There really is no place to see that.
Codex Explained - Brief and simple
- Thread starter Straha Yeagar
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There really is no place to see that.
I don't understand this composition scanner. When I scan something somebody else discovers, it gives me a blue check mark in the CODEX. When I scan something nobody else has discovered, nothing happens. Do I need to head back to a station and cash in my discoveries to get my entry into the CODEX?
Ugh that’s lame. It would be so easy for Frontier.
I think we need a clarification of terms here. When you say "something nobody else has discovered" do you mean:
a) An object or phenomenon already known, but just not at the particular location you are at right now (e.g. "I just found a water ice geyser on a planet I only just discovered and mapped myself right now"), or:
b) An object or phenomenon of a type never before encountered ever (e.g. "I just found a uranium gas geyser, of which there is no mention whatsoever in the Codex")?
If it is former, then you need to remember that the Codex does NOT record personal discoveries beyond confirming that a particular type of object or phenomenon exists. It will record the first place you encounter the phenomenon as the location where you confirm it, but all future discoveries of the SAME phenomenon are not.
If it is the latter, then maybe there's a bug.
It's the latter. And unlike what I normally see, there was no feedback - nothing telling me that I had scanned anything exciting (which I do get when scanning something already reported in the Codex). The scanner scanned, so I know I was locked on, and I got that little circle with the line in it at the end, but that's it. No entry in the Codex, no "You are the first to discover a living disco ball", nothing. And no, my living disco ball is still not in the Codex - not from me, not from anyone.
Okay, that is odd. You said you hadn't sold your data at a station yet? Perhaps give that a try and see what happens.
I had the same -despite visiting 2 seperate locations in the same sector - no Codex entry of the 'disco balls' (I like that!) and scanning them did not bring up their 'proper' name. Some 'tube' things in another sector generated a Codex entry... odd...
Might be that the particular phenomenon is bugged. I scanned some kind of nitrogen gas fumarole in the Inner Orion Spur and was super excited to see my name as reporting it in the Codex (never seen a nitrogen gas anything)...so, the Codex updated "reported" for me right away. Also, I refuse to be jealous of your living disco balls!
On a slightly different note, has anyone seen anything "Rumored" yet? I'm wondering if that will be the way we get pointed toward something we're supposed to discover (to further a narrative, etc.), or something similar.
And you just used the composition scanner, nothing "special" right?
Correct...although I have the data link scanner and composition scanner set to the same trigger in that mode, which shouldn't matter.
So I've been out exploring for two years with one data cash-in last year in Colonia, and have only just checked the Codex. My discoveries everywhere zero. Apart from the sector I've only just entered. My discoveries 27 there. Woo. What does that mean and I already don't care.
There's no point to this Codex. Why Frontier couldn't have developed more than two sorts of interesting things to find on the identical moons, or any of the other exciting things they are supposed to be developing. Instead of this useless garbage.
There's no point to this Codex. Why Frontier couldn't have developed more than two sorts of interesting things to find on the identical moons, or any of the other exciting things they are supposed to be developing. Instead of this useless garbage.
Being relatively new to this game, with only one stint out from the trade zones. Then to read all the huge amounts of not much out there to go see. I am in a quandary as to why go and try to find an undiscovered planet system, hole whatever. Just to get my name on it’s Codex guff, That no one else will take much notice of !
Will any discoveries of mine get inhabited?
Will any one else be bothered about that my name is out there somewhere probably to never be seen by anybody, as there are Billions allegedly to discover!
Is there a reason to go out far and wide just to see what is all ready where I am now?
Please enlighten me as to why go a long way away !
Please enlighten me if there is any thing worth doing way out !
If it’s just to get my name on a list that no one will see, What is the point off this exploring side to the game ?
Will any discoveries of mine get inhabited?
Will any one else be bothered about that my name is out there somewhere probably to never be seen by anybody, as there are Billions allegedly to discover!
Is there a reason to go out far and wide just to see what is all ready where I am now?
