Exploration Data Limit

[Portent]

Anyone know if there is a limit to the amount of exploration data a ship can hold (from scanning systems)?

As we head off into the unknown we're going to accrue a massive amount of info without the means to sell it (there will be no stations or outposts in the Uncharted areas). When (or if) we eventually return to civilisation, selling this could be very profitable, unless its capped.

If it is capped then there will be a point where our exploration is fruitless, other than for our own Comander's interest.

 

[Rock-Hermit]

No limit. Its risk vs reward. If players want to risk carrying 3 weeks worth of data chips around without coming back and cashing them in then thats their choice.

A smart explorer will find an outpost on the fringes of the frontier and use it as a base of operations, making regular runs back to it to cash in before heading back out.

 

[cptzipzap]

unlimited

and i think they are stored with the cmdr not the ship.

so you could fly away - die - respawn and sell.. at least thats how its done now.. << not 100 % sure though

maybe we find temporary wormholes?? maybe they are not totally random but have a pattern?

 

[CDR TSquared]

I would like to see the ability to color-shade your explored systems so you can easily see where you have been and where you should go instead of hovering over them individually to see if the system map option comes up. This would also look amazing at the 1-year mark when you look at all of the systems you have explored in that time period...

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unlimited

and i think they are stored with the cmdr not the ship.

so you could fly away - die - respawn and sell.. at least thats how its done now..

maybe we find temporary wormholes?? maybe they are not totally random but have a pattern?

I thought you lost all exploration data if your ship was destroyed...

 

[cptzipzap]

I would like to see the ability to color-shade your explored systems so you can easily see where you have been and where you should go instead of hovering over them individually to see if the system map option comes up. This would also look amazing at the 1-year mark when you look at all of the systems you have explored in that time period...

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I thought you lost all exploration data if your ship was destroyed...

i could be wrong - but when I crashed last time the data was still there.. maybe crash =! die...

maybe the data you sold is stored in your cmdr, but not sold data gets deleted upon ship destroying?

 

[Portent]

All data I've accrued has been lost each time I've died.

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No limit. Its risk vs reward. If players want to risk carrying 3 weeks worth of data chips around without coming back and cashing them in then thats their choice.

A smart explorer will find an outpost on the fringes of the frontier and use it as a base of operations, making regular runs back to it to cash in before heading back out.

Thats my plan but it does kinda limit how far you can go, depending on how much risk you want to take.

 

[Rock-Hermit]

I thought you lost all exploration data if your ship was destroyed...

I'm sure that's the plan for full release. Data chips are akin to combat bounty tokens.. I.e they are lost at ship destruction.

 

[Portent]

As you acrue data chips you're pretty soon going to by carrying a lot of creds worth of data. Does anyone know if this can be identified by pirates and stolen in the same way as cargo?

 

[CDR TSquared]

As you acrue data chips you're pretty soon going to by carrying a lot of creds worth of data. Does anyone know if this can be identified by pirates and stolen in the same way as cargo?

That would be an interesting mechanic if you could pick up an exploration data unit from the wreckage of a ship and sell it on the black market. That would certainly make exploration a bit riskier in open play.

 

[Portent]

That would be an interesting mechanic if you could pick up an exploration data unit from the wreckage of a ship and sell it on the black market. That would certainly make exploration a bit riskier in open play.

Yeah! A black box or data storage module could be scooped from the wreckage, on a chance of it not being destroyed in the explosion.

 

[Jackie Silver]

I've been flying trips scanning about 25 systems at a time; I think the most I've had without cashing them in has been closer to 50 systems.

 

[Portent]

I've been flying trips scanning about 25 systems at a time; I think the most I've had without cashing them in has been closer to 50 systems.

What sort of returns have you been getting on the data?

With the basic discovery scanner I seem to be getting around 600 cred$ for the main star and around a 1000 cred$ for each other system I'm finding.

No idea what you get with the detailed scanner as I've not had the spare cash to buy one, but that's my aim when starting earnest after Gamma release.

 

[Googol]

What sort of returns have you been getting on the data?

With the basic discovery scanner I seem to be getting around 600 cred$ for the main star and around a 1000 cred$ for each other system I'm finding.

No idea what you get with the detailed scanner as I've not had the spare cash to buy one, but that's my aim when starting earnest after Gamma release.

There are big rewards out there (although I suspect FD have buffed them just recently and they may get rebalanced again come gamma/release). Using a surface scanner hugely increases the value of the data and the best return I have had from a fully scanned system using it is 174,000 Cr. I have heard of others getting in excess of 200,000. My system, fwiw, was at the very far end of the pipe, had 12 planets and one of them was terrestrial so it probably pressed a few + buttons for reward purposes.

 

[Jackie Silver]

What sort of returns have you been getting on the data?

On my last two trips (after the recent buffing of returns), I made:

24 systems: 370,000 credits. This included one system (COL 285 Sector JE-6 B13-4 if I read my scrawled note rightly) which netted nearly 100,000 credits by itself from a single scan!
22 systems: 150,000 credits.

Generally I jump into a system, run the advanced scanner and detailed scan whichever star I emerge at and whichever other objects are within scanning range without moving, and then move on. Sometimes I'll move around to scan gas giants and companion stars if they're reasonably close. If I spot anything interesting like an Earthlike planet or strange arrangements of worlds I'll go scan that too.