Exploration: Elite!

After two long trips to the core and travelling approximately 100,000 light years, I've finally reached my main goal: Elite in Exploration!
It was quite a relaxed journey, no really dangerous things have happened apart from a few emergency stops at neutron stars and almost running out of fuel 3 times.

Stats:
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The most memorable system I've come across had nine potentially habitable planets:
2 Earth-like worlds
2 terraformable water worlds
5 terraformable high metal content planets
+1 neutron star
Payout with first discovery bonus was 712k CR
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A very nice side effect of all that exploration data was that I could get all the independent permits (the ones that do not need navy rank) without any extra effort.
I could just sell 5.3 million CR of data to the controlling minor faction to become allied with them and get the permit instantly. So now I have all currently obtainable permits as a bonus.
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Next up: Elite in Trading! (in anticipation of patch 1.5, gotta hoard more cash and buy all the new fancy ships!)
 
Congratulations

[video=youtube;us3dQ0nnlHY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us3dQ0nnlHY[/video]
 
Congrats CMDRs, what's next, trade or combat, or more exploration?

Trade is next, so I won't have to worry about money any more. I'm about halfway there.
I don't think I will focus on the combat ranking too much, that will just come as I play.
As for exploration, I feel I had enough jumping and scooping lately so I'll keep to the inhabited space for a while. I still want to rank up to Admiral, also there are a few nice powerplay weapons to collect. This will certainly last until Horizons is out and then back to exploration with moon buggies!
 
Permit question; Is it just a matter of finding the appropriate neighbor station(s), and sell the data page at a time, and check the comms until the permit msg appears? 5 pages at a time?
 
Permit question; Is it just a matter of finding the appropriate neighbor station(s), and sell the data page at a time, and check the comms until the permit msg appears? 5 pages at a time?

Look in this thread for the places where you need to go to sell your data. You want a station controlled by the main faction of the permit system.

Keep in mind that the Elite progress bar and the faction rep updates very slowly after selling the data, it can take several minutes (I think it is on a timer). So you can easily overshoot the needed quantity. Good thing is that the exploration profit number updates instantly, keep an eye on that instead. For me it was very consistent, 5 350 000 CR was enough to reach allied status. I was counting the profits and then went to the bulletin board, which forced an update of the reputation count (logout / login works too). Then the permit-giving mission moved up from the "available but unobtainable" section and I could take it.
 
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Well done, Commander!

This one is for you.

[video=youtube_share;ekgzCPauXQM]https://youtu.be/ekgzCPauXQM[/video]

Cheers.
 
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