Moon mining: Difference between revisions

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Survey scanning is different than probe scanning from exploration, in two critical ways. First, Survey probes are consumed when they are launched, and cannot be recalled to the ship. Second, the ship most be pointed directly at the target moon when the probe is launched. If the ship is not facing the moon when a survey probe is launched, the probe may 'miss' the moon and return no results. The probe is still consumed when this happens.

There are three types of Survey probes. They differ in skill requirement, size, cost, and the "maximum flight time" which is the measure used for how long it will take to return data. The data returned by each type of probe will always be the same, so the primary considerations are how many a ship can carry (if doing large probing runs) and how long it takes to get the results.

{| class="wikitable"

! Survey Probe Type !! Skill Requirement !! Volume !! Duration

|-

| Quest Survey Probe I || Survey III, Astrometrics III || 5 {{M3}} || 1200s (20 minutes)

|-

| Discovery Survey Probe I || Survey III, Astrometrics III || 10 {{M3}} || 300s (5 minutes)

|-

| Gaze Survey Probe I [[File:Omega.png|24px]]|| Survey V, Astrometrics V || 5 {{M3}} || 150s (2.5 minutes)

|}

Upon launching a probe, a new window will pop up showing the remaining time for the probe to return its results. The ship must stay in-system and undocked until the results are sent back from the probe. The window will keep these results until the user logs out of the game, even if they move to another system. Individual results can be cleared by right clicking on the moon name and selecting Delete.

The probe results window does not allow copying to clipboard via typical keyboard commands such as Ctrl+C, however there is a "Copy to Clipboard" button which will copy the probe results into a tab-delimited format that can easily be pasted into another program.

== Moon Ore Extraction ==

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+Survey scanning is different than probe scanning from exploration, in two critical ways. First, Survey probes are consumed when they are launched, and cannot be recalled to the ship. Second, the ship most be pointed directly at the target moon when the probe is launched. If the ship is not facing the moon when a survey probe is launched, the probe may 'miss' the moon and return no results. The probe is still consumed when this happens.
+There are three types of Survey probes. They differ in skill requirement, size, cost, and the "maximum flight time" which is the measure used for how long it will take to return data. The data returned by each type of probe will always be the same, so the primary considerations are how many a ship can carry (if doing large probing runs) and how long it takes to get the results.
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Survey Probe Type !! Skill Requirement !! Volume !! Duration
+|-
+| Quest Survey Probe I || Survey III, Astrometrics III || 5 {{M3}} || 1200s (20 minutes)
+|-
+| Discovery Survey Probe I || Survey III, Astrometrics III || 10 {{M3}} || 300s (5 minutes)
+|-
+| Gaze Survey Probe I [[File:Omega.png|24px]]|| Survey V, Astrometrics V || 5 {{M3}} || 150s (2.5 minutes)
+|}
+Upon launching a probe, a new window will pop up showing the remaining time for the probe to return its results. The ship must stay in-system and undocked until the results are sent back from the probe. The window will keep these results until the user logs out of the game, even if they move to another system. Individual results can be cleared by right clicking on the moon name and selecting Delete.
+The probe results window does not allow copying to clipboard via typical keyboard commands such as Ctrl+C, however there is a "Copy to Clipboard" button which will copy the probe results into a tab-delimited format that can easily be pasted into another program.
 == Moon Ore Extraction ==