External site - Road to Riches?

Susanna

Susanna
Hi Cmdrs,

I came across this website which offers a number of search criteria (mostly for making money).

http://edtools.ddns.net/expl.php

If you have used it, what is your experience of it?

I'm struggling to see how this is in any way better than just heading out into the black and doing some proper exploration.

Some of the others tools at this site look interesting though. Especially the resource extraction site finder.

Your Thought Please?
 
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Codger

Codger
The site specifically targets you to systems that have large payouts due to the presence of water worlds, earth-like worlds, ammonia worlds, and terraformables. It's not intended for normal exploration use, it's intended as a way to make quick money scanning stuff, and to get lots of sellable exploration data for use when getting allied or working on permits.
 

Susanna

Susanna
artigan99 said:
The site specifically targets you to systems that have large payouts due to the presence of water worlds, earth-like worlds, ammonia worlds, and terraformables. It's not intended for normal exploration use, it's intended as a way to make quick money scanning stuff, and to get lots of sellable exploration data for use when getting allied or working on permits.
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So it's essentially a rank quickly [in exploration] tool then?
 

shadow133

shadow133
I find the RtR is extremely useful for people like me that lead “normal” lifes and have a very limited time to play. Yes, when I had more free time and went to Colonia my first time on a long range exploration I collected around 250 mn data, took me a couple weeks at my own pace and I almost lost it all to a NS and a bug. Recently with RtR I made 800mn in 5 days. It wasnt even the best way to make cr before the passenger missions got hammered down, but I enjoyed the alone time in my dbx. Theres no time constrains, zero pressure and you are always close to the bubble and can change activities quickly if it gets boring. I like it and appreciate that it was shared with the community.

The other use, and mainly why I use it now, is to collect and trade data to get aligned with factions. I used it to unlock some permits this way. Honestly I feel like tools such as ed discovery should be able to calculate your own RtR by filtering targets, since it already connects with edsm to get explored planets data, but I have yet to find a way to do it. You also earn ranks too. Again its shared info in lieu of randomly exploring stuff. One way (RtR) is faster for cr and rank, the other may get your name tag to it.
 

kofeyh

kofeyh
Susanna said:
Your Thought Please?
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I'm sensing a pattern; also Frontier's penchant for mechanics that are best served via third party tools. Also, there is no such thing as "proper" exploration. There are endless perceptions, though. But they do not necessarily equate to 'better'. ;)
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
The RtR's are a one-shot boost to starting explorers (or anyone who can bother to fly a few thousand ly for a moderate profit) . You won't get any first discoveries, and you can only sell each planet once. I've used them when re-starting with a new CMDR in order to get the money to properly upgrade my Sidewinder while doing the trip to the Pleiades to get Felicity's alloys.
 

krylite

krylite
RtR seems to be one of the last credit boosts that hasn't been nerfed. (one way to nerf it would be to make the systems and planets explored and no longer unexplored say if at least a thousand pilots had scanned and sold their data). Technically not an "exploit" imo, and good as an "exploration tutorial" and one still has to do the work of flying out there and cataloging each system, and to help new cmdrs get into the exploration mode where doing the whole rtr can net close to 300 million.
 

A D

A D
Nice find. +1

The site is rather plain looking, but gave it a spin.

Searched for systems within 200 Ly of Lembava that have not been visited. For those players who are not familiar with Lembava, it is the HQ for Yong-Rui and is well and truly in the bubble. It and other systems in the sector are regularly visited by players looking for discounted prices on ships, so a reasonably busy place I guess.

Anyway, it told me that there are 9,081 systems within 200 Ly of Lembava and listed 600 systems (with 1,096 planets) that had not been visited, of which 165 were populated. Now that is interesting - it is a big galaxy! :)
 
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Shiro Akai

Shiro Akai
I have used Road to Riches twice. First one was to see if it really works, visited 10 systems and got back to cash in. Got slightly above 6M, can't remember how long it took me. But considered payout to effort (mind, every system was a jackpot) it was nice money. Not super fat paycheck, not a small either. Few days later I did 2nd run - spent few evenings, visited over 30 systems. Earned around 40M.

Considering my last proper exploration trip (Sag*A and back) got me 110M and took nearly 2 weeks, RtR is more convenient. You get money faster, you travel around the bubble and very near to it (200-300 LYs, with light explo build means you can get back on one fuel tank), if needed you can hold RtR and do something else (not possible while 18k LY away).

I did RtR because I needed exploration data to bypass station's rep grind. Credits were nice bonus despite I'm always in need of money. In general - tools like RtR (for me at least) are means to shortcut some tedious times. There is an interesting place I could benefit from. But it requires allied and gaining that status would take too long. So rather quick RtR, dump exploration data and allied we are. On top of that few extra millions in the pocket. This I consider extras, not a main actions to earn money.
 

Muetdhiver

Muetdhiver
It's very nice and it works well. It's bulk trading, so nowhere near top money, but still good.

There is also a python app somewhere that can be configured to seek triangular routes that are very, very lucratives.
 

A D

A D
Muetdhiver said:
It's very nice and it works well. It's bulk trading, so nowhere near top money, but still good.

There is also a python app somewhere that can be configured to seek triangular routes that are very, very lucratives.
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Yummm...donuts [big grin]
 
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