Exploring - Full System Scans

[nick_j_bacon]

Just two cents on Exploring.

I'd like to suggest a bonus for doing full system scan. Seems a lot of commanders just cherry pick the high value bodies in a system and leave everything else unscanned.

Might be a good way to encourage "proper" system scans

 

[Shir]

Since the game is aiming at being realistic/simulation like, the current model of rewards seems better to me. In actual explorations, people WOULD prioritize, and search after the valuable and usefull rather than the trivial and useless. A commander that would choose to scan everything would be extremely counter productive, and probably swiflty replaced

 

[Zenith]

Sometimes though, you want to scan every last body so the data is preserved for everyone to view in EDSM.

Some of us taking surveying a series of systems more seriously than we should.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Since the game is aiming at being realistic/simulation like, the current model of rewards seems better to me. In actual explorations, people WOULD prioritize, and search after the valuable and usefull rather than the trivial and useless. A commander that would choose to scan everything would be extremely counter productive, and probably swiflty replaced

Possibly. While the individual bodies might not have a lot of value, there are definitely 'realistic' applications for knowing what all of them are as well.

"There's a terraformable HMC here" - valuable information
"There's a Class 3 giant in a nearby orbit that drags an asteroid cluster across it every six years" - also valuable information.

You might pay pretty well for the person who came back with the first message ... but you'd also want to pay someone to thoroughly check for the second before launching the terraforming fleets.