Elite: General talk

Yeah, I beleive it is a full scan of the surface that gets you details of what is on the surface, such as bio and geo locations, crash sites, lifeforms on gas giants, etc. To get that, you have to scan at least 90% of the surface with the DSS probes. For large gas giants that can mean 20+ probes if you are not using a DSS engineered for a larger coverage area.

I am not sure if previously mapped planets count, or if only new discoveries count.

Meowers

08 Oct 2024, 8:29pm

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Planets, previously mapped by someone else, do count. They have to be new in your own collection, not scanned previously by you personally.

Miner Willy

08 Oct 2024, 10:51pm

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@Slobnoxious, If you're doing it for cash.
> ping a system scan,
> do a detail assess with Full spectrum scanner to get the general make up of planets in system
> look for terraformed, terraformable and water worlds and DSS scan them

Or for a perfect cheat, use Spansh Road to Riches plotter

For Exo in Odyssey look for landable planets with Biological signs, (+no human presence for potential of first footfall)
try to get more than 1 bio count, or you're just gonna be scanning patches of bacterium

Kasumi Goto

08 Oct 2024, 11:10pm

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GND reported on the removal of Azimuth from Xi Wangda, and they don't spare on the funny roasting with it.

09 Oct 2024, 3:07pm

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6D Shield Cell Bank seems to have serious heat issues but no hack to fix it.

Kasumi Goto

09 Oct 2024, 3:26pm

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Heatsinks or thermal vent beams are your answer (or hack, if you’d like). The “specialised” blueprint offered by engineers also reduces their thermal load, but as far as I remember the only easily accessible one - Elvira Martuuk - in the Bubble only does them at grade 1. You’d need Lori Jameson or that guy in Colonia for G3/4.

Vasil Vasilescu

09 Oct 2024, 3:53pm

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AH6D Shield Cell Bank seems to have serious heat issues but no hack to fix it.

I'm so cool I am not affected by the heat.

Whitewolf06

12 Oct 2024, 9:27am

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Is there not a spot to recruit on Inara anymore?

Artie

12 Oct 2024, 10:29am

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Whitewolf06Is there not a spot to recruit on Inara anymore?

It is, please use the bulletin board.

Thinder

12 Oct 2024, 11:02am

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AH6D Shield Cell Bank seems to have serious heat issues but no hack to fix it.

Beam laser with Thermal Vent works rather well, even better with Short Range modification...

Question of timing... Start by lasing your target, it will reduce the overall temperature before using your Shield Cell, then keep lasing making sure you hit the target.

Last edit: 12 Oct 2024, 11:14am

Whitewolf06

12 Oct 2024, 3:02pm

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Artie
Whitewolf06Is there not a spot to recruit on Inara anymore?

It is, please use the bulletin board.

Thank you.

Sampi Ogonek

14 Oct 2024, 10:36pm

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Slobnoxiouswhat entails a level 3 scan?

The scan level 2/3 distinction is from before the FSS existed. Originally, scanning an astronomical body (which had to be done by flying to within about 5000 times the body’s radius, IIRC, and waiting several seconds while having the body targeted in front of your ship) would get you a level 3 scan if you had a DSS on board, and level 2 otherwise. (Back then, the DSS did nothing else, although it could be engineered to complete the scan faster, or increase the scan range.)

The way things work now, I think, every asteroid cluster you discover gives you a level 2 scan, and every astronomical body (star, planet, moon) you discover gives you both a level 2 and a level 3 scan. There is no stat available for the number of bodies scanned with the (new) DSS. (There is, however, a stat for the number of efficiency target bonuses received.)

(EDIT: only scans sold to Universal Cartographics count; it has always been that way, AFAIR.)

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