Posted by: bankshot
« on: December 03, 2024, 11:30:37 AM »I also put one 30% size missile launcher and a small magazine on my geosurvey ships. It is loaded with survey missiles for planets that are either too dangerous to visit directly or are too far out for convenience. I also have an extra long range variant for distant binaries with just a few bodies. At 1,500 km/s the missiles may take several years to get there but I can build a size 4 missile that can deliver a size 1 survey buoy to targets up to 500b distant to convert my 99% system body survey to 100%
Two exceptions to this - sometimes gas giants have terrestrial moons that are large enough to stabilize. Doing so lets you easily access all moons around the giant. Or if you have a Lagrange point that happens to be near an outer system jump point, but note that the LP will eventually move away depending on the body's orbital period. And as nuclearslurpee noted that can be very bad for cycled orders.
I'll add for my two cents, Lagrange Points/LPs are really only practical for traveling between distant stars in a binary+ system. For traveling between planets they're rarely of any use due to being offset 60 degrees, so on average you're traveling the same distance regardless of LPs and in any case they don't work well with cycled orders when you're trying to automate, e.g., colony growth shipments.
Two exceptions to this - sometimes gas giants have terrestrial moons that are large enough to stabilize. Doing so lets you easily access all moons around the giant. Or if you have a Lagrange point that happens to be near an outer system jump point, but note that the LP will eventually move away depending on the body's orbital period. And as nuclearslurpee noted that can be very bad for cycled orders.
