How long will it take to search a planet for a Ruin with your eyes? - Answer inside!
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Don't worry... More clues will continue to be handily given until they are found...
ie: Why are the mechanics/tools not there to allow CMDRs to be proactive, and why is it instead seemingly generally just down to hints... Warmer... Colder... Colder... Warmer... Warmer... Hotter... Very hot!
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Are you guys looking for my wife ?
This subject does give me a head ache!
That described my ex wife.. well the colder bit anyway...
LOL, Thumbs up!
Imagine if exploration had more tools like several threads have suggested.
- Planetary mapping
- Using the already existing planet grid (instead of X/Y coordinated we could also have Grid Reference 4F or similar to narrow it down since it's damn hard to find the coordinates from orbit)
- Improved scanning mechanic for structures, biosigns and minerals
Unless I completely mucked up my calculations...
At 1km/s, it'd only take 16 years. Lol
But then maths isn't my strong point.
At 1km/s, it'd only take 16 years. Lol
But then maths isn't my strong point.
How long it would take would be heavily influenced by the search pattern you decide to take. Do you do spirals or do you follow the "orange peel" sections?
Covering a round object without going over the same area twice means you need to do the search in a spiral pattern starting in one location, e.g. north pole, then spiraling outwards towards the equator and then continue to spiral inwards again as you start progressing towards the south pole.
Optionally you can do a complex pattern to follow the "orange peel" true 2D map of earth.
Covering a round object without going over the same area twice means you need to do the search in a spiral pattern starting in one location, e.g. north pole, then spiraling outwards towards the equator and then continue to spiral inwards again as you start progressing towards the south pole.
Optionally you can do a complex pattern to follow the "orange peel" true 2D map of earth.
And a generation ship so your offspring could continue the search once you are dead
ooh imagine if you were distracted and flew straight by... ouch!
verminstar
Banned
Hell I cant even find my spare dentures, what chance would I have finding ruins?
Seriously though...I stopped looking ages ago because theres no point. They only exist when FD decides they will exist so best time to go looking would be a couple days before a patch update.
On that note...Im parked up in a system which pinged back 99 hits. Scanning everything in it will take roughly 2 or 3 hours depending in distances and concentration levels, and thats just scanning them. Actually searching a system of this size would take...a helluva lot longer than my patience levels will last and Im a fairly patient guy.
Also on that note, Ive never found geysers either...seen them on screenshots but never ingame. Rare as hens teeth these things...not even sure of what exactly Im supposed to look for and I refuse point blank to use out of game resources...personal principle non negotiable Im afraid...if its not ingame then its not worth knowing imho.
Seriously though...I stopped looking ages ago because theres no point. They only exist when FD decides they will exist so best time to go looking would be a couple days before a patch update.
On that note...Im parked up in a system which pinged back 99 hits. Scanning everything in it will take roughly 2 or 3 hours depending in distances and concentration levels, and thats just scanning them. Actually searching a system of this size would take...a helluva lot longer than my patience levels will last and Im a fairly patient guy.
Also on that note, Ive never found geysers either...seen them on screenshots but never ingame. Rare as hens teeth these things...not even sure of what exactly Im supposed to look for and I refuse point blank to use out of game resources...personal principle non negotiable Im afraid...if its not ingame then its not worth knowing imho.
Because, at least in the case of the ruins, we were never intended to be truly proactive, just the illusion of being proactive, else the mystery be solved before most commanders could even make it to the ruins, let alone meaningfully participate.
I've discovered my ex's temp but accident. It's a bit like the heisenberg's theory. You can know what she's doing or why she did something, you will never know why she is doing something.
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Also, how long would it take 1000 pilots all lined up at the optimal distance apart take to search a planet?
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Yeah in this game exploration is out of game riddle solving.
I wish someday we have tools to freely explore the galaxy.
Arguendo
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This is a much better question than the "answers" in the OP. There is a distance when the ruins become "impossible" to see due to the smudge effect added to them in 2.2, but that's not the most efficient way to find them. The most efficient way is by sound, because its sound is very specific and you can hear it between 7 and 10km out depending on the situation.
Given a distance of 8km, which is feasible, the math becomes totally different to the OP.
Also, how many of those landable bodies are actually the same size as Earth? The one I picked to search for a bit (D101 C 3 A) has a radius of 655km, while Earth has a radius of 6371km. That's 5,391,290km2 vs 510,064,000km2, so basically 1/100th the area.
Given an audible/visual range of 8km to either side, every cmdr can search 3200km2/hr. It will take one single cmdr 1684,8hrs (70,2days) to fully search that moon. Get together a search party of 1000cmdrs and it will take 1,7hrs to do it.
This is silly math though, as it's a sphere. Place one cmdr on every other degree on that planet, and send them North to south following the 180 line. At the furthest they will be 22km apart at the equator of that planet, leaving a gap of about 5km that isn't covered. That is easily covered by those that aren't needed near the poles, since the degrees are closer there. The circumference of the planet is 4115km, which means 180 cmdrs flying at 200km/hr can do it in just about 20hrs. A lot less if they are efficient.
Conlusion; math will be math, and searching 74 planets is a time-sink no matter how you look at it.
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