Telescope Instruments

Space Dust telescope instruments are installed onto telescopes in order to discover resources. They are stored in a separate set of configs so that multiple parts can use them. You can find them here, but fundamentally new instruments can be in any file as long as they are a correctly defined SPACEDUST_INSTRUMENT node.

Fields

• Name : The config name
• Title : The localized name of the instrument
• ResourceName : the resource to operate on
• Discovers :is the instrument allowed to discover distributions?
• Identifies : is the instrument allowed to identify distributions?
• Wavelength : Determines range of the instrument. Larger wavelengths = less range
• Sensitivity : The base rate the instrument works at - at 100%, it will discover at the rate defined in the main settings file. Higher or lower to make things slow or fast

Example

SPACEDUST_INSTRUMENT
{
    Name = XenonSpectrometer 
    // UI localized name
    Title = #LOC_SpaceDust_switcher_instrument_xe
    // Resource to detect
    ResourceName = XenonGas
    // Are we allowed to discover?
    Discovers = true
    // Are we allowed to ID?
    Identifies = true

    // Wavelength (nm)
    Wavelength = 500 
    // Controls the base discovery rate (%)
    Sensitivity = 20
}