System Wide Planet Scanner

[griflor]

I do enjoy the game but scanning a system is too tedious come on it can take over an hour just to scan all the planet in one system
if it has more than 10 planets. It took me almost 3 hours to do a 25 or 30 planet system I quit playing for a week after that
there are different level of system scanners to find the planets, how about different level of scanners to explore them.
I have a class a sensor, advance discovery scanner, and a detailed scanner and it is just to tedious to scan planet when you have to
travel to each one and most of them you have to be 10ly or so away from it.
why not put a ship module in like the discovery scanner for planet scanning you get less profit from scanning the system that way
and you get credit for discovery of the planet, and if you want the big buck you then should have to fly to it and use the detailed
scanner. because as it is now you get no credit for discovery unless you use the surface scanner the game is just too tedious if you
want to be an explorer I can waste my time on other games.

 

[carlisle]

Isn't this what the ADS already does? It scans the entire system, you get some money for discovering planets that way, but you get more if you get in closer for a detailed scan. I'm failing to see how this is hugely different from what you're suggesting of a version of the detailed scanner that scans the entire system in less detail giving you less money.

 

[griflor]

no the ADS only shows you what is in the system you still have to go to them and scan them to get credit for discovering them and credit when selling the system data or next time you go to the system you have to ADS them again just to see them

 

[Masta Squidge]

Protip: If you want something, the reason why you don't have it is often (not always) the reason why you shouldn't.


While I agree that it is tedious, and boring, consider the possibility that the devs meant for this process to take a significant amount of time. They don't want you to burn into a system, run one scan and then warp out getting credit for the entire thing. You can scan hundreds of systems a day like this.

The poster above you is right, when you use the ADS you get basic system information already, and then you can fly to the object and scan it for more value.

This is already in effect.


You can't really be sitting here telling us you want to be able to get credit for discovering planets and moons without actually bothering to do any of the work to do it.

 

[griflor]

you already worked hard enough to make the money to get all the scanners to do the job you should not have to fly within 5 feet of every planet to scan it just to get any type of credit for it give us a longer range
on the detailed scanner like a couple 1000ly instead of 10ly or so that is what I'm asking 2 to 4 hours in a system scanning planets in redonkulous....

 

[carlisle]

you already worked hard enough to make the money to get all the scanners to do the job you should not have to fly within 5 feet of every planet to scan it just to get any type of credit for it give us a longer range
on the detailed scanner like a couple 1000ly instead of 10ly or so that is what I'm asking 2 to 4 hours in a system scanning planets in redonkulous....

Do you really get that much for scanning rocks for it to be worth going to every one though? Watching explorers (because I'm not one myself) they all seem to do the advanced scan, then look at the system map and decide which planets they want to go to for a detailed scan... which ones might be metal-rich or earth-like. That seems to be working-as-intended. I can see you would have a point if you were supposed to fly to every single thing once you've done the advanced scan, but I don't think you do.

Erimus went to the other side of the galaxy, that's around 60,000 Ly. Assuming his jumps averaged about 30Ly each, this means he visited in the region of 2,000 systems. If he was scanning every planet in every system, and going off what you said that takes an average of 3 hours per system, then that would have taken him 6,000 hours... which is 250 days, but he did the trip in about 3 weeks I think (and this isn't including the trip back), the game hasn't even been out for 250 days. Even if I'm overestimating how long it would take by a factor of ten, that's still too long for him to have done that in the time it took him.

Your comment about having worked hard enough to afford the scanners is a little disingenuous sounding from one who wants to explore. It seems to be saying that the time you spent trading in order to buy the scanners should mean you don't need to spend as long exploring.

 

[Magic Man]

Basically, you want it easier because you find it 'tedious' and want a shortcut to make money faster.
No, don't agree, it works fine as it is and is time balanced for a reason. You're scanning an entire solar system, it should take more than 5 minutes to do, irrespective of what equipment you have.

 

[griflor]

just because you guys have all day to spend playing games does not mean the rest of the world does I would like to enjoy the game not make it another job

 

[Somillian Hiigara]

So you're saying your reward for doing something for a very short period should be just as much as people doing it for a long time? Yeah, no. If you want to earn quick cash, go run rares.

 

[Defacto]

just because you guys have all day to spend playing games does not mean the rest of the world does I would like to enjoy the game not make it another job

I think you are on your own here. We don't have all day. We have as much time as we want. Things are fine.

Maybe exploration is not for you.