I wouldn't mind a configurable search limit for power users. Something via the console or something to change the value. Even for my mediocre FX cpu 10k is nothing for it. Search starts almost immediately after I click start, will only be faster once I upgrade my PC to a Ryzen 8c/16t and NVMe drive later this year. I still use sata 2 500GB drives from 2008 which are only capable of 60-70mb/s max.I would imagine the search always starts in the outer layers, otherwise if you've reached the 10K limit, it won't matter whether you select a radius of 20ly or 2000ly it would always find the same results closest to the viewer.
But I hear you on the other parameters not being exact, I think I've seen some of that behaviour. But I also hear Space Engineer has already made significant changes to the search routine. Perhaps all of this is already moot.
Also, I think perhaps depending on the search criteria, the 10K limit may be after weeding out some obvious mismatches, like specifying a particular class of star or multiplicity of the system.
No, searching order is "fractal", according on architecture of the star engine. Search starts from the top octree node, then traverses down and scans all children nodes (8 pieces) which intersects with the sphere. Then each 8 children nodes of that nodes etc. If 10,000 limit reached, search stops. It's hard to say what part of space has been scanned in this case. But typically you will have not fully scanned dwarf stars, because star octree have bright (giant) stars in the top levels (probably 100% scanned), medium-luminosity stars in the intermediate levels, and dim (dwarf) stars in the lower levels (only partially scanned, if 10,000 limit were reached).
KekThat's ridiculous... the Milky Way is only about thirty million times the scale of the star browser search, so it would take my laptop fifteen years. Against a supercomputer with millions of cores?This can be easily calculated. Take your scan time, divide on number of cores and Ghz, and you'll see the scanning performance. Then multiply on supercomputer specs... I had answered this several times on this forum and on the old one. Scanning the single galaxy would take millions of years even for supercomputer.