How do I submit a request for a CG?

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I had this idea (probably not the first to think of it) but wouldn’t it be cool to finally have a CG for us explorers? What if there was a CG to explore a nearby nubulea or star cluster or whatever to colonize. The thing could be hand in exploration data from this nebula/star cluster/etc to this station. And then after that CG is another CG to build a planetary port or an outpost or something. And maybe there could be a bounty hunt CG in the system you have to deliver the exploration data to “protect explorers” handing in data. Just a thought
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I had this idea (probably not the first to think of it) but wouldn’t it be cool to finally have a CG for us explorers? What if there was a CG to explore a nearby nubulea or star cluster or whatever to colonize. The thing could be hand in exploration data from this nebula/star cluster/etc to this station. And then after that CG is another CG to build a planetary port or an outpost or something. And maybe there could be a bounty hunt CG in the system you have to deliver the exploration data to “protect explorers” handing in data. Just a thought
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Going to curb your enthusiasm somewhat... the problem with Exploration CGs is there doesn't appear to be any way currently in-game to restrict the types of data, or regions it comes from. The last long-range exploration CG was for exploring The Rift/Conflux/That other one, but you could hand in data from anywhere and have it count.

Personally, I'd love to see missions and stuff for specific types of data, like "Get me detaled scans of 20 Icy Bodies", or "Find me 5 terraformable worlds" etc.. But yeah,,, if that existed, so would the mechanics for it, so yeah.

But don't let that dissuade you from trying to submit one.
 
Going to curb your enthusiasm somewhat... the problem with Exploration CGs is there doesn't appear to be any way currently in-game to restrict the types of data, or regions it comes from. The last long-range exploration CG was for exploring The Rift/Conflux/That other one, but you could hand in data from anywhere and have it count.

Personally, I'd love to see missions and stuff for specific types of data, like "Get me detaled scans of 20 Icy Bodies", or "Find me 5 terraformable worlds" etc.. But yeah,,, if that existed, so would the mechanics for it, so yeah.

But don't let that dissuade you from trying to submit one.

I didn’t know about that CG, wasn’t playing the game then. My thought is, say the CG is to explore the California nebula, the name of the system would have to begin with California Nebula for it to count. Not sure if that’s possible but it’d be cool.

I submitted the request for the CG to explore the dumbbell nebula. It’s about 1.3kly away. Never been there but I know it’s a planetary nebula so I thought’d it be cool. Probably gonna head out there soon just to have a look
 
Exploration has proved tricky for FD to missionize, either in regular missions or in CGs. Partly because, as mentioned above, the game doesn't track many of the features you would logically need, and partly because missions and CGs are always time-based, and exploration - proper exploration - takes longer than a typical mission or CG timeframe allows.

Eg. a "logical" exploration mission would be "We're planning on building a new deep-space colony in the Blau Aec sector. Fly to the Blau Aec sector and find at least five Earth-like planets". That's kind of vague; Blau Aec might or might not have any ELWs, and finding that many in any kind of reasonable timeframe will be tricky. I got lucky when I visited Blau Aec and found five ELWs in 24 hours, but it usually takes me two weeks to find that many. And Blau Aec is 12,000 LYs away; it would take me three weeks to travel to Blau Aec, and three back again. Missions don't normally have a seven-week time window.

Or how about "We've received some ambiguous readings on the Blau Aec PH-C d3 system, we want you to go there, scan the entire system, and report back with your findings". Here, besides the timeframe for getting there and back again, there also has to be some way for the mission generator to figure out that there's something in that system that's worth sending someone 12,000 LYs to re-scan. In this case, the explorer doing the mission will be saying to themselves, "it's just an Earth-like planet. I passed through five Earth-like-planet systems on my way here; what makes this one so special?".

Finally, what kind of rewards are going to be offered, to tempt explorers into constraining their normal open-sandbox activity for a mission-giver, perhaps for a couple of months? Credits? Explorers don't care about credits, or they wouldn't be explorers. Likewise influence, reputation and rank. The only thing I can think of that might tempt an explorer is the issue of an otherwise-unobtainable sector permit on completing the mission. And then, it would have to be a hand-created quest, not a procedurally-generated mission.
 
The last exploration CG I can remember was over a year ago now and yeah, as Jmanis said there's no way to only make data from a particular region count as far as we know. I remember getting in the top bracket for one of them because I just happened to return from a longish round trip as it started and dropped something stupid like 50m credits of exploration data on it.
 
When the first exploration CG were given, many many many people asked about specific systems, sectors etc. The answer was a fundamental no from the Devs. It was around this point I came to the conclusion that FDev hadn't really thought about these things. I doubt very much we'll see them ever in game, sadly. It made me think more on the game design and the apparent lack of planning in the design of the game. So many missed opportunities.
 
Or how about "We've received some ambiguous readings on the Blau Aec PH-C d3 system, we want you to go there, scan the entire system, and report back with your findings". Here, besides the timeframe for getting there and back again, there also has to be some way for the mission generator to figure out that there's something in that system that's worth sending someone 12,000 LYs to re-scan. In this case, the explorer doing the mission will be saying to themselves, "it's just an Earth-like planet. I passed through five Earth-like-planet systems on my way here; what makes this one so special?".
For missions, this would be easy enough. Generate missions for the closest unexplored systems to the station giving the mission.

Exploration CGs should just record whether a system was within a x,y,z cube to see if they could towards the CG or not.
 
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