System Survey
In the 2014-06-27 update, the way system survey system was changed.
System survey reports are no longer sent to players via the Mail system.
Once a system has been surveyed, it is forever marked as Surveyed on the star map for that empire.
It is then possible to read any system's survey report whenever desired.
With this update, the system survey report also got a new window. The window displays a picture of the system and all the celestial orbits much like the one seen on a Navigator Station.
Select a celestial body to see its information. Selecting the system will give a list of wormholes and their destinations.
NOTE: There is currently no way mark a system as Surveyed without the use of a city or ordering a NPC crew on a sensor equipped ship.
How to
Pre-Sensor Survey:
- Go to or build a city in the desired system
- Build an Observatory
- Build an Airport Terminal
- Wait about half an hour
Survey a System:
- Using a Spacecraft with sensors
- Travel to the desired system
- Give the crew the "Solar System Survey Scan" order
- Wait for the crew to finish the survey
View a System Survey:
- Open the Locator window (F7)
- Go to the Star Map tab
- Click the "Explored/Scanned/Detected Space" button to refresh the map
- Right-click the desired system, then click "<system name> Survey Report..."
Indy Tools and Mods
- Hazeron Scouter
Hazeron Scouter is a planet and system scan viewer. - Galactic Dossier
Galactic Dossier is a scouter-esque program. It allows you to filter through all of Hazeron's resources to find what you need.
Quotes from patch notes
- Overhauled system survey scans, the ones that result from the mission order to survey scan a system.
- Scan result is no longer sent to you via mail.
- Survey scan still requires sensors but any amount of sensors is adequate.
- Survey scan simply flags a system as scanned by the empire who owns the ship.
- Scanned systems are accessed via the star map.
- Scanned systems in the list of map systems are marked with a special icon so they stand out.
- Right click a system on the map or in the list of map systems to view the scan results.
- Scanned system data is accessible by everyone in your empire immediately.
- Star map data must be refreshed to pick up freshly scanned solar systems.
- System scan time should be influenced by sensor range.
- System scan time is now determined by 3 factors:
- Scanner range category (system, planetary, orbital, short)
- Number of worlds
- Rank of sensor operator.
- Sensor operator periodically announces time remaining to finish survey scan.
- System scan time is now determined by 3 factors: