It seems like lot of people are having issues with the new system in Odyssey, where the geological and biological locations no longer display on the left side navigation panel after you have used DSS (detailed surface scanner) to map the planet 100%. I was very confused about it too, but that's because developers want you to actually explore the planet and not just land based on a POI. You have to use the heat map and know which colors mean what. To explain this better, I have made a video tutorial on it, I found a perfect, unexplored, planet with 6x biological signals, so check it out if you're also having trouble finding stuff after the update.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGWs2if0toM
Ideas to devs:
1. I think it would be cool if you can bookmark a specific location on a planet.
2. It would also be very useful if you can target a specific location on planet (view surface map, then right or left click and place marker)
3. We need orbital probes, that can be used as GPS. If you send out enough probes / satellites to orbit, then you're able to zoom to the surface and map the terrain, such as mapping landing spots for your ship and asking your ship to land in specific place manually. Those probes should stay on orbit forever and if others use those probes, you should get a small fee for it. like 10-100 credits if someone else wants to use them. Also those probes should allow you to explore the planet without being in supercruise and circling around it. Probes should allow you to explore the planet from anywhere in the system (you have to still go close to planet to launch probes onto orbit).
4. we also need bigger vehicles. I'd love to see some sort of planetary fights, we need some futuristic tanks on tracks or even a hover tank (similar to what is seen in PlanetSide2) and I'd definetely like to see a big explorer, something that is size of a small ship and can only be carried by large ships, such as Anaconda, Type-9, Type-10, Cutter, Corvette ..etc. And this explorer could also have multi-crew and advantages over small SRV.
Ideas to devs:
1. I think it would be cool if you can bookmark a specific location on a planet.
2. It would also be very useful if you can target a specific location on planet (view surface map, then right or left click and place marker)
3. We need orbital probes, that can be used as GPS. If you send out enough probes / satellites to orbit, then you're able to zoom to the surface and map the terrain, such as mapping landing spots for your ship and asking your ship to land in specific place manually. Those probes should stay on orbit forever and if others use those probes, you should get a small fee for it. like 10-100 credits if someone else wants to use them. Also those probes should allow you to explore the planet without being in supercruise and circling around it. Probes should allow you to explore the planet from anywhere in the system (you have to still go close to planet to launch probes onto orbit).
4. we also need bigger vehicles. I'd love to see some sort of planetary fights, we need some futuristic tanks on tracks or even a hover tank (similar to what is seen in PlanetSide2) and I'd definetely like to see a big explorer, something that is size of a small ship and can only be carried by large ships, such as Anaconda, Type-9, Type-10, Cutter, Corvette ..etc. And this explorer could also have multi-crew and advantages over small SRV.
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