"YOUR TOTAL DISCOVERIES"

Imo

Imo
Hey all,

In the CODEX it tells me under YOUR TOTAL DISCOVERIES 17. How can I quick find an overview over my discoveries? When I browse through the ASTRONOMICAL BODIES, THE BIOLOGICAL AND GELOGOGICAL and XENOLOGICAL I find results found by anyone but not by myself. ^^.

Tnx for help, Imo
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Let me clarify: those 17 discoveries refer to the 17 different things you found in that region of space. You can see them by selecting the relevant categories. At the bottom of each type you have three numbers, refering to 'rumoured', 'reported' and 'confirmed' types. If you have a discovery, it means it is 'confirmed', which is the third number. So if any type has at least a 'one' at the bottom right of it, you found one of them. Select that object and you'll see when and where you first discovered that type in that region.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IswpJ05-7vI

At 2:24 you can see that there is 1 Type A star (top left picture) reported (middle number) and zero confirmed (right number). So that player had not yet discovered (i.e. confirmed) a Type A star in that region, but someone else has (i.e. reported it). You can see he has actually discovered zero stars of any type in that region. That is because he is looking at a region he hasnt been to in the codex. :D
 
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CMDR Carbo

CMDR Carbo
Krash said:
Its not there. If I understand the codex correctly (and I may still be befuddled), but your name only appears if you are the first to discover a feature in that sector.
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I see a lot of explorers go out there to get their name into the codex. I wonder what happens once one of everything has been noted in the Codex for every sector?
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
CMDR Carbo said:
I see a lot of explorers go out there to get their name into the codex. I wonder what happens once one of everything has been noted in the Codex for every sector?
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That part of the codex lists TWO different things:

1) The first person who found that type in that sector (plus when and where). This is the same for all of us; my codex reads the same stuff here as yours.
2) The first time you yourself found that type in that sector (plus when and where, and additional related personal records). This is a 'personal codex', mine shows stuff yours doesnt and the other way around.

So if everything is discovered, you can still try to find them yourself and add them to your 'personal' codex. Also, FD already said they will use this system by constantly adding new stuff, and if they deem it useful add it as a 'rumoured' thing.
 
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Commander William Diffin

Commander William Diffin
So I've been out exploring for two years with one data cash-in last year in Colonia, and have only just checked the Codex. My discoveries everywhere zero. Apart from the sector I've only just entered. My discoveries 27 there. Woo. What does that mean and I already don't care.

There's no point to this Codex. Why Frontier couldn't have developed more than two sorts of interesting things to find on the identical moons, or any of the other exciting things they are supposed to be developing. Instead of this useless garbage.
 

rhiz

rhiz
Similarly, I’ve always thought it absurd that there’s no way to view a simple list of our “first discovered” systems in the game. Thankfully we have unlimited bookmarks to fulfill that function.
 

Cpt Shadow Wolfe

Cpt Shadow Wolfe
I was hoping for a feature that would track all your first discoveries, which would have been more useful, for explorers. I have to log each first discovery into a spreadsheet as they become mine, which is after I make the trip, sell the data, then go back to every system that I noted a potential first discovery to verify that I got the tag. Then place that information into the spreadsheet. Its a time consuming affair, but its what I do to keep track. But somewhere along the way, my spreadsheet became corrupted a few years ago and all the data to that point was lost. I had to rebuild all those discoveries, (I had accumulated 35835 first discoveries at that point), by going through old jump logs, and some discoveries were prior to "Visited Sectors" tab being added to the Gal Map. Anyway, I managed to find all but about 172 first discoveries and rebuilt the spreadsheet, which currently has 88000 now, but am still inputting my last trip so have another 500 or so systems to check and verify, which should bring my total up another 7000 or so.

But in case my spreadsheet crashes again, I take a screen shot of every planet with my tag and save that on a jump disk drive. I sure wish FDEV would offer to provide a list of every first discovery with your tag on it. I would even pay a fee for it.
 

Commander William Diffin

Commander William Diffin
Cpt Shadow Wolfe said:
I was hoping for a feature that would track all your first discoveries, which would have been more useful, for explorers. I have to log each first discovery into a spreadsheet as they become mine, which is after I make the trip, sell the data, then go back to every system that I noted a potential first discovery to verify that I got the tag. Then place that information into the spreadsheet. Its a time consuming affair, but its what I do to keep track. But somewhere along the way, my spreadsheet became corrupted a few years ago and all the data to that point was lost. I had to rebuild all those discoveries, (I had accumulated 35835 first discoveries at that point), by going through old jump logs, and some discoveries were prior to "Visited Sectors" tab being added to the Gal Map. Anyway, I managed to find all but about 172 first discoveries and rebuilt the spreadsheet, which currently has 88000 now, but am still inputting my last trip so have another 500 or so systems to check and verify, which should bring my total up another 7000 or so.

But in case my spreadsheet crashes again, I take a screen shot of every planet with my tag and save that on a jump disk drive. I sure wish FDEV would offer to provide a list of every first discovery with your tag on it. I would even pay a fee for it.
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Wow that's dedication. I only bookmark my ELW discoveries and collate them on an MSWord document.

Obviously each individual player's discovery data is there. It wouldn't be a complicated algorithm that extracts it from the database, but it would take some time. It couldn't be accessed instantly from the Codex, but there could be an option to collate and download it. Maybe a 3rd party like EDSM could sort it out.

Max Factor said:
I've found it reasonable useful at times. It's exactly what I thought it would be.
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Useful for what?! And how could you have known exactly what it would be beforehand?! FD said the Codex would track explorers' individual discoveries, which it doesn't do at all! It's completely useless! You troll! :ROFLMAO:
 

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
Commander Diffin said:
Wow that's dedication. I only bookmark my ELW discoveries and collate them on an MSWord document.

Obviously each individual player's discovery data is there. It wouldn't be a complicated algorithm that extracts it from the database, but it would take some time. It couldn't be accessed instantly from the Codex, but there could be an option to collate and download it. Maybe a 3rd party like EDSM could sort it out.


Useful for what?! And how could you have known exactly what it would be beforehand?! FD said the Codex would track explorers' individual discoveries, which it doesn't do at all! It's completely useless! You troll! :ROFLMAO:
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If I want to find a certain POI in the region I am in, I will look up what has been discovered there and if it's there I may travel to it, which I am currently doing.

Also that is not what FDev said it would be.
 

Maro-Val

Maro-Val
Your total discoveries.... the no 1 feature that the codex should have and was said that it would have it, but never happened. And a cmdr gets his name in the codex, only if he finds a new type... this codex must be the best design ever...
Strange thing is that when they said that eventually the codex wont show our total discoveries, many people where ok with that. So there you go.
 

Commander William Diffin

Commander William Diffin
Factabulous said:
Nope. As is common around here you heard what you wanted to hear, not what was said.
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No, I heard loud and clear that the Codex would be a great new way for explorers to track their individual discoveries. I seem to remember the word 'retrospectively' as well.

So now you show me where exactly 'what was said' was that the Codex would not track players' discoveries at all, only who was the first to visit any of one of the 50-odd types of star in one of the 42 sectors, i.e. it would just be useless garbage instead.
Max Factor said:
If I want to find a certain POI in the region I am in, I will look up what has been discovered there and if it's there I may travel to it, which I am currently doing.
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So it's useful for looking at something someone else has discovered first. Like a farting hole in the ground. Well woo. As if that makes it a useful tool for explorers who wanted to keep track of their thousands of discoveries.
 
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