Constant annoying ping (with what sounds like an echo)

[zmap170]

This game is my cup of tea, but one thing is going to stop me playing it.

There seems to be a constant pinging noise followed by what seems to be an echo. The intensity of it changes (and in turn my frustration) but with no relation to where I move or what direction I am facing.

I have searched to see if others have had the same issue and there seems to be mention that this may be related to finding a cystal. I am dammed if I can locate a crystal to stop the noise. I have tried pinging known and unknown ore to spot it but can't. I have walked large distances from my base and dug down large distances but to no avail, I still get the noise.

Another thread mentioned it may be relating to warnings for machines so I have set all offline warnings for machines that can do so to false but the noise is still there.

This is so irratating that I keep thinking it must be a bug. What am I missing? Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I don't want to give up on the game and hopefully if/when I find a solution it will be one of those "doh that was bloody obvious" moments!

[Kazzamkablam]

It's caused by certain missions (one which asks to place conveyors causes it, just complete it and it should go away.)

[Lions_Den]

If it's the conveyor mission, it's a bug. If you are hearing the noise and didn't do any scans then it is likely a mission bug otherwise keep your scanner out and look at the light at the top. The color indicates the gem type and it gets brighter the closer you get to the gem(s).

[Timeslice]

Missions have a short "bleep" to announce when they appear (or refresh) on your hud. Scanning (in any mode) with the scanner also activates the gem finder (gems do *NOT* show up via the scanner) with a kind of constant electronic whine for *each* gem in proximity to you, with a higher pitch/intensity for gems which are closer. The scanner will also have an indicator at the top whose color relays the type of (the closest) gem, and brightness indicates proximity.

If the sound you're referring to doesn't sound like either of these then you're talking about something else.

[Droknar]

I also have been getting an annoying loud TING sound when the conveyor mission has been up. I had no idea what it was and it was ticking me off.

EDIT: It stopped after I placed 25 slow conveyors. Unfortunatly it starts up again if you have 24 or under.

[zmap170]

Ahhhh it was the conveyor mission, placed the conveyors and the noise has stopped!

Very frustrating, I was spending so long trying to figure out what the noise was that I was not even trying to do any of the missions.

Thanks for the help, was very nearly going to give up on the game, think the Devs should try to fix it as surely i can not have been the only one.

Well back to trying to figure out the game :)