Asking EXPLORATION ELITE CMDRs: How much money earned until elite rank reached?

[InlineSix]

Greetings, cmdrs.

After exploration payout was buffed, the rule of thumb about "you earned this much money in exploration you got that exploration rank" has changed.

Anyone able to provide input at what amount of money elite exploration rank was reached? Please add info about when you achieved that rank (Kudos!)

Regards,
cmdr inlinesixandahalf

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

Greetings, cmdrs.

After exploration payout was buffed, the rule of thumb about "you earned this much money in exploration you got that exploration rank" has changed.

Anyone able to provide input at what amount of money elite exploration rank was reached? Please add info about when you achieved that rank (Kudos!)

Regards,
cmdr inlinesixandahalf

I can only guess, but it was around 200 mils I recon.

 

[Sllewji]

The ED Wiki indicates that it's around 315 Million.
(Scroll down to the Ranks section in the link)

 

[Ben Sevil]

I did it in two phases, starting with passenger tourist missions (which stop ranking you up after you get to allied, IIRC) and then moved to intra-bubble exploration, starting with Trappist of course.

I made considerably more than 315m, but then part of that wasn't counted towards exploration. However, adjusting for that, the amount given in the wiki seems right.

(Exploration Elite reached 22nd August 2017, all progress made after 2.3.)


EDIT: I started "pure" exploration at Ranger 53%. It took me 42.71m credits to get to Pioneer 2%. It then took me 187.22m credits to get to Pioneer 96%. I didn't record the amount that was necessary to get me the final c4% to Elite, but the roughly 199m total for Pioneer 0% > 100% seems reasonable. As the Ranger and Pioneer ranks make up the bulk of the income from "pure" exploration, I'm fairly certain the wiki data are correct.