Exploration payouts - mapped planets

Hordriss

Hordriss
I've looked around, but can't see a note anywhere of what sort of extra payout you get from fully mapping a planet with probes, compared to getting its data from the FSS.

I'm asking because fully mapping a system has a significantly higher time investment. If I'm just after the payouts as opposed to looking for interesting things, is that extra time well spent?
 

Bryski

Bryski
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IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
FMITN....

I'm now very seriously considering sponsoring a contest - guess the value of my exploration data, once I complete my trek around and across the galaxy, a trip that will cover 27 sectors. Closest without going over wins... something....
 

Shiro Akai

Shiro Akai
Sadly don't have right now access to my latest exploration payouts so I'll refer to my faulty memory. IN general, fully mapping planets is very profitable. When I just FSS the system and see there;s nothing of interest I get few thousand credits (~3k per twin suns, no planets) up to few hundred thousands (170-200k per scanning just gas giants). If you add metal content and/or high metal content then payouts can pass a million credits. I saw 800k-1.2M for such scans.

Ofc Ammonia, WW and ELW are the best paying ones. Single FSS of an ELW is ~600k. Mapping it with probes raises the bar even higher. My recent highest payout was over 12 M per single system. It had Ammonia, 3x WW and 2x ELW, rest of the rabble I skipped.

One small system, 2x WW and single ELW + handful of rocky bodies gave me the highest payout so far - over 13M. I discovered that system over a year ago, after exploration mechanic change I went there to map it. Now this system is both discovered and fully mapped by me.

Overall fully mapping system is time consuming. If you're after credits focus on high value spots. Learn the wave scanner to easily spot metal content, ELW, WW, Ammonia and gas giants. FSS those, probe Ammonia, WW and ELW. I am doing this on my current exploration journey, made more 10k, less than 15k LYs and so far earned 128M. Solid payout, not theoretical since I sold that data. Could be more but I skipped on some planets, sometimes you don't want to travel 380k Ls for a single WW to map.
 

Hordriss

Hordriss
Shiro Akai said:
Sadly don't have right now access to my latest exploration payouts so I'll refer to my faulty memory. IN general, fully mapping planets is very profitable. When I just FSS the system and see there;s nothing of interest I get few thousand credits (~3k per twin suns, no planets) up to few hundred thousands (170-200k per scanning just gas giants). If you add metal content and/or high metal content then payouts can pass a million credits. I saw 800k-1.2M for such scans.

Ofc Ammonia, WW and ELW are the best paying ones. Single FSS of an ELW is ~600k. Mapping it with probes raises the bar even higher. My recent highest payout was over 12 M per single system. It had Ammonia, 3x WW and 2x ELW, rest of the rabble I skipped.

One small system, 2x WW and single ELW + handful of rocky bodies gave me the highest payout so far - over 13M. I discovered that system over a year ago, after exploration mechanic change I went there to map it. Now this system is both discovered and fully mapped by me.

Overall fully mapping system is time consuming. If you're after credits focus on high value spots. Learn the wave scanner to easily spot metal content, ELW, WW, Ammonia and gas giants. FSS those, probe Ammonia, WW and ELW. I am doing this on my current exploration journey, made more 10k, less than 15k LYs and so far earned 128M. Solid payout, not theoretical since I sold that data. Could be more but I skipped on some planets, sometimes you don't want to travel 380k Ls for a single WW to map.
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I just came back from a short exploration trip, literally 700LY or so. Found every body via FSS and mapped most as well - made just under 15m. I wasn't sure how much of an impact the DSS had. Seems it's not worth the effort to map rocky or icy worlds from a sheer credit point of view, but then, those have always been an extremely low payout.
 

oz42

oz42
Bryski - thanks for the table, really useful!

I didn't realise but there is a simple relationship between these figures;

- if you also DSS, you get FSS * 4
- if you're 1st, you get FSS (or FSS+DSS) * 3

Not sure if this was always the way but Exploration Discoveries are paying out pretty well now.
 

VR SenseiMatty

VR SenseiMatty
It's a bit sad that gas giants are rewarded so low.

It takes longer, much more probes and the efficiency target is harder to get and their value is in line with their rocky moons that only require 2 probes randomly shot to be completely mapped.
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
SenseiMatty said:
It's a bit sad that gas giants are rewarded so low.

It takes longer, much more probes and the efficiency target is harder to get and their value is in line with their rocky moons that only require 2 probes randomly shot to be completely mapped.
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Plus you cant find anything there with the probes anyway, so the only in-game reason is credits.
 

Nasc

N
IndigoWyrd said:
FMITN....

I'm now very seriously considering sponsoring a contest - guess the value of my exploration data, once I complete my trek around and across the galaxy, a trip that will cover 27 sectors. Closest without going over wins... something....
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Not a cent over the last three phone books in existence not being used as a makeshift step by children and short men who hang around in the gym and flex in every mirror just in case they gain an inch in the reflection.
Lock in my answer, please.
 

Xalos

Xalos
Only thing I will add is terraformable planets pay out quite nice, as the table shows. Also, class 2 gas giants are the only ones worth scanning.
 
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