Survey Scanner

[Long Finger]

Can we add something along the lines of "Scanning Orbit: Polar +/-10 degrees" to the more info tab?

We don't all automatically know that this is a requirement in the game until we try to do it wrongly. If it's going to tell us the altitude requirements, it should also mention the specifics of the required orbital inclination.

[sebi.zzr]

15 minutes ago, Long Finger said:

We don't all automatically know that this is a requirement in the game until we try to do it wrongly. If it's going to tell us the altitude requirements, it should also mention the specifics of the required orbital inclination.

I think this is why they made KSPedia:

Usually if you buy a new TV,it's recommended to read the manual before using it.

[Long Finger]

What is the sense in putting that single piece of information for the survey scanner in KSPedia rather than its own expanded info box?

15 hours ago, sebi.zzr said:

Usually if you buy a new TV,it's recommended to read the manual before using it.

Recommended by the same people that provide a quick-start guide precisely because they know no-one ever reads the manual. A TV is also a simple domestic appliance, whereas a Survey Scanner is somewhat more advanced using a combination of advanced sensor technology and witchcraft!

[sebi.zzr]

TV was just an example of an item that comes with manual to read.

3 hours ago, Long Finger said:

What is the sense in putting that single piece of information for the survey scanner in KSPedia rather than its own expanded info box?

You have answered your own question.Scanners info box is a "quick manual",If you want to get more advanced information,then you need to read the real thing.
Basically,calling KSPedia useless manual is a little harsh for someone who would like to manage a space program.

[Long Finger]

25 minutes ago, sebi.zzr said:

You have answered your own question.Scanners info box is a "quick manual",If you want to get more advanced information,then you need to read the real thing.
Basically,calling KSPedia useless manual is a little harsh for someone who would like to manage a space program.

The info box isn't a quick manual. If it was the full manual would contain all of the same information. KSPedia makes no mention of anything in the scanners info box and is not intended as a complete manual.

Nobody in this thread called KSPedia useless except you.

Why are you so against having a really useful piece of information about the scanner in the scanner's own info box where it would be really useful? The same info box where all of its other useful info resides.

[sebi.zzr]

59 minutes ago, Long Finger said:

Nobody in this thread called KSPedia useless except you.

 

5 hours ago, Long Finger said:

 no-one ever reads the manual

What do you call the thing no one reads?
 

 

1 hour ago, Long Finger said:

Why are you so against having a really useful piece of information about the scanner in the scanner's own info box where it would be really useful? The same info box where all of its other useful info resides.

I'm not against it,and you totally missed my point.

[natsirt721]

22 hours ago, Long Finger said:

If it's going to tell us the altitude requirements, it should also mention the specifics of the required orbital inclination.

This is a good point, however I support moving the altitude requirements into KSPedia rather than moving the inclination requirements out.  

[The_Rocketeer]

7 hours ago, Long Finger said:

A TV is also a simple domestic appliance

Pah! Tell that to someone from the 19th Century.

7 hours ago, Long Finger said:

a Survey Scanner is somewhat more advanced using a combination of advanced sensor technology and witchcraft!

Not at all. Once you've mastered it, you'll realise it's really just a simple domestic appliance.

[DoctorDavinci]

5 minutes ago, The_Rocketeer said:

Pah! Tell that to someone from the 19th Century.

I challenge you to drum up such a person ... they would be at least 118 years old

Good luck with that

[YYNY]

On 3/1/2017 at 11:05 PM, DoctorDavinci said:

[...] ... they would be at least 118 years old [...]

 

Well, the first televisions were developed in 1930, so maybe not quite that old...

[DoctorDavinci]

1 hour ago, YYNY said:

Well, the first televisions were developed in 1930, so maybe not quite that old...

FYI .... 1900 - 1999 was the 20th century 

 

1899 was the last year of the 19th century ... add 118 to 1899 and you get 2017

 

We're in the 21st century now, have been for 17 years

Edited March 4, 2017 by DoctorDavinci

[Kerbart]

14 minutes ago, DoctorDavinci said:

FYI .... 1900 - 1999 was the 20th century 

 

1899 was the last year of the 19th century ... add 118 to 1899 and you get 2017

 

We're in the 21st century now, have been for 17 years

 

Except that there's not a year 0. Technically each century therefore goes from year 1 to "year 100", and the 20th century ran from 1901 to the end of 2000. That most people think it ran from 1900 to the end of 1999 doesn't make that reality.

[DoctorDavinci]

1 minute ago, Kerbart said:

 

Except that there's not a year 0. Technically each century therefore goes from year 1 to "year 100", and the 20th century ran from 1901 to the end of 2000. That most people think it ran from 1900 to the end of 1999 doesn't make that reality.

I stand corrected ... off by one year, sorry bout that 

 

Although my original point still stands