Are we getting merits for Biological Data?

This is UC data and bio's combined?
Means that systems without bio's unless they have about 10 elws/terraformables/ww, and no bios just isn't worth it?
 
Bio paid me merits last time I went out, but it wasn't really much - and I didn't get a popup about it either. I had to check my total before and after to see that there was a change.
 
Yeah, fdev still has not fixed merits for bio as far as I can tell. UC data is hardly worth the time. Good coin though.

From the thread I linked above:

Returning from a short exobiology trip, I took some notes when handing in at Vista Genomics, system by system (except one instance of two systems together.) The account is pledged to Antal, but only rank 12 (after handing in) so not enough to have any related bonuses. No weekly assignments involve exobiology (and are all uncompleted).

All scans had first-discovery bonus. I recorded the total amount (divide by 5 for the base amount) and the merits earned for each hand-in. (I had to quit out of the VG dialogue and hit the on-foot powerplay screen between each hand-in to see the merits because there are no pop-ups when handing in to VG. This is quite annoying!)

I handed in at an Antal exploited system.

Here's the list of merits and credits earned, sorted in order of increasing credits

merits | credits
--------|----------
0 | 7359500
0 | 32900500
120 | 38084500
120 | 40150000
120 | 42090000
120 | 42090000
120 | 42090000
120 | 44894500
120 | 57645000
120 | 57645000
120 | 57645000
240 | 74044000
240 | 83186500
240 | 95054000
360 | 100054000
360 | 100054000
360 | 100054000
360 | 103503000
360 | 103503000
360 | 103503000
360 | 103503000
360 | 104799000
360 | 104799000
360 | 104799000
360 | 104799000
360 | 116316500
360 | 124150000
360 | 132553500
360 | 132553500
600 | 175339500
600 | 199853000
720 | 206849500
840 | 237430500
960 | 280681000
960 | 291068000
1920 | 542640000
2040 | 591783000

For the two instances where no merits were earned, one was a single bark mounds worth 1471900 base value and the other was a system with tussock ventusa, concha labiata and bacterium aurasus with base values 3227700, 2352400 and 1000000 respectively. I guess these are below a threshold since there was nothing else to distinguish them from the other samples.

There's a couple of other bits of data (one with video evidence!) further down the thread.

My conclusions:
  • exobiology is working in PP2.0 (though maybe not all the time for assignments)
  • don't hand in at Power HQ
  • no merits visible on screen (have to check via PP UI before and after)
  • no merits for systems worth less than around 40m (38m ish in fact).
  • if you're doing it for merits, it's extremely inefficient even the cartographic data pays better per time spent, as does almost any other way of earning merits
 
Yes, UC data working very badly, bio not at all (or effectively so). Ergo, it is broken for the sake of merits, which when pledged to LYR does not make any sense.
 
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