Satellite Question

Kain23 · Post by **Kain23** » Thu, 21. May 09, 09:32

I was just wondering if someone could tell me the different between the Advance Satellites and the Navigation Relay Satellites in TC? Thanks in advance..

1muvwndr · Post by **1muvwndr** » Thu, 21. May 09, 09:39

AFAIK the AdvSat has both the Best Buys and Best Sells locators and has a camera installed that should be usable while you have your AdvSat in one of the monitors. otherwise they have the same scanning range.

Kain23 · Post by **Kain23** » Thu, 21. May 09, 09:55

So do they both pretty much do the same thing?

NUKLEAR-SLUG · Post by **NUKLEAR-SLUG** » Thu, 21. May 09, 10:25

Advsat has much larger radar range.

Threesixtyci · Post by **Threesixtyci** » Thu, 21. May 09, 11:27

The only difference that I'm aware of is that the advanced has a larger scanning size, and costs about twice as much. I'm pretty sure they both have the best sell/buy menu.

As for the monitor/camera thing that is described in the manual, I would think the game would have to 3d render every system that an Adv satellite was dropped into to do something like that, and the game just doesn't seem to do that.

Now as for an user script... there is one that makes the extra investment of adv satellites a good one. But it does have one flaw. The more systems that you add to the network, the bigger the perfomance hit on the game. But, it's good for about 50 systems, before you start noticing (well.. I guess depending on what you have...) What it basicly does is give you a warning everytime an enemy comes within scan range of the satellite.

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=218368

Post by **Terre** » Thu, 21. May 09, 11:31

Threesixtyci wrote:As for the monitor/camera thing that is described in the manual, I would think the game would have to 3d render every system that an Adv satellite was dropped into to do something like that, and the game just doesn't seem to do that.

If the play is the same sector; with the sector map open, presses 'k', you can see a rendered view of the sector, which aids factory positioning.

RoadRunner12 · Post by **RoadRunner12** » Thu, 21. May 09, 19:06

OK, I'm confused. Have tried the sector view using "k" when I'm in a system where I have an advanced satellite, but all it seems to do is highlight the scanning ranges of any ships/sats I have in sector. What use is this? Am I missing something?

RoadRunner12 · Post by **RoadRunner12** » Thu, 21. May 09, 19:24

Nervermind. Just zoomed in on the map with the sector view enabled and it all became clear