Newcomer / Intro Missing Planets??

[Beauknowsdiddly]

Hello,
So I used the Inara site trying to find a 4A power plant and it directed me to the Igbonii System. Specifically Janifer Point on Planet Igbonii A 1b. Only it appears that planet is no longer there. Whatthewhahuh? There's about 20 belt clusters in it's place. Is it possible the planet has been destroyed? I know I was there once before but I just spent the last few hours exploring this system and it's just not there... Do planets get destroyed in this game or am I just missing something?

Thank you!

 

[Codger]

Either use the FSS or scan the Nav Beacon. You probably just don’t have the system info if you’ve never been there before.

 

[Beauknowsdiddly]

Either use the FSS or scan the Nav Beacon. You probably just don’t have the system info if you’ve never been there before.

So I have been there before. I did visit the nav beacon and I used the D-scan. Is that the FSS you're referring to? I've also visited every unexplored spot on the Nav panel.

 

[Beauknowsdiddly]

Holy crap! I just visited the nav beacon again and it appeared. Maybe I didn't visit it before I don't know.... That's just crazy... Is the D-Scan the FSS or no. Is that something different.

And would you have any clue why my weapons/analysis hud is not disappearing when I retract my hard points? They used to.

 

[Danieros]

Have you died before turning in exploration data for this system?

In your first visit of a populated system, planets should appear as unexplored and all starports/settlements on the POI tab.

If you die without handing in the exploration data for the system, in your next visit the planets don't revert to unexplored, they instead won't appear at all until you FSS/nav beacon data download. This is how completely unexplored systems outside the bubble behave, so I feel that it's a bug that data loss works like this for populated ones, but

 

[Codger]

Holy crap! I just visited the nav beacon again and it appeared. Maybe I didn't visit it before I don't know.... That's just crazy... Is the D-Scan the FSS or no. Is that something different.

And would you have any clue why my weapons/analysis hud is not disappearing when I retract my hard points? They used to.

No, the Discovery Scanner is just part of the process. After you "honk" the Discovery Scanner, you then have to open the "Full Spectrum System" scanner, or FSS scanner for short. From there you can pan around until you find each planet, then zoom in on it. That will add it to the system info. Once you have them all, then you're done (it tells you a percentage). It's a bit hard to explain in text, but there are plenty of videos out there showing how to use the FSS.

In populated systems (like the one you were in) it's often easier to scan the Nav beacon. Either way works.

But in uninhabited systems there are no Nav beacons, so you must use the FSS there.

 

[Beauknowsdiddly]

Awesome! Thank you very much

Have you died before turning in exploration data for this system?

In your first visit of a populated system, planets should appear as unexplored and all starports/settlements on the POI tab.

If you die without handing in the exploration data for the system, in your next visit the planets don't revert to unexplored, they instead won't appear at all until you FSS/nav beacon data download. This is how completely unexplored systems outside the bubble behave, so I feel that it's a bug that data loss works like this for populated ones, but

That explains it! I didn't know about turning in the exploration date and I've died several times! lol Thank you!

 

[Beauknowsdiddly]

No, the Discovery Scanner is just part of the process. After you "honk" the Discovery Scanner, you then have to open the "Full Spectrum System" scanner, or FSS scanner for short. From there you can pan around until you find each planet, then zoom in on it. That will add it to the system info. Once you have them all, then you're done (it tells you a percentage). It's a bit hard to explain in text, but there are plenty of videos out there showing how to use the FSS.

In populated systems (like the one you were in) it's often easier to scan the Nav beacon. Either way works.

But in uninhabited systems there are no Nav beacons, so you must use the FSS there.

Awesome Thank you very much Codger!

 

[DjVortex]

I didn't know about turning in the exploration date and I've died several times!

I think that in the latest versions the game will tell you what you lost in the rebuy screen. It should say there that you lost your exploration data.

(Well, I suppose that in itself doesn't tell you that you need to go to a space station and turn the data in, in order for it to be permanently preserved...)