Missing planets in deep space?

I have an exploration account that is currently in the Arcadian Stream region of deep space. Long story short, there are NO PLANETS, none. It may say upon a honk of the system that there are upto 45 bodies there, but when you go into map view, there's nothing to be seen. I have tried this with dozens of systems and it reproduces the same result over and over. I have also contacted FDev, but haven't had any response from them.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issues?
 

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After a long play gap I fairly recently returned to the game and had the same problem. If no-one has previously discovered the planets they will not appear on the system map until you scan them with the FSS. Googling a video is probably the quickest way to learn about it.
 
Congrats! You found yourself an undiscovered system! You arrived at 99% of the universe!

Planets will appear as soon as you have discovered them! Use the fss or just fly away from the sun with the sun in your back and you will eventually discover moving white objects. These are no stars but the planets of that system youre in.
 
I think some of you are missing my point. If I'm in the bubble and I honk the system, I will get minor information regarding the number of asteroid belts and planets, and if I want further details, a FSS will provide that. And all there is well, but when I'm out in the deep black, you can honk a system and all you'll get is the main star show up and nothing else, even though you can have dozens of planets and the asteroid belts, you see nothing, it's only when you do a deep FSS can you finally see them and then only if you go through the rigorous process of the FSS, this is not the way that it used to work before Odyessy. If you like, I will make 2 videos showing exactly what I mean and post them here to show you that there's something massively wrong.
 
Wasn't there some issue with exploration accounts in the alpha that required long term explorers to return and dock?
I can't check myself as my expo account is Horizons only but surely a basic honk will give you planets in the system map with no detailed info, do the FSS for type and the DSS for material composition if required.
Granted I haven't done any exploration since before Odditty dropped so I may have missed some changes.
 
I think some of you are missing my point. ........ this is not the way that it used to work before Odyessy. ....

You are wrong. This is exactly how it works since the ADS was replaced with the FSS system. In any new system you go to you will only see bodies that have been "discovered" by someone and that data has been sold by them to cartography. The only exception is that in the bubble some systems are "known" already and do not need to have been "discovered".

Any system you arrive at which is completely undiscovered by anyone will be totally empty until your system discovers it - the main star and anything within the passive detection range (30 ls) is automatically discovered and then when you "honk" your disco scanner all stellar bodies are "discovered". The remaining bodies need to be discovered by means of either using the FSS or by flying within that passive detection range.

None of this changed with Odyssey.
 
Wasn't there some issue with exploration accounts in the alpha that required long term explorers to return and dock?
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I think you are referring to the fact that they cannot go walkabout to gather bio data - they need an Artemis suit to have the sampler tool for that and F D did not provide one automatically, you need to buy one in a station. (Stupid decision that just shows how much F D values / cares about exploring.)
 
then when you "honk" your disco scanner all stellar bodies are "discovered".
That's my point, they're not. I've been playing this game since day one, do you not think me intelligent enough to know when things have changed? I've have been in the deep black for over 4 year mapping system after system and yet you patronize me like I picked up the game a week ago. Something is wrong, I've mapped 1000's of systems so I think I'd have the wherewithall to know if something has changed, something HAS changed and not for the better.
 
From reading your messages, I would expect nothing to appear in the system map after a honk, but do you see anything in your panel on the left listed as "Unexplored"?
Again, just reading what you've written, the FSS does work?

It might be easier to show us as it does look like it's working normally from my experience; and I do a lot of long distance exploration - just not in Odyssey. Have you gone back to Horizons and seen a difference?
 
From reading your messages, I would expect nothing to appear in the system map after a honk, but do you see anything in your panel on the left listed as "Unexplored"?
Again, just reading what you've written, the FSS does work?

It might be easier to show us as it does look like it's working normally from my experience; and I do a lot of long distance exploration - just not in Odyssey. Have you gone back to Horizons and seen a difference?
Firstly thank you for a reply that isn't aimed at showing the forum community what a smug know it all you are.

At the top of the page, I've linked 4 pictures, and this is the steps I'd normally take and have taken in excess of 4000 times:

Arrive at the main star

Get safe of the stars danger zone

Honk the system

Press the 1 button and navigate to the system map

Now, what I would have expected to see what the traces of planets there called "unexplored", giving me the info of size, location but not composition.

I would then navigate to the aforementioned planet and do my close up in depth analyse, but now, you honk the system and there's nothing, not asteroid belt location, no planet location and definately nothing showing up as "Unexplored", this is not right.

What I'll do later today is I'll video the whole event from start to finish and in the way you'll be able to see what I'm going on about.
 
Right, thank you. Again, just so you know, I don't play Odyssey (yet) as none of my Squadron/friends will buy it because... um... well, you know.

So in Horizons, I'll have to go check as I do it differently.
1. Enter system
2. Honk.
3. Fire up FSS
4. Scanny scan scan
5. Nice lady tells me I've completed the system scan

The deviations from that would be when using said systems to find something else, like a Carrier or whatever.

I'll try your method when I have a moment and see if I get a similar thing.
 
Now, what I would have expected to see what the traces of planets there called "unexplored", giving me the info of size, location but not composition.

You won't see any until you scan with FSS, so a quick run down of my setup and procedure.

Go to control panel, the FSS section, select a button to start FSS, select options to scroll around within FSS and select zoom in and out buttons.

My setup is Joystick 7 to start and exit FSS. Hat control to scroll around, or you can use joystick but I find hat control convenient. Left top joystick button to zoom in, right to zoom out. You can also set a button to target current zoomed object, good for checking out ELW and NSP. Set tuning controls, I use two methods numbers 0 and 2 for left right quick scrolling and joystick twist for fine tuning.

So jump in, scoop, honk while scooping. Once clear of danger zone throttle to zero, you must do that to use FSS, press FSS activate button. You will see number of objects top right and in some cases a line for stellar equator, you may need to move around a bit to find it. If it's a simple you scan along that line until you see a blue blob, use the tuning controls to focus in until you see a white circle, then zoom in, if it's a double circle you may need to do the same again because there will be two or more bodies, you'll get the hang of that easily enough. Repeat until all bodies found or you get back to the start.

From there if still missing bodies you need to search around the place. Set pointer to center of star, scroll up/down, left/right, then both diagonals until all bodies found, then all done.

After that all bodies will be visible on system map, investigate or scan anything interesting like ELW, NSP etc.
 
Arrive at the main star

Get safe of the stars danger zone

Honk the system

Press the 1 button and navigate to the system map

Now, what I would have expected to see what the traces of planets there called "unexplored", giving me the info of size, location but not composition.
This was what happened with ADS.
It also happens with FSS, if someone has scanned the bodies before you.
It does not happen in a truly unexplored system.
 
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