Just been playing about with the new scan probe system on the test server. Its really nice and pretty easy to understand if you think about triangulation (quadulation 
) in three dimensional space.
The probes only give you a range to a target not the direction so you get results like this:
1 Probe, will just give you a range sphear, the thing you are looking for is somewhere inside it.
2 Probes, the probes work together to give you all the possible places the ship/anomaly you are looking for could be given the range results from both probes. It gives you a circle, your target is somewhere along the red line.
3 Probes, with the third probe online and providing its range it pins it down but gives you a mirror image of the target. Which if you think about it is exactly what should happen.
4 Probes, with the 4th probe giving its range you can finaly pinpoint the exact location of the target. Its better to put the 4th probe above or below the target but I didnt in this screeny.
Bugs :
Directional Scanner is now broke, or they changed how it works.
Solar system map is now always zoomed in for somereason.
Stupid big arrows to move the probes. Clumsy way to move your probes around system, most of your time is wasted fighting these things and there are such better ways to do it (How it was done in the Homeworld games for example).
) in three dimensional space.The probes only give you a range to a target not the direction so you get results like this:
1 Probe, will just give you a range sphear, the thing you are looking for is somewhere inside it.
2 Probes, the probes work together to give you all the possible places the ship/anomaly you are looking for could be given the range results from both probes. It gives you a circle, your target is somewhere along the red line.
3 Probes, with the third probe online and providing its range it pins it down but gives you a mirror image of the target. Which if you think about it is exactly what should happen.
4 Probes, with the 4th probe giving its range you can finaly pinpoint the exact location of the target. Its better to put the 4th probe above or below the target but I didnt in this screeny.
Bugs :
Directional Scanner is now broke, or they changed how it works.
Solar system map is now always zoomed in for somereason.
Stupid big arrows to move the probes. Clumsy way to move your probes around system, most of your time is wasted fighting these things and there are such better ways to do it (How it was done in the Homeworld games for example).
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lmfao.
