Newcomer / Intro Exploration data: A running tally

[Rock Hunter]

I’m back out exploring at the moment and it’s reminded me of a question I asked myself on my last trip but forgot to ask on the forum.

Is there a website or program that can track your accrued credits from the scans you’ve completed on your trips out?

I use ED Discovery which records the total of each body and/or systems credit value from scan data but it doesn’t appear to be able to tot it up as a running total. I suppose it’s hardly a necessary tool but one I’d have thought many Cmdrs may like to have.

I also use Inara and EDDB but neither of those appear to offer anything like this, unless I’m missing something.

 

[Stabby_Dave]

Have a look at this site. Other than EDDB, it's the go to place for - well, everything.

Needs a small 3rd party program to be run before you start Elite, but it records, pretty much, everything.

Take a look: https://inara.cz/news/

 

[Rock Hunter]

Thanks for the link, I've been using inara for a few months now but I don't think they keep track of much in the way of exploration data, certainly not how much you've made per trip....I may be missing something though, many of these sites are so densely packed with information it can be hard to find your way to the information you're looking for the first time.

 

[Para Handy]

I have not used it (there are so many features of it that I have not even glanced at) but EDDiscovery has a feature called "Expedition" (it is one of the main "Tabs"), that groups all the data from one point onwards (or between two dates?). I think I have that correct - basically it allows you to say "Right, I'm off on a trip, lets keep a running tab". You will need to look up how to do it on the Wiki or ask in the EDD thread but I am sure it exists and it might do what you want.

 

[Dommarraa]

Its almost impossible to know, even for 3rd party reading the log files. They have no idea if you are 1st Discovery or not, as even ED doesn't know till you hand it in.

The time where you actually care about the monetary value of data you have is short lived. Getting money is good, but it is quickly irrelevant to the level that it doesn't effect your exploration decisions.

 

[Maenden]

You can export ED Discovery data as an Excel file.
If you export it as CSV then you can import it into Excel or any other spreadsheet.

You can then total everything, or just part of the the range, using the SUM() function.

 

[varonica]

I have not used it (there are so many features of it that I have not even glanced at) but EDDiscovery has a feature called "Expedition" (it is one of the main "Tabs"), that groups all the data from one point onwards (or between two dates?). I think I have that correct - basically it allows you to say "Right, I'm off on a trip, lets keep a running tab". You will need to look up how to do it on the Wiki or ask in the EDD thread but I am sure it exists and it might do what you want.

The expedition or route options aren't useful, what you want to enable is the statistics view either in its own windows or a separate tab, this allows you to set a start and end date and view travel statistics in various ways.

Here's the basic view, of course it only goes as far back as EDDiscovery actually started putting this stuff in the journal, you can set the start and end date in the drop down menu and see everything between those dates.

As already mentioned though it won't give you first discovery values as these aren't calculated until you turn in the data, but the other stuff is all there.

 

[Rock Hunter]

Thanks for the information everyone.

At the moment I’m trying to work out what kind of credits I’m getting from periods of jump, honk and scoop compared to periods of scanning entire systems. I suppose it’s just at times I feel like I’m not moving very far and so go through periods of jump after jump simply to keep moving but then I feel like I’m missing so much that I’ll scan everything in systems regardless of overall value just because I’m the first there, then there are the systems that have been visited and have high value bodies or systems that have been half scanned.

Perhaps I’m making excuses as, if I’m entirely honest, I’m out there wishing I’d gone in my Asp for a decent view rather than my Anaconda which may allow me a fighter bay and several SRVs for some fun and mineral gathering but has an awful view, in my opinion.

Varonica - that’s perfect, thank you. I’ve now got that set up, first discovery values aren’t necessary...just a running total of vague credits.

 

[CMDR Is Fat]

The expedition or route options aren't useful, what you want to enable is the statistics view either in its own windows or a separate tab, this allows you to set a start and end date and view travel statistics in various ways.

Here's the basic view, of course it only goes as far back as EDDiscovery actually started putting this stuff in the journal, you can set the start and end date in the drop down menu and see everything between those dates.

As already mentioned though it won't give you first discovery values as these aren't calculated until you turn in the data, but the other stuff is all there.

Thanks for this, thought it deserved a bump as it is still relevant and handy information to have/know!

Edit - A shame it cant be merged with the estimated scan values page!

 

[Frankymole]

EDSM (Elite Dangerous Star Map) tracks the approx value of discovered/scanned/mapped bodies since last docking:

 

[CMDR Is Fat]

EDSM (Elite Dangerous Star Map) tracks the approx value of discovered/scanned/mapped bodies since last docking:

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This works, but you have to be registered and logged in, with EDD it runs local, no connection needed plus realtime updates.


Im almost sorry for the necro, I have seen worse but occasionally it just needs to be done!
Or sometimes you just need to drag that hit with a capitol s up!