Exploring worlds with FSS

[Mohenjo]

So, here's a thing.
Quite often, I'll be exploring a system with multiple points of interest to survey. I'll use my FSS to scan the system, and might find 5 or 6 planets I'll want to go land on and take samples, or scan geysers or what have you. However, it's really hard to keep track of which planets in a system have those signals... especially if there's a lot of OTHER planets in the system.

What I've often wished for is a way to "flag" planets with signals to investigate, while I'm in FSS mode... perhaps highlighting them in blue in my navigation menu, or some such. That's my suggestion.

 

[CMDR Night Tripper]

Yeah, being able to bookmark in FSS would be great, and I sort of hoped that this long requested ability would've been added in Odyssey but didn't happen. At least in Horizons you could add AND remove bookmarks in System View quite easily, but bookmark management in Odyssey needs some fixing.

 

[varonica]

What I've often wished for is a way to "flag" planets with signals to investigate, while I'm in FSS mode... perhaps highlighting them in blue in my navigation menu, or some such. That's my suggestion.

You can target 1 while in the FSS, the rest you have to browse the system map of nav panel to find points in interest unfortunately.

 

[Mohenjo]

A question...

I frequently use Mouse Look when looking for things like bacterial colonies, but when I look down, the middle panel (for disembarking, etc.) will pop up, even though in my settings, I made it so none of the panels will pop up unless I specifically activate them. Is there a way to prevent this middle panel popping up unless I specifically activate it (by pressing '3')?

 

[Saltyseadog]

Anyone ever heard of the pencil and paper method?.

 

[Florenus]

A question...

I frequently use Mouse Look when looking for things like bacterial colonies, but when I look down, the middle panel (for disembarking, etc.) will pop up, even though in my settings, I made it so none of the panels will pop up unless I specifically activate them. Is there a way to prevent this middle panel popping up unless I specifically activate it (by pressing '3')?

It's an irritatitng bug in Odyssey.

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/31091

vote and let's hope they'll fix it soon

 

[CMDR Night Tripper]

Anyone ever heard of the pencil and paper method?.

Never heard of it.

Now instead I have to go ask my neighbour to come over and stand by my chair, and when I find several interesting planets I target the first one and the following I tell the names to my neigb....navigating officer and then he stands in the corner mumbling the names over and over and over....

Yeah, I guess you were being facetious, but not being able to bookmark from FSS is a really strange decision, but maybe the Cobra engine doesn't like it and it causes bugs or something, and FDev have decided to have a look at it at a later date.

 

[Mohenjo]

Pen and pencil is a pain in the neck too.
During my 3 years out in the black, I came across a system that had 56 planets and moons. 22 of them were landable. 17 of those had geological and/or biological readings.

Writing down the lengthy arcane code for each of those planets was REALLY annoying, and then having to sort through 56 planets in my navigation panel to FIND those planets was even more annoying. Allowing us to highlight planets we want to investigate would be very useful.

 

[Staarlord]

So, here's a thing.
Quite often, I'll be exploring a system with multiple points of interest to survey. I'll use my FSS to scan the system, and might find 5 or 6 planets I'll want to go land on and take samples, or scan geysers or what have you. However, it's really hard to keep track of which planets in a system have those signals... especially if there's a lot of OTHER planets in the system.

What I've often wished for is a way to "flag" planets with signals to investigate, while I'm in FSS mode... perhaps highlighting them in blue in my navigation menu, or some such. That's my suggestion.

I don’t FSS much anymore. I use the “unexplored” nature of the bodies to tell myself where I’ve been and haven’t. So I’ll just pick a body and hover my cursor over it and fly to it. If I feel like I’m losing prospects I’ll pop into FSS to uncover any I missed. For the most part that will leave me with usually only single planetary bodies to locate, as I’ll have no doubt already been to the clustered bodies, which flying to automatically FSS’s them. This also avoids the constant rabbit hole scanning nature of FSS, where you may have to zoom in 3 times or more.
I preferred the old way, where a ping uncovers the bodies in the system and flying to it detail scans it. FSS is useless, unless you’re hunting signal sources, I wish FSS were omitted from exploring.

 

[varonica]

A question...

I frequently use Mouse Look when looking for things like bacterial colonies, but when I look down, the middle panel (for disembarking, etc.) will pop up, even though in my settings, I made it so none of the panels will pop up unless I specifically activate them. Is there a way to prevent this middle panel popping up unless I specifically activate it (by pressing '3')?

Use free camera to look for bacterial colonies, much more useful, I do it all the time now, it has saved me heaps of time. But the crotch panel, they were supposed to have fixed that last patch, or was it the one before?