no-first-discovered yet undiscoverable planets - what's up with those?

[Archvillain]

A couple of systems now, in human space I've come across ice-rocks that lack a first-discovered tag in a system where other objects have discovered-by tags. But when I scan the planet and sell the data, nothing happens and the planet remains not first-discovered. (Which is presumably why it had no tag in an otherwise-tagged system in the first place)

Should we be ticketing these?

 

[Greyhawk]

I think there's a bug where certain planets don't show the disco tag in human space. Seen quite a few recently.

 

[Archvillain]

Ugh. I'm a late-comer to the game, so on my bucket-list is finding an object in human space that I can tag (if any such thing remains)... so this bug is Not Helping!!!

 

[CMDR DoubleSkulls]

Ugh. I'm a late-comer to the game, so on my bucket-list is finding an object in human space that I can tag (if any such thing remains)... so this bug is Not Helping!!!

I doubt you are the first to have that idea. You'll probably have more luck near the fringes of human space than within it.

 

[lexrax]

I doubt you are the first to have that idea. You'll probably have more luck near the fringes of human space than within it.

I would suggest , heading for the OUTER LIMITS Lots out their, that havent got name on yet i bet out of the Billions of Stars out their.

 

[CMDR DoubleSkulls]

Yep... on my current trip, without even trying to do anything odd, I found a completely untagged system less that 400 ly from sol.

 

[Archvillain]

I do have some tagged systems on the outskirts. That's why finding something in occupied space would be a higher achievement

 

[Zulu Romeo]

A couple of systems now, in human space I've come across ice-rocks that lack a first-discovered tag in a system where other objects have discovered-by tags. But when I scan the planet and sell the data, nothing happens and the planet remains not first-discovered. (Which is presumably why it had no tag in an otherwise-tagged system in the first place)

Should we be ticketing these?

If you are getting the popup notification of first discovery, I wonder if this is just a long delay, say five to fifteen minutes, while the server updates the sheer mass of information needed to be sifted through, which only then registers as a label on the system map?
If not, then it might be a bug or some other quirk.

 

[Archvillain]

Sorry, when I say "nothing happens" when I scan them and sell the data, I also meant that there is no first-discovery popup during data sale.

So these planets are unnamed, in unnamed systems, undiscovered, they have no first-discovered tag, and yet are effectively non-first-discoverable, by anyone (presumably).

 

[Allitnil]

It is almost certainly the case that they have been previously discovered but the discoverer's name didn't get recorded. The chances of finding a genuinely undiscovered planet in colonised space is vanishingly small.

 

[Greyhawk]

On my way to Sag A* - the first undiscovered object I found was well over 1000ly away from civilised space. Your chances in civvy space are as Allitnil says, practically nil.

 

[Levitikan]

Sorry, when I say "nothing happens" when I scan them and sell the data, I also meant that there is no first-discovery popup during data sale.

So these planets are unnamed, in unnamed systems, undiscovered, they have no first-discovered tag, and yet are effectively non-first-discoverable, by anyone (presumably).

Do you have the detailed discovery scanner? As i believe you have to scan them with that to get first discovered by reward and some people leave the outer planets if the can't bother to properly scan if there just rocks as there not worth much.

 

[CMDR Taipo]

Also you need to be the first back to sell to get the first discovered. So even if you find a system that is so far undiscovered (IE no first discovery) you still need to be the first person back to sell the data to get credit.

 

[CMDR DoubleSkulls]

On my way to Sag A* - the first undiscovered object I found was well over 1000ly away from civilised space. Your chances in civvy space are as Allitnil says, practically nil.

I found a fully untagged system 370ly away from Sol about 2 weeks ago. If you are heading towards Sag A along the plane I suspect the exploration is more intensive, but move even a couple of hundred LYs up or down (and don't head straight at Sag A) you'll find unexplored systems much closer in.

 

[Kalpa]

From what I've heard (second hand information, mind you, I haven't bothered digging too much into this as there're plenty of bodies to tag in the Galaxy) there are plenty of systems in the bubble that were added in the game in early alpha/gamma/beta/whatever backer-only playable phases, and these are the systems which are unexplored, but can't be tagged by anyone.