#Prospecting

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sullen imp
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I would like to start a conversation on this one. I don't find it a very appealing system and I want to hear what other players think about it.

I find its mostly feast or famine, i can spend 2 hours profitably or it can waste all the time i have that day without finding what I need/want.

Since the devs are slowly rolling back some of the drop rates for resource crates how about removing the prospecting, adding the items that don't drop from AI already to drop tables?

I can be sure i get something worthwhile if i have to DG or do lockouts. Prospecting is boring and tedious at best and sometimes very unrewarding.

lofty coral
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i think the feast-or-famine was intended. what bothers me the most is the KD *-ium's. even if you 'feast' it still feels like a low ration

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maybe it does speak volumes that i only have experience with the KD iums and thalaron radiation and mostly avoided using the system. it might have to do with me not willing to carry the equipment around due to mostly playing spacebar classes that are low on hull

lofty shell
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the iums were in kalthi dgs on first iteration then they took them out

fluid jay
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I like to prospect on the go when hunting space wabbits, it's a handy little bonus occasionally since you can hot swap tractors.

Full time prospecting on the other hand is tedious af

true charm
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Ill take another look. What's their biggest demand for the KD ones?

sullen imp
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Thats a fair question. i have been able to find Indium the last two times i was out, but it was small. I havent seen any Rhenium or Osmium. I think most of these bps require similar amounts of both. I would say that Engi is disproportionately represented since they need to build 6-7 to have a full set of Selenite Or Lunarian drones. Thats an easy 30-35 each of each for those blueprints. The rest of the gear is mostly one-off builds.

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true charm
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You mean Indium? Eridium drops

coral galleon
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I mean Eridium. The content I do hasn't really dropped eridium

tardy yew
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I don’t do prospecting anymore. Not enough return for time investment. And it’s zzzzzz boring.

Would be nice to see some of the iums return to drop tables even if a super low rate

fluid jay
lofty coral
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even when you find them it's 1-2 per node

desert sigil
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Iums have always been that of a very undefined of prospect , that of a low number to prospect. Even Bindomite at first prospecting times were so plentiful, without any use for.

sullen imp
winter siren
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I spent 2 hours prospecting in perilous yesterday in the hope of finding warpwnium and umbra and after 40 or 50 gals (stopped counting) I got exactly none. Actually, I barely got anything at all.
The system is frustrating with the long reload time of scanners (yes I have two onboard), the scanning time and then the act of trying to find on which of the countless planets and moons the resource is located.
In KD, I managed to find exactly 1 Indium last uni. Urgh.
When prospecting was introduced, it was a way to get commods you could only get from extracting in high DF gals (the ones where large teams sit down their fat arses). When did it become the sole source for a given commod and why, o, why?

sullen imp
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Could have been an unintentional side effect of removing the KD DGs initially.

robust matrix
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I can only confirm prospecting is incredibly unrewarding drudgery.v

sullen imp
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Another thing that is frustrating about prospecting is the way gals are generated. It is really common to have suns clustered 5-10k away with 1-2 random suns with planets 20+K out from that.

If you are scanning everything in a gal in sequence its going to take you back and forth over that huge expanse multiple times before you ever find the item on the planet.

cerulean maple
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Introduce a funnee minigame when prospecting that makes it go way faster and may even a tiny bonus to the commods if you do good at it

robust matrix
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Prospecting is an absolute cancer. The devteam is moving towards active play. What are the criteria for prospecting? You gotta move to a galaxy. Scan (stay still or it fails!) then go around actively scanning every single planet moon and sun in the hopes of finding some crucial resources.

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Meanwhile you could go do actual content.

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Prospecting is basically actively doing nothing.

lofty coral
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maybe it's the small frustrations like
being tractor beamed while scanning, failing the scan due to suddenly having speed. maybe the scanners can have a -99% speed tweak on use?
having to run around the entire galaxy to find the planet/moon/sun. maybe the galaxy scanners can also tell you the name of the solar body?

lofty shell
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if u build for tractor range u dont have to go to each planet

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u can get like 3-4k range on a tractor easily which beats the scanner range and just tractor each planet

sullen imp
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That's only part of the issue though, it's not just tractor range that makes it unpleasant and feel like drudgery. I recall someone somewhere suggested trackers as a replacement system with you having to defend a target or fight off attackers while trying to mine/prospect targets.

tardy yew
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Honestly scanning a gal should tell you which planet/sun the commod is on. Would eliminate a lot of wasted time

true charm
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If it takes no effort then it shouldn't exist. Its addressing the wrong thing

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Plus that'd be pretty easy to script.

lofty coral
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then maybe we can get a cardinal direction?

true charm
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I think the bigger issue is even finding a node in the galaxy to begin with.

lofty coral
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scanning 2 galaxies takes like 10 seconds. finding the solarbody takes 1-4 minutes

true charm
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We also have another system in works that'll create a more engaging experience that may end up replacing or at least supplementing alot of these issues.

robust matrix
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Speaking of, has anyone ever found a bule/vazaha/faranji/forgot the last one nanite from planets while prospecting in the past two years?

lofty shell
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could just put the iums back in kalthi dgs

sullen imp
robust matrix
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Correct, and I haven't seen any in literal years.

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But then again I also seldomly prospect because it's so deeply, ravishingly unrewarding.

true charm
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I thought they were only in peri

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But I also can't recall

robust matrix
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I prospect in all layers

loud crown
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I wonder what goodies lie unclaimed in The Nexus

robust matrix
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350 bindo nodes on every sun

true charm
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Its not defined for prospecting

loud crown
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found the nanites 🤣

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Well, idk if that was me but it happened as soon as I prospected the nanite

sullen imp
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was it in peri space? that could be it.

loud crown
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Ymir is in CE

true charm
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Oh lol

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That's likely an oversight

true charm
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This crashed the server

loud crown
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Oh yeah. He told me it was fixed so I kept trying. I blame Jey

true charm
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Lol