I've had similar experiences of finding a binary pair of stars with a single world orbiting them, and the honk gave me something like 56%, with the planet accounting for the remaining 44% somehow.
Then I’ve got nothing.I’m way out in deep space, this keeps happening out here. No population.
I've had 100% complete messages in lots of systems where I've not scanned the belts, so that looks like a 'no'. At least I think I have - I usually just focus on the bodies count; sometimes there's a last planet way out of the ecliptic that takes a bit of tracking down.Are asteroid belts somehow being included in the percentage?
Are asteroid belts somehow being included in the percentage?
As an FSS hater, I'm staying quiet (ish!) on this one. OP had a valid question and it's been answered, here is not the place to air any other points.lol - the FSS haters have arrived, strap in for 100 pages of circularity
I like this guyAs an FSS hater, I'm staying quiet (ish!) on this one. OP had a valid question and it's been answered, here is not the place to air any other points.
I've seen others but remembered to capture this one!It's a bit weird - like often there will be 2 stars and it will say 51% complete. Had a look at whether it was related to '% system mass', but it's nothing that obvious
I have always assumed that the reason for the apparent discrepancy is due to the fact that the percentage scanned reflects the mass of scanned bodies against total mass the system contains.
That's exactly what happens.I'm in a system now with 31 bodies,before scanning ,the sun acounts for 8% bodies discovered,gas giants account for 5% per body,icy bodies 2%~3%,dependant on size,etc. Obviously the percentages will change depending on the number and composition of bodies in-system.Then surely there'd be far more variation and it would be visible in every system.
For example, a system with one blue supergiant and a single icy moon should give >90% complete for just the star.
That's exactly what happens.I'm in a system now with 31 bodies,before scanning ,the sun acounts for 8% bodies discovered,gas giants account for 5% per body,icy bodies 2%~3%,dependant on size,etc. Obviously the percentages will change depending on the number and composition of bodies in-system.
Then surely there'd be far more variation and it would be visible in every system.
For example, a system with one blue supergiant and a single icy moon should give >90% complete for just the star.
Maybe the percentages are based on a logarithmic scale?That's exactly what happens.I'm in a system now with 31 bodies,before scanning ,the sun acounts for 8% bodies discovered,gas giants account for 5% per body,icy bodies 2%~3%,dependant on size,etc. Obviously the percentages will change depending on the number and composition of bodies in-system.
Maybe the percentages are based on a logarithmic scale?
Well,i did start,but once the pattern became obvious i didn't do them all.I'd love to see screenshots of that - not that I don't believe you, I just think it would be cool.
What's the star type? I'm thinking it's a type "M," so at most 100x the mass of those gas giants. Your 7% gas giant could very well be just below the threshold for it to be a brown dwarf, so about 10 times the others.Well,i did start,but once the pattern became obvious i didn't do them all.
I think they're rough percentages though,the last class 1 GG came in at 7%.
Body | Log(mass)+3 | scan percentage | mass (earths) |
Sun | 8.52 | 20% | 332900.000 |
Mercury | 1.74 | 4% | 0.055 |
Venus | 2.91 | 7% | 0.815 |
Earth | 3.00 | 7% | 1.000 |
Moon | 0.30 | 1% | 0.002 |
Mars | 3.03 | 7% | 1.070 |
Jupiter | 5.50 | 13% | 318.000 |
Io | 1.18 | 3% | 0.015 |
Europa | 0.90 | 2% | 0.008 |
Ganymede | 1.40 | 3% | 0.025 |
Callisto | 1.26 | 3% | 0.018 |
Saturn | 4.98 | 11% | 95.000 |
Titan | 0.56 | 1% | 0.004 |
Uranus | 4.15 | 9% | 14.000 |
Neptune | 4.23 | 10% | 17.000 |
Triton | 0.26 | 1% | 0.002 |
Pluto | 0.34 | 1% | 0.002 |
Eris | 0.45 | 1% | 0.003 |