You're not earning 22+mil in that short of time randomly scanning things.
Do NOT do passenger missions. There is something wrong with them right now, you can get a criminal on your manifest without knowing it, which will get your ship destroyed in some places. Not worth the risk.
Not everyone is a masochist. You might like to torture yourself like that, but the rest of us don't.
As for OP, there's plenty of bubble road to riches, here's my loop: http://edtools.ddns.net/expl.php?s=unktock&d=400&n=700
If you do the whole loop, it's about 700 million credits.
I find the whole idea of being able to sell exploration data for inhabited systems illogical.
Selling updated data isn't the same as a 'finders fee'.THISI find the whole idea of being able to sell exploration data for inhabited systems illogical.
Selling updated data isn't the same as a 'finders fee'.
I'm pretty sure people survey rivers and stuff these days, as things change.
Ok, so I had to restart my progress do to a bug and decided to do road to riches to get myself started BUT I have an issue now, I’m trying to get elite rank in exploration and in 22.5 mil short, does anyone have advice on where I can go to get this cash? If so I’d like to hear it but I don’t want to go back to colonia, I much rather stay near the bubble if you have advice
When you say you had to re-start your progress does that mean you did a "clear save" and started over?
If that is the case, run the Professor Palin access mission and simply fly 5000 LY away from your point of in-game origin. Pick the direction that takes you straight past Maia and on the way back you can stop off at a Barnacle Forest, shoot down a few Scavengers from your SRV and collect 25 units of Thargoid Sensor to "unlock" the professor and get your Thrusters modified. The G5 Dirty Drive modifications are worth the effort and this trip also gains you access to Elvira Martuuk.
I did exactly this in an A-rated, modified DBX. Fitted with an AFMU (and SRV), taking advantage of the neutron superhighway this trip took only 4 to 5 hours round-trip. o7
........... does anyone have advice on where I can go to get this cash? ............
22m from scanning things is easy, any 2000ly trip towards nothing in particular will net that, and without scanning moons.
What? No. I've made the trip to/from Colonia a bunch of times and it consistently brought about 5-10mil. And that's a 22,000ly trip. More than 10 times the distance you're proposing. What am I doing wrong?
That would be equivalent to selling system data for an uninhabited (but already discovered) system - or perhaps surface scanning a far-orbit world in an inhabited system...
Scanning a well-populated system and selling the data would be like me getting paid for having the GPS on whilst I drive around central London...
All these inhabited systems are going to be absolutely crammed with GPS/Comms/Imaging/weather/traffic control satellites aren't they...are you suggesting a player is going to provide data they can't ???
Interesting. Will have to give that a try. I am desperately in need of funds, too.You aren't scanning stuff and you are on a well traveled route, I would guess? I got 50m (which I understand is pittance compared to the potential of my trip, I am told) from my 5000ly trip (10,000+ly round trip) to the Rosette nebula, via witchhead and flame, scanning anything that wasn't a moon (and some moons, I scanned most stuff in systems I discovered first) that was within 5000ls of the drop in point, or more if it was something super interesting. Abnd I was in a 55ly year ship (minimising the number of systems I would visit compared to a ship with a shorter range) just trying to get the ly done, I wasn't even out thwre to do proper exploring.
Anyway, first discoveries start coming thick and fast at 2000ly out, even on my route, which is also relatively well travelled (though nothing like as well traveled as the colonia route I would warrant, even with the headstart the nebulae had up to now), so if you were to head in a totally random direction toward nothing in particular, you'd start making first discoveries as little as 1000ly out, maybe even less if you get a lucky direction that few chose before.
It was worth it I'd say, got some nice shots.
NOM NOM NOM...
https://i.imgur.com/FxO6S3D.jpg
Ok, so I had to restart my progress do to a bug and decided to do road to riches to get myself started BUT I have an issue now, I’m trying to get elite rank in exploration and in 22.5 mil short, does anyone have advice on where I can go to get this cash? If so I’d like to hear it but I don’t want to go back to colonia, I much rather stay near the bubble if you have advice
You're misinformed. The only thing wrong with passenger missions is bad UI/UX which makes it non-obvious which missions have criminal passengers.
If you want to avoid criminal passengers, there are two places to look: (1) At the top of the mission description, there is sometimes (but not always) a message which says "passenger may be wanted in multiple systems." Don't take these missions. (2) Near the bottom of the mission description (the blue text), it will sometimes (but not always) say "Criminal. yadda-yadda-yadda-some-flavor-text-here." Don't take these missions either.
The last thing is, after you've loaded up on passengers and are about to depart the station, take a look at your ship's HUD on the lower right, and see if there's a red "Wanted Passengers" message down there. IF that's the case, look through your missions on the left hand panel, figure out which one of your passengers is a criminal, and cancel that mission. You'll know you succeeded because you won't see a "wanted passengers" message anymore.
Not a big deal.