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I ask because there's a combination of ED Market Connector and EDSM options that can cause data to at least be delayed going over EDDN, if it ever goes make it over EDDN at all. This causes a real impact on the data that third-party tools see. I know Spansh performs a monthly import of systems/bodies fromthe EDSM dumps that never made it over EDDN, but that cadence does mean data can be 'missing' for up to a month.

Keep in mind that EDSM has been culling old/stale/unclaimed data for a while now. I believe it deletes any data that is only associated with an account that hasn't been used in at least 2 years. This appears to even affect permit-locked named systems. So, you can't rely on the data even being in EDSM. Spansh really is the only source of 'all the data' we have now (EDDB long since stopped recording new bodies).

So, with all that said, does anyone actually have examples of someone else definitely stealing a first discovery from under them because the 'original' discoverer sent the data over EDDN ?

If it was a single isolated incident then I'm inclined to believe it would have been coincidence. Even a handful of them could have been if two explorers just so happened to be in the same volume of space at some point before one of them docked and sold data.

I can also see that, perhaps, some alleged cases of this were actually associated with the discovery being shared in some other manner, e.g. streaming or sharing on other social media.

Has this whole scenario actually only ever been a 'bogey man' of players' invention and not actually a valid worry?

Could we, possibly, just move forward and remove this delayed sending in both EDMC and EDSM so as to benefit the ED community as a whole ?