Will the Scanner Room be more useful in the future?

Phoenix223

As of the most recent stable update (Castles and Coffee), the Scanner Room still only looks for resources in its immediate vicinity. In the future, will it (or does it already in experimental) allow me to scan for resources remotely through the Camera Drones?

Right now, the Scanner Room is sorely limited in its usefulness because of this restricted range. Also, it's still a bit buggy, detecting ores that I've already collected.

Niil945

I posted about this several weeks ago and after a suggestion I hopped onto Discord and asked one of the devs. He messaged me back and had a short conversation with me where he indicated that the scanner room isn't functioning as intended primarily due to the range and that it's something they want to work on. He also alluded to other ideas they had for it but didn't go into the details, saying they had some technical hurdles to overcome. The tentative date for it is in the March update, but that's from their schedule which can and often does change. It's actually on the Trello roadmap as well.

Darwin-Evolution

I have an idea. How about having these pre-built in it?



EDIT: Scratch that, I actually feel like biulding these seperately instead.

Carl_Bar

There's a note in the trello about it. Apparently atm the search algorithm is very CPU intensive so till they rework the code they have to keep it limited.