I have all 4 of the classic exploration ships, DBX for tight spots, Phantom for general comfortable exploration, ASP X for an unrestricted view, 'conda for outright range.
Bump up from vanilla AspX?
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I have a Dolphin for that.
Dock on a carrier or station with Vista Genomics (for exobiology) and/or Universal Cartographics (for exploration data). You can see some details about the data you are carrying and optionally sell it a bit at a time or a page at a time.
If you are hooked up to some third party tools they can scrape the info from your player journal files, or you could manually parse those journals, they are stored on your local hdd.
There's no way to find this information on my ship in the field? I looked in the Codex and while I could see specimens I'd already turned in, I couldn't see which I have scanned and are waiting to be turned in. There's absolutely no record of this to be had until I step in Vista? That's almost as stupid as not giving us any trade data until we've visited the system and then there being no searchable record of it anyway. Or am I not looking in the right place in game?
That isn't the same as bio scanning (which can only be done on foot with an artemis suit). The comp scanner will tell you what the plant is though and a notification if you haven't scanned that species before.
I do both, scan before I land (or from the SRV before I get out) then find the three samples. Sometimes it's not easy to tell two similar looking plants apart, the comp scanner means you can check before you go on foot to scan it.
That is just to get the info for the
The comp scanner will bleap when pointed at a valid target in range which can help find some of the better hidden bios.
For the data to sell to Vista you have to be on foot in an Artemis suit.
Stick with the Asp. You need to start unlocking Guardian equipment.
Here's my build.
Here it is on Inara if that's easier for you to look at.
I use the AspX and the Phantom equally as often. They're both great exploration ships. The Anaconda is complete crap for exploration. Don't even bother with it, it's a complete waste of time and money.
I'll simply swap the pre-engineered FSD drive and pre-engineered Surface Scanner out of the AspX and into the Phantom when I want a change of pace. They can both jump around 73 LY. The online build estimates are not accurate on pretty much anything anymore.
There isn't really much better explorer ships. The only significant improvement is slogging through engineers.
I can only say which I've found most fun, post-engineering. The AspX was my first love and the one I went to Star One in, the Anaconda was fun for exploring incredibly widely-spaced star regions before fleet carriers (which take too long per jump anyway), the Krait Phantom was an improvement on the AspX when it came along, but the DBX is pure class in a glass, the most fun to fly, it can turn on a sixpence and even landing it on a pad when you return feels so good you want to keep doing it. In the wilderness, she is the Queen of explorers simply because of looks and handling. I just wish she had one more module slot!
So, just to be clear... you composition scan to save you from getting out of the vehicle unnecessarily.... not because you think you've already turned it in and won't get paid on it, yes?
If we find a particular species on one planet and turn it in, then find it again on another planet... Vista will still buy it at the same price, yes?
They are two separate game mechanisms, the comp scanner is base game/horizons content & will update your codex stats & give you a small amount of cash. Exobiology data is a separate thing with the three samples & Artemis suit & all that. The Comp scanner will also work on geo stuff (and notable stellar phenomena, alien stuff etc). The bio scanner on your Artemis suit is only for exobiology and is Odyssey only content.
Yes, the composition scanner can scan all sorts of things, not just living organisms. But the payouts are tiny. Artemis suit on foot with the bioscanner hand tool can pay tens of millions.
Vista will buy all completed samples from you at their standard price no matter how many planets you find that species on. The only price difference you will find is if you are the first person to find that species on that planet then they will offer you a bonus equal to 4 times the price paid for the sample which can earn you just under 100,000,000 credits for a single completed sample.
Okay, thanks. I must be doing something right because I came in from a few days out and got $230 million. It's easy to see how people have billions. It's interesting that money is not the grind in this game.
It used to be, but then FD broke the economy.