply be a mining surveyor, not an actual minder and sell the information on the market for miners to buy. And the more valuable the lodes found, the higher the cost of the intel.
This will add also the possibilities of buying crooked data in flight from an NPC. And data bought expires in some way if you wait too long to get there as other miners will have depleted that locality. Even a pirate can buy the info and plan his piracy if the info was sold to many miners. In that case I suggest that Mining Info Datasets get a counter on them, to see how often it was sold, with a maximum of sales. So 2/6. Two times sold, 4 remaining.
You should see the videos from Elite Dangerous Beta, where they had Orrey View, and a scanning system that gave the planet a dynamic overlay and you could detect POIs from orbit and even material content from detailed surface scans, EXACTLY what I've been wanting, and yet they never did anything with it and I wonder what the heck happened at Fdev.
-Agent
Right up until it gets torn off during an atmospheric landing
Or during an exciting escape from an exploding Death Star.