Balvald
[Feature] Add tracking of FSS, FD, and DSS scan data totals
First let me say thank you for this wonderful tool. It is well done and I appreciate the hard work you have put into it.
Years ago there was a web site that when you linked your account it would track the systems and planets you scanned and show you a rough total of the value when sold. That site is no longer online and I miss that one function when out exploring.
It would be nice if your plugin could provide that kind of data along with the exobiology data it currently shows. It could even enhance the unsold value as first foot fall would indicate the bonus to apply to the value. Though I will admit Im assuming you are not currently including the first bonus on the totals. Im deep in the black and have not taken the data back to a station yet to see. lol
Again, thank you for the tool and keep up the great work!
So I've read out of this:
"AST Codex" window but show and track planetary exploration in there in some way. I see the appeal. that'd encompass FSS and DSS. What is meant by FD in the title?.
Additionally exploration value tracking (I'd like that to be a seperate value thats tracked as the main focus of this plugin is Exobiology.) Have to check how that value even comes about first. In case of DSS also the efficiency bonus. (that is if its traceable through the journal in any way.) For FSS and DSS the first discovery bonus is something I'd not like to track. (not sure if it could happen but, lets say we find a new system and want to know if we're the first: I might be wrong but the journal won't tell me that that is the case -> Gotta ask some online source if it knows of it -> it will know of it via the base edmc plugins that update them)
Also a reminder here for myself to check anything I add to the UI for needed hiding options.
Considering first foot fall for scanning exobiology. It's right that right now its completely ignoring any bonus you get from being the first to sell the data.
That either needs saving the first foot falls encountered somewhere and loading them again since first foot fall events only ever get generated once. Now with the case: Landing on Planet -> First Foot Fall -> Full ExoScan -> Close EDMC and game -> Open Game and EDMC -> Second Full ExoScan. It can make sense to keep those and apply the bonus if the planet is a first foot fall when far away from any other players or if that happened not too long ago for example.
Or ignoring that case all together and only applying the bonus to scans when done in the same session when the first foot fall has happened which would make more sense for the edges of the bubble.
So far why I opted for not considering it at all because of the lack of certainty with it until after selling and at that point the game does tell you anyway.
General scanned idea with not tracking any bonus is; With these I think its better to underestimate and be wrong than to overestimate and be wrong.
We'll see maybe I get side tracked on the way and add options for all 3...
FD is old, so when you fly up close to a planet you will see it "scanning" in the left panel. My understanding is that it is the FD scan. Truth is, if you FSS and DSS the planet you get the FD because you had to fly up to it to scan it. lol
I would be fine without counting first discovery and only tracking system/planet scans at base price. Truth is, when I used the website it only counted as base scan and it was always nice to see the sale price be higher. lol
A lot of the reason I want something like that again is I can be out in the black for a while. Im 7,000 ly outside the bubble right now. I can be out for weeks and months on end and seeing a number as to how much is in my ships memory helps me plan when to return. I flew from the bubble to beagle point in a cobra Mk3 (before exobiology) and the site was showing me that I had billions of credits in scans. I decided to hitch a ride on a fleet carrier back to the bubble to make sure it was safe and I could sell it. lol Even now, with my rough back of the napkin math I have close to a half a billion in my ship from planets/systems and exobiology scans. Thanks to your wonderful plugin I can see I have 75,987,800 credits in just the last 24 hours in exobiology scans. (since I added it) I know all of those are first foot fall so you can multiply that by 4 (I think that is the right multiplyer).
Your plugin can also be very motivating. :D Sometimes If I was having an issue finding the 2nd or 3rd sample I would just leave and move on. This last planet I was on I scanned a Stratum Tectonicas but could not find 2 others outside of range. I glance over and see the value. WOW, I flew all over that planet finding the last 2 samples. lol
Not gonna be in the next minor release.
I'll also best create subissues for everything I need to track.
I'm not considering FD Singals to be in scope as of now.
FD tracking for the fss/dss side of the journalcrawling will come sometime later and get its own issue once this is closed.