Do the multiple survey sensors increase their range? I've never gone beyond Improved sensors, but I find that the time to survey a system is more dependent on the speed of ships than the quality of the sensors.
You can add multiple sensors to a ship and you get the total survey points from the sensors. The survey ship below has three gravitational sensors so it gets three survey points.
Hessen II class Gravsurvey Ship 3750 tons 368 Crew 690.6 BP TCS 75 TH 360 EM 0
4800 km/s JR 3-50 Armour 1-21 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/0/3/0 Damage Control 0-0 PPV 0
Replacement Parts 5
J375 Jump Drive Max Ship Size 3750 tons Distance 50k km Squadron Size 3
Reichenbach RE-7 Ion Drive (6) Power 60 Efficiency 0.70 Signature 60 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 210,000 Litres Range 144.0 billion km (347 days at full power)
S4/20 Active Search Sensor (1) GPS 400 Range 4.0m km Resolution 20
Gravitational Survey Sensors (3) 3 Survey Points
I also created survey task forces and each fleet has a command ship with an admiral and survey officer...
Task force as opposed to a task group? So your task force has one task group in it?
My survey groups currently consist of a mothership with surveying parasites. Will outfitting the mothership with a flag bridge do what you talked about above?
This is the command ship class, which had a flag bridge for the Task Force commander and his staff. When I enter a system, I give the survey task group an order to divide into single ships and set the default order to survey nearest survey location. The individual survey ships go off and survey automatically but because they are in the same system as the command ship, they all get the task force bonuses. The two survey task forces I have set up generate bonuses of 39% and 37%. I need to set up another one for my third survey fleet. They also provide logistic bonuses so your survey ships will use fewer spares.
The mothership plus survey parasites is a good idea and they would all benefit from a task force commander based in a flag brige on the mothership, assuming they were in the same system as the mothership.
Odin class Survey Command Ship 5000 tons 486 Crew 987.4 BP TCS 100 TH 480 EM 0
4800 km/s JR 3-50 Armour 1-26 Shields 0-0 Sensors 5/5/3/0 Damage Control 0-0 PPV 0
Flag Bridge Replacement Parts 5
J510 Jump Drive Max Ship Size 5100 tons Distance 50k km Squadron Size 3
Reichenbach RE-7 Ion Drive (8) Power 60 Efficiency 0.70 Signature 60 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 330,000 Litres Range 169.7 billion km (409 days at full power)
S40/80 Active Search Sensor (1) GPS 4000 Range 40.0m km Resolution 80
T1 Thermal Sensor (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 5m km
E1 Electromagnetic Sensor (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 5m km
Gravitational Survey Sensors (3) 3 Survey Points
Steve