No nav beacon and AX restoration missions to planets that don't exist!

[ChessChamp]

Hi all, is it me or what?

I start picking up missions at HIP 20492, AX restoration on foot missions that should be made in HIP 21261. When I get there there is no nav beacon, and no blue text for mission locations. I've flown around to all unidentified and planets are going up to 11 but I get missions to planet 12???
Am I doing something wrong? I pick up the mission and log off and close Elite game to do other things then when I start it is like this!

EDIT It seems I have to find planet 12 with the FSS to know where it is!

 

[HansAcker]

HIP 21261 planet 12 has two landable moons with several settlements each. At least it should have

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[varonica]

EDIT It seems I have to find planet 12 with the FSS to know where it is!

Indeed, you need to "discover" the planets before you can do missions to them. Doesn't matter if they are on the system map for the most part, there are some systems that are already discovered for all players, but if that's not the case that's another players discovery, not yours. Once you have discovered them, of course, they will already be available for other missions without using the FSS.

 

[Ydiss]

Indeed, you need to "discover" the planets before you can do missions to them. Doesn't matter if they are on the system map for the most part, there are some systems that are already discovered for all players, but if that's not the case that's another players discovery, not yours. Once you have discovered them, of course, they will already be available for other missions without using the FSS.

Just long press the blue mission icon top left of galmap and it'll set a route to any EDO mission location that's a settlement without needing to discover it first.

For missions to planetary pois, you do need to do some exploration first if you've never visited the system.

 

[varonica]

Just long press the blue mission icon top left of galmap and it'll set a route to any EDO mission location that's a settlement without needing to discover it first.

For missions to planetary pois, you do need to do some exploration first if you've never visited the system.

Yeah, the first thing I do, the very first thing on entering any system is to check the FSS to see if I need to do anything, it wouldn't occur to me not to, and then I would just finish it off so it was all explored so I would never really run into that problem. Jump to system, fuel scoop, open FSS to see if it needed any exploring...but then as an explorer it is basically second nature to me.

 

[Kira Goto]

Yeah, the first thing I do, the very first thing on entering any system is to check the FSS to see if I need to do anything, it wouldn't occur to me not to, and then I would just finish it off so it was all explored so I would never really run into that problem. Jump to system, fuel scoop, open FSS to see if it needed any exploring...but then as an explorer it is basically second nature to me.

So maybe it's just me, but I personally never have issues with 'missing planets' in a system map from somewhere I haven't been to, on first visit. They are marked as 'unexplored', but selecting settlements on them works just fine anyway, be that through nav panel or map. The relevant one will still be marked as the mission objective perfectly fine.

(I usually FSS a system anyway but in case of Thargoid controlled space I prefer not to linger any more than I have to.)

 

[varonica]

So maybe it's just me, but I personally never have issues with 'missing planets' in a system map from somewhere I haven't been to, on first visit. They are marked as 'unexplored', but selecting settlements on them works just fine anyway, be that through nav panel or map. The relevant one will still be marked as the mission objective perfectly fine.

(I usually FSS a system anyway but in case of Thargoid controlled space I prefer not to linger any more than I have to.)

Really that's because they have been discovered by someone else already, if they haven't they won't appear on the system map at all, there won't even be an "unexplored" entry in the nav panel, they will just be invisible unless you scan the system with the FSS. Now in theory this should not be necessary for every system that's been visited and mapped by any other CMDR and the data sold to UC, which should mean for most systems in the bubble and just outside, but there have been instances, probably bugs or internet connection issues because the data does need to be downloaded from the servers, where even already explored systems sometimes don't show all or even any of the planets for some pilots. This may be an occurrence of that issue and if that does happen you need to scan the system yourself to get the data.

 

[Ned Flandalorian]

So maybe it's just me, but I personally never have issues with 'missing planets' in a system map from somewhere I haven't been to, on first visit. They are marked as 'unexplored', but selecting settlements on them works just fine anyway, be that through nav panel or map. The relevant one will still be marked as the mission objective perfectly fine.

(I usually FSS a system anyway but in case of Thargoid controlled space I prefer not to linger any more than I have to.)

For some inexplicable reason they're like that the first time you visit a system (show up as "unexplored") but if you then scan them all and die without selling the cartography data, they disappear completely and won't show up in the nav panel/system map the next time you go there until you use the FSS to find them again. This is the source of all the "bugs" that get reported about planets going missing.

 

[varonica]

For some inexplicable reason they're like that the first time you visit a system (show up as "unexplored") but if you then scan them all and die without selling the cartography data, they disappear completely and won't show up in the nav panel/system map the next time you go there until you use the FSS to find them again. This is the source of all the "bugs" that get reported about planets going missing.

That maybe makes sense in a roundabout way, once you have scanned the system yourself you don't need the basic system data you get from another CMDR's scan, but if you lose the data, that is die before turning it in, the game isn't actually telling the server you lost it, so it doesn't download the basic data from other CMDR's explorations and the planets don't show up at all. Obviously it shouldn't work that way, it's just a certain state not being reported to the servers.