Three months in the black, 10 pages of systems explored...
- Thread starter Mohenjo
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Are you sure you are not looking at 700k for a single page?
I think you miss the point of exploration. A money maker it ain't. Anything you get back from your trip is purely a bonus.
That being said, it does have the potential to bring in a nice chunk of cash if done correctly. Were you just honking, or surface scanning anything as well? If yes, what type of bodies were you scanning?
That being said, it does have the potential to bring in a nice chunk of cash if done correctly. Were you just honking, or surface scanning anything as well? If yes, what type of bodies were you scanning?
I'm curious about what and how you scanned as well. I've gone on short trips and made significantly more than that. Agreed on the point that exploration isn't done for the credits, but that is a very low amount for 10 pages of system data. It almost sounds like you only honked 10 pages worth of brown dwarfs.
Roughly how many systems in the ten pages?
Youre doing it wrong. (insert meme here)
If youre doing it just for the money, forget it. Exploration isnt about money, its about exploration.
10 pages of systems means that you have visited just only 500 systems, thats nothing. Theres 50 systems per page. Youll get that just flying around in the bubble for 3 months.
Also, 700k for 10 pages means that you have just honked the system and moved on. Also, i would almost like to say that you didnt have ADS with you as 70k per page is.... well, bad.
The average credits youll get paid, when just honkjumping is around 300k per page and thats with ADS.
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700k for 10 pages is very low indeed. Alarmingly low. Did you surface scan anything or honk and move on? Any first discovered tags?
I agree with the other posters about the fact that exploration is not about the money but having said that, I would be more than disappointed if I returned from 3 months out and made that amount.
I agree with the other posters about the fact that exploration is not about the money but having said that, I would be more than disappointed if I returned from 3 months out and made that amount.
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What work? 10 pages of what? a simple honk?
You provide nothing in your post.
Do you know what exploration is? How to do it? what to scan and what to skip?
Do you scan anything?
It sounds like you don't know what your doing.
We can help with that.
97?!?!
Jane Turner
Volunteer Moderator
10 pages should be something like 500 systems. The only way you could conceivebly average c 1400 per sytem would be to not perform perform any detailed scans, even on the main star. Are you sure you got your figures right. Its possibly to get 700k in a couple of hours within the bubble.
I think he and Chiggy are systematically ELW hunting near Sag A.
Hoping to call in on my way back after I (eventually) get to Beagle Point.
Only (!!) another 18KLY to BP, but at ~30LY per jump I'll be out here for some time !!
But hey, I left the bubble about 6 months ago, and am enjoying every minute
I scan every system thoroughly, detailed surface scans, etc. Many of the landable planets I will go down and drive around a while, if only to get some nice screenshots.
I realize the point isn't the cash, but I've heard tell of people making multiple millions in one trip. So, having spent a significant amount of time exploring, I'd anticipated a sizable return on my efforts. I'm not sure how many systems there are per page. Page 10 had only 1 system on it, and there were around 5 systems among the 10 pages that didn't sell because they were too close to the "home" system where I sold the data. However you slice it, that's a lot of data.
Now, I didn't come across anything really interesting on this trip. No earth-type planets, almost all ice moons, everywhere I went. I did visit the planet with the Ancient Ruins (I don't recall the name), where I picked up a few artifacts and whatnot, but even that stuff was unimpressively valued when I sold it on the market.
All in all, a disappointing return, but I did get some very nice screenshots (see the epic screenshots thread for some of them!).
I realize the point isn't the cash, but I've heard tell of people making multiple millions in one trip. So, having spent a significant amount of time exploring, I'd anticipated a sizable return on my efforts. I'm not sure how many systems there are per page. Page 10 had only 1 system on it, and there were around 5 systems among the 10 pages that didn't sell because they were too close to the "home" system where I sold the data. However you slice it, that's a lot of data.
Now, I didn't come across anything really interesting on this trip. No earth-type planets, almost all ice moons, everywhere I went. I did visit the planet with the Ancient Ruins (I don't recall the name), where I picked up a few artifacts and whatnot, but even that stuff was unimpressively valued when I sold it on the market.
All in all, a disappointing return, but I did get some very nice screenshots (see the epic screenshots thread for some of them!).
This just doesn't work out. There are 50 systems per "page" now. You had 9 pages, +1 on page 10 and -5 for unsellables = 446 systems. Even if you only scanned the star in each system (and didn't even honk!), with DSS installed you'd still make ~1.3million - and that's without a single first discoverer bonus. Do you definitely have DSS installed ?
Its unlikely that you got only 700k for 451 systems in a regular case. I am mostly honking my way through the galaxy, thought several times to get rid of the detail surface scanner to get one free module, because i dont us it in 99,9% of systems i visit. But i never got less than 200k for 1 page with 50 systems. In my opinion you wether
-got something wrong with your amount of money before and after you sold your data,
-or you had high repair costs (anaconda for example easily gets 1 mio costs for wear and tear)
-or you are using a basic discovery scanner instead of an advanced one
-or you didnt even honk most of the time.
It could be possible that you have been so unlucky to get only systems with 1-3 bodies, but thats very unlikely for 451 systems
Just scanning the main star *without* a DSS would earn ~1,300 per system = 580,000 credits. Something certainly doesn't add up!
OP: are you sure you didn't spend any credits after returning home? Repairs, restocking or even outfitting? That's the only thing I can think of to explain why your bank balance only increased by so little.
OP: are you sure you didn't spend any credits after returning home? Repairs, restocking or even outfitting? That's the only thing I can think of to explain why your bank balance only increased by so little.
Jane Turner
Volunteer Moderator
My record system is near to 700,000 on its own
That is very low, my last aborted trip had about 300 systems and netted me 10.4 million Cr.
Check your player journal to see what happened, I use EDDiscovery for this. You can see exactly what each transaction was and if your figures are correct, raise a ticket because 10 pages is worth a whole lot more.
Here is a brief view of EDDiscovery showing info re explore data selling:
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