Suggestion: Pulse Wave Scanner

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So I will try to make this thread as none inflammatory as possible But I have a huge beef with the PWS.

Mainly that it feels useless.

Why?

Well Lets start with this;
The Pulse Wave Scanner (PWS acronym will be used here forth) does not make a distinct relationship between "Valuable" mats/resource/wares and stuff that all of use would call junk and/or worthless when appearing as a Bright Orange Color.
The PWS does not highlight Low Temp Diamonds and/or Void Opals neither does it highlight any thing that you are specifically looking for.

So What is the point of the PWS?

Are we supposed to make a correlation between these glowing rocks and the rocks next to it that arn't glowing? This is acutally the case in a 50:50 ratio that rocks in the immediate vacinity have a chance of being what we/you set out to look for. So why not make those rocks glow orange or for that matter add additional colors to this spectrum? Isn't the PWS suppose or intended to atleast point us in the right direction for what we are looking for? Yet It doesn't. Again what is the point of something that doesn't function? "emits a fast-moving pulse of energy that will briefly highlight any asteroids with lucrative deposits within range " This happens so often that you can effectively stop using the PWS if you are looking for a specific Prospector drone target or if you have enough Prospecting drones to begin with. When all you need is a few hundred limpets and just start sending them out at random targets/rocks.
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Lightspeed

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BrianM said:
The PWS does not highlight Low Temp Diamonds and/or Void Opals neither does it highlight any thing that you are specifically looking for.
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This is the point behind mining. You don't know what you are getting until you crack the rock open. As in the game, so in real life. Nothing is certain about prospecting. Except that the prospector limpet actually tells you what is inside once you've identified the correct glowing rock.

I'm not entirely sure what you are saying here, but maybe you need to practice with the PWS more? It is a very useful tool when you get used to it, and far, far better than the mechanism we had previously.
 

Kenpachi85

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After mining over 7 billion cr worth of void opals I can assure you the pws does reveal a lot once your eyes get attuned to it. Valuable motherlode roids have a certain shape and size to them and are brighter than other roids at all distances. As you close in they flash a color similar to fools gold when you repeatedly honk the pws with a black grid pattern that overlays the roid. Once your eyes adjust you should never waste time on bunk roids although low temp diamonds, bentonite, granderdite, void opals and alexandrite roids do look very similar. But if your looking in a void opal hotspot they should usually be void opal roids most the time. Fyi I've noticed that opal roids have more of the fools gold coloring and others have more of a orange color usually.

I usually just boost along below or above the plane of the asteroid field with fa off in my vette spinning and scanning in all directions till I see a roid that's noticably brighter than the others. They are bright orange at a distance and change to bright yellow with orange fringing as you approach. At around 2km they start flashing the fools gold coloring with the black grid patterning.

And ftr the Corvette is a awesome deep core miner if you are good at maneuvering large ships. I've gotten to the point where I can dance around roids like a humming bird in it you just gotta know how to turn and stop momentum easily. I do this by turning my ship perpendicular to the angle of its momentum and using vertical thrusters to bring my ship to a stop as I move around the roid. I can even squeeze right into the core a few seconds after detonation to use my abrasion blaster. The vette can do it easily and I regularly pull down 200tns per run and have the power to defend my cargo on the way to the buyer afterwards.
 
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stereoBear

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GreyAreaUK said:
The job of the PWS isn't to tell you which rocks are definitely valuable. It's to tell you which rocks definitely aren't.
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Kenpachi85 said:
After mining over 7 billion cr worth of void opals I can assure you the pws does reveal a lot once your eyes get attuned to it.
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And that's really it. The PWS is not an I-win-button that you press and it will tell you which rock to shoot at. It's a tool that helps you identify viable candidates, a tool that you as an aspiring miner can get better at interpreting.
Yes, my TL;DR is: git gud!
 
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