Are discovery’s between different gaming platforms linked?

[Gibilix15]

Greetings,

Ever since I heard that we in ED have only discovered less than 1% of all 400 billion star systems (from what I hear), I’ve wondered how we know witch ones we have discovered and witch ones we have not. Of course now I know it will say in the system map whether a body has been discovered by a CMDR or not, and who discovered it.

But how do we know if a system that hasn’t been ‘discovered’ on say Xbox, has been ‘discovered’ on say, PC? Do they share the same ‘discovered’ database? Or are they just completely separate? But if that’s the case, then ‘discovering’ something on (say) Xbox won’t be as much of an accomplishment if it has already been ‘discovered’ on (say) PC, by another CMDR. So why not have them be ‘linked’?

 

[Straha Yeagar]

All platforms share the same database.

 

[Gibilix15]

I got a reply shortly after I posted this, with a short sentence. Funny.

Anyway, thank you for telling me this! But now I wonder (and I guess I should have put this in my post), how are all the discoveries stored, as in, were does frontier ‘store’ them?

 

[Dommarraa]

Fd have a room full of postit notes.

 

[Nick Sticks]

Frontier are storing all the game data (save position/exploration etc) centrally in a database on Amazon's servers.

 

[Factabulous]

Fd have a room full of postit notes.

Yeah, and some are losing their stickiness, which is why sometimes you get notified of first discoveries that are not correct. Also sometimes someone opens the window and they get blown down, it takes an age to put them back in place when that happens

 

[metatheurgist]

I blame the Hamster. Sometimes it escapes and it's hungry.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Yeah, and some are losing their stickiness, which is why sometimes you get notified of first discoveries that are not correct. Also sometimes someone opens the window and they get blown down, it takes an age to put them back in place when that happens

I once lost First Discovered status on an entire system for a week because the PostIt note got blown behind the fridge.