Clear save or not?

disorganise

disorganise
The TL;DR version is, would you clear save if your data was mostly invisible?

The longer version....
When engineers dropped I lost access to whole bunch of system maps. I noticed because Beagle Point 7 had become unknown and when I jumped out to the next system to meet FGE I got the "new discovery" message despite having been there a few days before. When I checked others (eg Sag A) I had no access to the system map.
Eventually I've discovered that even systems that I have 1st discovery bonus on from Feb (including the ELW I rushed back to hand in during DWE) I can't access :/

Support had assured me my data was intact so continuing to explore wouldn't cause issues.
When beta dropped, I took the fast way back to the bubble and poked around. The systems were still dark to me. I skipped around a bit honking and handing in those scans to see if it would trigger a 'fix'.....nope.

So support kindly agreed to resetting my beta account to a recent "live save" and teleporting me back to a station to see what would be the case after manually coming back the 65kylies (in case self destruct compounded the issue).

So far I've sold some 25m data and gained some 1st discovery bonuses.....including some of the Beagle bodies...sorry about that :(
But.....despite selling the likes of Beagle and Sag A*, I cannot see their system maps. I still have a lot more checking to do to determine which data is gone versus not.
BTW, if anyone has access to Beagle Point in beta, would you mind checking the tags? For some reason my Cmdr name has become Disorganise.7806 in beta so curious to know if that's a display issue my end or if the tags also show that.

Anyhow......let's assume that all those 1st discoveries remain dark to me despite receiving the 1st disovery bonus. And further assume this is representative of the live server situation.

Would you;
Carry on with the 42k trip to Jaques which will likely take me a month or so. This will net a chunk of credits, and get me closer to elite in discovery. But, the vast majority of systems I visited on DWE (and it looks like prior to that also unfortunately) remain "undiscovered". Who know what issues kor not) that might cause in the future.

Do a clear save. That saves me the month of travel (actually more like 2 months, since still need to get to Mitterand Hollow) but loses all rank, credits, etc. I've no idea how it does/does not affect tags......but I intend to try it in beta before it ends ;)

Probably there's considerations I didn't think of. Your thoughts?
 

iain666

iain666
I'd carry on, how often are you going to look at those system maps anyway?

I guess Disorganise.7806 is an artefacy of support rolling you back to an older save...
 

MrFailfactory

MrFailfactory
If FD can't fix this, then I would try to get them to provide you with a new account, and move your credits and ships.

I understand that what is arguably more important to you would still be gone, but you wouldn't be starting from scratch.

Riôt
 

disorganise

disorganise
Is this new to the beta?

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Iirc we used to start with 1000 credits. It took a good few trades to be able to buy anything useful. With 100k I was able to get a 19ly jump range instantly (accepting there's big discounts in beta).
.....wasn't like that back in my day..... :D


In case anyone is interested; the clear save defaults to the same commander name but you can change it. Your friend list and group memberships remain the same. I forgot to check for the DWE decal :\
 
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disorganise

disorganise
Supermoose said:
FD have been doing that for betas for some time now. You can even contact support if you need more credits for testing and they'll dump several billion into your account.
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Ahh, so this is a beta only thing? In live do you only get the 1000 credits no SRV option if you clear save (or buy the game)
 

disorganise

disorganise
In the end I decided iain666 is probably right. I'll just to revisit my first tag ELW :)

My experimenting in beta showed:
* My exploration data from current trip is there and I can sell it (phew)
* Tags for 1st discovery are still there and will be added correctly (actually, there is an assumption here that 1st discoveries under 2.0 do appear even though I can't see them (too far to hike)...I checked some from 1.2
* Systems visited since July 2015 are not visible on Gal map (I mean the system map option is unavailable) unless.....they were already visited prior to July 2015 (could be earlier than July but I only have logs since then), or were visited post 2.1 dropping.
* Doing a clear save does not alter the tag even if you change Cmdr name
* Re-visiting allows a rescan and sell of the data

That last one has given me an idea. I shall screenshot selling SAG A*, then go revisit it, and sell it again (with screenshot) and be probably the only Cmdr to be paid for Sag A* twice :D [unless 2.2 breaks/fixes something in the meantime]
 

Brother Sabathius

Brother Sabathius
disorganise said:
Is this new to the beta?


Iirc we used to start with 1000 credits. It took a good few trades to be able to buy anything useful. With 100k I was able to get a 19ly jump range instantly (accepting there's big discounts in beta).
.....wasn't like that back in my day..... :D
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Normal Horizons stating options. The 10,000CR is a typo though, you only get 1000CR in reality.
 
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