Great Raxxla Potato Hunt - Help us scan every system within 200 ly of Sol

Alkibiades

Alkibiades
Just visited Theta Capricorni and I found something odd. The system map is larger than usual. As if one planet is missing.



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Slegnor

Slegnor
It's probably caused by the co-orbital line between A1 and A2, it bunches up the planets like here, you can see the spacing differnce between AB1, AB2 and AB5 vs AB3 and AB4:
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MiloGreenRanger

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Status Update for Week of 2020-11-20 : 2020-11-27

We've scanned 1655 / 5,123 grid sections (+11), which is 32.31% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 68 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 23,300 / 67,941 systems (+180), which is 34.29% of systems.*

Notes
  • 12 Moons mapped.
  • 14 Megaships marked.
  • 1 Capital Ships sighted.
* (estimated from EDSM database
 

MiloGreenRanger

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Status Update for Week of 2020-11-27 : 2020-12-04

We've scanned 1680 / 5,123 grid sections (+25), which is 32.79% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 68 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 23,629 / 67,941 systems (+329), which is 34.78% of systems.*

Notes
  • 18 Moons mapped.
  • 27 Megaships marked.
  • 1 Capital Ships sighted.
* (estimated from EDSM database
 

MiloGreenRanger

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Status Update for Week of 2020-12-04 : 2020-12-11

We've scanned 1694 / 5,123 grid sections (+14), which is 33.07% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 68 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 23,919 / 67,941 systems (+290), which is 35.21% of systems.*

Notes
  • 3 Moons mapped.
  • 41 Megaships marked.
  • 2 Capital Ships sighted.
  • 1 Tourist Beacon buzzed.
* (estimated from EDSM database
 

MiloGreenRanger

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Status Update for Week of 2020-12-11 : 2020-12-18

We've scanned 1706 / 5,123 grid sections (+12), which is 33.30% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 68 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 24,073 / 67,941 systems (+154), which is 35.43% of systems.*

Notes
  • 18 Moons mapped
  • 18 Megaships marked
  • 5 Capital ships sighted
  • CMDR Sitoutumaton found a Crashed Ship on HIP 24157 A 4 A.
  • CMDR Sitoutumaton found a Crashed Ship on Ugrivirii 1 D.
  • CMDR Sitoutumaton found a Crashed Ship on CD-63 201 2.
  • Milo took the week off to visit HIP 85532 / Rackham's Peak. It's pretty up there!
* (estimated from EDSM database
 

MiloGreenRanger

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🎅 Status Update for Week of 2020-12-18 : 2020-12-25 ⛄

We've scanned 1725 / 5,123 grid sections (+19), which is 33.67% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 68 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 24,387 / 67,941 systems (+314), which is 35.89% of systems.*

Notes
  • 20 Moons mapped
  • 7 Megaships marked
  • 1 Capital ships sighted
  • 1 Tourist beacon buzzed
Happy holidays!

* (estimated from EDSM database
 

MiloGreenRanger

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Status Update for Week of 2020-12-25 : 2021-01-01

We've scanned 1746 / 5,123 grid sections (+21), which is 34.08% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 68 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 24,638 / 67,941 systems (+251), which is 36.26% of systems.*

Notes
  • 17 Moons mapped
  • 21 Megaships marked
  • CMDR J.S. Jasper found a Crashed Ship on Tamit 3 B.
  • Happy New Year!
Edit: Confirmed Crashed Ship.

* (estimated from EDSM database
 
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MiloGreenRanger

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Status Update for Week of 2020-12-01 : 2021-01-08

We've scanned 1773 / 5,123 grid sections (+28), which is 34.61% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 70 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 24,938 / 67,941 systems (+283), which is 36.71% of systems.*

Notes
  • 54 Moons
  • 25 Megaships
  • 3 Capital Ships
  • 1 Tourist Beacon
  • CMDR J.S. Jasper found a Crashed Ship on Lalande 4268 B 2 D.
  • Updates will be moved to Saturday at 17:00 beginning 2021-01-16. There will be no update for 2021-01-15.
  • We picked up a grid from a couple weeks ago that was reported under a typo'd name.
  • This is Week 52 of the search.
* (estimated from EDSM database
 

MiloGreenRanger

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Status Update for Week of 2021-01-08 : 2021-01-16

The Great Raxxla Potato Hunt has been operating for over a year!

The project has had contributions from 119 unique CMDRs. We've found about thirty-five crashed ships, mapped hundreds of moons, and noted hundreds of megaships over the past year.

There are some new videos to help CMDRs who want to participate.
  • A Search Demo video, showing how to claim and report a grid.
  • A Findables video, which overviews what we consider "interesting."
  • An alternative method for Signal Counting by CMDR Slegnor.
There is a 3D Visualization of our search progress on this site.

