Notice Scan data bug fixed

LOSBOT · Oct 11, 2015

fish77 said:
Is there any method or external programs to check where I've been? I don't keep any records or anything like that and spent around 4-5 hours a day exploring last week until I got the notice about stopping on Friday, I'm currently in a fairly dense area about 13k out so it's quite difficult for me to retrace my steps in the galaxy map, I found a couple of systems with the map available but everything was still unexplored, would like to check more places I've been in the last few days but it's like finding a needle in a haystack

With Captain's Log: The nice part is that if you happened to have verbose logging on (like for other 3rd party apps) then it will read those logs and create a log showing all the systems you went to.
http://scarygliders.net/captains-log/

Grondar · Oct 11, 2015

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works , but i went back to exploring tonigiht , all was well at first then i started getting " data corrupt please retry" then just got couldnt connect to transaction server and kicked out to main menu

pylon 92 · Oct 11, 2015

there is a bug with station lights and ship lights it also wiped my save, does anyone know how to get my file back and fix my problem

OamodSias · Oct 11, 2015

pylon 92 said:
there is a bug with station lights and ship lights it also wiped my save, does anyone know how to get my file back and fix my problem

Contact support by submitting a ticket.

sirpepstench · Oct 11, 2015

I also got "data corrupt please retry" and was kicked out to main menu. Now cannot log back in. The launcher says Isues Detected

James Son · Oct 11, 2015

Grondar said:
Sorry to throw a spanner in the works , but i went back to exploring tonigiht , all was well at first then i started getting " data corrupt please retry" then just got couldnt connect to transaction server and kicked out to main menu

sirpepstench said:
I also got "data corrupt please retry" and was kicked out to main menu. Now cannot log back in. The launcher says Isues Detected

Check the following thread.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=190684

sirpepstench · Oct 11, 2015

James Son said:
Check the following thread.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=190684

Thanks for the pointer James Son

Ralph Vargr · Oct 12, 2015

Elite is back up at 2300Z/1800 CDT.

Right when the UK/Euro zone goes to bed, as always.

I use EDDiscovery. The only thing I have been doing is entering distances all weekend, because of the data crash.

LOSBOT · Oct 12, 2015

J.Sawyer said:
Same problem here, in a system with a F and M stars.

Exactly the same. System I was in had 1 F and 2 M stars. Kept getting the "Data Corrupted" every time. Even after existing and returning to the system. Very odd!

Bamboy · Oct 12, 2015

Yesterday a friend and I who are both still fairly new to the game were doing some cooperative exploring in a wing. Exploration data was not always syncing between us. (And yes, we were both in the same system at the same time.) Could this be a bug from the exploration data server being switched? Or are we doing something wrong? Its quite annoying.

Fasty · Oct 12, 2015

Has anyone else experienced any "First Discoveries" being overwritten with other commanders' names? I'm wondering if this has actually happened to me or if it's my faulty memory. I'm pretty sure I discovered an entire system, but now that I've gone back after the exploration bug "fix" two of the planets have someone else's name on them, but the star and the rest are still claimed by me.

Question: Do you have to do a scan of a stellar body to "first discover" it, or do you just have to honk the horn?

Xsannz · Oct 12, 2015

Fasty said:
Has anyone else experienced any "First Discoveries" being overwritten with other commanders' names? I'm wondering if this has actually happened to me or if it's my faulty memory. I'm pretty sure I discovered an entire system, but now that I've gone back after the exploration bug "fix" two of the planets have someone else's name on them, but the star and the rest are still claimed by me.

Question: Do you have to do a scan of a stellar body to "first discover" it, or do you just have to honk the horn?

You have to do a detail scan, honking just adds data to you to sell and display in your gal map but to get a first discovered you need to detail scan

shiftyd00d · Oct 12, 2015

Question: Do you have to do a scan of a stellar body to "first discover" it, or do you just have to honk the horn? - You have to fly up to it and scan it
Edit: Nuts, thought I'd read all the posts afterwards before posting. Seems the exploration bug is mutating

Fasty · Oct 12, 2015

Xsannz said:
You have to do a detail scan, honking just adds data to you to sell and display in your gal map but to get a first discovered you need to detail scan

shiftyd00d said:
Question: Do you have to do a scan of a stellar body to "first discover" it, or do you just have to honk the horn? - You have to fly up to it and scan it

Thanks. I still think my first discoveries have been overwritten... why would someone fly up to two random planets in a system and scan them but not scan the star? I just wish there was a way to know so I can report it as a bug.

shiftyd00d · Oct 12, 2015

Fasty said:
Thanks. I still think my first discoveries have been overwritten... why would someone fly up to two random planets in a system and scan them but not scan the star? I just wish there was a way to know so I can report it as a bug.

I'd say report it, they should be able to resolve who was the first discoverer. Particularly if you had scanned and sold the data before 1.4 appeared. First discoverer I believe is given to the first person to sell the data for a system, not necessarily the first person to scan it.
If it was a system post 1.4, it might be too unreliable/corrupted.

I know that when I saw a problem, systems I had visited/scanned were showing the main star as undiscovered with other bodies discovered. As you say, nobody does that

Xsannz · Oct 12, 2015

Fasty said:
Thanks. I still think my first discoveries have been overwritten... why would someone fly up to two random planets in a system and scan them but not scan the star? I just wish there was a way to know so I can report it as a bug.

I've scanned planets and not the star before, not often but once or twice

hannibal_barca · Oct 12, 2015

Statistics page - Exploration - Systems Visited / Hyperspace Jumps etc. are not being updated correctly. Reported via Ticket systems.

hannibal_barca · Oct 12, 2015

hannibal_barca said:
Statistics page - Exploration - Systems Visited / Hyperspace Jumps etc. are not being updated correctly. Reported via Ticket systems.

This is possibly a by-product of the exploration issue. Systems Visited previously are now showing up on Galaxy Map as not visited. So when you do a scan on that system the stats are not changed.

AstroCreep · Oct 12, 2015

is the "missing planets in the navigation panel but visible in System Map & out the windows" a bug to do with the recent issues? Or a new bug totally separate?

Still dubious about carrying on exploring until I know for sure that things are totally back to normal, thanks.

NeilF · Oct 12, 2015

Zac Antonaci said:
Exploration data is by far our biggest data set and is currently sitting at around 67 million lines, so needed to be upgraded to maintain a reasonable level of performance.

Cool! 0.017% discovered, so just 99.83% to go!

And you think you've got storage woes now