Exploration Question about first discoveries and asteroid belts

[CMDR Swift Arrow]

If you first discover an asteroid belt, does your name show up when you turn the info in? If so, do you have to scan ALL the clusters or just one of them for it to count?

A screen shot of this example would be helpful, because I've been getting different answers from different people. If someone can confirm that they went to a system, did not see a name when they mouse over the asteroid belt, scanned all the clusters, turned the info in to a base, checked again, and they were not credited even tho the other planets have their name, then THAT would be very helpful.

EDIT: AND YES, I am perfectly aware that I get little for no money for the asteroid belt scanning. This is for fame and glory and bragging rights, not the money.

EDIT #2: I am ONLY talking about the "discovered by" tag. I don't care about the other planetary bodies, I know how you get your name on those, but I haven't seen a CMDR name on an asteroid belt yet and I'm too far in the black to test it out for myself at the moment.

 

[sgt Melin]

on question more....asteroid belts....are they realy a belt or just like a normal USS but with rock...becrouse...asteroid belt like they are in real world are not in the game I guess. Never seen one yet..only small rock in a very small area floting around in a USS but resurs blib

 

[Devil's Refugee]

If you go to any system that has a cluster of belts you'll see that they are named on the Nav panel. Any system not scanned simply says Unexplored. I've been through a system where the CMDR clearly scanned the star and gas giants only then jumped again because the smaller planets were still marked as undiscovered. So yes, you visit any system with undiscovered bodies or belts and scan them you will be credited with the discovery of that body, but not as the first who discovered the system. It will still show up as "Discovered by Melin" for example when you dig into the System Map and hover over the planet/ moon/ belt even though the star and system was first discovered by me.

 

[CMDR Swift Arrow]

If you go to any system that has a cluster of belts you'll see that they are named on the Nav panel. Any system not scanned simply says Unexplored. I've been through a system where the CMDR clearly scanned the star and gas giants only then jumped again because the smaller planets were still marked as undiscovered. So yes, you visit any system with undiscovered bodies or belts and scan them you will be credited with the discovery of that body, but not as the first who discovered the system.

Ah, so the only way you'd know is by looking at the Nav panel, not the system view.

 

[bsnaylor]

Ah, so the only way you'd know is by looking at the Nav panel, not the system view.

No, you would see on the system view. That is the only place to view "first discovered" tags.
Note a system can still show as unexplored to you, but when you have run your initial scan and look on the system map you will see first discovered tags if you aren't the 1st.

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on question more....asteroid belts....are they realy a belt or just like a normal USS but with rock...becrouse...asteroid belt like they are in real world are not in the game I guess. Never seen one yet..only small rock in a very small area floting around in a USS but resurs blib

They are a like a USS with a few asteroids floating around if you drop out of SC, not like a planet ring belt tho

 

[Devil's Refugee]

Ah, so the only way you'd know is by looking at the Nav panel, not the system view.

No, probably my lack of caffeine for the impression there. Nav panel will show up quickly what's been explored and what's not due to bodies listed either having a name or still Undiscovered but the System Map will be where you'll find the 'doscovered by' info along with descriptions of the bodies themselves. Like bsnaylor said, asteroid belts are more like randomly floating rocks than a tightly packed ring around a planet.

 

[Arindor]

At the moment, newly discovered belts don't return any profit when selling data on a system. I've yet to see a commander name on one when I've visited an explored system (please correct me if I'm wrong, with pics). I'm assuming this is on the to do list, so at the moment I save time by ignoring them.

 

[bsnaylor]

At the moment, newly discovered belts don't return any profit when selling data on a system. I've yet to see a commander name on one when I've visited an explored system (please correct me if I'm wrong, with pics). I'm assuming this is on the to do list, so at the moment I save time by ignoring them.

Correct, they get no credits, but you can scan them and have your tag on them if you so wish. Personally I don't bother.

 

[CMDR Swift Arrow]

Correct, they get no credits, but you can scan them and have your tag on them if you so wish. Personally I don't bother.

Would you have to scan all of them? Or just one or two tho? What happens if two commanders first scan two different clusters?

 

[Feldspar]

....are they realy a belt or just like a normal USS but with rock...becrouse...asteroid belt like they are in real world are not in the game I guess.

In our solar system the asteroid belt is probably nothing like you imagine it, it is just a region of space that has asteroids orbiting in it, most of these are huge distances apart from each other. The game puts these into clusters otherwise there would be nothing to see.

 

[CMDR Swift Arrow]

No, probably my lack of caffeine for the impression there. Nav panel will show up quickly what's been explored and what's not due to bodies listed either having a name or still Undiscovered but the System Map will be where you'll find the 'doscovered by' info along with descriptions of the bodies themselves. Like bsnaylor said, asteroid belts are more like randomly floating rocks than a tightly packed ring around a planet.

So then the asteroid belt will not have a "discovered by" tag on it? Or will it? Do you have to scan one asteroid cluster, or all of them? I don't care about the other bodies.

The question is important because this might be the only way to get your name in a system that has otherwise already been completely scanned by someone else.

 

[Allitnil]

It doesn't display the discovered by tag for asteroid belts so don't bother if that's what you're after. The system map only shows a single entry for each belt even though there are normally multiple elements to it, each of which could be discovered by different commanders. Hard to see how this could be reasonably displayed so I guess they chose not to display them at all.

 

[Harbinger]

You don't get a "first discovered" tag for scanning asteroid belts. I've tested it since the addition of the feature plus many of my historical scans included full asteroid belt scans. Unless you're planning to drop out at them to do some mining there is zero benefit to resolving them from UNEXPLORED.

 

[CMDR Swift Arrow]

You don't get a "first discovered" tag for scanning asteroid belts. I've tested it since the addition of the feature plus many of my historical scans included full asteroid belt scans. Unless you're planning to drop out at them to do some mining there is zero benefit to resolving them from UNEXPLORED.

Thanks for the answer! This is what I was looking for. +rep

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It doesn't display the discovered by tag for asteroid belts so don't bother if that's what you're after. The system map only shows a single entry for each belt even though there are normally multiple elements to it, each of which could be discovered by different commanders. Hard to see how this could be reasonably displayed so I guess they chose not to display them at all.

Yea, I was after getting the tag, but it looks like there's no tag to be had. For a bit I was wondering if I had to actually bother with asteroid scanning just to get a completely scanned system to my name. Thanks for your reply. You get a +rep as well.

 

[Devil's Refugee]

You don't get a "first discovered" tag for scanning asteroid belts. I've tested it since the addition of the feature plus many of my historical scans included full asteroid belt scans. Unless you're planning to drop out at them to do some mining there is zero benefit to resolving them from UNEXPLORED.

Rep from me too, clears up an assumption. Shame it goes uncredited but you could always carve your initials on an asteroid with a mining laser