[Prospecting] Disappearing Materials ?

dognosh

dognosh
So now they have limited the range at which you "see" mats at to 50m , good !!!
The following only happened once, so until it happens again I won't submit a bug report :
I shot my ore, got 4 mats out of it. Picked 3 up, on my 3rd pickup the 4th was more than 50m away, so it went off my radar. I went towards it and it was not there !!!
I retraced my tyre tracks and looked everywhere, but no, it had scarpered.

Anyone else ?

ty :)
 
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CDR Michael Darkmoor

CDR Michael Darkmoor
dognosh said:
So now they have limited the range at which you "see" mats at to 50m , good !!!
The following only happened once, so until it happens again I won't submit a bug report :
I shot my ore, got 4 mats out of it. Picked 3 up, on my 3rd pickup the 4th was more than 50m away, so it went off my radar. I went towards it and it was not there !!!
I retraced my tyre tracks and looked everywhere, but no, it had scarpered.

Anyone else ?

ty :)
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50 meters clears your scope
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3 Minutes clears the field
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You've got 3 minutes to pick 'em up or they are gone forever.
(you can sit on the pile and go to contacts with your scoop down... just click through them and they quickly fill your hold :D )
 
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dognosh

dognosh
CDR Michael Darkmoor said:
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50 meters clears your scope
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3 Minutes clears the field
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You've got 3 minutes to pick 'em up or they are gone forever.
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It took me 30 secs to start looking for the 4th one, so it wasn't that :)

CDR Michael Darkmoor said:
(you can sit on the pile and go to contacts with your scoop down... just click through them and they quickly fill your hold :D )
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Spooky, just blew up a MM and saw a pile, sat on it and kept selecting mats from left UI and got all 4 in 4 secs :D
 

CDR Michael Darkmoor

CDR Michael Darkmoor
:D
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This actually sounds like the down hill rolling of the mat as it picks up speed and disappears... and it ain't straight. Things bounce around like the farmer's kids going across the train tracks in the back of the pick up doin' 60 mph...
<there must be a shorter way to say that :p >
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I've lost a few mats that way... just couldn't find them after they rolled off... they might be falling through the terrain or... I'm just guessing wrong about where they actually went. At 50 meters scope loss... there are a lot of places them little buggers can get to.
 

mls

mls
Traveller_GG said:
happened to me as well... and in a multi-player instance (pre-FGE meetup at BP) but I shot the rocks myself. Watched them go up, and up

and up....
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I've seen it in an instance with random task. he shot the rock and up they went for me. when they came back down they hit the surface at that weired height above my planet surface.
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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I think materials are now subject to a line-of-sight effect, so if you've shot a resource node on a hill and the materials fall down on the far side, they won't show up until you move into view (even disappearing from your contacts list). Yesterday I was collecting in some rough-ish terrain and this was quite noticeable.
 

dognosh

dognosh
Edelgard von Rhein said:
I think materials are now subject to a line-of-sight effect, so if you've shot a resource node on a hill and the materials fall down on the far side, they won't show up until you move into view (even disappearing from your contacts list). Yesterday I was collecting in some rough-ish terrain and this was quite noticeable.
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No, I can even see the radar box even if mats are down a hill. What happens now is mats have a 50m distance limit.
 
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