Why would an explorer only scan one planet and not a star?

Half Giant

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Hi,
hopefully a quick question. I am new to exploring and only on my second multi-day trip. Probably around 1500 light years out at the moment. One of the systems I have come across is a little puzzling. The system has one star and three gas giants. Each gas giant has some objects in their orbits. The puzzling bit is that the star shows no commanders name where as just one of the gas giants (and it's satellites) show as being discovered

My limited knowledge tells me that the commander arrived at the system, fired off the scanner, ignored the star, then flew to the second gas giant in the system and scanned it, the satellites, then flew off.

I just wondered why someone might do that? Are they cherry picking what they scan to save time? That seems odd because the gas giant doesn't seem too different to the others. Maybe in an older version of the game they could see different information to make that choice. Is it just random behavior? Maybe they had spent to long out here and started making odd decisions? But it's really not that far out.

In the absence of any other information I'm going to assume there is a worm hole that swallowed them.

Thanks for any thoughts.
 

Brother Sabathius

Brother Sabathius
Probably travelling somewhere and got curious about the system, scanned an interesting looking planet and jumped on. I've done it loads on the way to Beagle. I'll scan the odd interesting planet, forget to scan the star and jump on.
 

disorganise

disorganise
I often scan only a planet just to leave a mark, but leave the star for someone else to get the thrill.
I guess after a while tagging gets less important. The best systems in my opinion are those where each body is tagged by someone different. I scan a planet in the gope that those that follow think the same (if i scanned the star then those who follow are more inclined to clean up the planets).....thats how I think anyhow for what its worth
 

Scoopy Doopy

Scoopy Doopy
I've done it loads of times, always by accident.

You get a routine. Mine is hyper space in, hit the scanner, BONG!!, select the star (which you can't do before hand), get the nav panel up and hit system map. It becomes so automatic that you don't notice sometimes that you didn't actually select the star to let it scan. It's easy to see if you haven't opened the system map though :)
 

Adeezha

Adeezha
If I see a shiny in a system I'll often head right for it and not bother to scan the main star. My magpie brain only sees the shiny.
 

newman1702

newman1702
It's impossible to say for sure. Maybe it was on purpose for whatever reason. Maybe the commander in question pulled away from the star just a moment too quickly and couldn't be bothered to restart the scan. Who knows.. I'm of the "always scan the primary" variety but I couldn't guarantee you that, after over 13k systems, there aren't any out there where I somehow managed to miss the primary surface scan.
 

Half Giant

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Thanks for the thoughts guys just wanted to know if I was missing something

The only things they scanned were a Class 1 gas giant and 4 of it's 5 icy body satellites. One of which is land-able. There is another Class 1 gas giant in the system and it also has icy body satellites, more of which are land-able.

I could understated missing the star and doing the rest of the system. But this is missing the star and doing less than half of the system. I don't see what would make that gas giant more shiny than it's siblings.

Edit - nothing other than gas giants and icy bodies in the system.
 
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Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
That's the sort of thing I would do.

It's also been the case that scans are occasionally not credited (back in the old days) so there were systems where I knew I'd scanned everything and yet only some of the objects were showing on the map as explored - heaven knows what that did to first-discovery credits.
 

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
I have entered systems, scanned the single interesting planet and then left the system...and then realising some ways away that I had forgotten to scan the star. So in my case the answer would be that I am forgetful ;)

Frawd
 

Jon474

Banned
Jon474
I go through frequent phases of scanning the penultimate planet or moon in a system...regardless of how far away it is from the main star. I then won't scan anything else in that system.

I often go and look at an interesting looking GG especially if it is white with blue clouds. Again, I often (more often than not) won't scan anything else unless the GG has moons in which case I'll usually scan those too.

The novelty of gaining a First Discovered tag soon disappeared for me. There are 400 gazillion things in the ED Galaxy...of those, realistically, how many can I "First Discover"? Does it actually matter?

Scanning selectively
Jon
T-6E
 
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Draxxen

Draxxen
Oooo, nice gas giant! Shiny! [wacky]
- gotta go scan. ..wait, was that a shift in the black to my left? did "they" find me? ohno, gotta jump out of here! [uhh]

..and so on..

On a serious note, I always scan the star where I scan a planet, to 'mark' it so to speak; it is almost like an OCD thing. But that is - obviously - just me.
 

Jeffers

Jeffers
My routine at entering a system is always to fire off the discovery scanner while lining up on the star and moving in to scoop.
So it wouldn't be me, I always scan the main star, even if I scan nothing else....
 

Sapient6

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Jackie Silver said:
That's the sort of thing I would do.

It's also been the case that scans are occasionally not credited (back in the old days) so there were systems where I knew I'd scanned everything and yet only some of the objects were showing on the map as explored - heaven knows what that did to first-discovery credits.
Click to expand...

As well as some bugged systems, mostly within a couple thousand ly of the bubble, that won't award First Discovered to anyone. Often times it's only certain bodies within a bugged system that won't accept names.
 
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Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
If I see a pretty Gas Giant with some landable moons, and I want to take screenies from the moons' surface, I'll scan the Gas Giants and moons on my way there.

With the release of Horizons I had to give up my scan one, scan all philosophy.
 
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