I have been getting a lot of requests to scan planets for people to be added to the API from here in the forums, DMs and Discord and I am afraid I am going to miss someone. Other people are doing scans too, so this post is just for those wanting me to do their scan.
To try to make sure to not miss someone, and to make it a bit easier for me to get to planets, I have set up a request basket in the TNT Megahub at the west end of the Sovereign wall near my own planet’s portal that you can drop off location tokens for your planet that you want scanned.
When you make the location token for your planet, please name it SCAN - (perm planet your planet is orbiting) … for example SCAN - Boori if your planet is orbiting Boori. That will make it much faster for me to get to your planet for scanning. I don’t really need your planet’s name as the API will grab that from the file. I think the planet needs to at least be unlocked for visitors or I need permissions set for me in order to access it.
I will try to update this post with completed scans and will check the basket several times a day to try to keep planets scanned as needed.
Are you doing this primarily as a community service or is there an interesting in collecting and cataloging data?
I purchased 10 planets that I have no intentions of keeping nor playing on. It was moreso to support WS and give a roll of the dice at unlocking more colors of things. The below post has their location information if you want the data. Don’t go out of your way to pull the data for me
Correct, mainly for people that want their planet updated in the API to be able to use the forum post creator or any of the many API related things out there now.
Have been scanning as I get them, think I am caught up. Just for information, it appears the game takes a while to update the planet names in the files, so your scans maybe be listed in the OP as the original name of the planet if you have changed the name. This wont affect your ability to create your world post though.
Whoever owns planet Jiaano and wants it scanned (was a token in the basket this morning), I was unable to complete the scan because I do not have permissions for the planet.
I went through and rescanned a bunch of Sov planets today (129 of them) to hopefully catch some that have had colors changed and had not been scanned since. If you are aware of any others that need scanned due to color changes, let me know and I will try to get to them too.
Tried to get all of them with direct portals to TNT hubs, but the scanner wigs out my connection some so hard to go portal hopping… so I usually only go farther than the main TNT hubs if requested (like if someone tells me the colors have changed and requests a rescan). If nothing has changed since the last scan then there is no reason for a rescan =)
In the process of scanning worlds. Been through everything I can find on TNT and Portal Seekers including going through a handful of smaller hubs I came across.
I’m not filtering homeworlds out of this list, but there should be about 180 sovereign worlds here.
If I’m skimming the thread closely enough, the best thing to do is drop off a token location token at your basket when I’ve got a new planet, wait till the dta populates (Boundlexx stopped working for the most part for me on my Mac, I can pull up the initial post-markdown generator & get that markdown to post, but it bombs if I try to look at any planets pages. I haven’t doneeven miniml enough troubleshooting to ask for help with it yet, or I’d have posted about it separately) before posting the world post so all the stuff is there, then drop off tokens again when I make a significant change to the blocks?
Also, when are the new colors added to the possibilities? Do they have to be locked in to become real or are they real once they even appear as an option for selction?
I also have to chase down to planets I submitted because I thought maybe I’d reused a used planet code and that’s why no planet showed up, so I bought another but no planet has shown up for that either, so I’m worried the first one actually will show up and bla bla etc. I miss being on adhd medication. ;/
Alright, I’m doing scans again. This time, I’m going to list them by where I find them. I’ve also done my best to take out all of the homeworlds from all lists. This way, you can use this to get a general area to look for a world.
Remember that worlds and portals open and close all the time and there is no good way to predict when colors will change on a world - this list, and the scan data sent to Boundlexx, can get out of date very quickly.
The “Worlds by Scan Area” includes duplicates, so if I scanned it in a bunch of places, it will be listed in each place I saw it.
The “Full Scan List” does not include duplicates and is less likely to have homeworlds on it. It has 159 items.
