For the love of god, reduce scanning time.

Stabby_Dave · Jun 20, 2019

I'm on the way to Colonia and scanning systems for explorer rank. Scanning bodies with geologicals takes about 20 seconds each and when your in a system with 30 or even 40 bodies, it gets really old, really fast.

I'd rather grind for mats.

Please, FD, reduce it to say 5 seconds.

Vardaugas · Jun 20, 2019

You don't have to wait for the geo sites to resolve.

Factabulous · Jun 20, 2019

More troubling is it took the OP 6 months to even notice this

Stabby_Dave · Jun 20, 2019

First time I've really done any exploring.

GeoJase · Jun 20, 2019

Its the biologicals which take a long time..

Para Handy · Jun 20, 2019

The scan time is directly affected by your FPS - so v-sync or frame rate limiting produces the very long scan times. Just enjoy the warm air blowing from your graphics card as your system runs at hundreds of FPS. (Sloppy coding again F D - sort it!)

Lightspeed · Jun 20, 2019

Zoom into the planet, zoom out. You will find everything resolved. (You can zoom in to confirm if you wish). No need to wait.

But yes, the FSS process gets old very quickly. But alas that ship has sailed.

Stabby_Dave · Jun 20, 2019

If you don't wait for it to resolve, do you lose money when you sell the data?

jnTracks · Jun 20, 2019

It's just a display thing, I never look at a planet longer than to see what kind it is (ammonia, earth-like, etc) then zoom out. All is scanned instantly.

Witcher 7 · Jun 20, 2019

Stabby_Dave said:
If you don't wait for it to resolve, do you lose money when you sell the data?

If you don't fully map a body, you do not get bonus payouts or first mapped (if it hasn't been fully mapped by another).

Stabby_Dave · Jun 20, 2019

Yeah, I know, but I can only be bothered to map ELW, WW, and anything with life.

Sod letting it resolve fron here on in. I'm not going to think about the time I've wasted.

Cheers, all 07

FatFreddysCoat · Jun 20, 2019

Para Handy said:
The scan time is directly affected by your FPS - so v-sync or frame rate limiting produces the very long scan times. Just enjoy the warm air blowing from your graphics card as your system runs at hundreds of FPS. (Sloppy coding again F D - sort it!)

How was that even a good idea? What’s the technical reason for that or is it just bad coding?

VR SenseiMatty · Jun 20, 2019

Stabby_Dave said:
Yeah, I know, but I can only be bothered to map ELW, WW, and anything with life.

Sod letting it resolve fron here on in. I'm not going to think about the time I've wasted.

Cheers, all 07

You only need to wait if you really want to know if there is a biological signal on the planet. But it's almost always only geological.
You don't need to wait for that to claim you exploration data. Zoom in and zoom out, game's done.
Since you spotted this issue too anyway feel free to go to the issue tracker and vote for the bug report so it will be fixed soon (hopefully): FSS bug scanning planet