Just returned from a ~22k LY journey

Taurec

Taurec
Maybe it's useful for someone.
I just came back from my deep space exploration in my ASP Explorer
My return point was "Thaile HW-V e2-7" (Three Worlds Nebula) ~11k LY away from my home base.

I jumped 940 times for about 25 days playing ~2h a day (maybe a total of ~50h) and mostly scanned just the main star and did a *ping*. Sometimes i took a look at the system map and scanned nearby suns and interesting planets too but not that often.

On my way back i was more and more sick of this jumping-scanning-scooping thing and skipped the scanning part and did just the ping.

For this work i got in return ~10 Mio credits... (exploring data for ~940 systems). Exploring is no easy money but this was not my opinion. I just wanted to try how it feels travelling in deep space. Nevertheless i thought there will be more money for that bunch of scanned systems.

I think my entire route corresponds to the way to the center.
Now i know how it must feel reaching the center and have to do the same way home.
Congratulation and full respect to all the people made this way to the center (and maybe back).

This was a nice experience.

But when i take a step back and calculating with the 50 hours i have invested (I have to take a closer look with this EDSM tool) i must say this was a complete waste of time. In this time i could have played Witcher 3 with great story and interesting landscapes instead of hours and hours of boring jumping-scooping-scanning.

At least i put my name on a bunch of stars and planets.

Btw selling all the exploring data seemes a bit complicated. I could not sell more than one page (50 systems) on one station. Selling more seemes overwehelming the system.
Because of this i have a bunch of data left to sell. Any idea what to do with it?
Selling it to another faction to gain reputation?
 
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Gozmoth

Gozmoth
Done this once already.

Sadly it feels very painful when you realize this :
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I hoped for the Jaques exploration CG to be fair, but it will just disgust me at the end.
What is the point ?
 
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dutchy2000

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Oh lord another witcher 3 is amazing person. If you like being led by the nose, follow the red lines, then its pretty good, but replay value is about 0. Took me about 30 hours to complete the entire thing and that is with actively doing all the side quests. Haven't played it since, its just a yawn fest of follow the lines laid out by the developer. If I wanted to follow the lines I would have bought coloring book or something.

Hint ED is not about getting the money and the big ships, its about the experience. If all you are doing is honking and jumping yeah that is boring. Don't do that. If you need a story and being the hero, then ED is simply not for you and you should really play witcher 3 again.
 

Ian Phillips

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Ian Phillips
Taurec said:
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Selling it to another faction to gain reputation?
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Thatsa good use of exploration data! It takes around 5 milion to get to Allied status with a faction. If you choose your factions well, you can use it to get access to some permits. Getting allied status with the permit giving faction will give you access to the mission to collect the permit.
 

Leo Sagan

Leo Sagan
If you're after the money, do Sothis. I'd like to see every career path balanced, but FD never gave us any sign that they care about that. At all. :-(
 

Taurec

Taurec
dutchy2000 said:
Hint ED is not about getting the money and the big ships, its about the experience. If all you are doing is honking and jumping yeah that is boring. Don't do that. If you need a story and being the hero, then ED is simply not for you and you should really play witcher 3 again.
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Well i got my experience.
Travelling ~22k LY was interesting and i dont regret it but i don't think i will do this again. And i dont think scanning colourful marbles will make such a journey much more interesting for me.

Finding leftovers of sunken civilizations or colonys, planetary landings on planets with atmosphere or maybe contact with other civilizations and things like that would make exploring much more interesting.
But at this state, if you see a few dozend planetary systems you've seen all the game has to show.

Leo Sagan said:
If you're after the money, do Sothis. I'd like to see every career path balanced, but FD never gave us any sign that they care about that. At all. :-(
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As said above, money earning was not my primary target on this journey. Nevertheless more money for all the invested time would be nice.

All i got was fame reaching Three Worlds Nebula (nobody cares) and a bunch of stars taking my name (maybe nobody will see most of them).
 

zinzaemon

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Recently completed the 22kly outward trip to jaques, pretty much ignoring rocks/moons, and netted about 90 mil. Scan more, you're rushing it.
 

Taurec

Taurec
zinzaemon said:
Recently completed the 22kly outward trip to jaques, pretty much ignoring rocks/moons, and netted about 90 mil. Scan more, you're rushing it.
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Yes, my target was to find out how far i can go and how much i will get just for travelling.

So you actively scanned every system for interesting planets?
How long in hours did your journey take?
 

