Surface scanning - what am I doing wrong?

Sireei Lieesi

Sireei Lieesi
Hi

I'm out exploring, and I scan landable planets and moons in search of surface signals.

Once I'm at 100% of a surface scan, I exit the surface scanner and in the menu at the top right of the screen, I can see if I've located/found any surface signals.

If the signals are geological, they appear in my navigation menu, and I can pick a signal and find it on the planet/moon without problems.

However, if the signal is for instance Human or Guardian, nothing appears in the navigation menu. I've tried orbiting the planets, but I haven't found any markers on it.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something? How am I supposed to locate and visit these signals, if they do not appear in the navigation menu?

ADDED: I've noticed that the amount of Human signals seems to correlate with the number of conflict zones around the planet. Does this mean, that the SURFACE scan finds signals not on the surface?
 
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Brrokk

Brrokk
Yes, this is a bug isn't it?

The Electra 4 mystery: it's said to have a Guardian signal even though it's not landable.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Brrokk said:
Yes, this is a bug isn't it?

The Electra 4 mystery: it's said to have a Guardian signal even though it's not landable.
Click to expand...

Well, there's two points:

1) FSS/DSS count includes orbiting objects - some think this is a bug, but if you want to be able to find that there is something across a system with the FSS it makes sense to include orbiting POI in the count. Imagine the confusion if the FSS/DSS counts were different because the DSS didn't count orbiting POI ;)
2) Mis-classified Guardian/Thargoid/Human POI - yup, this is a bug. A bit surprised how many people can't work this out.

Really hope FDev fix (2) soon - it's not a big bug, but some people are easily confused...
 
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