is there a way to see geological/biological POIs without going back to FSS?

Turd Ferguson · Apr 10, 2019

I decided to go do some exploration now that the game development is "stable" and I don't have to worry about quarterly rule changes and new stuff being added while I'm out in the middle of nowhere.

One thing I can't figure out - when I scan a planet with FSS and it has POIs they show up in the scan. However when I'm done with scanning the system and want to go map that planet and see the POIs, they're nowhere to be seen. I can't see them on the system map. Am I missing something? If I scan a system with 50 bodies do I have to get a pad and pencil out and write them down? Is there a screen somewhere I'm missing that indicates where the planets with POIs are that I just FSS scanned?

varonica · Apr 10, 2019

Turd Ferguson said:
I decided to go do some exploration now that the game development is "stable" and I don't have to worry about quarterly rule changes and new stuff being added while I'm out in the middle of nowhere.

One thing I can't figure out - when I scan a planet with FSS and it has POIs they show up in the scan. However when I'm done with scanning the system and want to go map that planet and see the POIs, they're nowhere to be seen. I can't see them on the system map. Am I missing something? If I scan a system with 50 bodies do I have to get a pad and pencil out and write them down? Is there a screen somewhere I'm missing that indicates where the planets with POIs are that I just FSS scanned?

If you have mapped the planet they should appear in the nav panel and as yellow circle POI's on the body surface. You have to map the body first to find the locations.

Turd Ferguson · Apr 10, 2019

yeah I know I can see it once I mapped the planet but when I just discovered 22 planets in a new system and 3 of them showed up as having geological or biological POIs in the FSS screen there doesn't appear to be any way to note this aside from pen and paper. Its ridiculous that a scanner SHOWS me which planets may be of particular interest but then that information dissapears and is nowhere to be found.

I can see which planets have volcanism before I scan them.....why not presence of life?

Do devs that develop these features even talk to eachother to produce a coherent game experience?

Bob Lighthouse · Apr 10, 2019

You need to use the DSS.

Watcher · Apr 10, 2019

Turd Ferguson said:
yeah I know I can see it once I mapped the planet but when I just discovered 22 planets in a new system and 3 of them showed up as having geological or biological POIs in the FSS screen there doesn't appear to be any way to note this aside from pen and paper. Its ridiculous that a scanner SHOWS me which planets may be of particular interest but then that information dissapears and is nowhere to be found.

I can see which planets have volcanism before I scan them.....why not presence of life?

Do devs that develop these features even talk to eachother to produce a coherent game experience?

It does need a bit of a tidy up.
Better flagging of what things are in the FSS and things like whether you've detected signal sources on a planet in the system info view - you shouldn't need to map to see them, you know they are there (from the FSS) just not what they are...
Which also suggests the signal sources ought to resolve to their type when you visit them... That would be nice. Might be a faff to add...
If we want to get fancy maybe add some things of interest icons on the system view - so you can quickly see which ones have got signal souces, been mapped, etc without selecting them. You could do something with system view filters..
When honking for the FSS give some sort of overview in the info panel on the main hud - when you are exploring out a long way knowing if dropping to the main FSS view is worth would be nice - I tend to not want to have to slow down if I don't have to

Kzak · Apr 10, 2019

I decided to add a suggestion in the Dangerous Suggestions forum about this.

Suggestion: Small icons near each body in the star system map to indicate biological/geological POIs

As the title says, that you have to look up the data readout and then check for POIs at the bottom is a bit unwieldy. Better that once the planet has been FSS-scanned, the system map should indicate with small symbols next to the planet in the map what kind of POIs are present. This is a...

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Bob Lighthouse · Apr 10, 2019

If you use the DSS they show up in your nav panel.

Vayporz · Apr 10, 2019

I might be misunderstanding the OP but I think he doesn't want to have to map/DSS every planet to see the POIs in the nav panel, he already knows if a planet has POIs when he identifies them with his FSS.

After identifying a stellar object during the FSS scan, is there a problem with FDev displaying the number/type of POI information for that object in the system map? I know to get the location you have to do a DSS, and I'm pretty sure the OP does too. Although some info is in the system map (geologic activity = geologic POIs,) not biological POIs.

I'm not DSS-ing every icy rock in a system cause I didn't write down which ones had POI's I'm interested in. If that's your style, play on. It's not mine, and your opinion although valued will not change mine. I map what interests me, or brings me a ROI to my time.

varonica · Apr 11, 2019

Turd Ferguson said:
yeah I know I can see it once I mapped the planet but when I just discovered 22 planets in a new system and 3 of them showed up as having geological or biological POIs in the FSS screen there doesn't appear to be any way to note this aside from pen and paper.

I see what you mean, you can indeed see vulcanism from the system screen, it will say it in the detailed system view of the body, but not bio unfortunately, I am hoping this is one of the things they fix with the new navigation panel improvements in the April patch.

Bob Lighthouse · Apr 11, 2019

CMDR V4yporz said:
I might be misunderstanding the OP but I think he doesn't want to have to map/DSS every planet to see the POIs in the nav panel, he already knows if a planet has POIs when he identifies them with his FSS.

After identifying a stellar object during the FSS scan, is there a problem with FDev displaying the number/type of POI information for that object in the system map? I know to get the location you have to do a DSS, and I'm pretty sure the OP does too. Although some info is in the system map (geologic activity = geologic POIs,) not biological POIs.

I'm not DSS-ing every icy rock in a system cause I didn't write down which ones had POI's I'm interested in. If that's your style, play on. It's not mine, and your opinion although valued will not change mine. I map what interests me, or brings me a ROI to my time.

No one is trying to change your opinion, lol.

They purposefully made it that way.

Sysmon · Apr 11, 2019

Turd Ferguson said:
I decided to go do some exploration now that the game development is "stable" and I don't have to worry about quarterly rule changes and new stuff being added while I'm out in the middle of nowhere.

One thing I can't figure out - when I scan a planet with FSS and it has POIs they show up in the scan. However when I'm done with scanning the system and want to go map that planet and see the POIs, they're nowhere to be seen. I can't see them on the system map. Am I missing something? If I scan a system with 50 bodies do I have to get a pad and pencil out and write them down? Is there a screen somewhere I'm missing that indicates where the planets with POIs are that I just FSS scanned?

After you are done DSS scanning, locations should also show up at the bottom of the planet info screen in the System Map. Of course, you can see types of volcanism right there already... At least Geology and Biology show up, not sure about other types.

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Turd Ferguson · Apr 11, 2019

Sysmon said:
After you are done DSS scanning, locations should also show up at the bottom of the planet info screen in the System Map. Of course, you can see types of volcanism right there already... At least Geology and Biology show up, not sure about other types.

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yeah.....so I FSS scan the whole system and during the scan it shows me which planets have volcanism and biological POIs. As soon as I leave FSS I can still find info on volcanism on the system map BUT THE INFO ON BIOLOGICAL POIs dissapears and cannot be accessed until I go DSS the planet....which since there is no ingame indication for some reason even though thr FSS just showed it to me so it's not like Im not supposed to know.

So in a system with a lot of planets I have to keep track of which system has biological POIs from thrle FSS outside the game so I don't have to go DSS every planet to find the one with biological POIs. This doesn't make sense.