Is it even necessary to have the cam drones as repeaters?
We already have a radio that could act like a router/repeater to connect all cam drones from all bases and the Cyclops to a giant cam network.
The devs only need to link the cams with the radios at each location together with a radio network and program that stuff with checks for conditions like radios linked to scanner rooms. Then you could rotate through all locations and cams.
From the latest scanner room test at the bottom of the Lava Castle Precursor Base I found out that with the new range of 500m you can almost scan and view the entire Lava biome, including the prison cave.
I assume the same could be done with major deeper biomes when placing a scanner room at the center, like the Lost River or Grand Reef. I think most Biomes can be covered with a circle of a 500-600m range at the Biome center.
So the only weak part is the cam drone range of an average max 400m useful vision range. This should be increasable by scanner room upgrades too.
Yes, as the range increases the signal strength decreases. Don't go beyond 499m or you'll lose the signal and have to swim out an pick the drone up manually.
They are used to find mertals you cant like if you select salvage they guna scan that and you find one as a crama drone just folo the carma drone's beacon and you fot the metarl you were looking for,its also a free beacon
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We already have a radio that could act like a router/repeater to connect all cam drones from all bases and the Cyclops to a giant cam network.
The devs only need to link the cams with the radios at each location together with a radio network and program that stuff with checks for conditions like radios linked to scanner rooms. Then you could rotate through all locations and cams.
I assume the same could be done with major deeper biomes when placing a scanner room at the center, like the Lost River or Grand Reef. I think most Biomes can be covered with a circle of a 500-600m range at the Biome center.
So the only weak part is the cam drone range of an average max 400m useful vision range. This should be increasable by scanner room upgrades too.
Nonsense. Yes the screen gets fuzzy but you can still make plenty out what is about you albeit not a crystal sharp image.