Mapped Mineral Hotspots in Rings

[A D]

Questions for those in the know:

- Are mapped mineral hotspots in planet rings persistent (i.e. show up in the nav panel later for benefit of all)?
- Are credits given for scanning the ring.

I ask because I am out exploring and mapping planets. Planets that have rings require the "rings" to be mapped separately. Easy to do, just shoot a probe at the rings as well and it comes up as a separate discovered item. I'm happy to do this for miners if they get any benefit, which means the hotspots need to be persistent and show up in the nav panel for all up the track.

Should say in passing, looks like "geological" POI's that are revealed when mapping a planet are persistent, so imagine mineral hotspots could be the same.

Also, would like some credits? What's the story there? Has anyone done some work on the credits now paid for FSS scanning and mapping systems?

 

[John Xenir]

re 1: They are persistent - I've repeatedly returned to the same mining hot spot throughout last 4 days. That said, I don't know what lifetime such hot spot has.
re 2: No data I've seen indicates any extra credit for scanning the ring.

As to your last question: what do you mean? Are you asking if payouts increased? Or how much extra credits you get for scanning entire system?

 

[Deleted member 38366]

- yes, BUT
a) you need to carry a DSS to make them visible again
b) no, not that I'm aware of. You do get a HUD notification of the Discovery from Mapping Rings - but they don't count as valid UC Data for sale.

For all I know, Mapping Rings only makes sense if you wish to return for Mining later.
Stellar Phenomenon existing in the Rings are already discovered via FSS for all I can tell, so you're not missing out any Discoveries from the looks of it.

Since Hotspots (just like any other Mapping Data) currently isn't exported into EDDN the way it looks like, Mapping a Planet or Ring only benefits yourself.
Other Visitors will only get Basic Scan Data and will have to DSS and (if desired) do their own Mapping.

DSS pays the same that it used to (now just done via FSS), Mapping (very very roughly) appears to pay a ~5x Bonus or even a tad more.
So a System normally worth some 4-5M Cr can reach some 25-30M Credits if you map it entirely (or at least everything HMC or upwards in value).

 

[A D]

re 1: They are persistent - I've repeatedly returned to the same mining hot spot throughout last 4 days. That said, I don't know what lifetime such hot spot has.
re 2: No data I've seen indicates any extra credit for scanning the ring.

As to your last question: what do you mean? Are you asking if payouts increased? Or how much extra credits you get for scanning entire system?

Just what the payouts are now days

 

[A D]

- yes, BUT
a) you need to carry a DSS to make them visible again
b) no, not that I'm aware of. You do get a HUD notification of the Discovery from Mapping Rings - but they don't count as valid UC Data for sale.

For all I know, Mapping Rings only makes sense if you wish to return for Mining later.
Stellar Phenomenon existing in the Rings are already discovered via FSS for all I can tell, so you're not missing out any Discoveries from the looks of it.

Since Hotspots (just like any other Mapping Data) currently isn't exported into EDDN the way it looks like, Mapping a Planet or Ring only benefits yourself.
Other Visitors will only get Basic Scan Data and will have to DSS and (if desired) do their own Mapping.

DSS pays the same that it used to (now just done via FSS), Mapping (very very roughly) appears to pay a ~5x Bonus or even a tad more.
So a System normally worth some 4-5M Cr can reach some 25-30M Credits if you map it entirely (or at least everything HMC or upwards in value).

Beautiful, thanks