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right now, miners are one of. if not the only role in the game with out a PDA function.
the idea I had was make there miner PDA also have a geological scanner built in, but I want to what other people think.
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That'd be wonderful. Maybe a Geiger counter too..
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Just makes sense honestly.
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07-19-2021, 12:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-19-2021, 12:06 PM by kyle2143. Edited 2 times in total.)
Not sure about the scanner. It does sorta fit into the PDA in lore terms that it's a sensor, but that kinda removes the need to use the geo scanner at all which only sees use in mining; so that would make it dead content. I don't think everything for jobs needs to br crammed into the pda. Maybe if it was a downgrade of the geo scanner, but I don't have any ideas for how that would work.
I think the geiger counter is a pretty good one. Either as a program or a module, nor sure which.
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Make it so that the program/scanner for the geological scanner only displays either the overlay or the info that shows up in the text feed; not both. Not sure which would be best.
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I've always thought the profits from the RockBox should be used to get upgrades for mining. A geiger module would be a great basic one.
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(07-19-2021, 12:05 PM)kyle2143 Wrote: Not sure about the scanner. It does sorta fit into the PDA in lore terms that it's a sensor, but that kinda removes the need to use the geo scanner at all which only sees use in mining; so that would make it dead content. I don't think everything for jobs needs to br crammed into the pda. Maybe if it was a downgrade of the geo scanner, but I don't have any ideas for how that would work.
I think the geiger counter is a pretty good one. Either as a program or a module, nor sure which.
+1 for Geiger counter.
Geo scanner is already half-dead with the mineral magnet's far superior scanner, which kinda killed most other mining methods as well unless you're playing on Oshan.
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(07-21-2021, 10:53 AM)MoonJesus Wrote: Geo scanner is already half-dead with the mineral magnet's far superior scanner, which kinda killed most other mining methods as well unless you're playing on Oshan.
Remove the Mining Magnet 2Day
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I really thought this was already the case.