Posted by: Elmo
« on: January 14, 2010, 10:47:24 AM »Got it, thanks.
The teams need to be shipped manually from planet to planet via ship.
Quote from: "Elmo"
OK, then. Thought I read that you would get results in 5 days. Must have read it wrong!
It checks every economic update (5-day), but the odds of finding anything are very small. Think of it as surveying for significant oil deposits - the timescale is years, not days.
John
Quote from: "metalax"
It took something like a year and a half for my survey team on earth to finish after finding three deposits, and it's just taken two years to finish finding a deposit on Luna.
After finishing my survey on Luna, it looks like the colony itself won't show any indication of a completed survey unless it's a populated colony.
OK, then. Thought I read that you would get results in 5 days. Must have read it wrong!
It took something like a year and a half for my survey team on earth to finish after finding three deposits, and it's just taken two years to finish finding a deposit on Luna.
After finishing my survey on Luna, it looks like the colony itself won't show any indication of a completed survey unless it's a populated colony.
Edit - And is there any way to see the progress of your survey teams? I've had one on Earth for 16 days so far and the survey has still not been completed. I'm wondering if something is wrong.
Quote from: "metalax"...Final question is can survey teams find resources on bodies that a survey ship has scanned and found nothing on?Yes.
John
Also do you have to do anything beyond creating a team on a colony/dropping a team off on a colony for them to work?No.
Final question is can survey teams find resources on bodies that a survey ship has scanned and found nothing on?Yes.
A good indicator is the message:
'Geology Team led by [James Kirk] on [Mars] reports that they have completed their survey and believe that no more resources will be found'
on every 5-day increment when a Geology Team is on a planet that has been completely surveyed.
At least, I think that still happens?
Elmo's assumption is correct, geological survey team - no does mean that the planetary body has not had a survey completed by a geological survey team.
Edited to add:
This thread has a discussion of this functionality - http://aurora.pentarch.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1765&p=17187&hilit=geological+survey+team#p17187