Right now the Codex lists the first discovered instance of a given object (by any commander ever), and then a bunch of stats about your own findings.
A lot of those "first discoveries" were claimed and fixed forever in the first few days and weeks following the release of 3.3. One result of this is a skew in the available data, which negatively affects those using the Codex to find objects.
Say I'm looking for Lagrange Clouds in the Arcadian Stream. All but one listed Larange Cloud type for that region is located in the Agnairy Sector, all reported by the same two or three commanders within the space of a few days or weeks. So on 3.3 launch day, one of these guys was flying around in that one corner of the Arcadian Stream, found a Lagrange Cloud or two, which was seen in the Codex by a couple of other users, who then scoured the area, completing the collection almost entirely within that one sector.
Maybe this is the only sector in the Arcadian Stream that has Lagrange Clouds in any numbers, or maybe the whole region is bursting with them, but using just the Codex as it currently stands, there's no way of knowing. It offers not so much as the faintest clue whether or not there might be other clusters to be found within the sector.
Obviously, we don't want it handed to us on a plate either. A complete, exhaustive list of every discovery might be considered too much information.
As a compromise, I wonder if it would be possible for FDev to tot up the total number of discoveries of each object, in each region, and from that, generate a low res, regularly-updated "heat map" of a particular object's distribution across a region, based on the discoveries of all Commanders, to give us some idea of where to search, and some sense of "filling in" mankind's knowledge of the galaxy, without info dumping every system name.
I think this would make the Codex a lot more useful, both as a tool and as something to engage us with exploration.
A lot of those "first discoveries" were claimed and fixed forever in the first few days and weeks following the release of 3.3. One result of this is a skew in the available data, which negatively affects those using the Codex to find objects.
Say I'm looking for Lagrange Clouds in the Arcadian Stream. All but one listed Larange Cloud type for that region is located in the Agnairy Sector, all reported by the same two or three commanders within the space of a few days or weeks. So on 3.3 launch day, one of these guys was flying around in that one corner of the Arcadian Stream, found a Lagrange Cloud or two, which was seen in the Codex by a couple of other users, who then scoured the area, completing the collection almost entirely within that one sector.
Maybe this is the only sector in the Arcadian Stream that has Lagrange Clouds in any numbers, or maybe the whole region is bursting with them, but using just the Codex as it currently stands, there's no way of knowing. It offers not so much as the faintest clue whether or not there might be other clusters to be found within the sector.
Obviously, we don't want it handed to us on a plate either. A complete, exhaustive list of every discovery might be considered too much information.
As a compromise, I wonder if it would be possible for FDev to tot up the total number of discoveries of each object, in each region, and from that, generate a low res, regularly-updated "heat map" of a particular object's distribution across a region, based on the discoveries of all Commanders, to give us some idea of where to search, and some sense of "filling in" mankind's knowledge of the galaxy, without info dumping every system name.
I think this would make the Codex a lot more useful, both as a tool and as something to engage us with exploration.
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