Implementing 'jackpot discoveries' on random worlds should not be a major undertaking for FD to add to a future build. This would give incentive to the explorers who scan all the worlds in a system and not just the ones that look like they'll be high value.
Explorer's Wish List
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Implementing 'jackpot discoveries' on random worlds should not be a major undertaking for FD to add to a future build. This would give incentive to the explorers who scan all the worlds in a system and not just the ones that look like they'll be high value.
Hide a Thargoid or two in the Asteroid belts of systems... 
What would als be a really good feature:
Replace "linear" and "algorithmic" settings (which apparently don't work anyways) for the scanner with "player centered" and "target centered". If the target is a celestial object, it would be nice to show orbitals on the scanner rather than on screen.
I can't see why this shouldn't and wouldn't be possible - in fact, I'd expect this as standard. Not in the future but today. Calucalting power for this is a joke, a smartphone could calculate the relative positions.
It would finally allow some proper in-system route planning and provide a great overview on the system - it would be fun and much more immersive. I see nothing which could oppose this.
Really, now that I read Star Citizen's article on the mining mechanics this makes my sad. The proposal for mining in Star Citizen might be a complete game by itself and here we're missing such basic considerations and ideas. In fact, I think this is the European sickness. Americans ask: what can we do to make your life better, more enjoyable? This is how Google works. Europe asks: why don't we have our own Silicon Valley? And when they get the answers they don't like they just start a new study, hoping to get a different result. And another one. It's the people who pay, anyways.
Replace "linear" and "algorithmic" settings (which apparently don't work anyways) for the scanner with "player centered" and "target centered". If the target is a celestial object, it would be nice to show orbitals on the scanner rather than on screen.
I can't see why this shouldn't and wouldn't be possible - in fact, I'd expect this as standard. Not in the future but today. Calucalting power for this is a joke, a smartphone could calculate the relative positions.
It would finally allow some proper in-system route planning and provide a great overview on the system - it would be fun and much more immersive. I see nothing which could oppose this.
Really, now that I read Star Citizen's article on the mining mechanics this makes my sad. The proposal for mining in Star Citizen might be a complete game by itself and here we're missing such basic considerations and ideas. In fact, I think this is the European sickness. Americans ask: what can we do to make your life better, more enjoyable? This is how Google works. Europe asks: why don't we have our own Silicon Valley? And when they get the answers they don't like they just start a new study, hoping to get a different result. And another one. It's the people who pay, anyways.
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Yes, it may well be sending out blah blah.......but does it need me to hold the button down to do it?........it reminds me of the Top Gear where they did a car chase for the Sweeny film........and in trhe middle of the action, they cut a scene where he turns off the traction control.......and he has to hold the button down for 10 seconds..........a safety feature in a car for sure........but here, just a button mash......
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Put another way.....for every 1200-ish systems you scan........you are holding down that button for 2-ish hours...........
Roberts has the opportunity to take all the feedback from here into account, developing his game further
Some very good suggestions in the thread.
- I'd like to see own icon for the cluster belts in the left view list, a tad annoying to go through them hunting for that one elusive planet you want to target.
- Selecting target from system map would be awesome.
- Plotting a route within the system to plan the order you want to scan objects would prevent one from zipping all around the system wasting time.
- I'd like to see own icon for the cluster belts in the left view list, a tad annoying to go through them hunting for that one elusive planet you want to target.
- Selecting target from system map would be awesome.
- Plotting a route within the system to plan the order you want to scan objects would prevent one from zipping all around the system wasting time.
In past games I always remember the upcoming "We listened to the community" notes come out and everybody is like "who asked for this? abd who asked for that?". There just seems to be a secret community out there that the game devs get their ideas from and I've learned to not be too wishful or at least get my hopes up if I do add them in the suggestions forum.
Not trying to be negative here but I think they are overwhelmed with ideas(their own and ours) but once they select their way and their engine, they are kind of railroaded in a direction and the community ideas are just an out of reach rail running forever parallel with the engine .
Not trying to be negative here but I think they are overwhelmed with ideas(their own and ours) but once they select their way and their engine, they are kind of railroaded in a direction and the community ideas are just an out of reach rail running forever parallel with the engine .
You've opened another thread saying this, but I will disagree with you here too, for the same reason - FD will apply sanctions to the account, rather than the slot.
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I wish it paid a little more.........
I would like to be able to "tag" certain things so i know not to look at them again (in some systems with a LOT of asteroid clusters it can be really irritating constantly cycling through them.
I would like to be able to select waypoints from within the system map view (ie make planets selectable in that view)
and I would like the option to be able to get an expanded view of our ships scanner and manually plot a route so I can work out the most efficient order in which to scan orbital bodies and build a complete route as i am flying to the "1st" object to scan..
edit... should have read thread 1st.. every one of my wished have already been listed
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Either some sort of compass on the galaxy map or the ability to mark a waypoint on it that is persistant. I spend far too much time realigning the map to plot every jump when cherry picking systems and this would remove alot of the tedium.
