How are stations found?

[crouzilles]

Hi guys,

This may sound like a silly question, but how are stations discovered, is it by using the discovery scanner or by getting close enough to discovered planets?

Regards
Crouz

 

[Ian Phillips]

We were talking about this last night on the FGE teamspeak.
It would seem that once you have information about any object in a system (read 'the star') all of the stations should be present in your navigation information. Apparently stations have transmitters so they are registered straight away.

I would say that I have found one system where the second star was almost 300000 Ls away, and the outpost around the second star did not show up until I travelled to and scanned the second star, so it isn't absolutely 100% correct all the time.

 

[crouzilles]

Thanks for the heads up.

I was offered a mission 2 or 3 weeks ago and the station cannot be found. I know I have all planets as I am using the advanced discovery scanner, I'll have to check but I am pretty sure I visited each planet in that system. Maybe a bug then.

Regards
Crouz