EDDiscovery strange data

[CorvenDallas]

Hi all commanders, recently on Los Souls 3 expedition I found on EDDiscovery that there is a lot "zero found" stars, from the one that shows here selected down the list, specially strange is that one called "Rogue Planet" last of the list.

Im not the ultimate explorer but, anyone can check which ones of those you have as found at least once?

Also weird that this "Rogue Planet" appears on the list of stars (next to Summary appears two icons for stars and planets)

 

[goemon]

i suggest moving this question to the exploration subforum.

 

[varonica]

Hi all commanders, recently on Los Souls 3 expedition I found on EDDiscovery that there is a lot "zero found" stars, from the one that shows here selected down the list, specially strange is that one called "Rogue Planet" last of the list.

There are approximately 20 million systems in EDSM for which the primary star is not recorded, Ed Astrometics has the full list available for download if you want to have a good look through it, but you will need a decent program to open it, excel won't, I used Notepad++ for this. Yes the exploration subforum is the correct place for this.

This is the result of "jonking". Before the FSS you had to point your ship in the direction of the main star for a certain number of seconds to "discover" it, so if you are in a hurry to get somewhere you almost never recorded objects in the system because that would slow you down if you were, say, trying to do a record run to Beagle Point. Honking the ADS after jumping in would give you some money for finding the system and bodies but not "discover" any of the bodies including the main star, so a quick jump, honk, scoop and jump left us a lot of systems with the only system name recorded in EDSM.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Moved to Exploration sub-forum.

 

[CorvenDallas]

Im familiar with the old system, been there, someone told me that Rogue Planets were a mechanic in Alpha that you could "missjump" on hyperspace between two systems with "rogue planets" that didn't orbit any particular star, leaving you ship damaged and in no-where space, but this mechanic was dropped before release, any info about that?

 

[varonica]

Im familiar with the old system, been there, someone told me that Rogue Planets were a mechanic in Alpha that you could "missjump" on hyperspace between two systems with "rogue planets" that didn't orbit any particular star, leaving you ship damaged and in no-where space, but this mechanic was dropped before release, any info about that?

Doesn't exist in game afaik, it may have been put forward as a possibility once upon a time, but misjumps are only available on the original versions of the game. Never encountered anything called a rogue planet myself and don't know anyone who has.

 

[Sapyx]

"rogue_planet" is a class of star, according to the game files. It was discussed in Alpha that "mis-jumps" would be possible if a rogue planet happened to lie in a direct line between two stars you were trying to travel between. But this seems to have been given up on. Whether "rogue planets" were actually added to the game is debated; it seems reasonable that if they were being planned for when the galaxy was being designed, then they'd have been programmed in at that stage (since reprogramming the galaxy map destroys the galaxy) and so they should still be there, only they're now invisible on the galaxy map and do not cause mis-jumps.

 

[varonica]

"rogue_planet" is a class of star, according to the game files. It was discussed in Alpha that "mis-jumps" would be possible if a rogue planet happened to lie in a direct line between two stars you were trying to travel between. But this seems to have been given up on. Whether "rogue planets" were actually added to the game is debated; it seems reasonable that if they were being planned for when the galaxy was being designed, then they'd have been programmed in at that stage (since reprogramming the galaxy map destroys the galaxy) and so they should still be there, only they're now invisible on the galaxy map and do not cause mis-jumps.

Yeah there's a couple of odd ones in my list, one just says "unknown star class" and another "exotic" both with zero found, although looking through I do see I have visited 52 "Cool Giant Zirconium Monoxide rich Type star" which is a surprise to me, first time I realised they were in the game!

 

[CorvenDallas]

Tinfoil hat mode on

 

[K Olley]

There are approximately 20 million systems in EDSM for which the primary star is not recorded, Ed Astrometics has the full list available for download if you want to have a good look through it, but you will need a decent program to open it, excel won't, I used Notepad++ for this.

Thanks for the info, I was wondering what to do or where to go next, I will try to reduce this list by a few

 

[Eahlstan]

In this list EDDiscovery simply lists every type that Frontier says is possible to be in the journals.

Cool Giant Zirconium Monoxide rich Type star

That's just a class S star.

To further clarify:

Methane Dwarf star -> T
Brown Dwarf star -> Y
Intermediate low Zirconium Monoxide Type star -> MS
Cool Giant Zirconium Monoxide rich Type star -> S
Exotic -> X (none found so far)
Nebula -> big nebulas (most likely an internal classification that will never appear outside the stellar forge)
Stellar Remnant Nebula -> planetary nebulas (most likely an internal classification that will never appear outside the stellar forge)
Rogue Planet -> Planet without a hosting star, none found
Unknown Star class -> internal EDDiscovery failure catching classification

 

[varonica]

Thanks for the info, I was wondering what to do or where to go next, I will try to reduce this list by a few

I'll make a suggestion, the vast majority of these stars are procedural, it's likely you won't find much interesting there, however there's a small subsection of catalogue stars in this group, I have been going through and taking care of a groups of these, starting with the smaller catalogues, you are much more likely to find interesting stars in the catalogue stars group, which ED Astro helpfully separates out into it's own list, I believe there's around a million or so of those broken up into various catalogues, they are your best targets.

 

[Straha Yeagar]

Yeah there's a couple of odd ones in my list, one just says "unknown star class" and another "exotic" both with zero found, although looking through I do see I have visited 52 "Cool Giant Zirconium Monoxide rich Type star" which is a surprise to me, first time I realised they were in the game!

Cool Giant Zirconium Monoxide rich Type star are S type Cardon stars. Older versions of ED Discovery had them listed as S type stars.

Aside from the ones listed above, the only ones I don't have are:

Carbon CHd star

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Carbon CS star

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And I have a feeling those are also not in game.

 

[K Olley]

I'll make a suggestion, the vast majority of these stars are procedural, it's likely you won't find much interesting there,

That's exactly what I am looking for, the slow and plodding type of play that I use to wind down and relax rather than a mad rush to achieve a specific goal.

It will be combined with regular mining stops and the occasional run back to the bubble for a trade or mining CG.