Resource Probe Range

[Rallehop]

I wanna probe my mining options but i have no idea what the range is so idk how often i should deploy probes. The information simply says "3 scanning range" which frankly gives me nohting to go on,

[Mako]

3.0 km just found that

[SpecFour]

yeah. they are really things you drop in close clusters of asteroids, i drop them in lines like crab pots through asteroid fields

[Rallehop]

This seems terrible... at the very least it should be marked on the map like your sattelite range?

[Rallehop]

Okay guys i just tested some things, the zones marked on the map is surveyed entirely by a single probe. I dropped 3 in a line with about 5 km between each one and they all read the same resources. But if i went to a nearby zone marked in red raqther than purple it gives me a differnet kind of resource.

[OxenWright]

Originally posted by 🗿Rasmus🗿:

Okay guys i just tested some things, the zones marked on the map is surveyed entirely by a single probe. I dropped 3 in a line with about 5 km between each one and they all read the same resources. But if i went to a nearby zone marked in red raqther than purple it gives me a differnet kind of resource.

I have two probes in the same red blob with different readings.

[Rallehop]

Originally posted by 2ofDiamonds:

Originally posted by 🗿Rasmus🗿:

Okay guys i just tested some things, the zones marked on the map is surveyed entirely by a single probe. I dropped 3 in a line with about 5 km between each one and they all read the same resources. But if i went to a nearby zone marked in red raqther than purple it gives me a differnet kind of resource.

I have two probes in the same red blob with different readings.

Yes but if you drop them close together in the same red blob the reading is the same, you dont need to put one down every 3 km to get maximum coverage

[Sineme]

I kinda doubt it's just 3 km I put one down next to an asteroid which had a 2 km diameter (I flew around the asteroid and my probe was shown to be 2 km away), yet the reading of the probe was pretty much the same to the other probes nearby. The radar (=scanning?) range in all ships is 40 km so maybe it has a range of 120 km.

[Pathogenic]

Originally posted by Sineme:

I kinda doubt it's just 3 km I put one down next to an asteroid which had a 2 km diameter (I flew around the asteroid and my probe was shown to be 2 km away), yet the reading of the probe was pretty much the same to the other probes nearby. The radar (=scanning?) range in all ships is 40 km so maybe it has a range of 120 km.

The probe isn't reading the result for asteroids that you see in sector. These asteroids are procedurally generated, placed in the sector when you arrive, based on the resource levels for that particular section of space in the game files. Sometimes the asteroids you see floating around do not match up as nicely as would be hoped with the resource probe reading, though.

[YunggGravy]

Sorry to necro this thread but could it be in reference to the hexes we see on the map? IE, they should be 6 hexes apart?

[Rallehop]

Hard to know for sure.

The AI ships you own don't seem to give a ♥♥♥♥ about what probes you put down anyway. My advice is to look for refinery stations in the sector with lots of buy-offers rather than resource rich regions.

Simply look for buy-offers for raw materials. Then use scan mode and click a few different asteroids to see if mining is viable.

If theres plenty of asteroids over 80 resources inside i'd say its viable personally.