[SE5] What's the best discovering strategy?

PDF · #1 September 20th, 2006, 06:13 PM

IMHO it's rather strange to not even see the biggest planets when entering the system (imagine missing Jupiter ?!)... Plus it makes searching tedious, how do you know what part of space has been "explored" or not ? Didn't notice any visual clue..
Plus the auto-search *does* know where to search, it ain't consistent.
It would be better to see the planet as "objects" but no detail about size, atmosphere, resources... until sensors at range.

Suicide Junkie · #2 September 20th, 2006, 06:19 PM

You can set planets to be visible at any range in settings.txt

Graeme Dice · #3 September 20th, 2006, 06:31 PM

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IMHO it's rather strange to not even see the biggest planets when entering the system (imagine missing Jupiter ?!)... Plus it makes searching tedious, how do you know what part of space has been "explored" or not ? Didn't notice any visual clue..

Explored areas that you can currently see have green outlines. Explored areas you can't currently see have grey outlines. Unexplored areas have red outlines.

Santiago · #4 September 20th, 2006, 11:47 PM

Get a ship with good scanners and set a survey system order under additional orders is one possible way if your not in a hurry.

bearclaw · #5 September 21st, 2006, 04:13 PM

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IMHO it's rather strange to not even see the biggest planets when entering the system (imagine missing Jupiter

Actually, missing a planet like Jupiter would be easy. Imagine entering a solar system at an orbit of the Pluto. Well, to be fair at Neptune since it's the furthest "planet". Even on a 2 dimentional plane, the area is incomprehensible. In fact, even at that distance, the Sun would look like just the brightest star in the sky. Larger than the rest but still very small.

Look at it this way: From Earth, we are much much closer to Jupiter than Neptune's orbit. Without some prior knowledge of what to look for, and even with a substantial telescope (like Manu Ki or even Hubble) finding Jupiter could take a very long time unless you were very lucky.

Even Venus, our closest planet, is mistaken for a star most of the time.

To quote Carl Sagen: "Space is big. Really big."