It is easy to assume & berate, isn't it?
I'm doing neither. The identified problem was that the poster is finding systems which have been sullied by the dead hand of cherry pickers. I told him how to avoid that problem. with hindsight, perhaps I should have added '
and not along an obviously well-travelled path such as directly towards Barnard's Loop' but I was chasing one leg of my pants round the bedroom getting dressed for work at the time I posted
If I'd have wanted to berate him I'd have commented on his suggestion.
Edit: Also didn't see OP's reply just above yours - I'm now posting at work which is about the only time I have less time to read a thread properly than whilst getting ready for work....
Im about 6000ly outside the bubble and still coming across sytems where the odd planet has been scanned and nothing else
I don't doubt it, you can go 30K outside it and still find some like that but they get significantly less common the further out you go, other than along the obvious well-traveled routes such as directly from the bubble to Colonia and nearby nebulae.
It's perhaps unfortunate that the current distribution of credit payouts for exploration does tend to favour some kinds of bodies that will also attract some of the more selective scanners (for example I don't know many explorers who would just fly past an earthlike without scanning it
regardless of how much it paid) but I can assure you that for many of us, credits are not the major motivation in exploration.
If you head up or down into the neutron star systems you'll also find loads of those where the main star has been scanned and nothing else. Again, some of those will be because before the most recent buff to exploration discovery payouts they were one of the highest paying things to scan. However if you happen across one where
I have scanned only the star and nothing else, it will be because I was using the neutron star 'highway' to quickly travel to a distant area and simply had no intention of scanning the entire system to begin with - it's stupid
not to scan the star since I'm parked in front of it when I enter the system before lining up for a jump boost but unless something very interesting presents itself, the system won't be one that I'd ever intended to hang around in.
Ultimately you need to accept that there's no requirement on players to scan every body in a system, or at least isn't until this derpy new method comes in. Some explorers have particular interests and are searching primarily for particular kinds of bodies (which contrary to popular belief is not always motivated by credits - I have assets of over four billion so it's not like I'm desperate for credits) so they will scan those and not others.
I know you mentioned that you just started exploring - I guess only time will tell whether your fascination with scanning everything endures past your 20,000th generic snowball orbiting your 10,000th red dwarf or not. It doesn't ultimately matter whether it does or doesn't, there's no right or wrong way to explore - it should be about what interests you as a player and nothing more.
If anything I think you might see more of what people insist on referring to as 'cherry picking' when this update goes live - the devs actually said that the scanners can be set to identify what are considered to be 'high value worlds' and since there will no longer be a requirement to actually fly to the body to detail scan it, I'd expect the players whose main interest in exploration is farming credits from it will love it. No more need to fly 100,000 ls to that pesky secondary star to scan the water worlds orbiting it.
