I think Hunter's issue is that he wants to continue to get Epri products through recycling of massive NPC drops instead of going to Beta to mine the stuff in a more "hostile" and unsafe climate.

I think the devs are going in the right direction.  Epri needs to be removed from T1 items to help bring the cost of these basic items down.  Your items shouldn't cost more than the ship for T1!

It has one.  Go to the options menu to verify it is on.  Dan I'm curious if the recent changes fixed your issue.

Dan, did reinstalling fix your issue with off zero overlays?

If you have the status bar active (on the bottom) when you click "calculate", it should give you a estimated position (x, y) represented by the cross hairs on the graphical part.  We fooled around with displaying the locations on the overlay but found they got lost or were hard to see when you had several scans up.  The letters became hard to read in a swarm of reds and greens.

Back on the multiple site entry... I'm going to see if the devs can put a unique ID for a scan site onto the geoscanner so when you get multiple results with the same name, you can differentiate between them.

For everyone who wants to input multiple sites from one x,y position, help us try and solve this problem: how do you deal with multiple sites with the same name showing up on a scan?  Furthermore, if you go off chasing one site to its conclusion, and in the process lose one or more of these same named sites, how do you differentiate between them again?

Well besides spending time duplicating information?  The FOOM wiki is available for edit by any member of Perpetuum.  We encourage people to signup and help contribute.

Sindy, our recruting is currently closed for the time being.  Thanks for the interest.

Here is some basic help for you.  http://foom.electric-mayhem.org/wiki/artifact_hunting

Sites are unique, per toon.  The regeneration and distribution of sites was tweeked a coupled patches ago and the influx of players had driven the market down a bit which made sites much less lucrative.

From months of use, we've figured that hitting an islands major teleporters is about the only effective means of finding sites.  If you are targeting high value sites - aka tier 2 and 3 Sci and Observers - then you will need to spend more time hoping islands.  If you don't find these sites, then it really isn't worth the trouble to check all the nooks and crannies of each island.  You have a better chance of finding something big if you quickly check all alphas and the major teleporters on the empty betas.

You can try and clear out the tier 1 sites and you will eventually find something of higher value.  But given the drop rate this just sucks up time with little return.  Buy the fastest bot you can drive and cover the alphas looking.  Bookmark the good ones and come back later in a big bot/with friends.  When the server gets reset, go back out and do it again (because sites get refreshed).

The terrain data, such as it is, is now part of the FOOM ScanApp.  It is broken down by bot size for each map.  Unfortunately we found out the terrain data does not include buildings, highways, or plant data.  On islands like Hershfield, you can really see that there is a lot missing.  If AC ever releases that data, it would be very easy to put it into the overlays.

Nice look app there Aero!

The program checks for updates (another one to come shortly to update maps to include terrain).  Thus it is referencing back to Engr's site.  Hence the connection.

FOOM is still recruiting...

As you guys have seen by our actions (Wiki, Scan Tool, and more to come ), FOOM prides itself on not just getting pew pew or pushing corp objectives but by helping the community grow.

If you are a motivated, self starter who wishes to strive to be the best in all aspects of your play style and would like to join a community with a long history of helping fellow corpmates and the overall community talk to an officer in our public channel "DPS Recruit".

Cpt,

Engr and I have looked at the issue.  It appear to be a problem with the WinZip self extractor.  The program is using a temp file shared by all WinZip self extractor programs.  For one reason or another, my setup.exe isn't overwriting previous files.  Thus, when the msi goes to start the install process another application's installer is launched.

To resolve the issue, download and extract into an empty folder.  That workaround solves the issue for the mean time.  We are also looking at tweaking the self extractor to give us a unique setup name and a longer term solution.

We did scan the tool before publishing it and it doesn't contain anything we are aware of.  However, if you have any questions about the authenticity of the download, the checksums are on the download page to verify.

/updated OP with this info.