Hero Ferrari ... The Removed Engineer! ?

[762s]

well,

the new patch removed Hero Ferrari. ?

i met this engineer the other day, went and gathered some mats and now on my return ... this engineer and planet are gone! ?

now today there is a whole in the map where this engineers planet is ...

any other commanders see/have this ?

 

[Ydiss]

It can happen if you get the data for a system but then don't hand it in and then lose your ship.

Make sure you hand the data in after you visit her. Just drop into the nav beacon, scan the beacon and you'll be set. Or fly to that planet.

 

[Straha Yeagar]

I had this happen a while back. I ended up having to FSS the whole system again

 

[Ydiss]

I had this happen a while back. I ended up having to FSS the whole system again

Or just scan the nav beacon and you're done.

 

[762s]

Or just scan the nav beacon and you're done.

it wont let me scan the nav beacon

 

[Retropolitan]

I'm pretty sure Domino's been lacing Hero's protein shakes with Push. Anything might happen.

Don't believe me? Visit Hero. Watch her talk with her hands. Then watch her talk with her hands when she isn't saying anything.

 

[762s]

there is no module needed to scan beacons, right?

im in my explorer conda ...
and im not sure if i removed something from it to get high jump range

it should just be point the ship at the beacon and it scans, right?

 

[Ydiss]

there is no module needed to scan beacons, right?

im in my explorer conda ...
and im not sure if i removed something from it to get high jump range

it should just be point the ship at the beacon and it scans, right?

Target it. It passive scans it automatically.

You do have to drop into the nav beacon instance and actually target it though, it's not the POI target either. It shows as a white box (pic incoming)

Brief useless history lesson about this. When the game launched, Nav Beacons were functionally useless (they were originally supposed to be where you jumped into, early doors and that was removed). Players made threads sometimes complaining that they made no sense. Why do so many NPCs drop in and then jump out? But then, in one of these threads, one commander came up with the idea that the reason all these NPCs drop here first is to scan the beacon to get nav data for the system and that we should be able to do it as well.

Fdev saw the comment, replied and said "Great idea!" and it was implemented shortly after.

 

[762s]

Target it. It passive scans it automatically.

You do have to drop into the nav beacon instance and actually target it though, it's not the POI target either. It shows as a white box (pic incoming)

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Brief useless history lesson about this. When the game launched, Nav Beacons were functionally useless (they were originally supposed to be where you jumped into, early doors and that was removed) but then one commander came up with the idea that the reason all these NPCs drop here first is to scan the beacon to get nav data for the system and that we should be able to do it.

Fdev saw the comment, replied and said "Great idea!" and it was implemented shortly after.

got it ...


i did the fss and that worked

but, then i read what you wrote and tried that too ... i got the ship to scan the beacon, i was on the wrong item trying to scan it.

thanks for the refresher course ydiss


and i got my engineer back

 

[Ydiss]

got it ...


i did the fss and that worked

but, then i read what you wrote and tried that too ... i got the ship to scan the beacon, i was on the wrong item trying to scan it.

thanks for the refresher course ydiss


and i got my engineer back

Always a pleasure Glad it's sorted. Just remember to save that data when you next dock 20ly away. I forget it all the time.