Missing planets?

[Dash]

So I have been exploring a system for ages, found loads of planets full of moons, great stuff. But there is a gap in the numbers which suggests there is another planet to be found, but I've been up and down, round and around an I swear there is nothing in-between the orbits of the planet numbers on either side.

Are planets always numbered correctly?

 

[Martin1956]

So I have been exploring a system for ages, found loads of planets full of moons, great stuff. But there is a gap in the numbers which suggests there is another planet to be found, but I've been up and down, round and around an I swear there is nothing in-between the orbits of the planet numbers on either side.

Are planets always numbered correctly?

Had the same problem several weeks back, could've sworn it was missing, but eventually found it, but only because I was in the right place as it transited the "sun"

I suggest you perservere.

 

[carazvan]

I'd check for high inclination orbits as not all planets are on the same plane. Using the mk.I eyeball I'd go as high up above the plane of the system as you can so you can see both 2 planet orbits you're looking at on the same frame.

 

[Dash]

The high orbits and shifting across the system is how I found the other thirteen planets, just this one I simply cannot find it. I gave up in the end.

 

[carazvan]

Well there's the simple way to find it also .. but it usually costs 1.5mil .. aka the advanced discovery scanner, this will find all orbits and objects in a system.

 

[Lobstris]

Had the same problem several weeks back, could've sworn it was missing, but eventually found it, but only because I was in the right place as it transited the "sun"

That's a pretty good way of finding an exo-planet in real life too. The game is doing something right!

 

[Calaban]

I was on an exploration trek a while ago, and came up with a good way of spotting those pesky leftovers hiding out there somewhere:

simply zoom away from the star, with it targeted, and get about 1200ls away from it. This is beyond the orbits of most single star systems.

Then head back towards the star, looking for AM (anomalous movement). Your great speed out at these ranges (~100c), and view of the entire planet set as a whole, should make that missing planet apparent much easier.

If you mapped out the other orbits, the region to look will even be apparent, as it is the gap in the rings.

One time I was convinced the missing planet was off on a polar orbit (90 degrees off of the planetary plane), but so far that hasnt been the case. It was just a small moon like world.

So its reassuring that planetary mechanics of the starforge accurately results in a plane of planetary orbits, with only a few degrees variance possible.