Is it suspicious

[Charlie Hustle]

Many explorers "cherry-pick" - they don't bother scanning anything except the highest-value objects: neutron stars, black holes, ELWs. No scans, no Tags.

I was exploring over in Qeajo sector a few months ago; it's off the regular tourist routes, not on a direct line to anywhere. Saw no other CMDR tags for a thousand LYs; saw no ELWs either. Finally found my first ELW in that sector... and it was already Tagged.

awwww damn!!! thats some crap..

 

[JetsonRING]

I fully understand plpayers hopping quicjĺy and seeking routes between Neutron stars and I get this. As stated I fully appreciate Neutron stars are a premium and many explorers have been at this for years - HOWEVER what I am questioning is how the surrounding systems can be absolutely devoid of any discovery at all - Or am I mistaken in the understanding that the primary body is stellar body scanned at a basic level by default merely by entering a system?

Nothing is tagged automatically. A CMDR must either scan the primary using the ships sensors which takes a few seconds and requires pointing your ship at the star, something one rarely does while "travelling" or, use the Advanced Discovery Scanner to "HONK" the system, which "discovers" all bodies in the system. If you jump in, scoop fuel (or not) and jump out, no discovery takes place. If another CMDR jumped into the system before you and HONKed the system, maybe using a Basic Discovery Scanner instead of the Advanced Discovery Scanner the limited range of the Basic unit could mean only the star was scanned and not the surrounding planetary bodies. o7

 

[space voyager]

I've probably only scanned 10% of the stars I've jumped to, if that. I'm more about getting to places, usually. And neutrons, black holes and suchlike are the sorts of things explorers take detours for.

True, until you find a neutron field of 100+ (on the way to SagA), after which I never bothered for another neutron star ever again. When I found the field I was only able to see a small portion, like 40, and decided to scan them all. I actually did, but after I got them all I saw that those were but a tiny part of a larger field and then I realized that if I continue, I'll never make it to my destination as I'll lose all interest to explore.

 

[Micha]

Unless I make a mistake, I always scan the main star. While it's scanning, I check the system map to see what else to scan in the system. My average is 2-3 scans per system.. which might go some way to explain why I'm still on the return journey from DWE3302 :-D

But yeah, I've travelled thousands of LY's without seeing anything of note, nor any tags, but the first "interesting" thing I find is tagged.. Curses to all the Explorers who don't use EDDiscovery (I use its map as an indication of whether an area has been visited or not)..

 

[Aura Lorell]

But yeah, I've travelled thousands of LY's without seeing anything of note, nor any tags, but the first "interesting" thing I find is tagged.. Curses to all the Explorers who don't use EDDiscovery (I use its map as an indication of whether an area has been visited or not)..

Not everyone wants to use EDDiscovery in conjunction with EDSM. It's third party optional for PC users only. Xbox and PS4 cannot use either. As you travel you will always come across things that are cherry picked. That's normal and fine. Scanning everything is not for everyone.

 

[Charlie Hustle]

Not everyone wants to use EDDiscovery in conjunction with EDSM. It's third party optional for PC users only. Xbox and PS4 cannot use either. As you travel you will always come across things that are cherry picked. That's normal and fine. Scanning everything is not for everyone.

True, my first explorer mission, i scanned everything. Then i realized it was tedious and boring. on my way back, all i did was honk, and while fueling i would look at the system map and see if there was anything worth my time to do a DSS.

 

[Orvidius]

I was exploring over in Qeajo sector a few months ago; it's off the regular tourist routes, not on a direct line to anywhere. Saw no other CMDR tags for a thousand LYs; saw no ELWs either. Finally found my first ELW in that sector... and it was already Tagged.

... by CMDR VALIDATING?

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Nothing is tagged automatically. A CMDR must either scan the primary using the ships sensors which takes a few seconds and requires pointing your ship at the star, something one rarely does while "travelling" or, use the Advanced Discovery Scanner to "HONK" the system, which "discovers" all bodies in the system. If you jump in, scoop fuel (or not) and jump out, no discovery takes place. If another CMDR jumped into the system before you and HONKed the system, maybe using a Basic Discovery Scanner instead of the Advanced Discovery Scanner the limited range of the Basic unit could mean only the star was scanned and not the surrounding planetary bodies. o7

Ok, this is confusing to me.

I jump into a system and use the Advanced Discovery Scanner while fuel scooping...honk...I then jump out of the system. Do I get a "discovered by" tag on the main star or not? I realize that I don't get the whole system and that I have to scan each object to get the tag. But does a honk get you anything? Or does it just display the system map for you?

 

[aRottenKomquat]

Ok, this is confusing to me.

I jump into a system and use the Advanced Discovery Scanner while fuel scooping...honk...I then jump out of the system. Do I get a "discovered by" tag on the main star or not? I realize that I don't get the whole system and that I have to scan each object to get the tag. But does a honk get you anything? Or does it just display the system map for you?

The honk gets you the full system map. It does not tag anything at all.

 

[Aura Lorell]

Ok, this is confusing to me.

I jump into a system and use the Advanced Discovery Scanner while fuel scooping...honk...I then jump out of the system. Do I get a "discovered by" tag on the main star or not? I realize that I don't get the whole system and that I have to scan each object to get the tag. But does a honk get you anything? Or does it just display the system map for you?

No you do not get the discovered by tag on the main star. You need to select the main star, point the nose of your ship in its direction, and wait for the scan to finish. Then when you go back to a station with Universal Cartographics and sell that data before someone else does, you get the tag on that system.

 

[Wood67]

I jump into a system and use the Advanced Discovery Scanner while fuel scooping...honk...I then jump out of the system. Do I get a "discovered by" tag on the main star or not? I realize that I don't get the whole system and that I have to scan each object to get the tag. But does a honk get you anything? Or does it just display the system map for you?

A honk does get you a few credits when you cash in the cartographics I think, but it won't get you tagging rights. For that you need to scan the thing. In both cases you need to make it back alive of course...

 

[rOmiLaYu]

The honk gets you the full system map. It does not tag anything at all.

Thanks for that.

Did that change at some point? Because I feel like it used to get you the tag...in fact, I'm almost positive it did because I got the Kepler's Eye achievement almost a year ago (maybe more) and back then I didn't know anything about scanning/honking as I had done zero exploration. All I did back then was honk and jump.

 

[crotalus]

Thanks for that.

Did that change at some point? Because I feel like it used to get you the tag...in fact, I'm almost positive it did because I got the Kepler's Eye achievement almost a year ago (maybe more) and back then I didn't know anything about scanning/honking as I had done zero exploration. All I did back then was honk and jump.

As far as I know you always had to scan it to get the tag it was introduced in one of the patches soon after the game launched and the finds were if I remember correctly were back dated to the gamma testing

 

[rOmiLaYu]

As far as I know you always had to scan it to get the tag it was introduced in one of the patches soon after the game launched and the finds were if I remember correctly were back dated to the gamma testing

Well, I guess I must have scanned something after all. Cheers.

 

[roboteconomist]

... by CMDR VALIDATING?

One of the most prolific explorers among us.

 

[Sapporo]

I barely scan common stars. I always scan Neutron stars.