Frontier, You owe the user base an explanation on the CODEX database.

[Wasiu]

I guess first discoverd by is stored on server as some seed, planet number + name. Information about what kind of planet or date it was is not stored.
To get kind of planet information for all visited star systems would need to be recalculated and that would take a lot of computing power. Milions of worlds... and we still don't have date. As a developer myself solution is simple and single - start fresh new codex.
Anyway with this update I also started with fresh account. This is fun!

 

[Slopey]

Final warning everyone.

Keep it ON TOPIC, discuss the issue, not the poster, and treat other posters with respect, otherwise you *will* be moderated.

Thank you.

Your friendly neighbourhood Spidermod. S xxx

 

[Das Boot]

Just logged in today and found 3OO or so tourist beacon details in my codex that weren't there yesterday. Hopefully more historical data for the codex to come.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Just logged in today and found 3OO or so tourist beacon details in my codex that weren't there yesterday. Hopefully more historical data for the codex to come.

Certainly as suggested elsewhere this is the historical messages being restored. I'd love to have the Ram Tah mission messages restored personally, there's some good lore there.

As for astronomical discovery historical data, though, that's still debatable somewhat.

 

[Deleted member 182079]

Can someone confirm please how the Discoveries section in the Codex works with current discoveries? Haven't figured this out during beta and due to the server issues only had limited time in live so far.

The discoveries are grouped by type, eg. star type, with possible sub-categories.

If I discover say a red supergiant, will that be the only record created, or will any other red supergiants I discover in the future be added? I would hope this is the case (and the fact I can see various statistics such as hottest, largest etc. suggests this is indeed true) but am not clear about this right now.

Thanks for clarifying.

 

[equex]

I'd like to know why they didn't populate the Codex with historic data since hey have the data on First Discovered/DSS scans.
Just interested in some technical reasons why it was not done, because I am a developer and I have done lots of "data" work. (Not all data is put into beautiful and normalized SQL databases lol)

 

[znôrt]

If I were to install it now, would it retroactively know everything? Genuine question, not using it myself.

as long as you conserve your logs, tools like eddiscovery will parse them and upload discoveries to eddb. however, logs have changed a few times and i'm unsure if old formats are still supported. i guess that's a question for the developers of those integration tools (eddiscovery, edmc, ...).

i see no reason for frontier not having their own logs though. actually, they shouldn't even need them since the discovery tags have to be in the live db. it would make sense that they had a timestamp but even if not, at least the fact and author of the discovery should be possible to recover.

regarding ed's answer, it is definitely misguiding. he clearly refers to the session log, but that's really leaving the questions unanswered since no one was asking about the session log, which is pretty much irrelevant (in comparison).