60,000 light years, 500 Neutron Stars, 70 Black holes, 1 Supermassive and 22mil Profit!
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This is an old thread and I think the OP completed his trip before exploring profits were doubled.
Not really. The Asp still has a bigger jump range (Anaconda the biggest). Apart from that, the Asp is able to carry a C6 fuel scoop. Costs a whooping 26 million, but is worth every penny.
DBX is a great ship btw and a good cheap alternative, but certainly not the best explorer ship.
....the dbx is fit for purpose, I make no claims for 'best'. If its exploring you wish then the dbx with a 32ly jump distance is just fine for a trip to Sag A. The C6 fuel scoop won't get you to elite explorer the slightest bit quicker. To get there I believe one has to detail scan systems and have a bit of fun along the way. 26 mil buys you a very fine shiny new Vulture btw.
It is a real shame that it pays so poorly.
For the amount of time spent "having fun" exploring you would have made 10 times more in trading.
I did have a bash at exploring but I found the detailed scanning to be tedious, repetitive and without any positive experiences and the amount of money returned through data sales is risible.
So I sold the Asp and went back to pure trading and combat ships.
Full marks to you for your perseverance, exploring drove me nuts.
+1 rep sir.
For the amount of time spent "having fun" exploring you would have made 10 times more in trading.
I did have a bash at exploring but I found the detailed scanning to be tedious, repetitive and without any positive experiences and the amount of money returned through data sales is risible.
So I sold the Asp and went back to pure trading and combat ships.
Full marks to you for your perseverance, exploring drove me nuts.
+1 rep sir.Ah, that explains it! I'm a little over halfway to Sag A* and it made me think about how much I would make a the end of my trip, so it was making me do a lot of rough calculations, I need 51million for an A7 shield for my Clipper when I get back and then I'm going exploring in my combat Clipper for fun. I think with a nice paintjob it would make for some lovely screenshots and maybe I'll be out in the black with it when Thargoids are introduced!
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Well it said "Discovered 5 New Astronomical Objects", then went right to the station to sell them. Does it matter that I was in Solo? Yet still does not show up on the Galaxy map as discovered yet.
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Did you surface scan the bodies? You have to do that to get first discovered status, you can't get it for just using the discovery scanner.
Yup, what Allitnil said. The discover scanner just shows you what's in that system. To see if something has been scanned before, open up the system map and click on a body. If it's been discovered before, it'll show the name of the person who's discovered it. If not, then select it as a target and your ship will scan it with its scanner. Sell the data and then you'll be the discoverer of that particular body. For serious exploring you'll need an Advanced Discovery Scanner and a Detailed Surface Scanner.
Yeah just had the basic discovery scanner... Actually have enough credits for the advanced system scanner, just need 200k more for the surface scanner. Thanks for the heads up.
When it says "Discovered 5 New Astronomical Objects" it means you have discovered them for yourself for the first time, not that no one has discovered them for themselves for the first time before you got there. Just like when you target something and it says "Unexplored", it means that you haven't explored it yet, not that no one else hasn't explored it before you.
You can go to parts of inhabited space that you've never visited before and still get similar messages. Obviously other people will have discovered those places before you, otherwise they wouldn't be inhabited!
Thank you all for the help in getting me on the right path. There have been tons of systems already explored. What I am wondering though, I did find a new un-scanned planets. Is there a way to see the value of my discovered pages without having to visit a Starport? I am a little far out to go back just to dock and see. Just to see the amount of credits I have earned.
It's a great question. The answer is, as far as I know, "No." However, there is the following well-known graphic that will help you choose what to scan as you go along. (Credits to those printed on the graphic, with some extra info added by me.)
This is reduced in size. Click on the graphic for full-size/clarity.
It's not what you're looking for, and the absolute reward values may be out of date (but probably not the relative values), but it's something ever explorer should have. If you have two monitors, keep it on your second monitor as a reference.
Thanks for the picture, only thing is I have forgot everything I have scanned so far. Just wanted to know my time is worth to what I have put into it. It's sad they don't have a way of adding up your credits of discovered items without docking first.
If they did, it would only be an estimate. Did you know that, just because you scan a system first, you may not get the extra cash for it or your name on the star charts? If someone else came along after you and scanned it, but they return to inhabited space, docked and sold their data before you did, they would get the cash bonus and they would get their name on the charts. Once something new is discovered, it's a race to sell the data. Potentially that could affect hundreds of your scans, and that's a big difference in the total cash you'd get.
Yeah, I know the risk I take by not traveling back to the station and handing in my data on time. I just don't want to keep hopping back and forth everytime. I am more curious to see what my total credits are for just system scanned objects, as that pay won't change based on someone handing in the data before me. I plan on taking a journey across the galaxy and back. Yes that will take weeks, upon weeks (hope some have never done it, but I know some have). Yes I could make more money by trading, and doing the bulletin board, but I like to explore.
OP..
Did you surface scan every single object, to get a profit like that? Also were you the first person to discover every one?
Also will a full system scan show a black hole, or do you actually have to look for it? As it won't be detected.
Did you surface scan every single object, to get a profit like that? Also were you the first person to discover every one?
Also will a full system scan show a black hole, or do you actually have to look for it? As it won't be detected.
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If humanity were exploring the galaxy why would people pay for surveys of barren lumps of ice? They'd be interested in planets which were resource rich and/or potentially capable of sustaining life. Explorers focus on points of potential interest, Scott and Amundsen didn't pause to look at every crevasse, ridgeline or snowflake on the way to the pole.