Can someone give me a definite answer to this. On the wiki it says you need 200 million Cr to get to elite rank. Somewhere I've seen someone say it was 156 million somewhere else I've seen 160 million and someone even said 320 million. Can someone tell me how manu credits you need for elite explorer rank.
Confusion on Exploration rank
- Thread starter Fireblast
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Elite wiki has some info on this..
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Explorer
Profit required for a given rank as of v2.3 (confirmation required)
glad to help
07
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Explorer
Profit required for a given rank as of v2.3 (confirmation required)
| Rank | Profit Required |
|---|---|
| Aimless | 0 |
| Mostly Aimless | 40,000 |
| Scout | 270,000 |
| Surveyor | 1,140,000 |
| Trailblazer | 4,140,000 |
| Pathfinder | 10,000,000 |
| Ranger | 35,000,000 |
| Pioneer | 116,000,000 |
| Elite | 200,000,000 |
glad to help
07
Elite wiki has some info on this..
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Explorer
Profit required for a given rank as of v2.3 (confirmation required)
Rank Profit Required Aimless 0 Mostly Aimless 40,000 Scout 270,000 Surveyor 1,140,000
Trailblazer 4,140,000 Pathfinder 10,000,000 Ranger 35,000,000 Pioneer 116,000,000 Elite 200,000,000
glad to help
07
Thanks for the quick reply +1 rep
Oh, I think it was about 80 million credits.
Which is as much as to say, the confusion exists because it has steadily increased over time as exploration payouts have also increased.
Which is as much as to say, the confusion exists because it has steadily increased over time as exploration payouts have also increased.
I'm at Pioneer +5% with about 94 mil in Exploration profits.
This is why I think there is an RNG element in the ranking system. I'm at 95 mil and I'm only 77% ranger
Madness!
I'm not sure it's RNG but more likely other ranking factors:
Where & how you hand in data.
1st discoveries may count more than face value.
Missions - do the payouts add into the raw explo profit figure?
etc.
It's not RNG, the amount has actually changed over time. Originally you couldn't make very much money from exploration so the payouts where increased to make it a more attractive profession. However that made the ranking much faster so the amount you had to earn also increased. That's why the information available is sometimes a bit out of date and confusing.
Scan values have been changed several times without changing how much they effect ranking so the totals scaled up every time that happened with people who got more data earlier hitting Elite at different values. The effect of passenger missions on Exploration rank has changed since they were introduced so some people will have had more effect from those than others so potentially hitting Elite at a lower value.
So it all depends on how and when you earned your exploration credits how many of them you'll have when you hit Elite.
So it all depends on how and when you earned your exploration credits how many of them you'll have when you hit Elite.
OP, to give you an idea I made Elite back in March 2016 and it took 158,279,408 CR. I made Elite by going out and Exploring, no passenger missions.
There is a tread in this forum where Commanders post when they make Elite and what it took. You can look there to get an idea of what it currently takes.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/174349-The-Elite-Explorers-Hall-of-Fame/page42
There is a tread in this forum where Commanders post when they make Elite and what it took. You can look there to get an idea of what it currently takes.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/174349-The-Elite-Explorers-Hall-of-Fame/page42
If you were to start exploring after 2.3, it would take you around 320 million credits of exploration scan(!) profits to go from 0% Aimless to Elite. The ED wiki can be a bit outdated when it comes to information about exploration. In 2.3, the amount of rank progress you got from scans was halved, but scan payouts were increased by even over 8x for valuable planets (WW, ELW, AW).
Also,
Also,
That thread's no longer updated, and as mentioned in the latest post as well, you should go to https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/331804-The-Elite-Explorers-Hall-of-Fame-continued instead.
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There are two main ways to gain exploration rank:
- Selling cartographic data from exploration
- Completing and receiving payment for sightseeing tour missions
The current wiki chart only focuses on cartographic data. I would suggest using the old one, as below. Think of the numbers as points and not credits.
Aimless 0
Mostly Aimless 20,000
Scout 135,000
Surveyor 570,000
Trailblazer 2,070,000
Pathfinder 5,070,000
Ranger 17,500,000
Pioneer 58,000,000
Elite 156,500,000
The difference being that a lot of things changed with the April '17 release of 2.3 including the "exchange rate" for exploration rank points.
