Release [Explorer's Application] Captain's Log
- Thread starter Genar-Hofoen
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I have a suggestion, maybe a manual checkbox for "First Discovery" on systems or bodies? Obviously there's no way to know if you'll actually get credit for a First Discovery scan until you get back to sell the data and see if someone got there before you, but it would be cool for helping to keep track of places you (possibly) have your name on.
I've thought about that one (great minds think alike)
Either that, or the default is First Discovery, with a "previously discovered" marker for the ones you know are so. Because the majority of exploration data is (hopefully) going to be discovered by you first - quite often I see perhaps a couple of planets are scanned previously and the rest are unscanned. Same for stars.
Regds
Cool. I actually hit a lot of previously discovered stars, but that's mostly because I'm still in "tourist" mode; visiting popular nebulae and other well-known stars.
Cool. I actually hit a lot of previously discovered stars, but that's mostly because I'm still in "tourist" mode; visiting popular nebulae and other well-known stars.
I've been to Sag. A* and beyond, and believe me, you do not want to have to tick "First Discovered" for every object you find
Define "old logs"
I've realised its because I didn't have verbose logging on, so no source data
Not a bad idea, and I tried a few, but no luck so far. Name of the process doesn't change when I change the file name. Needs more research though.
I've realised its because I didn't have verbose logging on, so no source data
Yep. Basically, if you haven't had verbose logs on since the first time you started playing ED, all that data is locked up in FDEV's servers.
The only reason we have EDDiscovery and all the other 3rd party applications the way they operate right now (scraping verbose logs), is because there is no official ED API. Such an API could have ways of getting a list of all the system's you've been in - but I very much doubt FDEV even store that kind of data - the storage requirements would be pretty awesome.
I've been to Sag. A* and beyond, and believe me, you do not want to have to tick "First Discovered" for every object you find
Yeah, after using Captain's Log a bit once I got home from work today, a First Discovery box seems like it wouldn't add much value to the tool. If you find a system you're particularly proud of finding, you can always note it in your bookmarks.
Thanks for this, Andrew. But I need more detailed guidance. I tried to fix my database but it didn't work. maybe because I have several dupe entries? Can anyone provide a more detailed guide to how to use SQLite Admin to fix the CL database? (I have no programming experience in this area) I've tried a few times to no avail.
Is the follow screen where I should be editing? Tables > Systems > Fields > name? Just this one table?
I am curious if it is possible to be able to enter data into the database manually (I had VB turned off by default for some time thanks to an update a while back and so am missing a lot of valuable exploration data even though I can find the systems in the galaxy map as I know the path approximately I took and would really like a way to be able to recreate the path I have taken on this journey using the galaxy map...
I downloaded SQL Lite Database Manager and it allows for editing the database records etc but it would be oh so much easier if there was a way to manually enter the system name via CL without having to revert to retracing the path in game to create the necessary log files...
I downloaded SQL Lite Database Manager and it allows for editing the database records etc but it would be oh so much easier if there was a way to manually enter the system name via CL without having to revert to retracing the path in game to create the necessary log files...
CMDR Genar-Hofoen,
I installed this soft yesterday, and so far it looks great.
i have an idea for very small improvement... It could be interesting to add some sort of notation to a system, so user can set 0 or 1 "star" to useless system, and 5 stars to amazing system (for whatever reason this system is amazing, it could just be due to a wonderfull sight.)
I installed this soft yesterday, and so far it looks great.
i have an idea for very small improvement... It could be interesting to add some sort of notation to a system, so user can set 0 or 1 "star" to useless system, and 5 stars to amazing system (for whatever reason this system is amazing, it could just be due to a wonderfull sight.)
No that is not the table to remove - don't do it
The correct entries to remove are in the table called "jumps".
You need to remove the ROW DATA, not the whole table.
Look for jumps entries that have the same jumpdate, jumptime, and system_id
Remove the duplicate row by highlighting the id of the row and clicking the - icon where the control icons are at the top of the sqlite admin window.
Remove just the duplicate jumps, keep at least one row of those jumps, otherwise you will lose that particular jump in your data.
Remember and work on a backup copy of your data as well - otherwise if you make a mistake, you'll lose all your data.
Regards
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That is not a bad idea at all - I like that!
Regards
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Just started using it and loving it so far.
It could really do with a note somewhere in the install instructions about needing to play in Windowed or Borderless mode for the overlay to work. Took me a while to find that tidbit in the changelogs.
Awesome app though.
Good idea, I'll bung in some further documentation about that when I get the time.
And thanks
Regards
They must store that data somewhere as otherwise how would they stop you rescanning a body you've already scanned? Also there are storing all the tagging data too. However that's not too bad a problem to solve as they only need to store data for bodies people have scanned. So they don't need store it for every body - just the scanned ones - and they don't need to store data about the "well known" bodies in the bubble either. So I think for many CMDRs thats a few hundred or thousand entries. I'm nearly elite in exploration and I've got less than 11,000 sold scans. If everyone travelled as much as I have then they'd have about 6.6bn data points to worry about, but i suspect the real figure is probably just in the tens maybe hundreds of millions. So perfectly manageable
They must store that data somewhere as otherwise how would they stop you rescanning a body you've already scanned? Also there are storing all the tagging data too. However that's not too bad a problem to solve as they only need to store data for bodies people have scanned. So they don't need store it for every body - just the scanned ones - and they don't need to store data about the "well known" bodies in the bubble either. So I think for many CMDRs thats a few hundred or thousand entries. I'm nearly elite in exploration and I've got less than 11,000 sold scans. If everyone travelled as much as I have then they'd have about 6.6bn data points to worry about, but i suspect the real figure is probably just in the tens maybe hundreds of millions. So perfectly manageable
What I meant was that I don't think FDEV store your jump history, like in the way CL does
I don't think they have sql database records of "CMDR DoubleSkulls jumped to A on <datetime> , then B on <datetime>, then C on <datetime>..." and so on.
Sure, they have a database of what was first discovered by whom.
I definitely recall a recent post by a Dev which implied they only keep the last 4 or 5 jumps of a CMDR.
So my point still stands - FDEV couldn't tell you your entire jump history - but they would be able, as you point out, to tell you all the Things which have a First Discovered By You tag
Rgds.
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BELAY THAT!
CMDR DoubleSkulls, read a couple of posts back, I already told him what to do.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=155545&p=2476646&viewfull=1#post2476646
For one, you're telling him to query the systems table, which is the wrong one. It's the jumps table. Please remove your post or amend it!
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Genar-Hofoen,
I've been using this program for a little while, and just started getting the double entry error that would crash the program. Uninstalled, reinstalled the newest version (beta 7), started Captain's Log, got the double entry error message again, and the program crashed and won't start again. I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling when I get home tonight, but is there anything else I need to look at?
I've been using this program for a little while, and just started getting the double entry error that would crash the program. Uninstalled, reinstalled the newest version (beta 7), started Captain's Log, got the double entry error message again, and the program crashed and won't start again. I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling when I get home tonight, but is there anything else I need to look at?
