BGS question about traffic reports
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Traffic report is any player ship that has passed through X space in 24 hours. The vessel doesn't need to dock to be registered as passing through the system.
The same ship will also be counted multiple times, for example a trader in a Cutter passing back and forth through Sol enroute to Sirius, if the trade ship passed through Sol 5 times, the traffic report will display 5 Cutters passing through Sol space
The same ship will also be counted multiple times, for example a trader in a Cutter passing back and forth through Sol enroute to Sirius, if the trade ship passed through Sol 5 times, the traffic report will display 5 Cutters passing through Sol space
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Wording of that report needs to be better yeah. It is basically meant Pilot Fed ships going trough system.
As I understand it, the traffic report:
- Only counts CMDRs, not NPCs.
- Counts CMDRs in all game modes, not just Open.
- Counts all ships anywhere in the system, even if they're just scoop-and-jumping through and don't dock or land anywhere.
- Will count the arrival of the same player twice as two CMDRs.
- Will count a player arriving in one ship, landing, switching ships and leaving in the second ship as two CMDRs.
- Won't count you if your ship stays docked at the space station for the entire day. You have to actually fly your ship somewhere. It is a "traffic report", not a census.
- Only counts CMDRs, not NPCs.
- Counts CMDRs in all game modes, not just Open.
- Counts all ships anywhere in the system, even if they're just scoop-and-jumping through and don't dock or land anywhere.
- Will count the arrival of the same player twice as two CMDRs.
- Will count a player arriving in one ship, landing, switching ships and leaving in the second ship as two CMDRs.
- Won't count you if your ship stays docked at the space station for the entire day. You have to actually fly your ship somewhere. It is a "traffic report", not a census.
I thought it doesn't register the ship if you don't leave the system.
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This is what I think it is, too.
Does anyone know if it counts Commander flown ships across all platforms or just the one you're playing on?
I.e
Do Xbox players appear in pc traffic reports?
I.e
Do Xbox players appear in pc traffic reports?
All platforms
It works the same as real traffic reports. In reality you track movements through a certain airspace. A much better way to track how busy a certain area is.
I wouldn't.
Anomalies like a sudden spike in a certain ship type is a clue that there's a new Commander operating in the system. If you're doing BGS work, especially in a small system out in the Frontier, you want to know if there's someone new operating there.
Its a pity that there isn't a system, station, and faction specific bulletin boards in the game. It would be nice if you could post cross-platform messages to communicate with visiting Commanders.
+1. Yes, you're correct. I tested this last night in a very low traffic system.
I took an unused alt in a Python to a very low traffic system and parked it there. The traffic report didn't show any Pythons at all. I did other things and came back to check it about a half hour later in case there was some sort of delay. Still, no Python on the traffic report.
"If you don't leave the system"
If you e.g. arrive, dock, then undock and proceed into supercruise it will count you again (e.g. while bounty hunting). Basically I think it's tracking entry into the system's supercruise instance.
If you e.g. arrive, dock, then undock and proceed into supercruise it will count you again (e.g. while bounty hunting). Basically I think it's tracking entry into the system's supercruise instance.
Unless that's changed very, very recently, that's not correct. You won't show up in the traffic report as long as you don't leave the system. Many of us have done this while bounty hunting, intra-system trading and murder sprees. We don't show up on the traffic report until we leave.
Last night, I left the test system twice to run missions and gather some commodities. I landed at the test system and logged off. After logging on this morning, I checked the traffic report. It only shows 2 Pythons. Since I entered the system 3 times and left twice, it's fairly clear that it only counts when you leave the system.
Not how it should work. It has always worked exactly like a real traffic report, detecting movements through an area. In ED that means entering a system and leaving, you don't have to land or dock, nothing to do with entering or exiting SC.
Odd then.
There were a number of instances where I popped out to mine for an evening without ever leaving the system and I was on the traffic report nonetheless.
I mean it's possible it was someone else, but the system in question for months had the same traffic report: my Cutter and one Anaconda.
There were a number of instances where I popped out to mine for an evening without ever leaving the system and I was on the traffic report nonetheless.
I mean it's possible it was someone else, but the system in question for months had the same traffic report: my Cutter and one Anaconda.
AFAIK, it is hyperjumps in and out of the system per ship/jump
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Definitely Players entering the System only, all Modes, all Platforms. Server lag can delay the individual counting for upto ~20 Minutes at times.
Remaining inside System or jumping out doesn't count. "Locals" inside or having arrived >24hrs earlier are and remain invisible to the Traffic count.
PS.
It's easy to test. Just take a Ship type not yet in the Traffic Stats and just hop out & back in like a crazy bunny. Then wait until the Server count has catched up and compare.
Remaining inside System or jumping out doesn't count. "Locals" inside or having arrived >24hrs earlier are and remain invisible to the Traffic count.
PS.
It's easy to test. Just take a Ship type not yet in the Traffic Stats and just hop out & back in like a crazy bunny. Then wait until the Server count has catched up and compare.
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Better to swap ships for the jump back in.
I'm testing this now and will report back. It's taking a while to reach the station, but that's normal in these low traffic systems. I checked the traffic report with one alt. I jumped in with another and will land. Then check the traffic report and change ships. I'll jump out and self-destruct a couple of times, checking the traffic each time.
Then I'll jump out and land in another system. I'll return to the low traffic one and self destruct a couple of times, then check the traffic with the parked alt.
Shouldn't take too long.
<edit> First check - The traffic report already had 1 Asp X on it. Flew in with and Asp X. Took a screenie of the report, bought a sidewinder and left. Neither ship has shown up on the report after 25 minutes. I'll go smoke a cigar and check after that, then continue the tests. </edit>
<edit 2> The Asp X that I flew in on showed up on the traffic report. It's about an hour after I jumped in. The Sidewinder that I left in isn't on the report. (I self-destructed and left again). I'll buy a different ship and try the other tests. </edit 2>
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