Problem with Nav Beacons?
- Thread starter Gwyther
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What information do you think is missing?
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I was always under the impression that you had to DSS a body to get that info unless your initial honk caught that body in its sweep. I thought the nav beacon data was just what bodies were in that system.
I thought the same as Lorenzo - a surface scan was needed to check out a body as opposed to beacon just doing the system structure.
No, you get the materials data if you FSS the system (or if it's one of the pre-discovered systems)
Not sure if you get this information if you scan the Nav Beacon without FSS-ing the system, but i guess the answer is NO
I think I'm losing the plot
Join the party mate!
You can’t lose what you never had, forget being a rebel without a cause and be a proud rebel without a clue
There’s a plot?
A polite questioning OP with photo to show what they mean. 1/10
An outraged, calling it a bug, frontier are infinitely bad OP with no photo and wild changing posts 10/10
I think you can see where you went wrong there
Senior moments, dont worry about them most of us dont, Ive usually forgotten again by tomorrow so why worry about it today
An outraged, calling it a bug, frontier are infinitely bad OP with no photo and wild changing posts 10/10
I think you can see where you went wrong there
Senior moments, dont worry about them most of us dont, Ive usually forgotten again by tomorrow so why worry about it today
Yes, I've noticed the same after scanning a nav beacon: planet 2 with landable moon and full materials data; planet 3 with landable moon and no data; planet 4 with 7 landable moons and full data on each.
Yes thank you! I knew I wasn't going mental
It's quite possible that planet 2 and 4 are on the same side of the star as your ship and within the autoscan range of the FSS and planet 3 is on the opposite side of the star and out of range of the autoscan, use the Orrery or nav panel to check distances to each body.
I arrived in the system for the first time and ran the Discovery scanner while fuel scooping and headed for planet 4's rings for some bounty hunting.
On a second visit I realised that the planets were all named Unknown so scanned the nav beacon.
The fully functioning nav beacon orbits the sun as close to the centre of the system as makes no difference, so the relative positions of the planets is irrelevant. Obviously, planet 4 is a gas giant, so quite separated from the inner ice planets, all orbiting a Class M star. Antony Kingsmill mapped all the planets - I've mapped none and I haven't used the full FSS in this system.
Here is the orrery view:
The other part of the problem lies in my belief that the autoscan reaches out 1000LS from the ship and that the nav beacon offers up all system data - one process or another should have revealed data on planet 3.
I may be living in the past.
I arrived in the system for the first time and ran the Discovery scanner while fuel scooping and headed for planet 4's rings for some bounty hunting.
On a second visit I realised that the planets were all named Unknown so scanned the nav beacon.
The fully functioning nav beacon orbits the sun as close to the centre of the system as makes no difference, so the relative positions of the planets is irrelevant. Obviously, planet 4 is a gas giant, so quite separated from the inner ice planets, all orbiting a Class M star. Antony Kingsmill mapped all the planets - I've mapped none and I haven't used the full FSS in this system.
Here is the orrery view:
The other part of the problem lies in my belief that the autoscan reaches out 1000LS from the ship and that the nav beacon offers up all system data - one process or another should have revealed data on planet 3.
I may be living in the past.
No, that's way to far for autoscan, however, the old DSS used to scan large bodies at greater distance than small bodies, so that may also be affecting it. But given that situation I wouldn't expect autoscan to even reach body 1, so there does seem to be something strange going on here, did by an chance pass closer to any of the bodies while on the way to the nav beacon?
I just checked with my Epic Alt.
I popped in a previously-non-visited system. I was greeted with Discovered WhateverStar. Nav Panel was listing Unexplored bodies
I dropped in the the Nav Beacon and scanned it, then back to supercruise. Now there were no more unexplored bodies in the nav panel, nor in the System map.
But none of the lendable planets were listing the materials and when i engaged the FSS it listed 23% discovered bodies.
So Scanning the NavBeacon is not the same as FSS-ing the system - in terms of discovering bodies, at least.
Yes that is what's happening to me. After scanning the nav beacon there are no materials listed on landable planets (as in my original image) and the FSS is showing a partially complete system scan.
I have been out in the black for 2 months, but I am still damn sure that when I had scanned a nav beacon before, it gave you ALL the system data, including planet materials, and a FULL 100% system scan in the FSS.
Either that or I really am losing the plot lol.