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

[Slegnor]

Status Update for Week of 2025-02-08 : 2025-02-15

We've scanned 4767 / 5123 grid sections (+20), which is 93.05% of our search grid.
That includes 63207 / 67941 systems (+217), which is 93.03% of systems.*

Notes:

• 65 Megaships
• 5 Moons
• 5 Tourist Beacons
• 9 Capital Ships
• CMDR Varonica found a Crashed Ship on Furbaide 4 d.
• CMDR Varonica found a Crashed Ship on Warnates 3.
• CMDR Slegnor found an active Tip-Off Site on Arietis Sector WE-Q B5-3 1.
• CMDR LilacLight Listening Post at Halbangaay 3 a - Related to "Welcome Deviation".
• CMDR LilacLight found Abandoned Settlement, Almeida Landing on Conn A 3 a

*(estimated from EDSM database)

 

[MiloGreenRanger]

Status Update for Week of 2025-02-15 : 2025-02-22

We've scanned 4,772 / 5,123 grid sections (+5), which is 93.15% of our search grid.
That includes 63,287 / 67,941 systems (+80), which is 93.15% of systems.*

Notes:

• 18 Megaships
• 7 Moons
• 2 Capital Ships
• CMDR æryn found two Crashed Ships on Tembala 1.
• CMDR æryn found a Crashed Ship on Abukunin B 6 A.

(estimated from EDSM database)

 

[varonica]

Ok this is new since the update, since when do installation appear on the system map? Anyone else seeing this?

Yeah second system now and all installations are showing on the system map, must be so colonisation architects can see where they have put things.

 

[SHEA PARDH]

Correct. This appears to be new.

 

[varonica]

Having trouble scanning megaships at the moment, not sure if it's the scanner itself or the act of scanning megaship but the game crashes to desktop each time I try at the moment even though I managed to do one earlier today, the last two times I tried just crashed the game. Logging out for maintenance and will try again later!

 

[SHEA PARDH]

Having trouble scanning megaships at the moment, not sure if it's the scanner itself or the act of scanning megaship but the game crashes to desktop each time I try at the moment even though I managed to do one earlier today, the last two times I tried just crashed the game. Logging out for maintenance and will try again later!

I ran into same thing with an installation. After loading back in, I was able to scan it then.

 

[varonica]

I ran into same thing with an installation. After loading back in, I was able to scan it then.

Yeah that happened the first time I tried to scan a megaship, the second time the game crashed and dropped me back near the star when I logged back in and crashed again at the second attempt to scan the same megaship, sent commented crash reports both times, lets hope they can fix it quickly.

 

[varonica]

Yeah that happened the first time I tried to scan a megaship, the second time the game crashed and dropped me back near the star when I logged back in and crashed again at the second attempt to scan the same megaship, sent commented crash reports both times, lets hope they can fix it quickly.

Oh well I guess that solves that problem, the megaship I was trying to scan has left the system, there is a second one here though so let's try that one.

 

[varonica]

Well this is annoying, these in construction systems are throwing some wobbly stuff at me.

Nav panel says nothing, except an orbital outpost which shouldn't show up as s surface signal.

However system map shows a surface signal, got up close and couldn't see anything unusual.

Architect view shows one surface settlement under construction but that's on planet 2.

So I have a mystery thing going on at planet 8 that may or may not be something to do with system construction since nothing else shows up anywhere! Maybe they have one scheduled to start in planet 8 but haven't delivered anything to it yet to get it started, don't know.

 

[FrogsFriend]

The bottom of the last screenshot shows 1x orbital and 1x surface site under construction. Is the ground base on planet 2 still under construction? Does anything show up if you zoom in to the planetary map for planet 8?

 

[varonica]

Nothing, but there is a construction site on planet 2, I went and mapped that as well, just didn't think to grab the screenshot while I was there. The orbital at planet 8 is finished and waiting for full deployment, docked there at the moment, I will need to fly back to planet 2, I think the ground construction base shows up as a ground signal and I want to check one out anyway, but that's for later, doing other stuff at the moment.

 

[varonica]

Got some spare time. Ok, there's a planetary construction site on planet 2, there's a also a human signal on planet 2a with an orbital construction site for another base called Yukol Depot, I am assuming that the for the starport in the construction list, still only 1 planetary under construction. Now flying to check out 2a which I haven't mapped yet.

