How do I find a specific planet I've been to before (I know the name) if I don't know what system it is in?

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

I want to revisit a planet, but I have visited more systems than I can count, and I can't find the planet anywhere.

[Zigamus Wizard]

For future reference place a Base Computer, give it a name you will remember. Then you can reach that place from literally anywhere!

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Zigamus Wizard:

For future reference place a Base Computer, give it a name you will remember. Then you can reach that place from literally anywhere!

I know how base computers work. I just didn't place one yet.

[No Man's Sky Resources]

Find it in your discoveries & then:
https://youtu.be/Je3-ZUFwoas

[UNBREAKABLE]

Besides using a base computer you can also bookmark a planet as a personal wonder which will let you view the glyphs for it any time.

But yeah if it's a planet from before and can't find again then good luck. Even the discovery tab becomes useless for backtracking after a certain amount of entries.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

Even the discovery tab becomes useless for backtracking after a certain amount of entries.

Exactly, wtf?

Originally posted by No Man's Sky Resources:

Find it in your discoveries & then:
https://youtu.be/Je3-ZUFwoas

I tried that, I can't find it in discoveries

[Kelzid]

if you took a screenshot with portal coordinates (or a signal beacon with coordinates showing) you can then use a portal to get to it - if you have the numerical ones, some conversion is required. otherwise, its really difficult without some point of reference. If you think its in a system near you, take out the map. You can also go to a teleporter and go to previous systems if its recently visited. And like others said you can check wonders either one you set or maybe it had some superlative that is automatically added.

Just knowing the name isn't much since those names are effectively a one way hash from the seed. If we knew the right algorithm, you could brute force generating all planet names until you found a match. If you know some systems from about the time you visited it, provided it wasn't near a weekend mission planet, you can look around the galaxy map to see names where you visited and then start hunting. You might want to back up your save so you can come back and search multiple times.

If you have an old save backup, it might be in the discovery tab there, which you could use to get coordinates, then come back to your current save and portal there direct.

Happy hunting, its not easy to go back. Took years for them to remove portal interference so I could even come back to Euclid.

[Idaho]

Get used to taking screenshots with the portal coordinates.

Also, the nomnom save editor will show every system and planet you've been on.

[Yaimao]

It would be easier to find in discoveries if you knew the color of the star, similar thing happened to me recently where i couldn't find an ocean planet and the first purple planet i made Atlas make was an ocean planet, so after wasting some time looking for one , i had to go to discoveries and look trough all the purple planets to find it and set a waypoint to it, unfortunately i also went trough 2 black holes, so i was super far, good thing i remembered where i was when i started the mission and teleported back to get to it faster.

[UNBREAKABLE]

Originally posted by Yaimao:

It would be easier to find in discoveries if you knew the color of the star, similar thing happened to me recently where i couldn't find an ocean planet and the first purple planet i made Atlas make was an ocean planet, so after wasting some time looking for one , i had to go to discoveries and look trough all the purple planets to find it and set a waypoint to it, unfortunately i also went trough 2 black holes, so i was super far, good thing i remembered where i was when i started the mission and teleported back to get to it faster.

The problem with the Discovery tab is that the game can only store so many discoveries locally on your computer.

After a certain point old discoveries are lost and overwritten, unless you get the game to pull the information from HG servers.... which is hard to do in the first place if you didn't plop or base computer down or save the glyths.

So if you have an old save or explore a lot your older discoveries can simply not be viewed. Understandable flaw given the amount of stars and planets in the game, but it still sucks.

[wkitty42]

ummm...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423719352

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423719373

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Kelzid:

if you took a screenshot with portal coordinates (or a signal beacon with coordinates showing) you can then use a portal to get to it - if you have the numerical ones, some conversion is required. otherwise, its really difficult without some point of reference. If you think its in a system near you, take out the map. You can also go to a teleporter and go to previous systems if its recently visited. And like others said you can check wonders either one you set or maybe it had some superlative that is automatically added.

All I have is a screenshot of an animal description. It shows the name and picture of the planet, but nothing else. No system, no coordinates.

Originally posted by Idaho:

Get used to taking screenshots with the portal coordinates.

Also, the nomnom save editor will show every system and planet you've been on.

I just pressed F12, I forgot to use camera mode.

Originally posted by Yaimao:

It would be easier to find in discoveries if you knew the color of the star,

I assumed it was either a purple or yellow star, since I just took the screenshot two days ago. But there's no way to tell for sure.

