Finding Unexplored systems/Naming Planets

[Lain]

are there any resources to finding unexplored systems? Obviously if you go out far enough you are going to find one. But I'm a pretty casual player, and mostly just hang around in "the bubble"

I've had a few missions, and surfaced scanned all the plants in the system for fun. When I got back to a station and went to universal Cartography, it told me I was the first to discover some of them....but I didn't get to name them, which I thought was a thing?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

You don't name first discovered stars or planets. Only your Commander's name is being put to the first discovered/first mapped field.

To find unexplored systems you have to go the way, not popular with other people. You can go up or down the Galaxy plane, and you will find new unexplored systems pretty close to the Bubble.

[Lain]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

You don't name first discovered stars or planets. Only your Commander's name is being put to the first discovered/first mapped field.

To find unexplored systems you have to go the way, not popular with other people. You can go up or down the Galaxy plane, and you will find new unexplored systems pretty close to the Bubble.

are they marked as unexplored in the galaxy map? I think this is where I'm getting confused. Thanks for the response.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Never Nude:

are they marked as unexplored in the galaxy map?

They will be marked unexplored until you visit them, even if they were explored before by somebody else. They are unexplored by you, so your ship's computer doesn't know anything about them.

[malorob]

if you are unsure......

then you could always do this...

after you FSS scanned them goto the system map , and look at each planet
if there is a name on it as first discovered then you will not get first bonus.
if there is no name then as long as you dont blow up before you hand in the data your name will be on it.

after lots of exploring you will know which ones are first found or not.

[Lain]

thanks for the responses! it all makes much more sense

[malorob]

if you want a quick tip goto sector hawkins gap lots of water world there many still undiscovered.

while you are over there check out hawkins gap outpost
and class A and B planets sometime have bio's

good luck exploring

[Lain]

Originally posted by malorob:

if you want a quick tip goto sector hawkins gap lots of water world there many still undiscovered.

while you are over there check out hawkins gap outpost
and class A and B planets sometime have bio's
good luck exploring

cool I'll check it out. My mom used to work with entomologists and it always fascinated me that there are still 20%+ of insects on earth that haven't been documented yet. I love that ED has the impossible task of documenting every planet that might be out there!

[Liduska77]

When you zoom in to a planet in the fss, the bottom centre of the screen will tell you who first discovered it, and who first mapped it.

If there is no name there, you are first to discover it, and your name will go there when you cash in the data at Universal Cartographics.

Most of the time, if bodies are discovered, they are not mapped; I'm out exploring now and that seems to be the case.

On a side note, EDDI (an external plugin) can give you the estimated value of each scan you do within the fss. It's nice. Didn't know that till recently.