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That said: afaik you can't see the system map of systems you have never visited, maybe there are some exceptions. And you won't see any non discovered planets inside the bubble (the bubble is the inhabited space around our solar system), you'll have to travel out for that to happen. After a few thousand light years, you'll see a lot of systems where you are the first one to ever visit them.
You can guess from their appearance on the map if scanning them is worth the effort: while icey or rocky planets will earn you only a couple of hundred spacebucks if you scan them and sell the data, metal-rich, earthlikes and waterworlds and some gas-giants can earn you serious amounts of money, espc, if you are the first to scan them and/or do an additional surface scan with that other scanner. I would estimate that you can make around 10 million creadits per hour by doing exploration a couple of hundred lys away from the bubble. That is pretty much in the early game and you don´t need a super expensive ship or modules to do it. Just bring a fuel-scoop and some patience.
As for the stations: if you want to have the market prices of system you never visited before avaiable to you (and your map), you need to either dock at one of the stations in that system or scan the navigation signal near the entry point. But beware of pirates if you do so!
Fly safe o7
That's not quite right. It will only instantly show all stars and other bodies that are already discovered or which are very close to you (depending on the size of the body, it's often about 100 light seconds, so the main star is always instantly shown). Yes, inside the bubble in practice that means "all bodies". To show not yet discovered stars, you need to use the discovery scanner (aka "honking"), to show other not yet discovered bodies, you need to either fly close, or scan them with the FSS.
The tag is "unexplored" iirc, it means, you haven't explored the body yet. But it will say "discovered by xyz".
I think you may be right. I rarely came across fully undiscovered starsystems yet because I lack the patience to travel more than 1000lys away from the bubble.
But thank you for the hint. My strategy to this date was "open system system-map, if empty: jump on" - maybe I should FSS anyway, espc if I am near the 1000lys-mark.
Edit:
Ah wait, "honking" means using that fast scanner and it discovers every planet and moon there is? I do this whenever I enter a system so I guess I dont need to FSS if the systemmap is empty after "honking"...
No, honking doesn't discover planets and moons, only stars. But it does tell you how many bodies there are in the system. If you jump into a system and honk and the game tells you there are 20 bodies and you open the system map but there are only 5, that means there are 15 more bodies that haven't been discovered yet, and if you scan them with the FSS and return to a station and sell your exploration data, you'll be the one who discovered those planets.
Inside the bubble, where everything has already been discovered, all honking does, is getting you exploration data for additional stars in the system. At least that's my understanding of it now that i did a trip to uncharted areas. if i remember correctly, before exploration was changed and the FSS was introduced, honking actually filled your system map with the bodies in the system, but you had to fly to them to actually discover them (to do the same as FSS does nowadays).
Also: you will only get exploration data for planets if you either fly close to them or use the FSS on them. Fully mapping them with the detailed surface scanner will give you additional money.
Edit: Btw, i also learned that 10k light years is not all that far. If you have a ship with 60 light years jump range and just ignore everything that has to do with discovery to make as much distance as possible, you can travel about 4k light years in half an hour if you are in an area with lots of neutron stars and make use of them (e.g. by using the neutron router website).
This conversation makes me wanna hop into my exploration ship and make it past the 1k-barrier at last. Thank you for clarifying!
I jump to a star system where I have never been
1) If I am the first to get there, I'll get a basic system map on arrival but with no detail unless I do an FSS
2) If I am first to arrive but am careless and don't take time to check out all the signal sources, the sources that were not checked will remain undiscovered until someone does take the time to check them with an FSS
3) If others have been there before me and done a complete FSS then I will have a complete system map to look at but without detail on the planets until I do my own FSS
4) Discovery of the system and anything found with a FSS is registered immediately, or does it have to be given to the cartographers to be officially discovered? This would mean the first one back to a station with the data would be the discovered, not necessarily the first one who visited the system?
5) I started out in the Dromi system. I know that there are other systems where people can start the game, but are all of them in "the bubble" AKA the safe zone of the Pilot's Federation? If this is true then all players are starting from roughly the same area of the galaxy, and work their way outward from there?
If you enter a system for the first time, you will be notified that you discovered the main star. This does not mean that you are the first that has discovered that star, it just means that YOU discovered this star.
You honk and you will be notified about the number of celestial bodies in the system. Open the system map and check if that number matches the number of suns, planets and moons you see on the map. Inside the bubble it probably will.
Open the FSS and scan everything worth scanning. If you find an earthlike or a waterworld, you might also consider to orbit that particular planet and do an additional surface scan with the surface-scanner. You do not have to be the first to scan an object to sell the data, think of it as selling a confirmation of a discovery,
Sell your data from time to time. If your ship gets destroyed, all your unsold data will be gone.
Should you ever come across a system that no-one has ever visited before: FSS everything and surface-scan as much as you can - you get massive credit boni for "first discovered" and "first explored" and even more boni for complete systems plus a vanity-tag with your name will be put on those suns, planets and moons.