Notice ARX FAQ

RooksBailey

RooksBailey
Is there some trick to earning ARX? Something I have to enable? I ask because I have earned zero ARX so far. I booted up the game the other day just to take a look around at the changes but didn't hang around long because of the bugs, etc. I did one mission and logged off for the night - about ten minutes of gameplay in all. Today, I logged in and discovered my ARX balance was still zero. Okay, I thought, maybe I didn't play enough. So today I logged on again, did a salvage mission, sold some exploration data, and used the FSS to scan 3/4's of a solar system. I logged out and returned about three hours later: still zero ARX.

Am I missing something? Or just another bug to log?
 

Soron Silin

Soron Silin
RooksBailey said:
Is there some trick to earning ARX? Something I have to enable? I ask because I have earned zero ARX so far. I booted up the game the other day just to take a look around at the changes but didn't hang around long because of the bugs, etc. I did one mission and logged off for the night - about ten minutes of gameplay in all. Today, I logged in and discovered my ARX balance was still zero. Okay, I thought, maybe I didn't play enough. So today I logged on again, did a salvage mission, sold some exploration data, and used the FSS to scan 3/4's of a solar system. I logged out and returned about three hours later: still zero ARX.

Am I missing something? Or just another bug to log?
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Right now missions don't seem to generate Arx. This seems odd.
Selling exploration data seems to generate 1 Arx for every 100,000 Cr.
Mining also doesn't generate Arx at the moment, but there is evidence that it will do when the bugs have been fixed.
Kills and, probably, being killed, generate Arx.
There was mention of trade earning Arx, but I don't know the rate.

So, at the moment, mercenary and exploration are what you need to get into to earn Arx.

You would have probably earned 1 Arx if you had 100% scanned that system.
 
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ick

ick
Add to the FAQs...

Q: Is there a maximum number of ARX I am able to earn per week?
A: Isn't the max per power cycle 400 ARX?

Q. I want to "save up" my ARX over several weeks to make a paint job purchase. Do ARX earned during the week expire if I don't use them?
A: Didn't I read somewhere that gameplay earned ARX expire?
 

Soron Silin

Soron Silin
ick said:
Add to the FAQs...

Q: Is there a maximum number of ARX I am able to earn per week?
A: Isn't the max per power cycle 400 ARX?
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Correct
Q. I want to "save up" my ARX over several weeks to make a paint job purchase. Do ARX earned during the week expire if I don't use them?
A: Didn't I read somewhere that gameplay earned ARX expire?
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Incorrect. Arx do not expire.
The cap is refreshed to 400 each week. You may be confused with people asking if the unearned part of the cap rolls over.
So if you earned 0 one week you would be able to earn 800 the next. This does not happen; it's 400 per week, every week.
The cap does not roll over, but your earned Arx do.
 

RooksBailey

RooksBailey
Soron Silin said:
Right now missions don't seem to generate Arx. This seems odd.
Selling exploration data seems to generate 1 Arx for every 100,000 Cr.
Mining also doesn't generate Arx at the moment, but there is evidence that it will do when the bugs have been fixed.
Kills and, probably, being killed, generate Arx.
There was mention of trade earning Arx, but I don't know the rate.

So, at the moment, mercenary and exploration are what you need to get into to earn Arx.

You would have probably earned 1 Arx if you had 100% scanned that system.
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Thanks so much for explaining how it currently works. I couldn't figure out what was going on with my ARX (or the lack thereof). :unsure:
 
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Spidey002

Spidey002
I might have missed the answer to this one, but will I be able to gift ARX to a friend the way I used to be able to gift ship paints and cosmetics?
 

Snark3d

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Spidey002 said:
I might have missed the answer to this one, but will I be able to gift ARX to a friend the way I used to be able to gift ship paints and cosmetics?
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No you cant gift ARX at this time, take a look at FD original Q&A post and they mentioned that. also at this time now that all you can do is buy ARX Packs I dont think you can gift a purchase of ARX yet either. I'm sure this will be worked out some way as Gifting others paintjobs and Engine colors etc has been a large part of FD $ as many Twitch steamers have done this in the past as giveaways.
 

Rob_the_Sparky

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Soron Silin said:
Right now missions don't seem to generate Arx. This seems odd.
Selling exploration data seems to generate 1 Arx for every 100,000 Cr.
Mining also doesn't generate Arx at the moment, but there is evidence that it will do when the bugs have been fixed.
Kills and, probably, being killed, generate Arx.
There was mention of trade earning Arx, but I don't know the rate.

So, at the moment, mercenary and exploration are what you need to get into to earn Arx.

You would have probably earned 1 Arx if you had 100% scanned that system.
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I did 3 cargo delivery missions yesterday, scanned a few systems on the way but did not sell the scans and earned 3 Arx. Each delivery was 800k+ credits though so maybe there are Arx earned by credits earned rather than by number of missions. I certainly didn't shoot anything or sell my exploration data yet earned Arx.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Rob_the_Sparky said:
I did 3 cargo delivery missions yesterday, scanned a few systems on the way but did not sell the scans and earned 3 Arx. Each delivery was 800k+ credits though so maybe there are Arx earned by credits earned rather than by number of missions. I certainly didn't shoot anything or sell my exploration data yet earned Arx.
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Scanning planets gets you ARX - around 1 per 100k value (no need to hand in - that's more ARX). If you did more than 5 jumps that's more ARX. Soon starts to count.
 

Rob_the_Sparky

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OK, on of the planets scanned was a water world and as I had a fully loaded jump range of 5.5ly I did lots of jumps LOL before realising that the drive was under sized - oops.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Rob_the_Sparky said:
OK, on of the planets scanned was a water world and as I had a fully loaded jump range of 5.5ly I did lots of jumps LOL before realising that the drive was under sized - oops.
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.. if you swapped modules you would get ARX for that. Or if you engineered your FSD - that also gives ARX. As would using material traders for getting the materials for engineering :) We're starting to build the picture https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/arx-earning-guide.522856/
 

Soron Silin

Soron Silin
Factabulous said:
Scanning planets gets you ARX - around 1 per 100k value (no need to hand in - that's more ARX). If you did more than 5 jumps that's more ARX. Soon starts to count.
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You have to hand in the data before you get 1 Arx per 100k. You get a few travelling round and maybe for scanning, but it's about a tenth of the amount.
 
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