How to Boxel Survey with EDJP

How to Boxel Survey with EDJP

  1. Pick a system (from the galmap, from a list, etc)
  2. Launch EDJP and “Start Processing” (Image 1) (you can also set it to auto start on launch)
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  1. “Boxel Survey”, not “Boxel Explorer” (Image 2)
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  1. Several options to input your system into EDJP, pick one, depending on how you’ve picked your system. Select one and click “Go” (Image 3)
    • a) “Current System”
    • b) “Last Selected System”
    • c) “Last Plotted System” (Don’t worry too much about “Use Next Boxel”)
    • If you ever need to change any settings on a survey after starting, you can “Open Existing Survey”. Note that if you change your current, selected, or plotted system with this window open, you need to “Refresh.” Note, (as in this example, with Beagle Point), you can do a Boxel Survey off a custom named system. Every system has a ProcGen name, (Yes, even Sol), that can be determined based on the information in your journals.
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  1. Survey Details (Image 4)
    • a) Your “Boxel”. This is based off the system name you provided.
    • b) “Start System”. You’ll want “Beginning of boxel” if you are starting a new boxel. If you know you left off a Boxel Survey incomplete or are sharing with a friend, you can “Jump to” a system other than the first one.
    • c) “Options.” “Ignore Systems Visited” if you are sure you have personally scanned whatever is needed with your boxel on every system you’ve visited nearby. Uncheck if you aren’t sure if you FSSed or Honked or whatever, This setting also helps if you end up visiting other systems in the boxel out of order while jumping to your target system, if you have a low jump range, or if you are surveying a large boxel, as sequential systems won’t necessarily be nearby. “Ignore Systems in EDSM” will skip systems other CMDRs have surveyed and sent. Useful if you are completing a boxel survey alongside someone else, or a lot of the area was previously discovered.
    • NOTE: in EDSM doesn’t mean its been fully scanned, or even honked. It just means someone entered that system and submitted data. If you want to be sure data is complete you need: “Attempt to skip completed systems in EDSM” will only skip a system if EDSM has the Full System information. Note: this says “Attempt” because it will only check 10 systems at a time, due to a limitation in EDSM API. If it skips 10 in a row, it will stop checking and give you the next one, which may or may not be in EDSM. d) “Save and Start”
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  1. “Routing Mode” will display your next system. (Image 5) It automatically copies it to your clipboard. If you ever lose the system, the first button after the system name will copy it again. You can increment and decrement with the arrow buttons. You can also keybind increment and decrement, default is “Ctrl + [” for decrement and “Ctrl + ]” for increment. When you jump to the target system, EDJP will automatically increment the system and copy the next one. EDJP doesn’t know when a boxel ends. If you paste the target system in galmap, and get “No results found”, that means you’re done with the boxel, and you can pick a new system.
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