The ADS

[Knot2clever]

Should have tried reading the posts rather than scrolling through them. If they had bothered then a better understanding would have resulted.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

I quoted Burke's post, not yours.

Maybe the bugs have finally reached the forum as well.

That NEVER happens....

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

ADS
FSS
DSS
SRV
BGS
ADC
SCA

This game loves a 3.

 

[Spaceman Si]

I usually call it the Eff.Eff.Ess.

Phonetic, because the forum won’t let me put the TLA in

 

[Burke]

Yamiks has the best name for it i heard

 

[Spaceman Si]

Yamiks has the best name for it i heard

One can always rely on Yamiks

Whilst I’m here, why the avatar of Jesus Reconstruction, Burke? Been puzzling me for ages, that has!

 

[Burke]

Whilst I’m here, why the avatar of Jesus Reconstruction, Burke? Been puzzling me for ages, that has!

No reason at all. I was thinking of putting a rainbow wig on it but i have no ms paint skills.

 

[Hanerib]

I wonder if fdev put out the gaffa-tape patch just to distract people from this ADS resurrection? Possible

I want it all

 

[Burke]

They also look at the other sort of feedback. It's right there in front of you, where your eye is deep shut.

So let everybody be happy. Why do you have to exclude some with an "im alright jack"

 

[Burke]

Look at it with online status showing

 

[Han Zulu]

When you go to a completely unexplored system, you have no idea where any of the planets are until you use the FSS. They do not come up as unexplored after a honk, there is literally nothing in the nav panel to point your ship at and fly to.

Personally I much prefer the FSS over the ADS. I prefer to actually do some gameplay to find the planets in game rather then press a button for 5 seconds. But we all have our preferences.

If you go into a system that someone else has discovered, then all the planets after a honk will show up as unexplored.

Agree. From the beginning I felt the FSS gave me some more "immersion" to the game. I had to do some activity to get the information I wanted. The only changes I'd like to see is:
1) POI location scanning should only reveal that there's something to discover on the planet, and DSS is necessary to find the actual locations and what they are. And add more things to find with the DSS as well, to make it useful besides extra credits.
2) Be able to at least open the FSS to see the spectrogram even in full supercruise speed, to speed up searches for specific planetary findings. Meaning, being able to honk and see the spectrogram while scooping and rounding the star, making the decision to stop only if you see the bars on the spectrogram you're interested in, like WWs or ELWs, but just as well as gas giants of type IV and V, etc.

 

[Cmdr Esteban]

The thing that the FSS detractors keep banging on about, is that with the new setup in an unexplored system, you actually need to do some exploring rather than press a button for a few seconds. Oh, woe!

The new system is infinitely better. Unless you're one of those ADHD people who passively plays the game while watching Netflix or browsing social media - or all of those things at the same time. Never understood that sort of mentality. Immersion - relax and enjoy the experience - one activity at a time please!

 

[Para Handy]

....... I can honk, look at the system map for interesting planets and fly over to scan them from nearby.

So why do some folks want the ADS back so much when it's still there? I honestly don't get it.

You need to get out more.

 

[askavir]

The thing that the FSS detractors keep banging on about, is that with the new setup in an unexplored system, you actually need to do some exploring rather than press a button for a few seconds. Oh, woe!

"Exploring"... while sitting on our arx at system entry. Such exploration...

 

[IndigoWyrd]

ADS
FSS
DSS
SRV
BGS
ADC
SCA

This game loves a 3.

3 makes a 3-some.
2 makes a 2-some.
Why are there so many handsome people around here?

 

[Cmdr Esteban]

"Exploring"... while sitting on our arx at system entry. Such exploration...

Or rather, travel endless LS to scan each planet/moon individually. In Each. And. Every. System.

Kindly explain how you - yes, you personally - would have implemented it better.

 

[Burke]

Kindly explain how you - yes, you personally - would have implemented it better.

I would have left both ways in the game and let the player enjoy which ever they chose.

 

[WR3ND]

Personally, I'd be fine with just targetable unidentified celestial body signal source headings on the nav. panel after the honk.

Having to choose between the extremes of parking my spaceships and using the FSS or using something like parallax seems a bit daft to me in a first-person spaceship flying game. Better to have a complimentary spectrum of possibilities available to a player's situational discretion and preferences.

 

[Cmdr Esteban]

I would have left both ways in the game and let the player enjoy which ever they chose.

But how? As separate modules? How would that be implemented? As soon as you have a god mode for exploration (which is what the old ADS was) you negate the need to do actual exploring.

 

[Enderby]

"Actual exploring"