X3TC Explorer Software - Survey Debris

[fOSSil]

Somebody must know...

With Explorer Software you get the command Navigation -> Scan Asteroids. If you activate that, you get two sub-commands to choose from: Scan Asteroids and Survey Debris (or similar). After choosing the latter and a sector, the ship just docks at the nearest station...

What is the Survey Debris command for?

EDIT: The answer...

That option allows the ship to scan all the debris rocks (i.e. can't have a mine built on them) for their resources, and at the end, sends a message to the player listing the quantities of the various resources in the sector.

[Mortis494]

As far as I can tell its only use is:

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When you are doing Hub Mission and enter the Hub for hte first time, you need to survey the debris field in the sector, either you can get really close yourself and scan it, or use the explorer command software.

Hope that helps

[fOSSil]

Thanks, so you cannot use it in regular sectors with lots of ship and station debris?

[argon_emperor]

Uh, not sure what you're reading, but the second option is 'Survey Debris', not 'Survey Derelicts'.

That option allows the ship to scan all the debris rocks (i.e. can't have a mine built on them) for their resources, and at the end, sends a message to the player listing the quantities of the various resources in the sector.

[fOSSil]

Ahhh, thanks argon_emperor! That makes complete sense now.

[thelebk]

Does the explorer command software require that a ship have a mineral scanner for the "survey asteroid" features?

[dryfus3368]

Does the explorer command software require that a ship have a mineral scanner for the "survey asteroid" features?

yup