Posted by: Erik L
« on: June 05, 2008, 01:16:09 PM »I usually run 5 ship survey groups with a jump drive in each ship. The basic design is jump drive, 5 survey inst (max available), 5 engines, EM or Thermal scanner, fuel and crew to 6k tons. The command variant drops 1 survey inst for a flag bridge.
And once you get going, surveying is a behind the scenes automatic thing.
Set conditional orders for increase speed to max (ALL my TG have this), and Fuel under 20%, refuel at neareast colony/tanker in 4 jumps.
Grav survey have the "Survey next 3 locations" for primary default and the Geo survey have "Survey next 5 bodies" for primary default.
I also keep my grav and geo ships in different TG. That way I don't have one type waiting on the other and no need to create ad-hoc groups.
And once you get going, surveying is a behind the scenes automatic thing.
Set conditional orders for increase speed to max (ALL my TG have this), and Fuel under 20%, refuel at neareast colony/tanker in 4 jumps.
Grav survey have the "Survey next 3 locations" for primary default and the Geo survey have "Survey next 5 bodies" for primary default.
I also keep my grav and geo ships in different TG. That way I don't have one type waiting on the other and no need to create ad-hoc groups.