Congratulations to Cmdr Darkmoor...

Cmdr Mnumen · Aug 2, 2015

... for bagging the first discoverer tag for the famous black hole cygni x-1 - the first black hole discovered by mankind.

I visited it recently as the object of a trip out into the void and it was still marked undiscovered. I had hopes of returning as first discoverer but it seems I was beaten to it! Well done CMDR, and good luck out in the void!

Also, commiserations to Cmdr BlooMoo who, despite visiting the system first, only tagged the companion O Star, missing one of the biggest prizes out there (IMHO). Maybe he was in a rush for some reason?!

newman1702 · Aug 2, 2015

Or had a lower grade scanner and didn't pick it up perhaps..

marx · Aug 2, 2015

Or might have run afoul of some earlier bugs where the detailed scan was lost, or they weren't credited when turning the data in.
It would be nice if there was a timestamp added to the "First discovered by" tags, so they'd be "First discovered by CMDR JAMESON on 3301 Apr. 1" for example.

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI · Aug 3, 2015

marx said:
Or might have run afoul of some earlier bugs where the detailed scan was lost, or they weren't credited when turning the data in.
It would be nice if there was a timestamp added to the "First discovered by" tags, so they'd be "First discovered by CMDR JAMESON on 3301 Apr. 1" for example.

These bugs are not that earlier, i had quite a lot of data deleted a month ago, including some ELWs. If someone goes in those system they would think i'm crazy scanning the main star and not the very obvious ELW...

Cmdr Mnumen · Aug 5, 2015

yeap, all good possibilities. I do wonder though how many people just rush throughsystems on their way too, or back from, somewhere in particular. Musing on my next destination now...

ArmoredMeat · Aug 6, 2015

I'm just trying to make it to Sag A so I'm sailing through systems right now. If I stopped at each one I wouldn't make it for the third time.

CaptainKremmen · Aug 6, 2015

Cmdr Mnumen said:
yeap, all good possibilities. I do wonder though how many people just rush throughsystems on their way too, or back from, somewhere in particular. Musing on my next destination now...

I certainly do. If I'm single-minded about going somewhere far, far away, you won't see me for dust. I hotfoot it, for sure.

Ravenstar · Aug 6, 2015

Is there a way to search for systems via whom discovered it first?

drkaii · Aug 6, 2015

Shouldn't it be marked as first discovered by NASA?

Or Humanity?

tiger61378 · Aug 7, 2015

drkaii said:
Shouldn't it be marked as first discovered by NASA?

Or Humanity?

Nope, because NASA never actually went to it...its the difference between honking and detail scanning

drkaii · Aug 7, 2015

tiger61378 said:
Nope, because NASA never actually went to it...its the difference between honking and detail scanning

Friend, you have defeated me. I surrender

Anuranium · Aug 7, 2015

Cmdr Mnumen said:
Also, commiserations to Cmdr BlooMoo who, despite visiting the system first, only tagged the companion O Star, missing one of the biggest prizes out there (IMHO). Maybe he was in a rush for some reason?!

No, by no means:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=91474

TL; DR
CMDR Bloomoo was in january actively trying to find Cygni X-1, going through several systems with the possible location of it (Star of India, HD 226868 AND V1357 Cygni). The black hole was not to be seen, so it was propably not implemented by Frontier yet.

In february completely unaware of this I also ventured forth to seek this historical object, and I found it. To my surprise it was untagged, so I blasted my way back home to claim it, only, I didn't. It was bugged, as many systems was back when the "discovered by" function was implemented.
Ticket was sent to frontier hoping that Bloomoo who actually was the first (known) CMDR who actively was seeking this system out, got the "claim".
I never got a response...

Oh well, it's too late now. Congratulations CMDR Darkmoor

Bloomoo · Aug 7, 2015

Indeed, Congratulations to CMDR Darkmoor for making it there.

Although I am a very sad moo at the moment

Zeeman · Aug 8, 2015

marx said:
Or might have run afoul of some earlier bugs where the detailed scan was lost, or they weren't credited when turning the data in.
It would be nice if there was a timestamp added to the "First discovered by" tags, so they'd be "First discovered by CMDR JAMESON on 3301 Apr. 1" for example.

Actually, I'd like to see a "First visited by/discovered by", and a "First explored by". ie - recognition for the first person who actually visits a system, and the first to turn in the data.

So basically, the first person to visit a system gets the "discovered by" tag for the system only. The first person who scans and turns in the data for the bodies gets their name tagges on the planets/bodies.

I'm sure I lost hundreds of "first discovered by" systems in the weeks and months that I have been on the far side of the galaxy, not to mention a few planetary nebula that I spent a lot of time searching for and nabbing, only to realise that there will be others who are bound to have found them by now, and headed home to "own" it.

But such is the life of an explorer...

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