Cartographic (Exploration) is 2 : 1
Passenger (Sightseeing) is 5 : 1
For example, if you took a 10m sightseeing passenger mission as well as getting 20m for exploration scans out and back, you would get 2 + 10 = 12m "points".
Edited to add: Always look at this as from where you are -NOW- going forward. Ignore your credit totals for Exploration on your right hand UI tab, because that only tabulates cartographic payouts.
For example, if you are Pioneer, you need to get 156,500m - 58,000m = 98,500m points to get to Elite if currently at 0% Pioneer. If you are at 50% Pioneer, you would need 98,500m ÷ 2 = 49,250m "points".
- Selling cartographic data from exploration
- Completing and receiving payment for sightseeing tour missions
The current wiki chart only focuses on cartographic data. I would suggest using the old one, as below. Think of the numbers as points and not credits.
Aimless 0
Mostly Aimless 20,000
Scout 135,000
Surveyor 570,000
Trailblazer 2,070,000
Pathfinder 5,070,000
Ranger 17,500,000
Pioneer 58,000,000
Elite 156,500,000
The difference being that a lot of things changed with the April '17 release of 2.3 including the "exchange rate" for exploration rank points.
Cartographic (Exploration) is 2 : 1
Passenger (Sightseeing) is 5 : 1
For example, if you took a 10m sightseeing passenger mission as well as getting 20m for exploration scans out and back, you would get 2 + 10 = 12m "points".
Edited to add: Always look at this as from where you are -NOW- going forward. Ignore your credit totals for Exploration on your right hand UI tab, because that only tabulates cartographic payouts.
For example, if you are Pioneer, you need to get 156,500m - 58,000m = 98,500m points to get to Elite if currently at 0% Pioneer. If you are at 50% Pioneer, you would need 98,500m ÷ 2 = 49,250m "points".
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Well, if you knew exactly what percentage (and rank) you were on before 2.3, you could tell. However, it's probably not worth bothering with, you can get the remainder done quickly now.
I don't think so, but nobody knows how much exp (exploration points) it gives you, especially since it depends on the distance to Sol (or perhaps your starting point?) of the system you're in. Did it ever give a meaningful amount of progression though?
Possibly. From my experience in May after the change, just needed to do a little math. For ex, if you are at 50% ranger, you need approx 29M more points to go to get to pioneer on the old chart. Progress as I mentioned (2:1 for exploration carto, 5:1 for sightseeing passenger).
That's what worked for me -Overall-. Do note that ED has some pretty weird rounding conventions tho. You can get identical back to back payments but with different exploration % progress.
Now SRV miles are kinda a wildcard, but in most cases carto and sightseeing payouts account for almost all the progress.
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Well, I got the last 1% I needed for Pioneer by bumbling around in my buggy.
I was on the far side of the Formadine Rift at the time, so I guess the distance from Sol factor helped
BTW, I'm currently 20% short of Elite, have sold well over 200 MCr, and have been playing since beta. Go figure.
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That table on the Wikia just adds to the confusion.Elite wiki has some info on this..
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Explorer
Profit required for a given rank as of v2.3 (confirmation required)
Rank Profit Required Aimless 0 Mostly Aimless 40,000 Scout 270,000 Surveyor 1,140,000 Trailblazer 4,140,000 Pathfinder 10,000,000 Ranger 35,000,000 Pioneer 116,000,000 Elite 200,000,000
glad to help
07
200 million is an edit by a CMDR with mixed earnings from pre and post 2.3 earnings.
Long story short. Elite in exploration can be reached with earnings somewhere in between 0 cr (full ranks with bubble exploration missions) to 315 million credits, if you're starting post 2.3 and only ranking up using cartography. With an uneven "cutoff" at 157.5 million for data sold now but scanned before the 2.3 update.
The reason I'm counting passenger exploration missions as 0 cr is because those earnings aren't shown under the exploration stats on the HUD panel.
To add to the confusion, passenger missions within the bubble adds less to the ranks than long range passenger missions outside the bubble.
The reason I'm counting passenger exploration missions as 0 cr is because those earnings aren't shown under the exploration stats on the HUD panel.
To add to the confusion, passenger missions within the bubble adds less to the ranks than long range passenger missions outside the bubble.
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