Is there a way to know what I have discovered first?
- Thread starter Pomerlaw
- Start date
No. (Well I'm sure there's a log in the FD databases, but none we can access)
First Earth Like I ever discovered was also lost that way.
First Earth Like I ever discovered was also lost that way.
Last edited:
Unfortunately not, if you had Verbose logging enabled you could have narrowed down the search to systems visited in that particular region of space. As as I'm aware nothing is logged until you enable it in the config file.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=215889
Last edited:
Fortunately there's http://scarygliders.net/captains-log/ captain's log, which reads your logs, and creates databases from your travels.
Explorer's forum post https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=155545
Explorer's forum post https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=155545
Last edited:
The closest I get is screen-shotting the system map. Also, when you turn in the data at a station, you will get a notice for all your "First discovered" bodies, which I am quick to screenshot as well. I even made a special sub-folder for these
We've been asking for this for over a year now. We got Elite Arena instead.
+1 to say that it honestly beggars belief that a game which promotes exploration as a playing style provides literally nothing in terms of tools for keeping a record of your own first discoveries.
I mean pick pretty much any other issue people moan about. This is much more basic than it.
I mean pick pretty much any other issue people moan about. This is much more basic than it.
Sure. Go back to the galaxy map, find the general area where you think it was, and click on each star.
One by one.
You'll find it eventually.
Frontier..... Why don't we have an Exploration Journal yet?
One by one.
You'll find it eventually.
Frontier..... Why don't we have an Exploration Journal yet?
Yeah, I get the feeling that as a consequence of the way the databases are structured (looking up the discovery database only when a player opens a system map) doing reverse look-ups would be very intensive.
Because this database only ever grows, and entries are never overwritten, for a while I wondered whether some sort of once-per-day reverse lookup might be done on the discoverer database and stored somewhere else for quick indexing. But if the system was never designed with that in mind -- and I strongly suspect it wasn't -- then it would still effectively be cross-checking x flags against y records, where x is the number of people who've ever first discovered something and y is the number of bodies in the galaxy. The computational resources required would be staggering.
Maybe FD's plan down the line is to also have a per-player database that stores discovered bodies in a more easily searchable format. But even if they did that it would only work for discoveries made after it went live.
Like so many aspects of ED the whole thing seems like a bit of a mess.
This is why I keep an actual handwritten logbook of the waypoints I use and significant discoveries I make. The way I figure it, even if FD opened up the database to allow us to reference it my book is quicker and more convenient, and has the advantage that I can consult it offline.
Technology is not always your friend.
Technology is not always your friend.
Me too - an old habit from the original game where I used to keep written note of good prices, kills etc.
Solution to any problems that could be caused by excessive workloads from accessing the database.
Download all information from the database relevant to that specific player to the local machine.
It's not sensitive information that has to be protected from hackers or anything like that. So why not? There's no reason. A quick, periodic fact check with what's on the servers would take care of any corruption issues and keep it up to date, and wouldn't create any more workload than looking at an object in the map.
Third party tools already do this by scraping information from the event logs. It wouldn't be any different. People are going to open up the galaxy map and look at it there in-game anyways after they reference their personal records to find the name of what they're looking for, so you're talking about a neutral exchange in both net traffic and server load in an absolute worst case scenario.
Last edited:
I am not asking for access to the database. I am asking for a website that accesses the database through techniques that are 15 years old. You send a request to the web server, the webserver, and only the webserver, sends a request to the database. No loss of control, no third party access.
Starting to run to an obstacle with screenshots myself ... the screenshot folder is dwarfing the game's installed size by an order of magnitude or so. One of these days I need to get a 1-2TB drive that's dedicated for screenshots and only screenshots.
Last edited: