Survey scanner

[Erikafox]

About The Pull Request

Survey Scanners - Drafted.

Adds survey scanners to the game. Survey Scanners are a replacement system for the survey handheld. They require going outside (horrific) and engaging with the game to find survey points, which can then be scanned for research points. As a side result they adjust dissection values to make it less useful, and can also be used to discover ore veins (which now start semi-hidden, as they are underground)

I need to touch up the code before it's ready for a merge but they're perfectly functional right now

• have a design discussion to see if these should be used
• if the answer is yes redesign and implement.

Changelog

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add: Survey Scanners! A new-ish system for doing survey gameplay. That is to say there is actually gameplay now.
del: Survey handhelds
balance: Ore veins are now hidden until scanned properly.
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[github-actions]

This pull request has conflicts, please resolve those before we can evaluate the pull request.

[thgvr]

I don't really think the ore vein change is that great. We already greatly reduced the occurrence of ore veins in rock walls, as drill mining and defense is a more reliable method to acquire large amounts of ore.

For the survey scanner, at this point we've all but phased out RND equipment on ships in favor of cargo, so I unfortunately can't really see this serving much of a purpose as is.

[Erikafox]

I was thinking about making it equipment for a set of outpost missions, but that'd require some actual design discussion.

[SomeguyManperson]

This replaced human dissections in #2722 and human/monkey dissection is uhh bad

[Erikafox]

Yeah this absolutely needs a design talk. Feel free to pull me into one but for now I'm gonna let this ferment in my collection of dead branches.