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Simple change to Survey Scanners (remove KM measuring)

Author
Minty Moon
#1 - 2012-12-15 02:07:17 UTC
Right now with my current boosts my lasers for mining go out to 19 and some extra change. Though my survey scanner once scanning past rocks that are above 9,999m only tells me the KM distance. So if I see a roid out at 19km and my mining laser says it can hit out to 19km I will add it to my targeting que only to find out that the roid is actually 19,753m out and my max laser distance is 19,273m

I might have half a dozen roids at that KM range but no way to tell if they are in true distance without cycling through everyone.

Can't even use the tactical overlay as the size of the roids prevents that from giving an accurate reading. Case in point i'm staring at a veld rock on the 20 marker. targeting it I see because of its size its actually only 6k out . So theres no real way to tell if something is just in my range or slightly too far, with tedium of going through one by one.

Simple solution, change the survey scanners to just measure in straight m and not bounce up to km at 10. youre only working with 24km on the scanner anyway, these aren't great distances.