System map: Unexplored systems should not show stations until discovered

[Commander Regel]

When jumping to a system that is unexplored, you often just see the star(s) until performing a discovery scan. But I've been to a few systems where the star(s) show along with stations in the system, even though the planets the stations are orbiting are not yet discovered. It seems odd that the station would be known, but not the planet around which it orbits.

My suggestion is that stations should not be visible on the system map in these systems until they have been discovered.

This would also make things like hidden pirate bases more realistic since you'd have to actually find them.

 

[Seedling]

There are actually systems where unsanctioned outposts are hidden from the system map and only seen in the locations list. I found at least one of them, with bloodred pirate holograms, in almost complete darkness otherwise and orbitting a lagrange point (rather then a star, planet or barycenter.) I think these were involved with some bugs with ships docking and logging off at them, as they jumped systems occasionally, leaving the player stuck in a non-existing docking bay. (One made it on GalNet news. )