For those who do not realise, with 1.7/2.2 the DSS just became much more important. Thanks to hard work from our community developers, EDDB (Elite Dangerous Database) is now being synchronized towards from multiple tools whenever you scan an undiscovered body.
What does that mean ?
=> It means that you can help the whole community in their search for materials !
How ?
=> By equipping a DSS and scanning undiscovered landables
Whats the benefit ?
=> Lets say someone is in dire need of Arsenic, eg for FSD grade 5 upgrades, what is the best planet to search for ?
Hopefully he knows he should go to EDDB and query it: https://eddb.io/body?m=6&p=0&t=0&d=0
Ok cool, so now he knows Pleiades Sector IH-V c2-7 6 h has the highest score of 2.9% and goes there, end of story ?
Not really, because how does the data get there ?
=> Before 1.7 / 2.2 this data got either imported via DWE 3302 but foremost manual entries by scientific hardcore people
=> Now by just running EDMC (Market Connector) or EDD (Discovery) in the background, all these pages on EDDB get automatically created just by scanning an undiscovered landable with your DSS
=> The "undiscovered" is the only caveat, so far Frontier doesn't send info for already discovered ones, but that might come later !
It means all exploration trips benefit a lot from you having a DSS installed and running EDMC or EDD.
So whoever is planning to join one, keep this in mind, for example, for Distant Stars 3303, I have read to many comments that "DSS is not needed since you don't return anyway". Now you know there are other reasons why you want it.
Give a big shoutout to our community developers
What does that mean ?
=> It means that you can help the whole community in their search for materials !
How ?
=> By equipping a DSS and scanning undiscovered landables
Whats the benefit ?
=> Lets say someone is in dire need of Arsenic, eg for FSD grade 5 upgrades, what is the best planet to search for ?
Hopefully he knows he should go to EDDB and query it: https://eddb.io/body?m=6&p=0&t=0&d=0
Ok cool, so now he knows Pleiades Sector IH-V c2-7 6 h has the highest score of 2.9% and goes there, end of story ?
Not really, because how does the data get there ?
=> Before 1.7 / 2.2 this data got either imported via DWE 3302 but foremost manual entries by scientific hardcore people
=> Now by just running EDMC (Market Connector) or EDD (Discovery) in the background, all these pages on EDDB get automatically created just by scanning an undiscovered landable with your DSS
=> The "undiscovered" is the only caveat, so far Frontier doesn't send info for already discovered ones, but that might come later !
It means all exploration trips benefit a lot from you having a DSS installed and running EDMC or EDD.
So whoever is planning to join one, keep this in mind, for example, for Distant Stars 3303, I have read to many comments that "DSS is not needed since you don't return anyway". Now you know there are other reasons why you want it.
Give a big shoutout to our community developers
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