I think I may have been screwing up big time, when I jump to a system, and the system scan doesn't addup/I don't get a system scan complete message after scanning all the planets on system map, I assumed it was a bug(or is it not). However When getting the general exploration data, a bunch of moons started showing up, that's ditto after going to a star that supposedly has never been dicovered, all of a sudden, anything nearby starting showing up.
Do Never before discovered planetary bodies, not show up on system map after full system scan?
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So the process in an undiscovered system is: honk Discovery Scanner > open FSS (defaut key ['] on PC, I think) > reveal all the planetary bodies one by one. Now you should see the bodies on the system map, can detailed surface scan them, etc.
Sounds painful but can be done pretty quickly, as long as you set up your FSS mouse sensitivity properly in the options for quickly zipping around (was pretty slow for me at first, with the default setting).
If you're picking up bodies nearby as you fly around, you haven't picked them out in the FSS and you're picking them up passively by getting close to them.
Back in the day, the Discovery Scanner honk would reveal the planets on the map, not any more though. Now it gives you the waveform for the FSS, which is then used to reveal them (but gives you more money than before).
Sounds painful but can be done pretty quickly, as long as you set up your FSS mouse sensitivity properly in the options for quickly zipping around (was pretty slow for me at first, with the default setting).
If you're picking up bodies nearby as you fly around, you haven't picked them out in the FSS and you're picking them up passively by getting close to them.
Back in the day, the Discovery Scanner honk would reveal the planets on the map, not any more though. Now it gives you the waveform for the FSS, which is then used to reveal them (but gives you more money than before).
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Just a point, yes if the system has been previously explored the bodies discovered by previous explorers do show up in the system map when you open it, but bodies that the previous explorers didn't scan with the FSS won't show up in the system map, you will need to use the FSS to find all the bodies in the system to show the missing bodies in your system map.
Ok thanks, well that's a bother, but ok.
Also yea the default FSS scanner mouse sensitivity is trash lol. what is up with the default settings in this game, they're no bad, if even configured at all.
Hmm ok, well didn't hear about people talking about this, ok thanks. Damnit, this means I've been missing out on a lot of stuff never discoved, like I said, I figured it was a bug, until now that my flybt have been making stuff show up on the system map. Blood hell.
At least now you know how it works. To be fair, it isn't intuitive at all. Welcome to Elite
Yea, I don't need it to be intuitive, but a headsups would be nice. The bigger issue is, is the default controls, if thing aren't even binded, would it have been such a issue, to promp the player to fix the binding, when they try to use a feature that wasn't really key binded.
Thanks, yea I got it now(after screwing around with the key bindings more, I got it all to work, and having a much easier to discovering stuff from afar. I swear, Frontier put all this thought into how systems work/interact with each other, but no thought, let alone effort went into the default key bindings.
Greetings,
I'm in Colonia on my second PC account scanning all the populated systems (and many others) in a materials gathering Dolphin. Lots of fun.
For very fast scans I use the Logitech X-56 blue/grey throttle analog thumb stick.
Target zoom in = forward
Target zoom out = back
Tuning right = up
Tuning left = down
Target current signal = joy 3 (joystick)
After thousands of scans I know exactly where to go on the tuning bar for any object. Then it's just muscle memory moving the stick around. It's very precise and sometimes my thumb is faster than my brain!
I never wait for a planet scan to complete instead moving on to the next. All the details will be in the system map info when completed. It's also faster moving the camera vertically to the next object. I have scanned a system with 56 bodies in under 3 minutes and less than a minute/seconds for much less. The joystick also has an analog thumb stick so one could do it all on the stick. Being left handed the throttle is better for me.
One way to get around in the FSS. Maybe it will inspire others. Alas the Saitek X-55 doesn't have the analog thumb sticks. Gaming keypads also work and are excellent for advanced camera suite/free camera controls. Hope this helps.
Regards
I'm in Colonia on my second PC account scanning all the populated systems (and many others) in a materials gathering Dolphin. Lots of fun.
For very fast scans I use the Logitech X-56 blue/grey throttle analog thumb stick.
Target zoom in = forward
Target zoom out = back
Tuning right = up
Tuning left = down
Target current signal = joy 3 (joystick)
After thousands of scans I know exactly where to go on the tuning bar for any object. Then it's just muscle memory moving the stick around. It's very precise and sometimes my thumb is faster than my brain!
I never wait for a planet scan to complete instead moving on to the next. All the details will be in the system map info when completed. It's also faster moving the camera vertically to the next object. I have scanned a system with 56 bodies in under 3 minutes and less than a minute/seconds for much less. The joystick also has an analog thumb stick so one could do it all on the stick. Being left handed the throttle is better for me.
One way to get around in the FSS. Maybe it will inspire others. Alas the Saitek X-55 doesn't have the analog thumb sticks. Gaming keypads also work and are excellent for advanced camera suite/free camera controls. Hope this helps.
Regards
I use the thumb stick and left/right buttons on my thrustmaster, left button zoom in, right button zoom out, thumbstick move around, very fast because all you are moving is your thumb and not your entire arm to move around the system and zoom in/out, oh and primary fire to select stuff I want to surface scan.