probes

[shogun00blade]

Isent a probe to mars. how long does it take to get there. been months and still can;t build a base. I have mission to mars research. and DEVS can you add a popup screen to let you know when probes reach there destination.

[Toblm]

Originally posted by shogun00blade:

Isent a probe to mars. how long does it take to get there. been months and still can;t build a base. I have mission to mars research. and DEVS can you add a popup screen to let you know when probes reach there destination.

Months maybe over a year. Depends where on the launch window you sent it.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Probes do pop up when they arrive.

If you don't have the high speed probes tech and you launched otuside the window it can take a long while to get there.

[Moshmuth]

I believe it takes 18 months at best

[Machiavelli]

very long time. better send one as quick as possible

[Toblm]

Originally posted by Fellington:

very long time. better send one as quick as possible

^^^
They cost next to nothing there basically isnt a reason to dump all you can when you can.

[placsie]

You can tell when the prob gets their because you will have information on the resources available. You also need to complete the tech project that allows you to build the outpost.

[RedPine]

If you select Mars, it will show you how long until the survey probe arrives in the top left.

[Aranador]

It depends on how close Mars is when you launch the probe. There are techs to make probes go faster. And yes there is a pop up when a probe arrives.

[Subikahn]

Originally posted by Aranador:

It depends on how close Mars is when you launch the probe. There are techs to make probes go faster. And yes there is a pop up when a probe arrives.

Which techs increase probe speed? I presume some kind of propulsion but none of them specifically say they do this.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Subikahn:

Originally posted by Aranador:

It depends on how close Mars is when you launch the probe. There are techs to make probes go faster. And yes there is a pop up when a probe arrives.

Which techs increase probe speed? I presume some kind of propulsion but none of them specifically say they do this.

The ones that do specifically say they do.

Are you maybe looking at the global tech tree instead of the faction projects tree? Global techs in large part don't actually do things, instead they act as requirements for faction projects that do.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Subikahn:

Originally posted by Aranador:

It depends on how close Mars is when you launch the probe. There are techs to make probes go faster. And yes there is a pop up when a probe arrives.

Which techs increase probe speed? I presume some kind of propulsion but none of them specifically say they do this.

The faction project High Thrust Probes, which is made available by the Advanced Chemical Rocketry global tech.

[Subikahn]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by Subikahn:

Which techs increase probe speed? I presume some kind of propulsion but none of them specifically say they do this.

The faction project High Thrust Probes, which is made available by the Advanced Chemical Rocketry global tech.

It says it contributes to High Trust Probes (61%) [the 61% is in red] and the project isn't available. Are there any other techs or projects I need to research/build?

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Subikahn:

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

The faction project High Thrust Probes, which is made available by the Advanced Chemical Rocketry global tech.

It says it contributes to High Trust Probes (61%) [the 61% is in red] and the project isn't available. Are there any other techs or projects I need to research/build?

Is the "contributes to" thing part of a new patch? I haven't seen it before.
Anyway, High Thrust Probes has a 60% chance of being unlocked for any given faction after the world researches Advanced Chemical Rocketry. The percentage of the global tech research points that you were responsible for is then added to the unlock chance. So if what you're saying means what I think it means, it means you put 1% of the world's research into Advanced Chemical Rocketry, so you only had a 61% chance of unlocking it, and so you don't have it available. If that's the case, then your only options to get it are to wait for someone else to research it and then steal the plans for it with Steal Project, or complete the global tech tree and complete the Physics Future Tech to reroll your chances.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Subikahn:

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

The faction project High Thrust Probes, which is made available by the Advanced Chemical Rocketry global tech.

It says it contributes to High Trust Probes (61%) [the 61% is in red] and the project isn't available. Are there any other techs or projects I need to research/build?

Percentiles mean that you aren't guaranteed to get the descendant tech. (Contribution to the global tech ancestor can increase your chance of getting the unlock.)

Finding out if there are other techs you need for High Thrust Probes is...exactly what the tech tree does for you.

From the template file, I don't think it has any other prerequisites. Assuming you've had the prereq for a while, you probably just hit that 39% chance of not unlocking it.

[Subikahn]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

Originally posted by Subikahn:

It says it contributes to High Trust Probes (61%) [the 61% is in red] and the project isn't available. Are there any other techs or projects I need to research/build?

Percentiles mean that you aren't guaranteed to get the descendant tech. (Contribution to the global tech ancestor can increase your chance of getting the unlock.)

Finding out if there are other techs you need for High Thrust Probes is...exactly what the tech tree does for you.

From the template file, I don't think it has any other prerequisites. Assuming you've had the prereq for a while, you probably just hit that 39% chance of not unlocking it.

All those projects slowly showed up, so it seems like there's a time delay built into when you get them after a tech is researched