How to Maximize Exploration Profit?

Therris

T
I splurged on an advanced discovery scanner and have been scanning every system I visit.

Wondering if selling exploration data acts the same as rare commodities? Does the price increase with distance from the scanned system? Does the price max out after traveling 20LY away from the scanned system? What's the optimal distance to sell the info?

Thx in advance!
 

Dablin

Dablin
Get yourself a surface scanner as well. It is supposed to double the profits from the scanning supposibly (as you can tell I don't have one). It is supposed to complement the discovery scanner, it doesn't replace it.

I am in the understanding the cartographic information does increase as you venture further from the discovery point but I am not sure what the cut off point is ot if there is one. I'm still quite a bit out in my first deep space exploration so am yet to return to find out how things work out.

Personally I plan on doing a lap around the whole galaxy, will only return if my ship takes a decent hit in damage.
 

Therris

T
Ok, Trying to make this as concise as possible for others. Please feel free to edit:

1) Use Advanced D Scanner + Detailed Surface Scanner
2) Ignore Asteroid belts around suns
3) Only use surface scanner on certain planet types (earth-like, metalic?, ??)
4) ??
 

grae3107

grae3107
Advanced scanner and detailed surface scanner.

Scan every planet that is not white (Ice), every sun, every gas giant and every black hole. Ignore asteroid clusters.

Sell in the nearest system you can. The price does not change the further you go. I scanned one system with 15 suns, a couple of planets and 3 black holes for 111k.
 

Wolfman

Wolfman
And make sure to scan those metallic planets! Don't be tempted to just jump in scan and jump out. It's well worth the extra effort when you get back.
 

Renso

Banned
Renso
The small icy planets will get you roughly 100Cr only... if they're lined up though and you have the time.. they add up.
The metallics about 5k
The jovian or gas giants about 1K per.
Also, stars seem to get around the same per star type regardless of the distance... I trekked 300K Ls to find that the profit wasn't worth the time.. for me at least.

Am also under the impression that surface scanning every body in a system nabs you a bonus.. but I've yet to test this.

Now what I do know is that the closer you get to any given body while passive surface scanning the faster the process is.
And that the trigger for when passive surface scanning starts is roughly determined by mass.
 
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