Help with ship radar.

[Immusama]

Hello,
So I started a couple days ago and is there a way to hide fsd wakes when trying to collect mats?
Cuz I can't judge distance yet and I keep selecting the wrong marks on my radar

 

[Vedmo]

You can zoom the radar in and out, if all the mats in are close, chances are that will separate them from any distant wakes.

You could also use contacts in your left panel to select the mats.

So far as filtering anything off of you radar, I'm not aware of a way to do that.

 

[Immusama]

Oh, I didn't think of using contacts. That helps a lot, thank you.

 

[Sublime]

If you have a collector limpet you can also fire it off without targeting anything and it will collect everything in range automatically, including mats.

If you target something it will collect that one thing and then self destruct but without targeting it will keep collecting. (FDEV needs to change that, there’s no reason why it can’t just stick around for its lifetime even after targeting something).

Be sure to set all canisters to ignore via the contacts tab so it won’t collect those as most will be stolen anyways, unless you want that.

 

[Speedcuffs]

If you have a collector limpet you can also fire it off without targeting anything and it will collect everything in range automatically, including mats.

If you target something it will collect that one thing and then self destruct but without targeting it will keep collecting. (FDEV needs to change that, there’s no reason why it can’t just stick around for its lifetime even after targeting something).

Be sure to set all canisters to ignore via the contacts tab so it won’t collect those as lost will be stolen anyways, unless you want that.

Because if you target something the limpet is faster.
It's good for thievery.

 

[Immusama]

Thank you all, it helped me a lot .

 

[Rat Catcher]

It's good for thievery.

Such a coarse phrase...

"Redistribution of assets' is fine...

... particularly when referring to "2nd Owner" commodities

 

[Bottom Hat]

Such a coarse phrase...

"Redistribution of assets' is fine...

... particularly when referring to "2nd Owner" commodities

Balancing of assets.

 

[Eraden]

I didn't know that the limpets moved faster if you actually select a target. Thanks for that tidbit!

 

[Misty_Dark]

I didn't know that the limpets moved faster if you actually select a target. Thanks for that tidbit!

that speed comes as a cost, the limpet turn into a single use asset. Great if you only want some specific mats of all that are within range of the limpet.

A few other things about limpets that can be useful to know about.

• In contacts you can tell limpets to add/remove things on an ignore list, like dropped cargo canisters...
• If you material storage for specific material is full, limpets will not try to collect any more of that material.

 

[Rat Catcher]

In contacts you can tell limpets to add/remove things on an ignore list, like dropped cargo canisters...

I didn't know that.... (and have been playing over 3 years!)