Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Meridian on June 15, 2010, 10:46:35 AM
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Hello again
I am having a problem with Grav survey vessels this time. It seems that when ever I send them to do a survey of any body they show a "X amount SP needed" so I wait and wait, I have done this over a year, and nothing happens. These ships are copied from my Geo survey ships that work absolutely fine.
Colombia class Gravitational Survey Vessel 1550 tons 143 Crew 321 BP TCS 31 TH 50 EM 0
1612 km/s Armour 1-11 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/2/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 19% IFR: 0.3% Maint Capacity 129 MSP Max Repair 100 MSP Est Time: 3.18 Years
Nuclear Thermal Engine E10 (2) Power 25 Fuel Use 100% Signature 25 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 58.0 billion km (416 days at full power)
Active Search Sensor S20-R2 (1) GPS 40 Range 400k km Resolution 2
Active Search Sensor S20-R100 (1) GPS 2000 Range 20.0m km Resolution 100
Gravitational Survey Sensors (2) 2 Survey Points Per Hour
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
This is the ship. Why is my problem happening?
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You are sending them to do the job of a geosurvey ship which naturally they cannot do.
Geosurvey ships carry out geosurveys of bodies.
Grav survey ships carry out gravitional surveys of systems , by far the easiest way of going this is to give them the default order to durvey nearest (or nearest 3) survey locations. Or you can bring up the individual list of furvey locations and tell them to go and survey those
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Gravitational survey ships are intended for survey locations, not system bodies. You need to give them an order to carry out a gravitational survey of a specific Survey Location. Or, much easier, set the default order for the fleet to Survey Next Survey Location. They can't survey planets.
Steve
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Gravitational survey ships are intended for survey locations, not system bodies. You need to give them an order to carry out a gravitational survey of a specific Survey Location. Or, much easier, set the default order for the fleet to Survey Next Survey Location. They can't survey planets.
This is the second time I've seen this misunderstanding in a new user. Would it make sense to have TG with 0 survey points (of the right type) throw a warning event on 5-days?
John
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Gravitational survey ships are intended for survey locations, not system bodies. You need to give them an order to carry out a gravitational survey of a specific Survey Location. Or, much easier, set the default order for the fleet to Survey Next Survey Location. They can't survey planets.
This is the second time I've seen this misunderstanding in a new user. Would it make sense to have TG with 0 survey points (of the right type) throw a warning event on 5-days?
John
Makes sense to me, alternatively the labels could be changed to GrSp and GeSp to help in differentiating between the 2 types.