Any downside to selling my Cartographic Data?

Torqulence

Torqulence
If I sell my cartographic data to Universal Cartographics, do I loose access to the info in my navigation systems in any of my ships?

Thanks in advance
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
No. You only lose your cartographic data (and any prospective income from it) when you die/lose your ship before selling them.

You also only get the first discovered/first mapped (first footfall?) tag on the body once you sell the data.
 

Proph V

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Only reason to hold cartographic data and not sell immediately, is if you wish to sell later to gain influence for a system faction. BGS manipulation reasons.
Otherwise sell that stuff!
Be aware, Fleet Carriers will take 25%, but they do not have the minimum distance from the scanned system requirement ie. you can cash in on those ELW from within the same system.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
You can use it for some of the Engineers, if I remember? Also there have been CGs in the past that used it and that sort of thing.
Oh, and also if you want arx, selling all your data at once is subject to the 400 arx per week cap, so you could hang on to some to sell later.
 

CMDRQuainMarln

CMDRQuainMarln
Yes sell the data. Felicity Farseer requires you to sell her up to around 20-25 million worth of exploration data to access her services at grade 5. You get lower grade access for the first millions of the total she wants for grade 5. I've recently arrived in Colonia and sold a page or two of data to several different factions to instantly get allied status with them including Colonia Council. One of the engineers in Colonia requires you to be allied or at least friendly with the council before you do business with him. Some outposts on the way to Colonia and Sagittarius A* are controlled by Colonia Council, so I was allied with them long before arriving in Colonia and I got to sell data on the way to safe guard against losing it.
 

CMDRQuainMarln

CMDRQuainMarln
Also early in the game when you don't have credits to buy ships and outfitting for mining, passenger missions or combat ships capable of dealing with stacking pirate massacre missions, selling exploration data gathered using a cheap but fairly long jump range Hauler is the fastest way to get credits.
 

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
Proph V said:
Only reason to hold cartographic data and not sell immediately, is if you wish to sell later to gain influence for a system faction. BGS manipulation reasons.
Otherwise sell that stuff!
Be aware, Fleet Carriers will take 25%, but they do not have the minimum distance from the scanned system requirement ie. you can cash in on those ELW from within the same system.
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I tend to use it to quickly boost rep with a controlling faction so I can get better missions, usually passengers (or unlock certain permits).
 

GoldenSilver484

GoldenSilver484
Selling cartographic data doesn't just give you credits and reputation, it also permanently unlocks the system's information in your galmap.

If you're not saving data for a specific purpose (what others have posted), sell it.
 

Falcon_D

Falcon_D
Found out yesterday that there seems to be a problem selling exploration and exobiology data in large quantities.
For the exploration data I tried selling a page for 43mil cr and everything seemed fine. But then it said I had no more data to sell. I had to get out and get back into the UC screen to see my next page of data. This time it said I sold 83mil cr of data but 0 systems. Same thing happened a 3rd time, 43 mil cr, 0 systems. The 4th and last time, 15mil cr and 10 systems. Each time it would take about 5 to 10 mins for UC to load my carto data and display it. After all that there was not the slightest increase in the blue bar under my Elite Explorer’s rank.
Exobiology was just as bad. Had to do the screen reload to sell all my stuff. If I scrolled to the next page using the onscreen button the client would CTD. At least I had my rank increased as I was selling the data.
Thought all these had been sorted with the last big update for Horizons (except obviously the exobiology stuff.)
 

CMDRQuainMarln

CMDRQuainMarln
Falcon_D said:
Found out yesterday that there seems to be a problem selling exploration and exobiology data in large quantities.
For the exploration data I tried selling a page for 43mil cr and everything seemed fine. But then it said I had no more data to sell. I had to get out and get back into the UC screen to see my next page of data. This time it said I sold 83mil cr of data but 0 systems. Same thing happened a 3rd time, 43 mil cr, 0 systems. The 4th and last time, 15mil cr and 10 systems. Each time it would take about 5 to 10 mins for UC to load my carto data and display it. After all that there was not the slightest increase in the blue bar under my Elite Explorer’s rank.
Exobiology was just as bad. Had to do the screen reload to sell all my stuff. If I scrolled to the next page using the onscreen button the client would CTD. At least I had my rank increased as I was selling the data.
Thought all these had been sorted with the last big update for Horizons (except obviously the exobiology stuff.)
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Carto data sales still pretty flaky for me too. Have to come out and go back in to universal cartography to see what the state really is. I was cruising around doing combat with 25mil left to cash in and didn't realise because of this. At least I didn't lose it.
 
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