All of the above, great ideas.
Personally I just want something to explore. It's not really exploration if I know exactly what I'm going to find. I read a series of star trek novels about the Titan's mission exploring the gum nebula, and thought about retracing their steps in the game. Then I remembered there'd be no black hole accretion disks, space jellyfish, sentient spacefaring robots or random spatial anomalies to wreck my ship and leave me stranded or teleport me to one of the magellanic clouds.
I guess I just want the feeling of mystery that comes with true exploration beyond just the number and arrangement of a handful of generated but samey planets. Gimme a bit of ooh factor that's more than a bit of eye candy, you know?
Personally I just want something to explore. It's not really exploration if I know exactly what I'm going to find. I read a series of star trek novels about the Titan's mission exploring the gum nebula, and thought about retracing their steps in the game. Then I remembered there'd be no black hole accretion disks, space jellyfish, sentient spacefaring robots or random spatial anomalies to wreck my ship and leave me stranded or teleport me to one of the magellanic clouds.
I guess I just want the feeling of mystery that comes with true exploration beyond just the number and arrangement of a handful of generated but samey planets. Gimme a bit of ooh factor that's more than a bit of eye candy, you know?
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Totally agree with Exploring needing a few little tweaks to make it more enjoyable beyond the nice visuals and possibility of gaining a discovered by flag.
I am currently heading up above the galactic plane as high as I can go, but as noted, the route planning is frustrating when you have to go back into the map having lost the route (even though it is still showing) and also loosing the route when logging.
Clicking within the system map on a target would be nice to help reach planets or giving belts a separate symbol on the left hand target menu to reduce the clicking targets to find the planet within a ton if asteroids (which gain you nothing from scanning).
A second character slot might be good to enable someone out on a long distance exploration to have a bit of fun in civilised space, events, trading etc. but I would not be that bothered if we only ever have one character.
A huge addition to exploring as far as I am concerned would be a map filter to show where I have visited, where I have partially scanned and where I have fully scanned. Maybe even a filter of "discovered by" to show where you have gained a flag. I have said similar in quite a few threads over the months, this would be a really nice extra for explorers and a visual reason for commanders to head out into the void to mark a path of discovery.
CMDR Flaxton
Totally agree with Exploring needing a few little tweaks to make it more enjoyable beyond the nice visuals and possibility of gaining a discovered by flag.
I am currently heading up above the galactic plane as high as I can go, but as noted, the route planning is frustrating when you have to go back into the map having lost the route (even though it is still showing) and also loosing the route when logging.
Clicking within the system map on a target would be nice to help reach planets or giving belts a separate symbol on the left hand target menu to reduce the clicking targets to find the planet within a ton if asteroids (which gain you nothing from scanning).
A second character slot might be good to enable someone out on a long distance exploration to have a bit of fun in civilised space, events, trading etc. but I would not be that bothered if we only ever have one character.
A huge addition to exploring as far as I am concerned would be a map filter to show where I have visited, where I have partially scanned and where I have fully scanned. Maybe even a filter of "discovered by" to show where you have gained a flag. I have said similar in quite a few threads over the months, this would be a really nice extra for explorers and a visual reason for commanders to head out into the void to mark a path of discovery.
CMDR Flaxton
I agree with most if not all of the suggestions here.
The one thing I would like is filters when planing a route.
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it would be nice when planing your exploration you could avoiod know, known systems.
Just a thought
The one thing I would like is filters when planing a route.
Things Like
Star Class
Explored before
Explored by me
it would be nice when planing your exploration you could avoiod know, known systems.
Just a thought
Yes, and you will not believe what the FBO's charge...
That tip to the line guy better be at least 100 Cr. 500 Cr, if you want your fuel tank caps checked.
Thanks all - some great suggestions! I still like my top 4 suggestions the best, but if I could add two more things to them, it would be being able to filter systems already visited in the galaxy map (to display all systems, just visited systems, or all except visited), and of course the big one that I forgot - the ability to select celestial bodies from the system map!
-- Pete.
-- Pete.
Here are a couple non-trivial changes on my explorer's wish list:
- A route planner where I can micromanage the route, selecting exactly which systems to stop in along the way. Of course this would be much less useful if the route is going to be lost when I log out (let alone losing it on shifting in and out of SC).
- In addition to the already mentioned desire to select targets in the system map, I'd like an alternate view of the system map that is more of a map: a system view showing every object's current position, including my own, along with relative distances. Such a view would also require the ability to zoom in and out.
- A route planner where I can micromanage the route, selecting exactly which systems to stop in along the way. Of course this would be much less useful if the route is going to be lost when I log out (let alone losing it on shifting in and out of SC).
- In addition to the already mentioned desire to select targets in the system map, I'd like an alternate view of the system map that is more of a map: a system view showing every object's current position, including my own, along with relative distances. Such a view would also require the ability to zoom in and out.
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