MatYNWA

MatYNWA
Maybe there is a difference between exploring and traveling?

Im on my way to Jaques, something over 1 month in, and still 11kly to go. Im picking every jump, scanning a lot, looking for ELW and interesting systems.

Maybe i will move faster since there is a exploration CG now, but i dont really want to, because i know, that just travelling long distencing is very boring.

Next time try to explore, not just travell, make waypoint for yourself, like nebulas or some black hole etc, look for interesting systems, you will be surprised how every ELW you found seems like battery recharge on your way.

And exploration isnt about making serious money really. If you want to make serious credits, do something else really.
 

Taurec

Taurec
MatYNWA said:
Next time try to explore, not just travell, make waypoint for yourself, like nebulas or some black hole etc, look for interesting systems, you will be surprised how every ELW you found seems like battery recharge on your way.
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"Interesting systems"
"Oh look a blue marble besides a red marble. Amazing! And look at this yellow and brown marbles, yay! This was worth the journey!"

SCNR ;)
 

goemon

goemon
some like it, some don't, but you wouldn't know without trying, what you did. grats to that!

those are the only CR counting towards exploration rank, btw.
 

Leo Sagan

Leo Sagan
zinzaemon said:
Recently completed the 22kly outward trip to jaques, pretty much ignoring rocks/moons, and netted about 90 mil.
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Which is ridiculous compared to the last empire CG or even Sothis. And I fail to see how increasing the rewards would diminish your scanning fulfilling moments tbh.

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MatYNWA said:
Well, its not for everyone. For me its interesting, for you not.
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To me this is not about saying exploration is not interesting , it is about saying it is *so* interesting that it should be rewarding *ALSO* money wise. Do you think that exploration is so trivial that it doesn't deserve a decent credits reward ? (just trolling you there, but I guess you can see my point)
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Gozmoth said:
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What the heck? Is there any reason for these absurd rewards, or is this just FDs attempt to have everyone try the Beluga Liner? :rolleyes:

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Taurec said:
"Interesting systems"
"Oh look a blue marble besides a red marble. Amazing! And look at this yellow and brown marbles, yay! This was worth the journey!"

SCNR ;)
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Well, if you dont care for astronomy, why go exploring? You could easily say "oh look I pew pew that ship, and now a slightly different ship. Yay!". Just do what you want to do...
 

crushdepth

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Leo Sagan said:
Which is ridiculous compared to the last empire CG or even Sothis. And I fail to see how increasing the rewards would diminish your scanning fulfilling moments tbh.

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To me this is not about saying exploration is not interesting , it is about saying it is *so* interesting that it should be rewarding *ALSO* money wise. Do you think that exploration is so trivial that it doesn't deserve a decent credits reward ? (just trolling you there, but I guess you can see my point)
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50k for first discovery of earth like world is appallingly low, given the potential economic return. A million would not be unreasonable IMHO. Although given the difficulties in colonising dustant ones, ELs near the bubble should be worth more.
 

MatYNWA

MatYNWA
Leo Sagan said:
Do you think that exploration is so trivial that it doesn't deserve a decent credits reward ? (just trolling you there, but I guess you can see my point)
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Thats hard to say, basic values are probably right, but i would like to see additinal bonuses for material composition or type of rings around planets.

Those pristine metallic rings must have great value for potential miners. Maybe introduce planets with higher amount of very rare materials, it could be possible and logical with introduction of active volcanism.

I would like to see value in those, not in some useless rock you find in almost every system.

And yes, ELW should have much bigger value, those are rare finds.
 
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Taurec

Taurec
sleutelbos said:
Well, if you dont care for astronomy, why go exploring? You could easily say "oh look I pew pew that ship, and now a slightly different ship. Yay!". Just do what you want to do...
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Shooting is exciting because you need skill.
I don't see any exciting about exploring because you don't need any skill for that.
So if someone thinks it is exciting to scan colourful marbles i don't see the point why. Maybe because i don't have much sense for astronomy.

Exploring could be much more exciting if there really is something to discover like leftovers of ancient civilizations or something like that.
 
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Gideon813

Gideon813
Taurec said:
I jumped 940 times for about 25 days playing ~2h a day (maybe a total of ~50h) and mostly scanned just the main star and did a *ping*. Sometimes i took a look at the system map and scanned nearby suns and interesting planets too but not that often.
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Respect! I know I wouldn't be able to do it. I hope FD find an easier way for us lazy bunch to travel to The Station. Maybe a portal or something.
 
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