How persistent is the SRV

Woakes

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I'm using my srv as an anchor point when scanning for biologicals.
So when I find something, I land. unpack my SRV as a marker. Scan the biological. Walk back to the ship and take off
So far I haven't needed to go more than 2km away (stoopid bacteria).

However I started to get a tad nervous that the SRV would despawn if I got too far away.
or it might despawn if I logged off.

So has anyone tested the persistence of an SRV. Is it left on a planet between instances? Could one fly away into orbit with supercruise and fly back?
How easy would it be to find it from orbit?
 

aRJay

aRJay
It is like a ship in that when you aren’t on line it isn’t anywhere.

You probably can’t find it from more than 10km away at best.

If I do want to go back to a sample location I just go back to the latitude and longitude coordinates.
 

vlazet

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æryn said:
I'm pretty sure the SRV will self destruct if you move more than about 10-15km away.
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yep. For example, if you park it at a ground CZ and die there, you respawn in a deployment ship a long distance away, destroying the SRV. On a side note, I quit the game once after parking the srv, dying and respawning in the deployment ship, then when I reloaded I was on a station a long distance away without my ship (left it in orbit over CZ) and I couldn't recall it, there was no one in shipyard office for some reason so I had to redeploy back to the CZ using frontline solutions and lo and behold, SRV was still there. Go figure lol
 
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Anticon

Anticon
Are you using Elite Observatory with BioInsights? If you do, you'll always know when you leave the diversity-exclusion zone for a sampled bio. Then you won't need to use your SRV as a marker.
 

Woakes

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metatheurgist said:
You do know your HUD actually tracks the location of the current biological you are scanning?
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yeah, but its quicker at times to use your ship. Especially those samples which spawn least compared to the other organics on the planet, (and I used the filter in the surface scanner to find a location free of the others.
 

Woakes

W
Anticon said:
Are you using Elite Observatory with BioInsights? If you do, you'll always know when you leave the diversity-exclusion zone for a sampled bio. Then you won't need to use your SRV as a marker.
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I've been tempted to after The Buur Pitt talked about some fancy explorer 3rd party thing. But i'm too lazy to search and download and install.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Woakes said:
I've been tempted to after The Buur Pitt talked about some fancy explorer 3rd party thing. But i'm too lazy to search and download and install.
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There are almost certainly links in the apps and tools sub forum, I use Observatory with BioInsights and it is a splendid tool, there are others in that forum that do much the same thing but I haven’t tried them.
 

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
Woakes said:
I'm using my srv as an anchor point when scanning for biologicals.
So when I find something, I land. unpack my SRV as a marker. Scan the biological. Walk back to the ship and take off
So far I haven't needed to go more than 2km away (stoopid bacteria).
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For myself, there are times when I'm after Fungoida stetis and there simply isn't anywhere to land. On these occasions I'll note the coordinates and when I do find somewhere I can land I can walk (terrain is invariably a nightmare for the SRV in these places) to the plants and then recall my ship.
Of course there'll be a meadow of the stuff I find immediately after taking off...
 

aRJay

aRJay
Felix DiCestria said:
For myself, there are times when I'm after Fungoida stetis and there simply isn't anywhere to land. On these occasions I'll note the coordinates and when I do find somewhere I can land I can walk (terrain is invariably a nightmare for the SRV in these places) to the plants and then recall my ship.
Of course there'll be a meadow of the stuff I find immediately after taking off...
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But only after you have found the third sample.
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
It really would be nice if the wave scanner would be able to pick up things like plants and bacteria and stuff. The darn thing can pick up rocks from kilometers away.
 

photomankc

photomankc
Leadfoot said:
It really would be nice if the wave scanner would be able to pick up things like plants and bacteria and stuff. The darn thing can pick up rocks from kilometers away.
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Yeah totally missed opportunity to make the process interactive and at least somewhat engaging vs just drive around and look and hope.


Same with the sampling tool. All sorts of ways to make it more engaging, but they wont.
  • Vary payment by sample diversity (different sizes or stages of development).
  • More of a tuning approach to using the sampling tool. More money for better quality of sample. More accurate tuning, better sample.
  • The ping being actually useful on foot to give general direction of more of the same type of bio.
  • Offer raw mats to gather (and allow it by hand) from these bio like other original bio.

For the SRV
- Wave scanner 'bio' mode where similar bands can be used to locate broad types of bio to find the next cluster.
 
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