Again, not understanding your question......if you do 10 short jumps and scan, and I do 10 long jumps and scan we'd be accruing the same amount of data (10 scans) and our clock time would be exactly the same too. The term 'more jumps' is what I'm not understanding.....a jump is a jump, whether it's long or short.
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Huh?My Type-6 can do 19LY jump. My Vulture, is hooo-boy only 11LY jump in its combat config.From, say, Sol to Atropos, it takes like, i dunno.... 12 jumps for the Vulture? While my T-6 only need to do, say, 7 jumps.Assuming the 7 out of 12 jumps for the vulture is exactly the same 7 for my T-6.... ....then I would've visited a lot more systems with the Vulture (although it will take longer time).My question is: the vulture would then have cartography for 12 systems while the T-6 only 7..... wouldn't that better even though slower? EDIT: why the hell are my posts crunched to a wall of text? is it something to do with the browser at work, I wonder... apologies for that.
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I didnt realize the question assumed a built in START and END point. Yes, if you're going a grand total of 100 LY, and one ship takes 10 jumps to do it and another ship takes 5 to do it, you will get more data from 10 jumps than from 5 jumps. I was answering the question with no START and END points defined.
makes sense. thank you! perfectly answered my question.
right. sorry. i thought it's assumed.i dont understand how can i ask that question when it's not referenced to a specific distance?
Basically, the shorter the jump range, the more systems you'll hit, and the more scan data you'll get (plus you'll find more interesting stuff like ELWs and strange stars). BUT...it will take you massively longer to get anywhere, so it will be harder for you to get to your destination, and space madness will set in sooner. I've made my couple of runs with around a 25ly jump range, and its a bit painful after a while (I was doing pretty well on my second trip out with my Clipper, but then had a case of bad judgement and sudden distraction cost me the ship and over 1000 systems worth of data....and I'd only gone about 9kly out, although I'd gone 2kly "up" through the galactic plane, bounced around a hell of a lot, and even had done some backtracking when I found interesting looking systems).
My last trip return coincided with the data loss that Frontier experienced on their exploration data, so I was never really sure if I'd got the right amount or not. It is a little frustrating not to see your rank jump up immediately after selling, but as others have eluded to here, logging out and back in again will solve it. You also have to do this in order to gain access to your next 'badge' for the decals.
I'm off into the black again, hoping to push past my 3rd Elite status in the next few weeks. Hope you enjoyed your Sag A trip, and make sure you get yourself posted on the Sag A visitors topic in the Exploration forum
I'm off into the black again, hoping to push past my 3rd Elite status in the next few weeks. Hope you enjoyed your Sag A trip, and make sure you get yourself posted on the Sag A visitors topic in the Exploration forum