Now the Orbital Construction Depot for Yukol Depot shows up with the facility symbol, which means it should show up as a human signal for the planet, so 2a has a signal and an explanation. Landed at the planetary construction site on 2, that also show a facility symbol so must be responsible for the human signal, maybe the human signal out at the 8th planet is a leftover from the Orbital Construction Depot when the Outpost was being built and will vanish after the Outpost becomes fully operational. But at the moment it is a mystery for sure.

 

[varonica]

And another one, human signal, nothing on the surface, a newly constructed outpost in orbit, a bit annoying this is becoming!

 

[Eahlstan]

You can thank Frontier for that. Newly constructed stations are surface station according to the journal. We have to wait until Thursday to see if that's persistent or if they became unbugged stations after the weekly downtime.

 

[æryn]

This combined with the megaship scan crash is really making grid scan progress difficult. May have to take a break until they make a bugfix patch.

 

[varonica]

This combined with the megaship scan crash is really making grid scan progress difficult. May have to take a break until they make a bugfix patch.

Ok, I have got around that for now, it only crashes if I try to immediately scan it on entry, if I wait until I am close and slow down then scan it the problem never happens, so try that and see how it goes.

 

[æryn]

Ok, I have got around that for now, it only crashes if I try to immediately scan it on entry, if I wait until I am close and slow down then scan it the problem never happens, so try that and see how it goes.

Unfortunately not resolved in the latest patch, so we'll need to continue with this approach for now.

 

[MiloGreenRanger]

Catching up on updates!

Status Update for Week of 2025-02-22 : 2025-03-01

We've scanned 4,782 / 5,123 grid sections (+10), which is 93.34% of our search grid.
That includes 63,430 / 67,941 systems (+143), which is 93.36% of systems.*

Notes:

• 43 Megaships
• 11 Moons
• 4 Capital Ships
• 2 Tourist Beacons
• CMDR Varonica found three Crashed Ships (one with Thargoid Sensor) on Anouphis A 3.
• CMDR Varonica found a Crashed Ship on BD+22 3579 5.
• CMDR Varonica found a Crashed Ship on BD+65 1846 2.
• CMDR æryn found a Crashed Ship on Lusonne A 1.

Status Update for Week of 2025-03-01 : 2025-03-08

We've scanned 4,797 / 5,123 grid sections (+15), which is 93.64% of our search grid.
That includes 63,644 / 67,941 systems (+214), which is 93.68% of systems.*

Notes:

• 50 Megaships
• 15 Moons
• 3 Capital Ships
• 2 Tourist Beacons
• CMDR Varonica found a Crashed Ship on LFT 361 B 4.
• CMDR æryn found a Crashed Ship with a Thargoid Sensor on Vagho A 2.
• CMDR æryn found a two Crashed Ships on Taosha 4.
• CMDR æryn found the Generation Ship Phanes at Cephei Sector NX-U b2-0 B 5.

Status Update for Week of 2025-03-08 : 2025-03-15

We've scanned 4,810 / 5,123 grid sections (+13), which is 93.89% of our search grid.
That includes 63,861 / 67,941 systems (+217), which is 93.99% of systems.*

Notes:

• 37 Megaships
• 5 Moons
• 5 Capital Ships
• CMDR Varonica found a Crashed Ship on Aobrogii C 4.
• CMDR æryn found a Crashed Ship on HR 8208 B 1.
• CMDR æryn found an Engineer Base (Oden Geiger) on Candiaei 9 C.

Status Update for Week of 2025-03-15 : 2025-03-22

We've scanned 4,824 / 5,123 grid sections (+14), which is 94.16% of our search grid.
That includes 64,033 / 67,941 systems (+172), which is 94.25% of systems.*

Notes:

• 45 Megaships
• 5 Moons
• 4 Capital Ships
• 2 Tourist Beacons
• CMDR JuicyTomato found two Crashed Ships on 2 Omega Leonis 4.

Status Update for Week of 2025-03-22 : 2025-03-29

We've scanned 4,838 / 5,123 grid sections (+14), which is 94.44% of our search grid.
That includes 64,197 / 67,941 systems (+164), which is 94.49% of systems.*

Notes:

• 44 Megaships
• 2 Moons
• 2 Capital Ships
• CMDR Varonica found a Crashed Ship on GCRV 2743 A 2.
• CMDR Varonica found a Crashed Ship on MCC 460 4.
• We have completed the 150-200 ly shell!

* (estimated from EDSM database)

 

[FrogsFriend]

Well done all.

 

[PurgeTheXeno]

Good work all! The end is so close!