quick question about undiscovered systems with discovered planets

disorganise

disorganise
Whiterose said:
I know what you mean. Like a galactic chain letter. We need to pick a system with as many objects as possible and see how may Commander names we can get.
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Maybe it's time to revive
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ty-Tagging?highlight=community+tagging&page=1

That thread got locked. I might rekindle it in a few weeks once RL stuff is dealt with and I hopefully have more time. Feel free for anyone else to do it. I had planned to do a Google sheets but didn't...yet
 

CMDR ANCALAGON

C
I only scan the main system star if it:

1. Is a neutron, white dwarf, black hole, or other non-sequence star
2. Is extreemly large, orbiting close to another star, or otherwise noteworthy
3. Is in an exceptional system

I frequently will leave a system having only scanned a small moon or two, because they looked interesting to land on.

I will always scan the big three, ELW, TWW, and AW.

I rarely scan everything in a system.

These days I tend to look for landable bodies orbiting close to other bodies or very close to rings, and geysers.
 

Seizewell Warrior

Seizewell Warrior
I'm fairly certain once you "honk" the system and go the local map, it will show the name of any previous Cmdrs who did a detailed scan of the bodies. Must admit I started off very methodical, scanning stars and working outward to at least 500 LS from the sun, see if anything interesting lurked in the Goldilocks zone. More often than not though, only icy or rocky bodies and the occasional water world. As the journey dragged on I performed fewer and fewer detailed scans to the point I was only doing the stars at the fuel stops. My "honker" went the way of the dodo about 250LY on the way back from SagA, courtesy of a botched neutron scoop. So no system data other than passively visible to the short range pickup and half the time I can't even be bothered to detail scan the star while fuelling.

So the answer as to why there are these anomalies in stellar body claims, is that after several weeks in The Black it can do strange things to your determination. Some days you are really keen, others less so and if, like me, driving a semi-mangled ship you just want to get back ASAP to minimise losing the lot.
 
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gooddoc

gooddoc
I always scan the main star, then look at the system data while scooping.

I then go off & scan what's in a system except for Asteroids & Ice/Rock worlds. That's my exploration method.

To give a probable answer to the OP, I refer back upteen updates.

It was a doddle looking at the system map a couple of years ago, you could pick out the Ice & Rock worlds from the HMC worlds from the map....now you can't. It's not possible now to be sure if you're looking at a HMC or an Ice planet, 'cos they look similar.
Even looking at the 3d image on the control panel, it gives the image of what should be a HMC but it's a Rock or Ice planet, sometimes you're 2nd guessing. It happens to me a lot when in the black, but it's only mildly irritating!

Identifying HMC's from the rest hasn't got easier.

As for not scanning the main star....maybe the cmdr just forgot. Or as others have said, maybe the cmdr did it for the lols.
 

danidanfm

danidanfm
humans are awesome! ^^
i find all of your answers interesting and enjoy seeing so many commanders had the same positive train of thought. i have little faith in humanity as a whole, but seeing so many people that will probably never meet understand each other, just because a little "note" with their name on it was left ... makes me remember that imanity also has potential to be great! ^^
and to all you reavers in the verse .... give me a few more months in the black, then i ill see if i join you.
to "disorganise" and "col frost": i dont think i will be joining to actively go sign my name somewhere, but if i find a fresh 50+ system without asteroids, i will try to remember and post it there for others. (im on xbox though, if that makes a difference)
 

Odengard

Odengard
Sometimes I scan pointless, out-of-the-way low value worlds just to make people wonder why :)

Answer: space madness.
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I (sometime) do exactly the same.

"Normally", i scan :
- The main star if it's alone (poor little Y-star, alone in the dark) or if it's a Black Hole/Neutron star/White Dwarf/Carbon Star/Wolf Rayet or a giant star.
- Always scan ELW, WW and AW, Water Giant and Helium Rich gas giant. But i'm becoming lazy and in some rare case i shamefully not scan a WW à 582 974 ls...
- If the system have an ELW, i scan all body in the system
 

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
First, keep in mind that there is no such thing as a "discovered" system. There is no tag on the system, only the bodies in the system, including the main star.
I often fly though systems without scanning anything, which leaves my name on the system in EDSM, but not on anything in the game.

Usually I will only scan interesting or valuable bodies and if I do scan anything I'll almost always scan the main star.
If I was running low on materials for synthesis, I might scan only landables looking for particular mats.
After scanning so many systems over the years I've been playing, I don't feel the need to completely scan everything anymore.
 

CMDR Alcoholic Captain

C
Heres what you do when you want to know if theres anything for you to be the FIRST to discover in any new system you jump to.

First thing when you jump in is to hold down the discovery scanner and let it gather the system information.
It will pop up and tell you how many orbital paths it found for that system. The number it gives includes stars, asteroid belts and planets and moons in the system ie. If it just says '1 orbital path found', then it's JUST that single star in the system and theres nothing else to discover.
Any number bigger than 1, go to the next step.

Open the system map. If you see any planets next to the star, then someone has been there before you. The number of stars, asteroid belts, planets and moons should add up to the number of orbital paths that it found in the discovery scanner.

IF you run the discovery scanner and it pops up '20 orbital paths found', but when you go into the SYSTEM sceen, it shows ONLY the stars without any planets or anything, it means there are planets that NO ONE ELSE has found yet. If it only has a single star in the system screen, there will be 19 as yet undiscovered planets or whatever. You need to find them.

You find them by opening the FSS (Full Spectrum Scanner).
Slow down to min speed in supercruise. Open FSS. Scan around and look for when it shows stronger signals... err, at this point...look up a FSS guide.

As well - There are TWO discoveries to be made with each planet. You have the discovery part which anyone doing the FSS discovery will get, but if you actually go out and do a detailed surface scan of teh body, tahts a discovery in itself. The system screen shows who first discovered it, and who first mapped it.

ALSO - EVEN IF there ARE planets next to the star, it doesnt mean ALL the planets have been discovered. If it says it found 10 orbital bodies, but the system screen shows onlt the star and one planet, it means the first to be there didnt bother finding everything. You can...


BUT REMEMBER! - Nothing's official until you SELL all that collected universal cartography data, which can be done at most ports. You will likely be upset being blown up 2 minutes before docking... Everything will be lost in the flames.
 
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varonica

varonica
Joining the walking dead.

OP; Why has my thread died, I must have revenge!

Elf: You have my quill
Dwarf: and you have my chisel
Necromancer: And you have your thread..........
Elf and Dwarf.........?
 
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