Yeah, it would be a pain to lose any data, I have OCD, so if I was out and got deaded, I would have to start that trip over and go back over the whole route and scan all the stuff I scanned before, otherwise it would eat at me and eat at me until I did it. I tried to overcome it on previous trips, went to the Jellyfish and on the way back got in a hurry and left some objects unscanned in a bunch of systems. So after a year there were over 150 systems that I had only partially scanned, I had to make a special trip to go to each one of those systems and finish scanning them, that trip took 24k lys to complete, that's a Sag A trip, and that leaves only one system left that I have unscanned objects in, will get to that one eventually, its about 6k lys from the bubble and I am currently enroute to see the wizard at Beagle Point and get my 3 wishes.
A question about exploration data time-limit
- Thread starter Snow Heart
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Yes you will not get a lot of the first discoveries as mentioned as others will have cashed them in before you, but you will still get a massive amount of them along with the new pricing guide for planets. If you would have cashed in last year around this time under the old payout format, you would have gotten just a fraction of what you'll end up getting now.
Big thing is go over landing videos (that was my issue when I was exploring for a year and returned) and also be prepared to spend a long time cashing in your discoveries. It takes quite a bit of time to do that, so for 2 years, you might be playing your ED pressing a button every min or so for a few hours (depending on how fast it connects to the server), but last time I did a trip (3 month journey just recently) it was pretty slow to cash in, so just be warned...
Big thing is go over landing videos (that was my issue when I was exploring for a year and returned) and also be prepared to spend a long time cashing in your discoveries. It takes quite a bit of time to do that, so for 2 years, you might be playing your ED pressing a button every min or so for a few hours (depending on how fast it connects to the server), but last time I did a trip (3 month journey just recently) it was pretty slow to cash in, so just be warned...
I don't believe there is anything to sweat about others getting a jump on first discoveries. If I recall, the last time I looked at my EDDiscovery console we are still way less than 1% explored and 54k actual years till complete at the current pace. The odds of anyone getting the jump on a first decreases dramatically and exponentially as you get further from the bubble.
You'd be surprised. I just did a 3 month trip recently and marked all ELW's I scanned that were un-tagged, in some of the remote areas of the galaxy only to find when I looked at them after cashing in, a number of them had already been tagged during that time. So it does happen and with people now making trips from Colonia or the bubble to the 4 corners regions, a number of new routes are getting popularized.
So I can imagine being gone 2 years with all the people that now have engineered jump range FSD's many of those the OP scanned will probably be tagged. Either way it's still going to be quite a lot of credits regardless that they'll get if it doesn't crash the server
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Oh don't get me wrong, there's still a ton of crap out there to get firsts on. I was just saying I'd have about 10-15% rate of ones that were cashed in before I did in that time frame. With the addition of Colonia, and Beagle Point expeditions and pretty much every decent sized nebula and most planetary ones being discovered for example will be already be tagged by now.
However I doubt the OP will notice being that they probably weren't keeping track of all the big payout type objects or systems at all in the first place...
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