X3TC: Advanced vs. Regular Satellites

fOSSil · Post by **fOSSil** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 18:40

What's the difference in terms of features for the player, e.g. me?

Post by **Xenon_Slayer** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 18:45

Advanced sats have a larger scanner range and you can turn on the sector camera when you are in the sector 'hotkey - k'. I think they also have more shields.

fOSSil · Post by **fOSSil** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 18:49

Numbers for the scanner ranges? What is a sector camera? Hotkey 'k' is assigned to auto aim innit?

Edit: Whooohey 100th post! More than I've ever posted in all other internet forums together

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Goodfeller · Post by **Goodfeller** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 19:05

fOSSil wrote:Numbers for the scanner ranges? What is a sector camera? Hotkey 'k' is assigned to auto aim innit?

I had a chat about that the other day over here:

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... highlight=

MegaJohnny · Post by **MegaJohnny** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 19:19

fOSSil wrote:Numbers for the scanner ranges? What is a sector camera? Hotkey 'k' is assigned to auto aim innit?

Edit: Whooohey 100th post! More than I've ever posted in all other internet forums together .

The regular satellite has a little over duplex range (so a little over 20km radius) and the advanced satellite has something over 30km.

What the sector camera means, is that if you have an advanced satellite in the sector, you can open up the sector map and press K, where you'll get a top down view of everything in the sector. This feature only works if you're in the same sector as said satellite.

There are other instances of the same key doing 2 different things depending on the context.

fOSSil · Post by **fOSSil** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 19:40

30km, not a lot. I mean, it's a satellite! It should do at least twice the triplex scanner range...

Sector camera sounds fun, never knew that. Will try tonight.

Cheers for clearing this stuff up for me. I've wondered ever since the beginning of X3:R all those years ago

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Merroc · Post by **Merroc** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 19:48

Now if only there was a way to mass upgrade (for a cost ofcourse) your normal sattelites for advanced ones!

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 21:38

Sector camera isn't fun. It would be better if the map dissapeared first!

MegaJohnny · Post by **MegaJohnny** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 23:36

fOSSil wrote:30km, not a lot. I mean, it's a satellite! It should do at least twice the triplex scanner range...

Sector camera sounds fun, never knew that. Will try tonight.

Cheers for clearing this stuff up for me. I've wondered ever since the beginning of X3:R all those years ago .

Maybe a super satellite with ginormous scanner range would be a nice addition.

But 15K for near-permanent per-sector surveillance, that's not bad I think.

insolent1 · Post by **insolent1** » Thu, 5. Mar 09, 23:39

Stealth sats is whats needed as replacing them is time consuming and it would allow your sats to survive in hostile territory.