Make the SRV scanner actually useful.

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
Tryst said:
It's easy if you can do it. I just can't see what it's doing, it makes patterns and noises, but they mean nothing to me.
It's like looking at random white noise on an oscilliscope and trying to discern some sort of pattern to it.
I can't see those images hidden in a load of coloured shapes either (stereograms I think they are called), I just see random shapes and colours on a piece of paper.

It could be a perception problem I didn't know about, but it makes the SRV completely useless as anything more than a buggy to run around on a planet in. I'll use the geo sites because I simply can't use the SRV scanner no matter how many times I've tried.

@Pug, you can trade materials for materials, but you can't trade raw for encoded or encode for manufactured etc. I have loads of encoded, but most of those I dont really need, it's the raw stuff I need. You can't even get raw stuff by doing missions, only encoded and manufactured.
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The further away the wider and less obvious the signal will be. The closer you get, the more refined the signal will look. I've found it very easy from the very beginning.
 

Starshot_Jigawatts

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The scanner is nearly useless yes. Best bet is to just Google up a list of geo/bio sites and not to hunt random nodes on random planets. That's a big waste of time.
 

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Para Handy said:
It is actually quite a zen-like experience if you are in the mood for it. I know people like schlepping out to a crystal maze or dropping-in to bio or geo POI - (which is my preference these days) - but from time to time I might do a body search for a combo of materals on EDDB and go for a drive around zapping rocks as I go. It might be due to me being used to having to do that back in the day before these new-fangled sources were added but in any event I like to do it from time to time.

BTW - No the wavescanner is not useless - back when we had phantom returns, disappearing rocks, detection range of 50m for icons on the scanner, etc. - then it was nearly useless, nowadays it is exceptionally good at what is supposed to do.
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Our ships have sensors that can tell us exactly what and where anything on a planet. The SRV uses 1990's technology with vague magnetic readings and clicks and buzzes.

It just seems all very... Disjointed.
 

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-VR- Max Factor said:
The further away the wider and less obvious the signal will be
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And further away can mean far away which means far away, not just over there, but far away. If you got 2 or 3 separate signals pick one and aim for that, as you get closer itll get closer together, as you get even closer itll start to refine into solid bars, and as you get close itll be tight and when you get real close you can see a white square and target it.

If its not refining or getting tighter youre not driving at it, keep it in dead centre of scanner or youre driving past it or parallel to it.

Far away. Park your ship, drive 2.99 km and turn around, whats on your scanner?
 

[PS4] Filthymick420

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Pug said:
Tryst This -

You won't get better advice.

I for one can't believe that it can't be learned as my 6 year old nephew is better at telling me what they are before 'I' have figured it out.
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This isn't a needing advice thread cmdr. This is a whinge thread designed as a staged for OPs salt towards the SRV scanner.

Op doesn't care how easy it actually is.

OP doesn't want advice.

Op wants changes made to dumb the game down to their level
 

Pug

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Filthymick420 said:
This isn't a needing advice thread cmdr. This is a whinge thread designed as a staged for OPs salt towards the SRV scanner.

Op doesn't care how easy it actually is.

OP doesn't want advice.

Op wants changes made to dumb the game down to their level
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I get that Mick, but it is a bit dated for the year in question as we have all sorts of meters these days that convert one signal into a plain text or a more easily understood format, that isn't laziness it's progress you luddite :)
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Zieman said:
That's the charm of it. It isn't an instagib-me-all-nao -machine, it actually needs the tiniest bit of skill / understanding of its workings to make it useful. ;)
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In the 80's it used to take a bit of skill and an old coat hanger to get to one of the 4 channels available showing on my tv.
I still wouldn't go back, I like my firestick :)

Crap analogy really but hey ho.
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