We've scanned 1794 / 5,123 grid sections (+21), which is 35.02% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 71 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 25,240 / 67,941 systems (+302), which is 37.15% of systems.*

Notes
  • 25 Moons
  • 10 Megaships
  • CMDR Slegnor found a Crashed Ship on Jataya A 1.
* (estimated from EDSM database)
 
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0B

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Fun facts:
  • At the current rate (About 20.2 grids/week), we'll reach the halfway point in 37 weeks (Early October 2021), and scan all systems in 164 weeks (Mid-March 2024).
  • If we returned to the pace near the beginning of the potato hunt (About 59.8 grids/week), we'll reach the halfway point in 13 weeks (Mid-April 2021), and scan all systems in 56 weeks (Mid-February 2022).
Folks should definitely join in! I had never actually encountered crashed ships or megaships before joining this project. I'm sure there's other things I'll find
 

Eahlstan

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Well it was mostly one player who contributed to that massive amount of grids scanned in the beginning. 747 out of 1909 (~39%) reports so far have been submitted by that guy, but he burned out and only does a few grids per week now.
If you know some people that are just half as active as he was that would be fantastic :)
 

MiloGreenRanger

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Status Update for Week of 2021-01-16 : 2021-01-23

We've scanned 1,908 / 5,123 grid sections (+114), which is 37.24% of our search grid (searched once).
We have confirmed 77 of those sections (searched twice).

That includes 27,020 / 67,941 systems (+1780), which is 39.77% of systems.*

Notes
  • We set a new record for number of CMDRs participating in a week.
  • We set a new record for number of systems scanned in a week.
  • 133 Moons
  • 148 Megaships
  • 14 Capital Ships
  • 4 Tourist Beacons
  • 3 Convoy Beacons
  • 2 Stations in Empty Systems
  • 1 Philosophical Musing
  • CMDR Slegnor found a Crashed Ship on Woyeru 1 B.
  • CMDR Slegnor found a Crashed Ship on Senocidi B 1 A.
  • CMDR CreepyRS found a Crashed Ship on Shui Wei Sector PI-S b4-8.
  • CMDR Olyol95 found a Crashed Ship on Manindini B 1.
  • CMDR 0B found a Crashed Ship on HIP 97507 A 1 with a Thargoid Sensor.
  • CMDR 0B found a Crashed Ship on Pirantae 3 with a Thargoid Sensor.
  • CMDR NFafa found a Crashed Ship on Kheretii A 1.
  • CMDR Olyol95 found a known Abandoned Settlement on Col 285 Sector BG-O d6-93 AB 1 D, "Communication Array Delta 69".
  • CMDR Elfener / Peptabysmal found a known Listening Post around Pulano 3, related to Communication Array Delta 69.
  • CMDR NFafa found a known Unregistered Comms Beacon around Ain 2.
  • CMDR MiloGreenRanger found a known "Anomalous Signal Detected" source around Morra A 2, a smuggler's cache.
* (estimated from EDSM database)
 
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PurgeTheXeno

PurgeTheXeno
After the bubble is scanned, have you considered doing something similar for the Col 70 sector and guardian space? And again, i will be joining you in the future. My life is in a state of flux at the moment with classes.
 

MiloGreenRanger

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I haven't thought about something like that, but it might be interesting. Picking a few 50-ly search areas would be a reasonable scope.

Mostly, I hope the techniques we've developed get applied in similar searches by others:
  • We have a decent way of bookmarking systems that aren't known to EDSM.
  • Our search procedure is doing a good job of finding things that it's supposed to find.
  • The spreadsheet, its scripts, and the community engagement on Discord seem to be a workable model for organizing and coordinating.
I'd like to think that our methods will survive the survey to be used elsewhere.

Personally, I've spent over a year doing pretty much only this survey. My guess would be most of this year will be spent finishing it (unless we get even more folks to help each week). I have a circumnavigation planned that I've been itching to go on. So once we're done, I will probably take a long break from things like this to get back out into the black.
 

PurgeTheXeno

PurgeTheXeno
MiloGreenRanger said:
I haven't thought about something like that, but it might be interesting. Picking a few 50-ly search areas would be a reasonable scope.

Mostly, I hope the techniques we've developed get applied in similar searches by others:
  • We have a decent way of bookmarking systems that aren't known to EDSM.
  • Our search procedure is doing a good job of finding things that it's supposed to find.
  • The spreadsheet, its scripts, and the community engagement on Discord seem to be a workable model for organizing and coordinating.
I'd like to think that our methods will survive the survey to be used elsewhere.

Personally, I've spent over a year doing pretty much only this survey. My guess would be most of this year will be spent finishing it (unless we get even more folks to help each week). I have a circumnavigation planned that I've been itching to go on. So once we're done, I will probably take a long break from things like this to get back out into the black.
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If you picked up a free account, i'd recommend making a pvp only account and getting a little murder on. I've done this, and i have no regrets at all.
 
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