Tip: just put all money from commander to carrier to have zero in hand prior
Holy moly at the exobio pay increase!
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Thought had crossed my mind, but then I thought "I'm really prone to forgetting limpets" and didn't want to risk forgetting to put the money back. I could certainly see myself flying off into a sun without a rebuy. So, I settled for an even number and a bit of math.Tip: just put all money from commander to carrier to have zero in hand prior
yeah that seems to be pretty consistent, what I posted of my screenshot before and what you're saying here, and a second and third test I did after of the exobio, all of them are paying less than half the value you're supposed to receive, so that math of around 66.6% missing or so seems to be pretty consistent given its happened 3 times with the tests I've done, my friend had it happen the two times they did it and more people are pointing it out on both reddit and the forums here.
All these came from turning in seven systems. Not that I'm complaining about the credits, mind. A single system with a few good moons in it netted me over 100M! Actually makes exobiology worth doing now for the time spent on it.
(I'd already be well past Elite if I'd held on to my data when I stopped off at Colonia, but I didn't know the buff was coming. C'est la vie)
What's the rush though? In my opinion, this game, especially when exploring is beautiful, it is to be savoured like a good wine, not swigged down all at once.
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No rush actually. I spent Countless hours landing and scanning prior to this patch to make Elite. It was so time consuming and tedious that I stopped when I hit vanilla Elite. Now it just feels like a good payout and progression for the effort. Ever try to find fungoidia on some of these planets?
Don't know how many people are doing this yet, but if you go out there with an Imperial Eagle (properly outfitted with a surface scanner and preferably enhanced performance engines), you can scout plants from the air, land next to each sample, scan, and take off again faster than you could ever get around with an SRV. So nimble it's almost as if we could land ship-launched fighters, and they're so small you can set down almost anywhere. I was able to fully sample all three species on the last moon I hit in less than ten minutes.
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Similar here, I skim across the ground in a Krait Phantom until I spot what I'm looking for. An eagle is a good idea though, wish I had one on my carrier.
Yes, that's my method with a Cobra. I still like SRV aboard for hard-to-reach places though.
This is what FD have achieved with the buff; I hope they don't axe their achievement now. (The pay still isn't as good as benchmark methods like missions, but it's now good enough).
Yeah, the payout is fine but the rank thresholds need to be increased a fair bit to take this into account.
This is so true, I for one won't feel guilty getting max rank in exobiology within a week.
Payouts change, and they will most likely change again before too long.
I've built a Sidewinder for that, finally finding a use for it beyond starter ship. All you need for exobio is a seat strapped to an FSD with a big window.
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Yesterday evening I went from Geneticist to Elite V within a few hours.
Not complaining, but seems a bit unbalanced now.
Not complaining, but seems a bit unbalanced now.
But was that finding and scanning plants for a few hours? Or did you have a load of data ready to hand in?
Plain Elite was with pre-gathered data, the rest found during the evening. Best run I had was about 290 Mill. within half an hour or so.
But you still have a point here: That is only possible, I guess, with knowledge of where to find the "cool stuff" by using databases like EDSM. Out in the black it takes more time.
Still I think it's too easy now. Finding planets with life on it is easy, scanning the most readily available plants is easy. With a small sturdy ship like the Dolphin you can triple-scan within two minutes. Slam the ship on the ground, jump out, scan, jump in, rinse, repeat...
Fun fact, you're not actually being paid that amount but the rank progression still thinks it does, you're getting less than half the value it says but the rank progression is thinking you received the full amount toward rank progression so its double busted. Rank is shooting up faster but the pay isnt the exact value it says if you look at some prior posts.
So in short if it says you're receiving 100 mil, you're likely to actually receive around 40 but your rank still goes up as if you'd received 100.
Hmm, can't confirm that. I looked very thorougly on my account figures, because I didn't trust my eyes at first. But it added up in my account exactly as my eyes and the Vista accountant had told me. All in all I made well over 1 Billion.
I also haven't noticed any shortfall. I've always sold at a station. Could it be a carrier thing?
Yes, the carrier gets some, and another "some" is lost in the void.