Thought I'd use the server downtime to get round to briefly writing up my last trip. I didn't have any real goal when setting out but did accomplish various things. As time went by though it became obvious that this was going to be a big payout and I was concentrating on scanning ELWs, WWs and TFCs. By the time I called it a day I had been to over 21k systems, performed 33.5k scans and EDDiscovery was reporting those scans being worth 4.3 billion credits. With the first discovery bonuses, all the stuff that had only been honked and the Li Yong-Rui powerplay 200% bonus that ended up being 19,355,278,128 credits! Who says exploration doesn't pay? 
EDD & in-game stats:
Before selling data:
After selling:
Here's the video of the route I took:
[video=youtube_share;9lttgOzf2gU]https://youtu.be/9lttgOzf2gU[/video]
Leg 1:
You may recall Mad-Max's Testing the Route Plotter thread and I thought I would try something similar. Makes for slightly queasy viewing on the video but I ended up doing around 25 round trips between two systems one kylie apart. I didn't record things as scientifically as Mad-Max but it became clear quite soon that the limiting factor was going to be the two end points. As the image below shows, by the time the plotter gave up it had used most of the systems within range of one of the end points (I had deliberately chosen a fairly sparse location). There were still loads of intermediate systems available if only the plotter could have found more systems within 68 LY of the endpoint!
Leg 2:
This was a bit of a clean-up from my outer rim circumnavigation. CMDRs Valije and Aura Lorell had discovered a few edge systems that I had missed so I wanted to visit those. Also there had been some overlap with CMDRs hamstelBaster and Taen in a couple of sections so I revisited those to add my tag to the systems.
Leg 3:
This involved a major search of the area beyond 65,000 LYs for earth like worlds. I visited all of the ELWs that were on EDDB but not the forum list and vice versa plus searched for as many new discoveries as possible. In the end I had found 14 new ones to bring my personal > 65k tally to 22. The clear highlight was finding the first ringed ELW more than 65k from Sol, even if it was only just so: Ceeckaea AL-M d8-1 at 65,015.23 LY away.
Leg 4:
Spent meandering around the NW quadrant visiting high mass code systems, searching for ELWs and generally piling on the credits
Leg 5:
With the end of the 3.0 beta announced, I headed (more or less) straight for the Bubble for a very quick refit to lighten the ship a little and then straight off to the southern rim to visit a system that needs a 138.5 LY jump - wanted to get this done before the coming jump range bump will make it too easy. Finally, back home properly and the mind numbing grind that is the LY-R powerplay nonsense (by far the most boring grind I've come across in ED although it didn't help that I only got back to the bubble at noon on the Wednesday so had to finish it by that night).
Summary stats for the trip:
139 days
21,802 jumps
893k LY travelled
33,511 objects scanned
295 new ELWs including 5 ringed ones bringing my personal tally up to 1202 (21 ringed)
19.4 billion credits
EDD & in-game stats:
Before selling data:
After selling:
Here's the video of the route I took:
[video=youtube_share;9lttgOzf2gU]https://youtu.be/9lttgOzf2gU[/video]
Leg 1:
You may recall Mad-Max's Testing the Route Plotter thread and I thought I would try something similar. Makes for slightly queasy viewing on the video
but I ended up doing around 25 round trips between two systems one kylie apart. I didn't record things as scientifically as Mad-Max but it became clear quite soon that the limiting factor was going to be the two end points. As the image below shows, by the time the plotter gave up it had used most of the systems within range of one of the end points (I had deliberately chosen a fairly sparse location). There were still loads of intermediate systems available if only the plotter could have found more systems within 68 LY of the endpoint!
Leg 2:
This was a bit of a clean-up from my outer rim circumnavigation. CMDRs Valije and Aura Lorell had discovered a few edge systems that I had missed so I wanted to visit those. Also there had been some overlap with CMDRs hamstelBaster and Taen in a couple of sections so I revisited those to add my tag to the systems.
Leg 3:
This involved a major search of the area beyond 65,000 LYs for earth like worlds. I visited all of the ELWs that were on EDDB but not the forum list and vice versa plus searched for as many new discoveries as possible. In the end I had found 14 new ones to bring my personal > 65k tally to 22. The clear highlight was finding the first ringed ELW more than 65k from Sol, even if it was only just so: Ceeckaea AL-M d8-1 at 65,015.23 LY away.
Leg 4:
Spent meandering around the NW quadrant visiting high mass code systems, searching for ELWs and generally piling on the credits
Leg 5:
With the end of the 3.0 beta announced, I headed (more or less) straight for the Bubble for a very quick refit to lighten the ship a little and then straight off to the southern rim to visit a system that needs a 138.5 LY jump - wanted to get this done before the coming jump range bump will make it too easy
. Finally, back home properly and the mind numbing grind that is the LY-R powerplay nonsense (by far the most boring grind I've come across in ED although it didn't help that I only got back to the bubble at noon on the Wednesday so had to finish it by that night).Summary stats for the trip:
139 days
21,802 jumps
893k LY travelled
33,511 objects scanned
295 new ELWs including 5 ringed ones bringing my personal tally up to 1202 (21 ringed)
19.4 billion credits
