Exploration Cartographic Pricing?.

Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
I have been on a "take my time" long range exploration trip in my fleet carrier since shortly after the release of the on foot update. Currently about 6 carrier jumps from Sagitarius X. Since starting out I have been getting on average between 1-2 million credits per "worth mapping" type planets and very little for anything else.

At my previous system stop I was down on tritium and as there was a multi hot spot ring in that system I mined it around two hours per evening for about a month for around 2.5k tons of Tritium and another 1k+ of Alexandrite, Granditerite, Void Opals and Low Temp Diamonds etc. Yesterday I jumped into the next system on my route and as usual went out in my Diamondback Explorer and scanned the system. Nothing there really just a few icy planets etc. On returning to my carrier I was amazed to get almost 2 million credits for the scan.

Tonight I went out scanning a few nearby systems and found 6 mappable planets including two waterworlds. On returning to my Carrier I was amazed to find this gave me a return of just less than 30 million credits including over 10 million for one of the waterworlds. My question is, has there been a boost in exploration payments in the last month or is this a bug?.
 

Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
metatheurgist said:

COMPLETED CG - Ammonia World Survey Campaign (Exploration)

Summary System: Eta Cassiopeiae Station: Angus Manwaring (Coriolis starport, large pads available, 808 Ls from main star, 19.45 Ly from Sol) Objective: Deliver exploration data (especially systems containing Amonia based worlds) Time limit: 16th March 3309 @ 07:00 UTC Description Universal...
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Unsure what you mean here, I read through the link but I certainly took no part in it and apparently it finished on the 16/03/23 and my post was about events on the 21st & 22nd/03/23?.
 

Codger

Codger
Saltyseadog said:
Unsure what you mean here, I read through the link but I certainly took no part in it and apparently it finished on the 16/03/23 and my post was about events on the 21st & 22nd/03/23?.
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Because of that CG there is currently a 3x multiplier on all Exploration data scanned and turned in after the CG completed. It will continue for a couple weeks.
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
Saltyseadog said:
On returning to my Carrier I was amazed to find this gave me a return of just less than 30 million credits including over 10 million for one of the waterworlds. My question is, has there been a boost in exploration payments in the last month or is this a bug?
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I don't know how the rewards for DSS data is calculated, but from my experience it can vary enormously. You could scan two high metal content worlds that look very similar and have very similar characteristics (like radius, mass, etc), and get 1M from one and 20M from the other. Same with water worlds. If there's a pattern or reason for this, I haven't noticed it. Sometimes you can get a bigger reward from a high metal content world than from a terrestrial water world. It seems really random.
 

marx

marx
DjVortex said:
I don't know how the rewards for DSS data is calculated, but from my experience it can vary enormously.
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You can find the exact method in MattG's exploration value formulae thread. Long story short: from the planet's physical characteristics, it only depends on its mass. Planet type too, of course, and a modifier for terraformability. Then there are the first discovery, first mapping, efficiency bonuses.

As for the exploration CG, the final reward was that payouts will be tripled for two weeks after it ended. (That was on March 16, so it'll continue till March 30.) This only counts for scans made after the end though, which is an important distinction. From what I hear, and can tell, this time around Frontier implemented this in a way that the base payout values are the ones that are tripled. This should mean that rank progression and squadron leaderboard points are also tripled from data sales, and while I can't test the former, I did test the latter, and it worked. I could see Frontier deliberately working in a specific change so that the rank progression isn't tripled though, so I don't know.
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
It may not be even nearly as lucrative as exobiology (for the number of systems visited), but it can still earn you a pretty penny...

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