Posted by: Jorgen_CAB
« on: June 21, 2020, 07:30:37 AM »I also have 5% survey and that gives me a MUCH better feeling for the vastness of space... I have about 30-40 geo and grav survey vessels that roam around doing their thing. Deployment times have been around 3-6 years roughly depending on design.
But then again I don't rush through the game all that much and I don't mind some micromanagement. I do wish there were a few better conditional orders and conditions to help out though so survey ships could be more or less completely automated. There should be an order like "Refuel, Resupply and Overhaul" for example and conditions like if you exceeded deployment or say 80% of a ships designed maintenance life expectancy. That would make it much easier to automate your survey vessels if you want to do that. To be honest I don't understand why there already are no conditional order of "Refuel and Resupply" as it is. If you do one you might as well do the other while you are in port anyway. I also think that the Overhaul order should ALWAYS try to also refuel and resupply a ship if possible at then end of any Overhaul, there should rather be an order that perhaps don't do that rather than do.
Right now I just allow my ship to go until I get a deployment overextended message, then I just send the ship to the nearest maintenance facility to refuel, resupply and overhaul. It takes a few seconds per ship. As they are designed to be in space for a long time they will never need to get back to refuel or resupply within that time anyway.
But then again I don't rush through the game all that much and I don't mind some micromanagement. I do wish there were a few better conditional orders and conditions to help out though so survey ships could be more or less completely automated. There should be an order like "Refuel, Resupply and Overhaul" for example and conditions like if you exceeded deployment or say 80% of a ships designed maintenance life expectancy. That would make it much easier to automate your survey vessels if you want to do that. To be honest I don't understand why there already are no conditional order of "Refuel and Resupply" as it is. If you do one you might as well do the other while you are in port anyway. I also think that the Overhaul order should ALWAYS try to also refuel and resupply a ship if possible at then end of any Overhaul, there should rather be an order that perhaps don't do that rather than do.
Right now I just allow my ship to go until I get a deployment overextended message, then I just send the ship to the nearest maintenance facility to refuel, resupply and overhaul. It takes a few seconds per ship. As they are designed to be in space for a long time they will never need to get back to refuel or resupply within that time anyway.