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GravSurvey not surveying help please.
« on: March 28, 2013, 05:57:41 PM »
Hey everyone, just found aurora a couple of days ago and have been doing conventional starts, learning slowly.   Just got to the point of developing gravitational survey sensors and surveying jump points this afternoon and ran into a problem.   My survey ships (now totalling 3) go to the jump point as per orders, then just sit there with the "SP Needed: 400" message.  The ships do have grav sensors in the active sensor slot.  Survey ship info is below, along with the design tech page for the Grav Sensor Prototype that I'm using.   Thanks for your help in advance.

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North Carolina class Gravsurvey Ship    3,450 tons     93 Crew     127. 4 BP      TCS 69  TH 125  EM 0
1811 km/s     Armour 1-20     Shields 0-0     Sensors 5/5/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
MSP 23    Max Repair 16 MSP

Commericial Nuclear Thermal Engine E1 (2)    Power 62. 5    Fuel Use 10%    Signature 62. 5    Armour 0    Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres    Range 260. 8 billion km   (1666 days at full power)

Grav Sensor Prototype (2)     GPS 1000     Range 5. 0m km    Resolution 100
Thermal Sensor TH1-5 (1)     Sensitivity 5     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  5m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-5 (1)     Sensitivity 5     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  5m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes

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Active Sensor Strength: 10   Sensitivity Modifier: 50%
Sensor Size: 1 HS    Sensor HTK: 1
Resolution: 100    Maximum Range vs 5000 ton object (or larger): 5,000,000 km
Range vs 1000 ton object: 200,000 km
Range vs 250 ton object: 12,500 km
Chance of destruction by electronic damage: 100%
Cost: 10    Crew: 5
Materials Required: 2. 5x Duranium  7. 5x Uridium

Development Cost for Project: 100RP
 

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Re: GravSurvey not surveying help please.
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2013, 06:07:05 PM »
What orders do you give them?

Ideally, you'd set up default orders to scan the next survey location.

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Re: GravSurvey not surveying help please.
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2013, 06:10:08 PM »
Default Orders(Primary): Survey nearest survey location

Is the only orders I set up for this group.   They moved to the nearest jump point and the SP Needed is not dropping.  (They've been there for a few years now as I type this)
 

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Re: GravSurvey not surveying help please.
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2013, 06:15:56 PM »
It looks like your Grav Sensor Prototype is actually an active sensor. You need to use the Grav Survey Instruments components on the ship.

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Re: GravSurvey not surveying help please.
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2013, 06:20:03 PM »
Thanks, I was wondering if that may have been the case.  Any idea what the pre-requisite techs are for grav survey sensors? I've been researching gravitational sensors but that led to the active sensor design I used above.  I checked the tech tree forum post but there are no links visible in it to me, though from comments I should see pdf links
 

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Re: GravSurvey not surveying help please.
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2013, 06:26:24 PM »
Jump Point Theory is the basic tech past Trans-Newtonian Tech. JPT opens up grav sensors. Next levels are improved, and a couple more I don't recall. Look under Sensors for the tech. On the ship design, scroll towards the bottom.