[REQUEST] Probe to check minerals content of asteroids with out flying to them.
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Would like to have a fast moving probe I can fire off (aim at asteroid-fire) to discover minerals of asteroids.
Concept to work:
- Antenna - you would need an antenna on you ship to receive the signal from the probe.
- Launcher - Holds probes and fires them
- Fabricator - maybe the gear forge, or maybe something new to make the probes as you need them.
- Conveyor - To move probes into Launcher.
The probe should be able to report contents of asteroid. Should have a light beacon, so you can see where it went for line of sight spotting. And should have a very powerful engine (you dont want to wait for the probe to get there in the time you could fly there... and its so lite).
I made a prop one, but it should likely take all the materials needed to make this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3751700494
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Yes, with the new update, a similar kind of automation is now possible. However, for the time being, it only works for a single ore type, since each ore detection automation requires its own Event Controller and antenna. That said, I think it would make much more sense if ores detected by the detector could simply be broadcast through an antenna. Perhaps in the future, radar-detected information could also be transmitted via antennas and read remotely. This really feels like a feature that should exist.
Yes, with the new update, a similar kind of automation is now possible. However, for the time being, it only works for a single ore type, since each ore detection automation requires its own Event Controller and antenna. That said, I think it would make much more sense if ores detected by the detector could simply be broadcast through an antenna. Perhaps in the future, radar-detected information could also be transmitted via antennas and read remotely. This really feels like a feature that should exist.
I've always been a huge fan of the radio spectrometry mod in SE1 where you can point your ship (with a front-mounted ore detector) at an asteroid and it gives you a series of lines that you can map to the various ores in that asteroid. It was fairly easy, yet required a little (simple) decoding so that it wasn't instant gratification.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2687324923
A probe/drone is an interesting idea, something to send out and scan/map nearby asteroids. I'd probably prefer the spectrometer approach, but agree that being able to remotely analyze asteroids is a must.
I've always been a huge fan of the radio spectrometry mod in SE1 where you can point your ship (with a front-mounted ore detector) at an asteroid and it gives you a series of lines that you can map to the various ores in that asteroid. It was fairly easy, yet required a little (simple) decoding so that it wasn't instant gratification.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2687324923
A probe/drone is an interesting idea, something to send out and scan/map nearby asteroids. I'd probably prefer the spectrometer approach, but agree that being able to remotely analyze asteroids is a must.
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