Mod to place ressource probes at best spot

[michi_oss]

Hello,

I would like to give a ship a command like "find highest densitiy of ressources in sector X and leave a probe there".

Would this not be an interesting mod for a lot of people? I think this does not exist.
To search manually (even with a npc ship is very annoying).

I asked already in german forum, but no helpful answer, yet. viewtopic.php?f=184&t=439454
Perhaps the english speaking community has an idea or interested modder?


A workaround would be a script that does this immediately for all sectors, but this is then a little bit cheaty.

[kuertee]

Would, *cough*, Waypoint fields for deployments mod suffice?

I recommend configuring the waypoint field to be as large and as separated as possible with the disc shape waypoint field.

[yusz.dgm]

You might be interested in Sector Satellites mod found here : https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/4

It use the Resource Survey Unit and basically does what you describe , and best of all you can just drop it anywhere in the sector and it'll automatically place the survey unit at the highest yield locations of each resource in the sector.

Note that it will not work for any resource scouting mission, those still need to use resource probe. but you can just use the Resource survey unit, then place the probe near it to complete those mission. Then you can pick up the survey unit back .

[michi_oss]

You might be interested in Sector Satellites mod found here : https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/4

Thank you. Looks interesting. I have to take a deeper look.
What a pitty that this mod is only up to date on nexusmods, so I have to update manually.


@kuertee: Thank you, but then it is still only a chance to find the best spot and I have to give the command to pick up again all useless probes. But perhaps this mod is useful for other stuff.