Many Systems with Landable Planets Are Not Showing Material Content/Percentages in System Map. ??

[GG7]

What is up with that?

I'm in a new system here for me, but I have totally explored all the planets and unlocked their names, yet when I go to the system map, none of the landable planets are providing the usual Materials List and Percentages. That option in the system map only provides the planet's Mass, Radius, Orbital Period, down to Axial Tilt, and thats it.

There is nothing listed below that.

I hadn't read about a bug pertaining to this, but this does strike me as being a pretty significant bug. I am landed on such a planet right now and have picked up several loads of raw materials, so they are down here. Just not indicated in the system map.

Anyone know more about what is going on here?

 

[Hellakitty]

DSS'd?

 

[evanevery]

DSS'd?

Given that someone who might be having this problem, might also be unaware what a "DSS" is, your comment is of little value...

To the OP: did you equip your ship with a Detailed Surface Scanner? Many systems won't show specific planet contents until they are targeted with a Surface Scanner equipped...

 

[GG7]

To the OP: did you equip your ship with a Detailed Surface Scanner? Many systems won't show specific planet contents until they are targeted with a Surface Scanner equipped...

I am not running with a DSS, but I was always under the impression that if you landed on a planet, that would unlock the same details. I guess I will go buy one and see if that makes a difference.

But I still have to say, I can't recall ever coming into a new system where this info was not provided after the "unexplored" name was changed to the actual planet name by scanning it in SC.

Thanks for the tip though. Will be my first DSS purchase in 3 years of playing!

 

[Vasious]

I am not running with a DSS, but I was always under the impression that if you landed on a planet, that would unlock the same details. I guess I will go buy one and see if that makes a difference.

But I still have to say, I can't recall ever coming into a new system where this info was not provided after the "unexplored" name was changed to the actual planet name by scanning it in SC.

Thanks for the tip though. Will be my first DSS purchase in 3 years of playing!

Hopefully surface sampling will one day unlock the information, but yes the detailed surface scanner will provide the info you wish for, the most important use of the DSS

 

[Adhock]

I am not running with a DSS, but I was always under the impression that if you landed on a planet, that would unlock the same details. I guess I will go buy one and see if that makes a difference.

Nope.

Scanning without a DSS might give you some idea of the type of rock you're looking at but just landing and sticking your head out the door won't tell you a damn thing.

DSS's give you all the juicy information. Actual Metallic, Metal, Rock, Icy composition, atmospheric temps, atmo makeup, all the little things astronomers and explorers use to determine how valuable a system is (and if planets are terraforming candidates).

After Engineers were introduced, the DSS would tell you what materials you were mostly likely to find and in what percentages. Without it you wouldn't see squat.

It's not a bug. It's ALWAYS been like that.

Pinging a system with your discovery scanner gets you the Level 1 scan. Telling you how many bodies are in a system. Detailed Scans by targeting the body and scanning them with your basic package is your level 2 scan. This gets you basic orbital information. Stuff you could measure by simply looking at it.

Then you have the DSS which is your level 3 scan. This actually analyzes the planet and tells you the makeup of the planet itself as well as other information you'd need specialized equipment to tell you that telescope scans can't.

The higher level the scan. The more exploration data you have. The more data on a system you have, the more valuable it becomes. If you level 3 scan an entire system. The value of everything in the system is multiplied by 2 making the system worth DOUBLE the level 2 scan then if you just honk and jump with a level 1.

THIS is how explorers make our money.