Please enlighten me as to why go a long way away !
Please enlighten me if there is any thing worth doing way out !
If it’s just to get my name on a list that no one will see, What is the point off this exploring side to the game ?
That's a good question.
Forget about the Codex; it's completely redundant and has obviously put you off exploration. I'm an Elite explorer who might visit a starport once in two years, and I never use the Codex.
It would be great if discoveries could become inhabited. There has been much talk of player-placed content. But it won't happen because FD hates explorers. So forget about new exploration content.
Whilst there are billions of systems, some systems are much more attractive than most others for one reason or another, and will get lots of visitors no matter how far out they are. If you discover such a system, all visitors thereafter will see your discovery tag.
Within the context of the game, the rewards for exploration are plenty of eye candy, big cash payouts, an increase in exploration rating, and placing your discovery tags all around the Galaxy for other explorers to see on Galaxy Map. That's about it.
But outside of the game, explorers belong to a community of adventurers who make names for themselves within that community by sharing their adventures on forums like this one. Some explorers write adventure novels. A few even publish them commercially. In this context, explorers are the soul of the game, and attempt to drive its development beyond an exercise in merely pottering around the Bubble, earning money to buy more weapons to shoot at each other with, as if people living in a Galaxy of 400,000,000,000 largely unexplored star systems who have realized interstellar travel, are incapable of thinking of anything more imaginative to do with it than that. The reward is feeling like part of something vast, new and adventurous, where no one will ever shoot at you again. Probably.
Commander Diffin,
Thank you for the insight to what is and what is not !
I once back in the 80’s went out into the black, but soon got board. Now some 40 years latter I am giving it a second chance.
Having spent many years in the X games, with it’s good scenery, I thought it time to try out the latter version of ED.
I am of the opinion there is a nugget of sensible players who have no wish or interest in gun slinging games .
I run both games with no guns at all, and really enjoy the flying around for the fun of it.
I strongly believe there is a good market for such a peaceful game, where players can enjoy the confines of space detached from any waring. I have imagined such a game even to the point of writing list after list to get the fundamentals ready for producing such a game.
It would be predominantly safe for all, that is if you keep your nose clean. Once a player go’s down the path of conflict, they get eased away from the peaceful side of the game to slowly enter the deadly sectors where they get they're just reward’s. Mainly punishment and death.
These kinds of players have no evolutionary genes, and will I am sure enjoy the gloom of death.
Me ! I am wanting to enjoy space flight, I am wanting to see wonderfull sights, I am wanting to go out and have fun, not dread. There are enough dreadful things in our real life’s, so a game needs to be a pleasant bit of fun. Interesting, Curious, fascinating, intriguing, captivating. Not just blasting for the hell of it. That is so dumb, puerile, and childish.
Thank you for the insight to what is and what is not !
I once back in the 80’s went out into the black, but soon got board. Now some 40 years latter I am giving it a second chance.
Having spent many years in the X games, with it’s good scenery, I thought it time to try out the latter version of ED.
I am of the opinion there is a nugget of sensible players who have no wish or interest in gun slinging games .
I run both games with no guns at all, and really enjoy the flying around for the fun of it.
I strongly believe there is a good market for such a peaceful game, where players can enjoy the confines of space detached from any waring. I have imagined such a game even to the point of writing list after list to get the fundamentals ready for producing such a game.
It would be predominantly safe for all, that is if you keep your nose clean. Once a player go’s down the path of conflict, they get eased away from the peaceful side of the game to slowly enter the deadly sectors where they get they're just reward’s. Mainly punishment and death.
These kinds of players have no evolutionary genes, and will I am sure enjoy the gloom of death.
Me ! I am wanting to enjoy space flight, I am wanting to see wonderfull sights, I am wanting to go out and have fun, not dread. There are enough dreadful things in our real life’s, so a game needs to be a pleasant bit of fun. Interesting, Curious, fascinating, intriguing, captivating. Not just blasting for the hell of it. That is so dumb, puerile, and childish.