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Flybye
Rex Tech Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.23 21:40:00 -
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With all this technology in our universe, why can't we have a probing ship which doesn't require launching these silly little probes?
Aim the ship in one direction, scan, done. Or just scan and done.
Probes could still exist with the required skill set, but the probe ship would be the next step with its own set of difficult skills which only the most patient of explorers would be willing to learn, and also have dedicated different types of probing high power modules with the ship having the only bonuses those modules can fit on.
Pros would be better accuracy and no need for probes.
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Sir Substance
Minmatar MagiTech Alliance Inc. MagiTech Corp
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Posted - 2009.02.23 22:33:00 -
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Originally by: Flybye With all this technology in our universe, why can't we have a probing ship which doesn't require launching these silly little probes?
probably for the same reason you cant receive good TV inside a radiation shielded room. if you are going to try and make a ship solar-flare-proof, it needs to be well hardened against radiation of all kinds. that makes scanning with any sensitivity kind of difficult.
thus, the onboard scanner can pick up cosmic anomalies, bit shining points of wrongness in the universe, but anything more subtle needs a probe.
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Marcus Gideon
Gallente Excessive Force
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Posted - 2009.02.24 00:12:00 -
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Because the onboard sensor package is made to be very broad and generic. It can look for cosmic anomalies, and is generally assumed to be responsible for your Overview displaying ships and collidables and so forth.
Probes are a very specific type of sensor, made to look for certain things, and mobile to facilitate very involved search methods.
Salvagers are also a very specific type of sensor, made to look for parts left on wrecks that are worth keeping.
Cargo Scanners... Ship Scanners... Survey Scanners... and archaeological Analyzers.
All various forms of dedicated sensor arrays, meant to look for something out of the ordinary.
"All this technology" is very evident, in the form of a plethora of devices available.
"Why can't we" is because any ship can fit these various devices. Whereas having all of these options negated, and a single Probe Ship implemented, would mean the only way to scan for anything and everything would require another pilot in the group. Or for you to switch ships. --- Don't take my ranting personally. I may just be arguing the topic, unless you're saying something stupid, and then I mean every word. "Players don't want Variety. They want THE BEST" |
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