AS you can get detailed scans from distance, ore there any benefits from landing and exploring with ta scarab on unexplored planets? or is it just for fun?
what are the benefits of landing on an unexplored planet?
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Mostly, to find POIs and mats. Occasionally to find previously-unknown things like the Thargoid Bases and Guardian Ruins.
But yes, apart from that it's all for the fun of it
To make it short: No.
There is no financial benefit above scanning with DSS.
There is a very small benefit I think to remember that is given for landers in Rank progression.
Surface exploration is the unexplored land in Elite Dangerous today. There are lots of improvements suggested
but none cane to life today. If FD is working on that? I am in doubt because of limited resources.
You can flash this out by 100 FTE Developers for 2 years and there is still stuff to go for.
Hence I do not expect anything before Version 3 is ready, and Version 3 will it most likely not make it to the
ground this year.
Regards,
Miklos
There is no financial benefit above scanning with DSS.
There is a very small benefit I think to remember that is given for landers in Rank progression.
Surface exploration is the unexplored land in Elite Dangerous today. There are lots of improvements suggested
but none cane to life today. If FD is working on that? I am in doubt because of limited resources.
You can flash this out by 100 FTE Developers for 2 years and there is still stuff to go for.
Hence I do not expect anything before Version 3 is ready, and Version 3 will it most likely not make it to the
ground this year.
Regards,
Miklos
There is no benefit other than rank increase from driving the srv at the moment.
I tend to get a kick out of interesting landscapes and features and exploring these unseen worlds.
I find the uniqueness of the procedurally generated planets compelling. Although I will admit you'd be hard pushed to tell a difference from one barren rock to the next,so I fill in the gaps with an active imagination.
There are things to discover I'm told,although I'm yet to find anything particularly interesting.
I tend to get a kick out of interesting landscapes and features and exploring these unseen worlds.
I find the uniqueness of the procedurally generated planets compelling. Although I will admit you'd be hard pushed to tell a difference from one barren rock to the next,so I fill in the gaps with an active imagination.
There are things to discover I'm told,although I'm yet to find anything particularly interesting.
Today I found a lot of containers on a planet surface by using the scanner on the SRV. Gold, Iridium, tiffeef? or something (seemingly a kind of gemstone). Always something to find.
Materials - check on the system map after a DSS - it will tell you what is present and the percentage 3% is good for the rares ones like Arsenic & Technetium.
And hidden bases, skimmers, crashed SRVs, all kinds of stuff http://wavescanner.net is useful for understanding the SRV scanner
And hidden bases, skimmers, crashed SRVs, all kinds of stuff http://wavescanner.net is useful for understanding the SRV scanner
me to, never thought going around a distant planet or moon did anything much
From what i understand the only progression you get from exploring surfaces is a tiny boost when you discover a new material. Once you find them all the xp stops
Is this what everyone is talking about (emphasis mine)? If so, then I already knew that
The way some of you wrote, I thought that I might get the exploration equivalent of "frequent flyer miles" but with SRV km (distance in SRV is tracked in our stats).
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Is this what everyone is talking about (emphasis mine)? If so, then I already knew that
The way some of you wrote, I thought that I might get the exploration equivalent of "frequent flyer miles" but with SRV km (distance in SRV is tracked in our stats).
you do.
there is some exploration rank gain for distance driving the srv, and it also depends on distance from sol:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...d-Exploration-Rank-there-is-a-link-after-all-)
Nice! That makes doing a long-haul surface trip worth even more
...Oh and I forgot the most important reply to the OP: What are the benefits? Fun! It's the *only* reason to do anything. (*how* you quantify that is up to you, be it be credit gain, rank gain, seeing beautiful sights, being the fastest person in the current Buckyball Race or any one of an infinite number of personal variations)
Well paint me pink! This game has all sorts of hidden gems. It would be nice of some of my NPC buddies at the station would say, "Impressive cartographic data you've got there! Did you know that driving your SRV on planets also increases your exploration rank?" I never would have figured this out if not for this thread.
So... am I able to spot POI's just by doing a detailed surface scan? Or do I need to get down to the surface and scan with my SRV to find things?
For random POIs you can fly at low level until you see the blue circle on your radar, before landing and using the SRV's scanner to pin-point it, or you can just drive around in your SRV following the scanner until you get to whatever you find.
So... just for clarification... these blue circles don't show up when I view the surface map in my ship?
I'm not sure but it's my findings thus far is it depends on what the point of interest is. While all POI's in space can be activated by a simple ship scanner when within range. Most planetary POI's can not, thus needing a wave scanner which is only avaiable in an srv. In coversations with others, there's a tendency to use semantics when it comes to using the term Point of Interest. I've found that regardless of the term and how it utilized, there all for the most part with few exceptions just beacons. The one's in space only require a conventional scanner, some, not all on planets require a wave scanner. I personaly don't use an srv when exploring, so I am not sure as to how to know which needs which when on a particuar specific mission. I can tell you from personal experience that missions requiring a planetary scan means one has to have an srv. The ship's scanner will not scan the beacon when the mission is to scan a planet and receive the data.
I raised the question, thinking I was doing something incorrect and it was tested to be true. One needs a srv to complete a planetary scan and receive the data within.
I raised the question, thinking I was doing something incorrect and it was tested to be true. One needs a srv to complete a planetary scan and receive the data within.