Exploration rewards - unbalanced?

krautbernd

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While i'm not complaining about the payouts, this seems kind of unbalanced comapared to what you had to do before the update to level your exploration rank. I was at 60% Pioneer before this trip and usually got around 10 Million credits per page scanning almost everything in a system. It took me multiple, week-long trips outside the bubble to get to that. Now, with one 10k LY trip that took two about a week of playing, simple scanning with the FSS and mapping terraformables got me more of a reward then everything i'd done prior. Is this intended?

 

jacob99

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It's not really unbalanced. The higher payouts are as a results of bonuses which are achieved by putting more skill and effort into exploration (efficiency bonuses for example), and therefore are justified. Not to mention that exploration before 3.3 was one of the worst paid play styles, it was about time it received a buff again.

krautbernd said:
If that gets me half-way to Elite, then yes, it probably is.
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Then the issue is with the threshold for reaching Elite Exploration then, not the payouts.
 
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krautbernd

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jacob99 said:
It's not really unbalanced. The higher payouts are as a results of bonuses which are achieved by putting more skill and effort into exploration (efficiency bonuses for example), and therefore are justified. Not to mention that exploration before 3.3 was one of the worst paid play styles, it was about time it received a buff again.
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Shouldn't prgression be in line with other playstyles though? I can now get my exploration rank up to Elite in a fraction of the time i need for the same rank in combat. This isn't so much a matter of payouts as it is of points needed to advance through the ranks.
 
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jacob99

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krautbernd said:
Shouldn't prgression be in line with other playstyles though? I can now get my exploration rank up to Elite in a fraction of the time i need for the same rank in combat. This isn't so much a matter of payouts as it is of points needed to advance through the ranks.
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Yeah, definitely. Explroation Elite was already too easy to reach on the old payouts, so now the threshold needs to be increased. Perhaps make it 1 billion credits earned so it is in line with Trade Elite?
 

krautbernd

K
jacob99 said:
Yeah, definitely. Explroation Elite was already too easy to reach on the old payouts, so now the threshold needs to be increased. Perhaps make it 1 billion credits earned so it is in line with Trade Elite?
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With these payouts i think that might be appropriate.
 
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