System scan complete... wait, what?!

[M0rty]

Am sure this is a stupid question - how do you 'honk', exactly ? Is there a car horn sound in the game when I 'honk' ? Am playing via Xbox, someone please explain 'honking' as if you were speaking to an eager but slow nine year old..

Yeah but it's a level 11 module and there's only three kinds: Standard, Loud and "Dixie"

 

[metatheurgist]

It's not that hard to explain. If you look at the galmap the number and type of star for each system is actually already known. This suggests all stars in the galaxy have already been observed (mind-boggling!). If they've been observed then UC already knows which systems have bodies by gravitational disturbance.

 

[BinakAlgo]

It's not that hard to explain. If you look at the galmap the number and type of star for each system is actually already known. This suggests all stars in the galaxy have already been observed (mind-boggling!). If they've been observed then UC already knows which systems have bodies by gravitational disturbance.

Considering that right now we are able to approximate the number of planets and their mass in far away stars and supposing that in 1,300 years observations become even more sophisticated, automated and for several dozens of planets and hundreds of stations, it makes sense.

All systems have a scientific name already after all, am I wrong?

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

This just bugs me. And I want FD to "fix" it as it's a fairly innocuous and simple change I'd have thought.

Can you not mute it in the audio settings, I have not looked myself.

 

[Juniper]

Can you not mute it in the audio settings, I have not looked myself.

I could do that, but 1) Why would I want to stop Norman Lovett (Holly) from speaking and 2) It's a useful announcement when inside the FSS. Or indeed after the honk.

 

[Juniper]

The absence of evidence is the evidence of absence. Just because you don't know something doesn't mean that you don't know. it just means that you know that you don't know.

No - that's wrong. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Example: we have had no official contact or discovery of life on places other than the Earth. Does that mean life elsewhere doesn't exist? No. It means we haven't heard from them or discovered them yet.

It's the same thing here. Fermi's paradox, but for system bodies in Elite

Why not just honk the system regardless if it has one sun and no moons or 10 suns and 100 moons? Maybe i'm missing the point of the thread. I honk a system even if it says "scan complete"

Why?

Every time I hear that message after jumping into a system, I take my trigger finger off the DS button and sigh inwardly.

I accept the fact that out of the 400+ billion stars in the galaxy, a few might...just might....have no moons or planets. statisticall it's actually a bigger set of odds than finding a benevolent, hyperintelligent machine race

Actually, it's pretty common for stars not to have planets or moons. Both in-game, and in reality. It depends on so many factors.