Shocking poll (for me at least...)

[DarkFire]

Hope you don't mind me borrowing and editing your pic, Sarah, but according to what i've heard from other miners, i think it's like this:
a cylinder. though maybe the depth (d) increase with skills as well?

Kerham, as i read and still read your post you are bombing like:
x r x x r x x r x
r b r r b r r b r
x r x x r x x r x
x r x x r x x r x
r b r r S r r b r
x r x x r x x r x
x r x x r x x r x
r b r r b r r b r
x r x x r x x r x

where S is your first bomb and then you bomb N, S, E, W as well as nw, ne, sw and se... :?

[Silver di Avlo]

The basic max range for a bomb to its target, the rod. Is 45m from the edge of the blast, 50m from the center of blast.

There could be a higher detection rate, possibly from some unlocked skill. But i dont think its more than 60m.

[zajebani]

MA is turning this in to Science

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by DarkFire

Hope you don't mind me borrowing and editing your pic, Sarah, but according to what i've heard from other miners, i think it's like this:
a cylinder. though maybe the depth (d) increase with skills as well?

Kerham, as i read and still read your post you are bombing like:
x r x x r x x r x
r b r r b r r b r
x r x x r x x r x
x r x x r x x r x
r b r r S r r b r
x r x x r x x r x
x r x x r x x r x
r b r r b r r b r
x r x x r x x r x

where S is your first bomb and then you bomb N, S, E, W as well as nw, ne, sw and se... :?

I don't mind at all about the pic.

And yes that was what I could figure out from that Kerham guy's posts. He indirect said that they are cylindric, since talking about "covering areas" would be completely different with cylindric instead of spheric.

As I said, I didn't run any vast tests on this, but it seems it would be more logical with spheric detect volume. In which case the "depht" would be directly dependant on the "distance", instead of using a different theory for the depht itself.

Originally Posted by Silver di Avlo

The basic max range for a bomb to its target, the rod. Is 45m from the edge of the blast, 50m from the center of blast.

There could be a higher detection rate, possibly from some unlocked skill. But i dont think its more than 60m.

I disagree :-) at my actual skills, i think i have a detection range close to 60 m. i would be happy of coordinate tests, although they are very hard to do

and yes, that is the way i bomb the spots. also i sustain the cylindrical form, and i believe the cylinder is not a "strict one", but modifies its basis upon the evolution of terrain (easier to program this way )

[DaveJ]

I do not believe it is a cylinder, for 2 reasons:
(1) MindArk likes to make things nice and complicated
(2) That would make the depth of a deposit irrelavant to how difficult it is to find. This would mean that ATH size deposits could be found from a range of 50m, instead of almost directly ontop like they are

nope, depth is geology related. ath is luck-related.

[DaveJ]

Detection being a sphere would explain why finding big deposits is so hard AND explain why all big deposits have deep depth.

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by DaveJ

Detection being a sphere would explain why finding big deposits is so hard AND explain why all big deposits have deep depth.

Yes that is why I always assumed it to be spheric. Now I feel like drawing another picture.

i shall test tonight:

detonate a bomb. indicates a deposit at 30 m range at 10 m depth. don't claim. go 20 meters further and detonate again u will get signal 50 meters, still 10 depth. that means cylinder. if i walk 20 meters and range will exceed 50 m or no signal at all it means is a sphere. i will publish the results.