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The Academy / Re: Survey Ship Fleet Organization
« Last post by skoormit on Yesterday at 09:39:45 AM »I have a method that requires approximately one manual order per survey ship per system.
Specifically, for each system explored:
One manual move order per survey ship
One manual send message order for one survey ship
One manual move order for a jump tender
(Occasionally you have to give manual geosurvey orders for far outlying bodies; this is true no matter what you do.)
Requirements:
1) You are surveying systems that do not already have stabilized jump points (which is usually the case, right?)
2) You are willing to make survey ships without their own jump drive
Standing order to use:
1) Survey Next Three System Bodies or Locations
Procedure:
Assign a jump tender to each survey group.
When entire survey group is in the same system, move the tender to the jump point of the adjacent system that you want the group to survey next.
When a survey finishes standing orders, give it a move order to the next system.
If it is the last survey ship to finish, give it also a send message order like "can move tender now"
When you receive that message, move the tender to the jump point of the next adjacent system you want to survey (if no jump points yet found, wait until one is found).
You might want to have multiple tenders per group, so that when you reach a dead end system, you can position the tenders appropriately for the surveyors to backtrack to the next target system individually, rather than waiting for the entire group to travel with a single tender.
Specifically, for each system explored:
One manual move order per survey ship
One manual send message order for one survey ship
One manual move order for a jump tender
(Occasionally you have to give manual geosurvey orders for far outlying bodies; this is true no matter what you do.)
Requirements:
1) You are surveying systems that do not already have stabilized jump points (which is usually the case, right?)
2) You are willing to make survey ships without their own jump drive
Standing order to use:
1) Survey Next Three System Bodies or Locations
Procedure:
Assign a jump tender to each survey group.
When entire survey group is in the same system, move the tender to the jump point of the adjacent system that you want the group to survey next.
When a survey finishes standing orders, give it a move order to the next system.
If it is the last survey ship to finish, give it also a send message order like "can move tender now"
When you receive that message, move the tender to the jump point of the next adjacent system you want to survey (if no jump points yet found, wait until one is found).
You might want to have multiple tenders per group, so that when you reach a dead end system, you can position the tenders appropriately for the surveyors to backtrack to the next target system individually, rather than waiting for the entire group to travel with a single tender.
