Elite Dangerous: First Discovery (A Couple of Explorer Questions)

evanevery

evanevery
I noticed from EDSM that I rolled through a previously undiscovered star system the other day. I went back and identified the star system, and now I'm curious what I should do about it...

1. Is there any obvious indication that I am the first ever visitor to a Star System when I enter it? I've been honking my way through star systems if my ship doesn't immediately recognize the primary star, but is there some specific indication provided if/when I am the very first visitor?

2. Whats the best things to do if you are the first visitor to a star system? Should I go around and surface scan all the individual bodies in the system? Do I get any naming rights, etc?

(Gotta go back and re-visit "my" system!)

Thanks!
 

acg515

acg515
In the system view map, when you hover over each star and planet it will say "First Discovered by ....." .... being the name of the commander who first discovered it. In an undiscovered system, there will be no name hovering over any of it. To my knowledge there are no naming rights. The best thing I find is to scan what is of value and move on. When I return from a voyage lasting weeks it can take hours to sell everything.

Often systems will only have some planets discovered. Since the frozen ice planets aren't worth that much, and there are so many of them, and it can be monotonous to scan them in a gas giant system where there may be 40 frozen moons, many of us will just scan the gas giants, metal rich bodies and high metal content planets, the stars, what have you. So you may get to a system where you can still be the first to discover a planet in it even though much of it has already been scanned.
 

aberent

A
The first commander to turn in a surface scan of an object gets a "discovered by" tag on the system map, and a bonus (an extra 50% as far as I remember) on the payment for the discovery. If there are no "discovered by" tags on the map, then there is a good chance that you are the first visitor. What you do if you are the first visitor is, I think, your choice.

Remember that not everybody participates in EDSM (although many do), so it isn't 100% reliable.
 

evanevery

evanevery
Thanks... So I would have to call up the System Map every time I enter a Star System to see if I was the first person to visit it?

If so, this is probably pretty ripe for a feature suggestion... I don't think it would be out of character to put some sort of "special" message up on the screen akin to the one we get when you roll into a system that you have no cartographic data for. Instead of something like "1 astronomical body discovered" change it to something in a different color which says something like "1 Star System Discovered" to make it more obvious... Sound a trumpet, drop balloons in the cockpit, etc...
 

BradHann

BradHann
Just to be clear: if there are no "discovered by" tags it doesn't necessarily mean nobody else has ever been there. It just means nobody has scanned the bodies/sold the data. Theoretically there could have been any number of people flying through that system. Although having said that, the odds are somewhat in your favour, especially when you get a reasonable distance from the bubble.
 

acg515

acg515
There's no way to really know, to my knowledge, if anyone's just flown through the system without scanning. But in my opinion if you flew through the system and didn't scan anything, you didn't really make any discoveries of note anyhow. All you did was fly past a star.
 
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