As always, it depends what you can and how much.
Exploration has never been a "fast" way to earn credits but on my current trip I'll probably end up scanning about 14000 systems and earn about 4Bn credits.
Agreed ... my trip will have taken me about 10 months to complete
10 months of mining void opals would earn you much much more ...
Exploration has never been a "fast" way to earn credits but on my current trip I'll probably end up scanning about 14000 systems and earn about 4Bn credits.
Agreed ... my trip will have taken me about 10 months to complete
10 months of mining void opals would earn you much much more ...
This brings a question to my mind:...
And of course if we die we lose everything, the money, the discovery tags, the mapping tags, everything, isn't life fun.
I know if you die you lose all of your collected data, but what about your Codex entries? Is that affected as well?
No, the rewards for codex entries are stored separate from exploration data and remain even if you are destroyed...ask me how I know
Lol howNo, the rewards for codex entries are stored separate from exploration data and remain even if you are destroyed...ask me how I know
Don't tell me... it happened?
A whopping 22mil
LOL. I got nearly that just jumping around the bubble and casually honking everything + mapping a few planets I wanted to surface mine.
Exploration is.... worthless.
No, exploration is free money, no effort required, just a 5 second button press...
I'll expact to 'earn' 500 mill or so just going from the bubble to my destination... in what would otherwise be 'dead time'... yep, worthless...
I just got back from a quick trip out to the Bubble Nebula. On the way I was just travelling, and every system already had first-discovered tags. But making a little effort and honking every system, plus scanning all of the usual high-value targets revealed that very few had been mapped. So I mapped them.
On the return leg, I flew a couple of hundred LY off the beaten track and nearly every system on the way home was undiscovered.
I cashed in last night - more than 250m cr. Easy money!
On the return leg, I flew a couple of hundred LY off the beaten track and nearly every system on the way home was undiscovered.
I cashed in last night - more than 250m cr. Easy money!
No, you cannot rename anything else than your ships.
I just took a recent clear-save account out on it's Professor Proton "Let's go find Sheldon" trip - I was in totally untagged systems within 700 Ly of Sol even.
People need to play Mr Spock at chess more often or maybe they are too "Khan" and forget about the 3rd dimension.
Oh yeah! Around September last year I decided to visit Colonia... I started by flying straight down from the Bubble about 500ly. From there to Colonia I don't think I hit a single tagged system until a couple of hundred LY from destination. Made a mint!!
That's unfortunate because I had compiled a list of really cool names.
Yep. It's like chump change. 500 mil along the way. Definitely free money.
As a mechanic, it's worthless though.
I've earned a Pathfinder rank just going back and forth within the bubble. Scanning the same systems over and over again as I pass between them, selling them to different... or even the same stations.
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