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

Originally posted by Yaimao:

It would be easier to find in discoveries if you knew the color of the star, similar thing happened to me recently where i couldn't find an ocean planet and the first purple planet i made Atlas make was an ocean planet, so after wasting some time looking for one , i had to go to discoveries and look trough all the purple planets to find it and set a waypoint to it, unfortunately i also went trough 2 black holes, so i was super far, good thing i remembered where i was when i started the mission and teleported back to get to it faster.

The problem with the Discovery tab is that the game can only store so many discoveries locally on your computer.

After a certain point old discoveries are lost and overwritten, unless you visit the system again and make the game pull the information from HG servers.... which is hard to do in the first place if you didn't plop or base computer down or save the glyths.

So if you have an old save or explore a lot your older discoveries can simply not be viewed. Understandable flaw given the amount of stars and planets in the game, but it still sucks.

This is so mega annoying, and WHY IS IT SHOWING SYSTEMS I NEVER VISITED? That's the worst part. I don't know who these people are! They're not on my friend list....And yes, I've been playing this save file for 320+ hours, over the course of...I want to say at least 3 years? I don't know how to tell.

Here's my discoveries page: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423922719

Originally posted by wkitty42:

ummm...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423719352

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423719373

Are you saying the discoveries page ONLY keeps track of 39 systems?

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

I found it. It was 3/4 down the list. Past what I thought were all the non-visited systems. What the hell order are these even in? How come sometimes when I click a system it jumps to a different page?

[Despistao]

por eso cree la carta de navegación, para poder ir a sitios lejanos, que no ves en el mapa galáctico, y que solo necesitas conocer la dirección del vector.
usándola he podido ir a todos los sistemas que me aparecían como visitados, pero con ningún planeta descubierto.
y como ya explique los requisitos previos de como llegar y hacer un vídeo del proceso duraría mas de 63 horas, (algo que no voy a hacer).
la cuestión principal , este juego requiere si o si lápiz y papel, si sencillamente vas cruzando sistemas y regiones que solo ve el jugador, (esto no es elite dangerous), entonces no puedes preguntar como llego a donde no se ir.
Las probabilidades de que otro jugador vea esos sistemas son infimas, y hace mucho que el mapa de la galaxia de la pagina de NMS, ni se actualiza ni te permite buscar regiones o sistemas, tan solo decir "estoy aquí"
Por otro lado los distintos hub o civilizaciones piden una serie de requisitos para decir he descubierto, que desaniman a cualquiera que quiera compartirlos.
¿puedes ir a cualquier sistema?, si
¿me pueden ayudar a ir?, no
como funciona el panel de descubrimientos, te muestra donde estas, de tu posición hacia abajo como llegaste, pero si para hacerlo asustes portales, la distancia sera aun mayor.
pero tienes un punto de partida, las que están debajo de tu posición, son las que te permitieron llegar.

[Kelzid]

If you found it in your discoveries tab you can either create a waypoint and warp there if its not too far away. If you visited the space station teleporter there, you can then warp to it from your current base or space station teleporter now that you know the system name. If you didn't click the teleporter there and its not in range on your galaxy map, you can click the planet or animal and add it to your wonders. From the wonders catalog you can see the coordinates if you need to use a portal presuming you have already collected the glyphs needed.

The discoveries tab wasn't originally designed for navigation since the only navigation originally intended was to go to the center of the galaxy. It was merely a collection of discoveries that you could upload. It even had a list of on planet waypoints with mini screenshots (but no location data to visit them again)

[Despistao]

siempre se me olvida lago, lo que cuenta es la coordenada galáctica, la que se obtiene con el intensificado de señal, porque esa no cambia, ha habido actualizaciones que han cambiado los nombres de las regiones y los sistemas, así que también puede acontecer, que en tu panel de descubrimientos este el nombre antiguo y hasta que no vuelvas revisitar el sistema, no veas el nombre nuevo del mismo, el nombre en tu panel de descubrimientos, realmente almacena esas coordenadas, en el formato P SSS GG YY ZZZ XXX.
es la razón por la que comencé a revisitar y renombrar mis descubrimientos con el indicativo de la galaxia, el cuadrante y el sector dejando el nombre original.
descubro el sistema patagonia en cuadrante beta , en el sector D2, pues renombro si es en euclides 00-2-D2-Patagonia, asi en el panel de descubrimientos no veo una lista de nombres, si no tambien donde los vi. (a modo de ejemplo)
explicacion añadida, el máximo numero de estaciones que puedes ver en teletransporte es de 600, una nueva entrada implica un borrado (600 entre bases propias y estaciones espaciales, si creas una nueva base eliminara una estackion espacial), los sistemas por los que pasas se quedan en eso SSS GG YY ZZZ XXX.
en cuanto al panel de descubrimientos desconozco el limite.