Can somebody explain why using the FSS is prefered then just opening the System Map?
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Depends - if you stick to the core systems, never do missions, then you can skip the FSS I guess. Otherwise it is useful 
Can you give me the main advantages over using system map? Just saying its 'useful' doesn't help much.Depends - if you stick to the core systems, never do missions, then you can skip the FSS I guess. Otherwise it is useful
Short and simple: It's faster
More complicated: it matters (more or less) just of you are an explorer.
The details:
The system map is NOT populated unless somebody has already scanned all the planets. In the bubble this "somebody" almost always has been a different person than you. Far away from the bubble your system map is empty. The honk just tells you how many bodies can be found in a system. The honk also auto-scans all stars in a system. However, it needs to be you who scans the planets using the FSS.
prior the FSS you needed to fly to each planet to scan them. Now you just sit there pointing your FSS to them. Thus, it is a HUGE time saver since you save all the flying time.
In addition is it now much easier to see if a system contains planets of interest (e.g. Ammonia or High Metal content worlds, etc.). In the FSS their signals are in a certain frequency range whereas it was e.g. often hard to distinguish an Ammonia world from a less interesting world from the image in the system map. Dito for the different gas giant classes.
But as I said. All of that matters little if you are mainly in the bubble.
More complicated: it matters (more or less) just of you are an explorer.
The details:
The system map is NOT populated unless somebody has already scanned all the planets. In the bubble this "somebody" almost always has been a different person than you. Far away from the bubble your system map is empty. The honk just tells you how many bodies can be found in a system. The honk also auto-scans all stars in a system. However, it needs to be you who scans the planets using the FSS.
prior the FSS you needed to fly to each planet to scan them. Now you just sit there pointing your FSS to them. Thus, it is a HUGE time saver since you save all the flying time.
In addition is it now much easier to see if a system contains planets of interest (e.g. Ammonia or High Metal content worlds, etc.). In the FSS their signals are in a certain frequency range whereas it was e.g. often hard to distinguish an Ammonia world from a less interesting world from the image in the system map. Dito for the different gas giant classes.
But as I said. All of that matters little if you are mainly in the bubble.
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It does not replace the DSS but niether do you ned to fly to a planet to discover it..
The DSS (which now involves flying to the planet and shooting probes at it), maps the surface of the planet discovering any interesting stuff that might be down there. Using the FSS and zooming in to the planet will discover it and give you all the information about the planet itself (mass, gravity, compsition, type, atmosphere etc) without the need to fly to it.
Discovering a planet using the FSS will get you all the rewars that fyling to it and scanning used to do (i.e. the credits and a first discovered tag if no one else has discovered it before). Mapping the planet with the DSS probes will get you extra credits and possibly a first mapped by tag.
Nope - FSS finds the interesting stuff. DSS just tells you where on the planet it is...
Ok this is getting confusing, does FSS show Guardian Structures, Bio life, high grade emissions?
You should probably try it and find out. Or watch a YT I guess.
You replied saying the FSS finds intersting stuff? What do you class as interesting? Iv'e watched a few YT vids & none mentioned showing: Guardian Structures, Bio life, HGE's?
In the bubble, I use FSS just for finding signal sources (left end of spectrum) because the systems are already mapped.
On exploration trips, I use FSS to scan all the objects.
So, in the bubble, don't worry about it unless you want an easier time finding HGE or other signal types.
Using mapping probes will find planet surface objects (like guardian ruins).
On exploration trips, I use FSS to scan all the objects.
So, in the bubble, don't worry about it unless you want an easier time finding HGE or other signal types.
Using mapping probes will find planet surface objects (like guardian ruins).
FSS gives u a general view of the layout of the system
DSS gives u a detailed layout of the surface of bodies
Combine both u get extra credits and knowledge
Guardian sctructures, points of interest on surface, sometimes show up after just the use of the FSS, even without using it on the nav panel, but generaly u need to use the DSS on the bodies to find the really neat stuff.
Now!
On the bubble, even doe all its 1st discovered and mapped by others, doesnt mean that if u dont have the data yet and u use the FSS and DSS u cant use them, u can, and ull get credits for it, just not as much as if you were the 1st one to do it.
Its a way to get credits fast, u can go around and mapping (using DSS) on ELWs, Water worlds and amonia bodies, to get the big bucks quick, there are lists of them and locations in the web.
DSS gives u a detailed layout of the surface of bodies
Combine both u get extra credits and knowledge
Guardian sctructures, points of interest on surface, sometimes show up after just the use of the FSS, even without using it on the nav panel, but generaly u need to use the DSS on the bodies to find the really neat stuff.
Now!
On the bubble, even doe all its 1st discovered and mapped by others, doesnt mean that if u dont have the data yet and u use the FSS and DSS u cant use them, u can, and ull get credits for it, just not as much as if you were the 1st one to do it.
Its a way to get credits fast, u can go around and mapping (using DSS) on ELWs, Water worlds and amonia bodies, to get the big bucks quick, there are lists of them and locations in the web.
Just as i thought, thanks for confirming.
In populated space, most persistent features (planets, stations, etc) appear on your System Map. No probs.
Non-persistent features such as Unidentified Signal Sources (USS) won't show in your Contacts list until you either:
Its all rather bonkers...
Non-persistent features such as Unidentified Signal Sources (USS) won't show in your Contacts list until you either:
- get close (I can't recall the distance)
- honk your Discovery Scanner
- target them with you sensors (point your ship toward them and target each)
- go to the system Nav Beacon and scan it (drop out of Supercruise)
- use your FSS
Its all rather bonkers...