Star search behaviour

[Setu]

I saw a post about how to find more massive starts - it made sense. It said select Galaxy Map, type the first few letters of where you are and put an E, F or G, and the galaxy map will highlight stars of that class.
It does not work for me. I can see all of the stars around me, I am at EOS CHREA SZ-X C1-617. If I put that in, then it stops suggesting options as soon as I type S. I get loads marked EOS CHREA AA-A...

As soon as I put in the full name, it finds it. Am I doing something wrong? I don't have any filters on, loads of nearby stars are visible...
If I guess at a name and type EOC CHREA SZ-X F1-12, that comes up, but when I select it, the star map moves to OOCH CHREA IM-W F1-12. Which is weird. And quite a long way away,

 

[GroG79]

Only few 'sector-name xx-x' have what we call mass number E-H
The sz-x does not have stars with the mass code you are looking for.

There is probably a list of system codes that contain certain mass numbers. For instance I know DL-Y have EFG and sometimes even H

Here you can read some early work on the subject

System name guide, yes the system name reveals the main star, mostly..

I noticed the system names have a system. How is this useful? 1. You can search for black holes and O stars or other rare stuff (kinda) 2. You can predict the main star of the next jump, by the name without opening galmap. 3. You can predict all star types shown in your nav panel, if you dont...

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Mass Codes and Star Types

Prompted by a question from @LordFerret , I went through the EDSM data again to make an analysis of mass codes and star types, in a more thorough way than I did before. The data is from the EDSM dumps, and @Orvidius 's processed data dumps on EDAstro saved me quite a lot of work to be done...

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[athulin]

It said select Galaxy Map, type the first few letters of where you are and put an E, F or G, and the galaxy map will highlight stars of that class.
It does not work for me. I can see all of the stars around me, I am at EOS CHREA SZ-X C1-617. If I put that in, then it stops suggesting options as soon as I type S.

I have noted the same behaviour -- I suspect it changed relatively recently (u18?). Earlier the search bar behaved pretty much like an incremental search: add a letter, and you got a new list of possible matches. Now you have to fill in pretty much everything past the sector name/equiv, or hope that you get a match that appears in the first 100 suggestions or so. It used to be possible to search for '<sector> AA-A H' and expect a match for any major nebula. Useful in the case the nebula didn't have a related name, such as the nebula in PUELIAE.

 

[Setu]

Only few 'sector-name xx-x' have what we call mass number E-H
The sz-x does not have stars with the mass code you are looking for.

There is probably a list of system codes that contain certain mass numbers. For instance I know DL-Y have EFG and sometimes even H

Here you can read some early work on the subject

System name guide, yes the system name reveals the main star, mostly..

I noticed the system names have a system. How is this useful? 1. You can search for black holes and O stars or other rare stuff (kinda) 2. You can predict the main star of the next jump, by the name without opening galmap. 3. You can predict all star types shown in your nav panel, if you dont...

forums.frontier.co.uk

Mass Codes and Star Types

Prompted by a question from @LordFerret , I went through the EDSM data again to make an analysis of mass codes and star types, in a more thorough way than I did before. The data is from the EDSM dumps, and @Orvidius 's processed data dumps on EDAstro saved me quite a lot of work to be done...

forums.frontier.co.uk

Thanks that is useful info - but my point was it cannot find even the star system I am currently in. Even though I could see many mass C systems, the search would not pull them up. So I had no way of knowing it would not list E-H systems because there are none, or because search does not work consistently.

 

[varonica]

Thanks that is useful info - but my point was it cannot find even the star system I am currently in. Even though I could see many mass C systems, the search would not pull them up. So I had no way of knowing it would not list E-H systems because there are none, or because search does not work consistently.

There's a bug in the search, sometimes if you have a star system selected it won't return any results, make sure no system is selected, close and re-open the galmap and try your search again without selecting anything and see how it goes.