I'm just a lowly scrub pilot who makes his money from cartography currently. I only have a BDS so far and cover a lot of ground to scan all the things in a system. BDS being only 500Ls range is trouble enough but I just got out of a system with a ton of asteroid clusters I missed on a pass through for some reason. Took me about 30 min to get them all and that is no help from needing to be 5Ls away from them. I know they are comparatively tiny but needing to be so close is eating up tons of time and for 30 min of work I netted a haul of 4.2k CR. And that was just the belt clusters. Am I suppose to ignored them and just get larger stellar bodies because scanning them seems to be a waste of time. And as far as I can tell size of the system isn't taken into account. I had a system that had a star 2,500,000Ls away that I spotted because someone left an FSD signature after dropping out of SC and that took me 50+ min even with my ship getting up to 1,499C. The credits I got from it were well below the effort put in. Not to mention I almost died to pirates when I got the because I had Silver on me. I know I'm not really suppose to have found that star and it's rich silvery deposits but there really should be a system size indicator so newer players that don't have an ADS will know it's just too big to spend too much time on unless you one. This on top of the scanners going from 500-1,000- whole system. Quite the escalation there. Just my opinion but some numbers need to have a look at here for some of this to feel rewarding.
Exploration Tweaks Please
- Thread starter Vashramire
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