Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: September 22, 2022, 05:55:49 AM »QuoteI have multiple cases where the grav survey has been completed before the geographical survey was, so now my science vessels won't return on their own to finish the geo survey and it's not until much later that I realized it, which leads me to basically considering that conditional to be more or less useless unless you have separate grav and geo survey ships.
This is why I recommend having a ship with both sensors and their standing orders to be "survey nearest system body" and "survey next system location." This way if a system has nothing but the 30 survey locations or hundreds of asteroids you will scan them all until there is literally nothing left to see and then give you a prompt saying there is no valid orders for them to follow prompting you to move them to the next place which I am sure you know. As for overhaul and refueling once done they will give the same prompt so you will need to manually send them back but there wont be any other micro other then the occasional auto route order or order to enter a unexplored jump point
There is also an option to 'Survey Next Three System Bodies or Locations', so a ship with both sensors will survey more efficiently.