This kind of proves Northpin's point correct. 34 million in just 2 hours for two Exobiology species on one planet. It can take far less than 2 hours to scan 2 species on one planet too. Probably 10 to 15 minutes depending on what they are.
2 hours to scan just 2 specimen? Through how many hoops do you have to jump to succesfully complete one?
Please proof it!
I would suggest for devs to add "density multiplier", i.e. if some bacteria happens once per 500 kms - make it base price x5, if it "almost" the same color as surrounding texture - add x2 mult etc. Low planet illumination + same colors - make it x50....on such planets it can take 7-8 hours to collect 3 samples for 1 bacteria.
So this will reflect that harder to find thing - better it pays.
Hold your horses. Sally already said those numbers don't look right and they'll look into it.
That's impossible. You don't know where they are in advance if they're "first discovered" when you find them!
I know why. It's because other people are getting the payouts!
You can have a rough guess where some species will be though, based on planetary type. You won't know where they are, no but if you jump into systems, look for tenuous atmospheric planets and then scan them, you can probably get through a few in a pretty quick time if you only focus on the high-paying one's. 1 billion in a hour is extreme, I grant you but many species have the same payout as Aleoida do, so you can still make a lot of money from Exobiology in a pretty quick timeframe if you know what you're looking for.
It's about the rank progression for me.
I would second that one !as above, pay seems comparable to other activities - so thats balanced.
i'd agree the imbalance is the ranking... perhaps they 'forgot' to increase ranking levels.
so, id vote, keep new payouts, but also increase ranking levels... `
not as much as payout increase, e.g. say payout is 10x , perhaps make ranking levels 3x?
of course, no change is going to please everyone... but thats the price of progress.
(and it is a game at the end of the day
OK, knowing the right planets to look for is certainly a valid part of the exobiology technique. Give us a link to this "1 billion per hour" though, because I still don't believe it. I think it's just made up to cause mischief when FD are trying to balance things.
Don't nerf the exobiology payouts!
They look right to me.
Hmm. 5 minutes per plant seems a reasonable estimate for time to sample, in my experience. Best plants (anything above mid-range before) are capped at 16.7 million each, x5 for first discovery. So that's 12 plants per hour, at 80 million per plant, would be close to a billion, but that's not counting the time needed to fly to the planets you need to get the data, even if you do know roughly where they are.
It's not bad at all. It's a decent-paying activity for explorers at last.
