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Posted by: sloanjh
« on: August 07, 2011, 09:51:24 AM »

Quote from: voknaar on August 07, 2011, 01:32:55 AM
I only scout likely worlds with my initial grav-survey ship that entered then let geo-survey ships in for their work. I've had it peaceful in my 5.51 campaign so far... Once an active threat is found I'll likely go for a scout that has big actives and passives to go through each system I find.

My races typically don't start probing first until they find evidence that .... [ominous music] there's somebody out there [/ominous music]

John
Posted by: voknaar
« on: August 07, 2011, 01:32:55 AM »

I only scout likely worlds with my initial grav-survey ship that entered then let geo-survey ships in for their work. I've had it peaceful in my 5.51 campaign so far... Once an active threat is found I'll likely go for a scout that has big actives and passives to go through each system I find.
Posted by: Texashawk
« on: August 06, 2011, 10:44:55 PM »

This. Exactly. Yes. Sigh.

Quote from: sloanjh on August 06, 2011, 06:58:30 PM
I actually have a similar problem - when it discovers a new system my race does a probe by traveling to every planet.  It would be nice if there were a "probed" flag/canned order that enter the route automagically for you.  Maybe something for the suggestions thread....

John
Posted by: sloanjh
« on: August 06, 2011, 06:58:30 PM »

I actually have a similar problem - when it discovers a new system my race does a probe by traveling to every planet.  It would be nice if there were a "probed" flag/canned order that enter the route automagically for you.  Maybe something for the suggestions thread....

John
Posted by: Brian Neumann
« on: August 06, 2011, 04:52:53 PM »

For detecting anything larger than an observation outpost you probably do not need to go to each planet.  A decent sized passive sensor and a flyby through the system should be enough.  For gas giants just pick one moon and you should have any working colonies spotted.  For other planets put a waypoint or two in that will cause you to fly near the planets.  For the asteroid belt you can probably use the same technique with a ring of waypoints in the middle of each belt.

Hope this helps you

Brian
Posted by: Texashawk
« on: August 06, 2011, 04:44:36 PM »

Hello,

Had a question that's been bugging me for a while: If you just want to have a ship go to each planet and/or moon (to listen for EM signals), is there a way to do that? The program assumes you mean a grav/geo survey when you select the survey standing orders, and if you don't have a survey sensor it just hangs around the planet endlessly, not moving on. I have been (tediously) manually clicking each planet in the system to move to, but is there a better way? Thanks!