Congrats to Frontier on a nice CG this week!

Quantis Trap · Dec 9, 2020

I've enjoyed the CG this week and it is something that Frontier has never done before in that they single out and Ammonia Worlds scanned as the count.

So far it just seems to me that for the new feature(s), it's gone very smoothly!

Good job Frontier!

Susanna · Dec 9, 2020

Umm. The wording could have been a whole lot clearer for me. It wasn't clear that ONLY ammonia world's would count towards the CG and that they didn't need to be new finds either.
After a 3 day 20,000ly round trip I was rewarded with 500+mil plus a measly 12 records towards the CG (for 4 ammonia world's, one of which was a new find). The two new ELWs I found didn't count at all.
So it became a load up Spansh Rags to Riches, scan a radius of 100ly around the CG system and then just go scan the ammonia planets from that list...
It had more to do with finding suitable third party tools and settings than exploration! Which I thought was kind of sad

GroG79 · Dec 9, 2020

next one should require undiscovered planets

Florenus · Dec 9, 2020

Susanna said:
Umm. The wording could have been a whole lot clearer for me. It wasn't clear that ONLY ammonia world's would count towards the CG and that they didn't need to be new finds either.
After a 3 day 20,000ly round trip I was rewarded with 500+mil plus a measly 12 records towards the CG (for 4 ammonia world's, one of which was a new find). The two new ELWs I found didn't count at all.

I'm sorry, but what was not clear there?

Although the company is paying handsomely for all exploration data, it is the data from ammonia worlds that will really progress the research, with data from mapped ammonia worlds being three times as useful.

Kenneth McGrew · Dec 9, 2020

Susanna said:
Umm. The wording could have been a whole lot clearer for me. It wasn't clear that ONLY ammonia world's would count towards the CG and that they didn't need to be new finds either.
After a 3 day 20,000ly round trip I was rewarded with 500+mil plus a measly 12 records towards the CG (for 4 ammonia world's, one of which was a new find). The two new ELWs I found didn't count at all.
So it became a load up Spansh Rags to Riches, scan a radius of 100ly around the CG system and then just go scan the ammonia planets from that list...
It had more to do with finding suitable third party tools and settings than exploration! Which I thought was kind of sad

should have been 1st discovery ammonia worlds only

Kenneth McGrew · Dec 9, 2020

Florenus said:
I'm sorry, but what was not clear there?

Although the company is paying handsomely for all exploration data, it is only the data from ammonia worlds that will ~~really~~ progress the research, with data from mapped ammonia worlds being three times as useful.

^^ that would have been much clearer.

Susanna · Dec 9, 2020

Florenus said:
I'm sorry, but what was not clear there?

That wording implies that regular scans count but ammonia world's will count triple their normal value.

Susanna · Dec 9, 2020

Kenneth McGrew said:
Although the company is paying handsomely for all exploration data, it is only the data from ammonia worlds that will ~~really~~ progress the research [and contribute towards the CG], with data from mapped ammonia worlds being three times as useful.

^^ that would have been much clearer.

This ^^^^ thanks Kenneth!

Just deliberately sloppy writing by FDev.

Florenus · Dec 9, 2020

Kenneth McGrew said:
Although the company is paying handsomely for all exploration data, it is only the data from ammonia worlds that will ~~really~~ progress the research, with data from mapped ammonia worlds being three times as useful.

^^ that would have been much clearer.

Can't argue with that. Would've been clearer.

Bigmaec · Dec 9, 2020

GroG79 said:
next one should require undiscovered planets

This. A hundred times this. This whole road to riches nonsense… sigh

Factabulous · Dec 9, 2020

yes indeed - this CG has been most lol-worthy

FraggleRock · Dec 9, 2020

Well I thought it was fun!

you guys are preeeeettyy picky you know.

(If that is not clear I am calling you out for never being happy about anything... and likely enough making it impossible for yourselves to be happy... if Fdev had done things differently then you would still be unhappy about some aspect)

GroG79 · Dec 9, 2020

if next time the 'undiscovered systems only' happens.. The forum will be flooded with 'complaints'

Bigmaec · Dec 9, 2020

GroG79 said:
if next time the 'undiscovered systems only' happens.. The forum will be flooded with 'complaints'

The forum will be flooded with complaints regardless of everything that could possibly happen or not.

GroG79 · Dec 9, 2020

'complaints'

Speedcuffs · Dec 9, 2020

A very entertaining CG.

Rubbernuke · Dec 9, 2020

Bigmaec said:
The forum will be flooded with complaints regardless of everything that could possibly happen or not.

I'd really love to see as a consequence of this CG a bubble wide Gnosis scale attack from angry Goids.

Then the crying would start, although I'd be crying with laughter

Speedcuffs · Dec 9, 2020

Rubbernuke said:
I'd really love to see as a consequence of this CG a bubble wide Gnosis scale attack from angry Goids.

Then the crying would start, although I'd be crying with laughter

CG exclusive: free G5 sharp stick.

Rubbernuke · Dec 9, 2020

Speedcuffs said:
CG exclusive: free G5 sharp stick.

CG reward- the Goids use the small probe on your tender areas.

CMDR Deano The Imperial · Dec 9, 2020

I wouldn't really call it fun. It may have put me off for life from Discovery Exploration. I swear I can now FSS scan any system, map anything at any distance in my sleep. Absolutely mind numbing. I now have a perfectly unequalled knowledge of any freakin' Armonia World in the ED universe.

On a plus side though, 1,000,000,000 credits Carto Data and a place in the top 10% for the Discovery Scanner is nice