Distant Worlds II Event The Trans-Galactic Metallicity Survey
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Forgive my ignorance but where is this "plugin" everyone is talking about?
Open up EDDiscovery and click on the Add-ons menu. Select "manage add-ons". Scroll down the list and you'll see the "TGMS Bookmarks" plugin:
Install it, and then when you hit your scroll lock key, it will log the last system you jumped to after you opened EDDiscovery to the bookmarks tab:
With this, every time you scan a system for this survey, you can quickly make a bookmark just by hitting scroll lock. Then, when you're ready to send me a list of systems, you can just copy and paste them directly from the bookmarks screen.
Install it, and then when you hit your scroll lock key, it will log the last system you jumped to after you opened EDDiscovery to the bookmarks tab:
With this, every time you scan a system for this survey, you can quickly make a bookmark just by hitting scroll lock. Then, when you're ready to send me a list of systems, you can just copy and paste them directly from the bookmarks screen.
Last time I used EDDiscovery it would often crash and I'm pretty sure it slowed down my frame rate. Since then I have been using the ED Market Connector to get info to EDSM and Inara with no problems.
I would like to get into the metallicity project and will try installing it again but if it hasn't been improved....
I would like to get into the metallicity project and will try installing it again but if it hasn't been improved....
It can be set up to use a lot of memory which could impact other processes, but it doesn't have to be (and the next release will have additional options to reduce the memory footprint further if you're tight on resources).
Often crashing shouldn't be happening - anything that does creep in is generally fixed pretty quickly if it's reported to us.
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Just to clarify, if you use EDdisco to automatically catalog your entries, you must check all F, G, K stars for any gas giants. If, for example, you need to buckeyball it you will jump into and out of systems while logging the star - but will miss any potential gas giants (implying the system does not have any but may actually have some).
Thanks. I'll be participating in this for sure. An additional layer of gameplay while jumping between waypoints is certainly welcome.
EDDiscovery isn't required for this. The key point is that you need a way to list the systems that you have scanned to the standards that the TGMS requires, and the bookmark plugin for EDDiscovery makes that convenient. You can also keep a list manually, use a spreadsheet, or use any number of applications that can read your current system from the journal file.
It's significant to note that the first set of test data, for Eol Prou, didn't use anything special for keeping track of scans. Taen simply kept a list of scanned systems, and was kind enough to send it to me as a simple list.
Nope! The EDDiscovery plugin lets you create a bookmark manually by hitting the 'scroll lock' key. So if you do scan the nearest gas giant, then you'll hit 'scroll lock' to make a bookmark. If you're buckyballing, you won't. That way the list will only contain systems that you've scanned out.
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Second post here. Signed up for DW2 on a whim after earning about 10 mil on a quick 500 ly "first taste" of exploring. One small journey in a Cargo Hauler got me a stripped down, but fully capable DBX
Only logical step after that is to join a multi-month thousands of lightyears science expeidtion as a second step, right?
Just wanted to let any console players know, incase they missed it, EDSM.net now works for console players according to @stormyuk and confirmed by me (at least for Xbox). So this should make participation in these types of projects during DW2 much easier for us.
Only logical step after that is to join a multi-month thousands of lightyears science expeidtion as a second step, right?
Just wanted to let any console players know, incase they missed it, EDSM.net now works for console players according to @stormyuk and confirmed by me (at least for Xbox). So this should make participation in these types of projects during DW2 much easier for us.
I plan to participate and send F/G/K(+GG orbital period) data as requested... and thanks for the EDDiscovey plugin explanation!
How do you want to receive the reports? As a forum private message, or some other way?
How do you want to receive the reports? As a forum private message, or some other way?
