I went to Sag A* and then way off for quote a bit of black hole farming - much more than I ever wanted to do - I'm sure there are several dozens black holes that now have my name attached. I successfully made it back to my base at Nehet, where I spend about half an hour selling all the data I gathered. (And I almost ended up needing the Fuel Rats - I was so transfixed in the jumping routine with my 64 ton fuel tank in my Asp Explorer, that I failed to notice the fuel running low. And I was inmidst of a field of unknown red-but-unscoopable stars. After two or three failed attempts to find a scoopable star - it was slightly more orange than the unscoopable orange-red ones, I finally made the jump to a good one. Whew!)
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While I sold my stuff, I paid attention to my explorer rank. I departed as a lowly Pathfinder. At one point, I looked at my rank: Ranger, 60%. I kept on selling, but it stayed at 60%. I still kept on selling (all in all, the trip earned me about 45M credits), and at one point it jumped to 80%. I thought: "okay, like update every five minutes or so". I kept on selling the remaining data for another couple of millions - but the rank is still at 80%, to this day. Stats say I explored for 49,850,000 CR in total. Depending on the source, that might actually coincide with 80% Ranger, but I still wonder why it didn't update. Has anybody else experienced this?
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(By the way: black holes look cool because of the gravity lens effect - but I suppose they're the safest thing to fly around in the entire game. Totally the opposite of neutron stars - while it's very easy to hit a neutron star's gravity field and emergency drop, a black hole's gravity field is a tiny circle, barely visible. You have to try hard to hit it, I never did, even though I didn't always pay close attention about where I was flying.)
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While I sold my stuff, I paid attention to my explorer rank. I departed as a lowly Pathfinder. At one point, I looked at my rank: Ranger, 60%. I kept on selling, but it stayed at 60%. I still kept on selling (all in all, the trip earned me about 45M credits), and at one point it jumped to 80%. I thought: "okay, like update every five minutes or so". I kept on selling the remaining data for another couple of millions - but the rank is still at 80%, to this day. Stats say I explored for 49,850,000 CR in total. Depending on the source, that might actually coincide with 80% Ranger, but I still wonder why it didn't update. Has anybody else experienced this?
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(By the way: black holes look cool because of the gravity lens effect - but I suppose they're the safest thing to fly around in the entire game. Totally the opposite of neutron stars - while it's very easy to hit a neutron star's gravity field and emergency drop, a black hole's gravity field is a tiny circle, barely visible. You have to try hard to hit it, I never did, even though I didn't always pay close attention about where I was flying.)
It looks like there is nothing but sudden 20-40-60-80 steps?
