I think around 97%, but I'll check.

Regardless, I think that if there is "inaccuracy", it's one thing to be high or low on an actual amount there.  It's another to read "nothing there" as something there".

In the old system, you got a few blocks that lasted longer or shorter than expected.  If a few percent means that you can totally waste your time, would have been good to know in advance that one should push one's accuracy up past 100%.

97% accurate sounds pretty decent unless you are doing research that requires decimal places.

BTW, if it sounds like a "complaint", then sorry for the miscommunicatrion-- I thought that it might be a bug.

I can confirm that 100% scanning removes the noise and allows you to find the last few little bits to clear the field.

New fields don't spawn when you clear one, there is an average low limit of different ores available per island, once it reaches that threshold a new one spawns.

False

A t4 geoscanner on a termis that gets a better scan accuracy than the rivler due to bonuses is better that the rivler because it has no bonuses to scanning. Most veteran miners use an argano to scan down the field before switching to a full turner fit rivler mk2.

You only need like lvl 4 or 5 geo chem and advanced or basic robotics 4 or 5 to get 100%

It should not require a 100% geostcanner and 100% mining out of a field. Badly designed gameplay right here.

UPD: suggestion to fix that is
1) scanner should ignore the fields below a ceretain threshold;
2) automatically dissipate (recycle into a common material pool) such mined out fields regularly, like, every day.

Agree 100%

that would be exactly the oppositte of what i would expect from training up an accuracy:

if i keep my accuracy low, i will only find the best deposits, and with high accuracy you are doomed to dustbusting leftovers.

we already had the whole discussion in another topic... There is a regular roaming npcs spawn of mining-laser fitted arganos and scarabs -> they are only there as targets. give them a meaning aside of that...

This is fragmentation. The problem isn't with the tile scan, it's with the directional scan pointing players to the 'nearest' tile with such a small % of that mineral left because almost no one is going to completely mine out any field; but this post does highlight the issues with 'leaving' small amounts for new players to find.

Tile scans are tradeable now, not in field cans, but in terminals. I believe Dev's were saying they thought this could become a new service, however it seems much too time consuming to ever develop into one. Alpha tile scans have a short 'shelf life' so something like trying to sell a scan to the OP would require them to scan it in real time, return to the outpost, and trade it to the OP; just so they could go mine .09%.

You can also see the problems developing here. The game can't simply push results off the directional scan once they get below a certain %, or the issue of fragmentation would accuulate over time.

There were other suggestions, the easiest from the player perspective is; when the server does the periodic 'ore' check for min amounts on the islands, it simply removes any tile with less than X amount of ore in it.

However, its going to take a lot of convincing, I believe, to get devs off the mindset that the players should hover up the fragments.

Mark Zimas recycling idea is good. This feature needs to be expanded on... Hell even I don't mine out a field 100% EVER and I am a veteran player/miner.

Just add a 24/48hrs timer once a miner starts extracting a field, after that time its gone and a new fresh one spawns.

Next time I see an Argano free-tiling it on alpha I'm going to shoot them a payout