I went to test on my carrier whether the -25% payout penalty for selling to Vista Genomics on fleet carriers is applied to the exobio rank progression, and found something unexpected: it doesn't seem to be applied at all. Nor did the carrier receive any credits from the sales. Mind you, this happened when I was selling to my carrier, so I'd like to see if the same thing happens when you sell samples on someone else's carrier too.
So, here's my request: could others try selling to Vista Genomics on someone else's carrier please, and note down payouts and rank progression? Especially since there was a small error in payout when first logging bonuses were involved, but the difference was only -0.05%, not -25%.
Here are the details of how my testing went:
First off, I started with a character with zero prior exobiology sales. I gathered 1,525,700 Cr of data from four species (Aleoida Gravis, Clypeus Lacrimam, Stratum Paleas, Tussock Triticum), making sure that I wouldn't get the first logged bonus for these. With the supposed -25% carrier payout penalty, this should have given me 1,144,275 Cr: instead, it gave the standard 1,525,700 Cr, and I got the Mostly Directionless promotion as well. (That one's at 1,500,000 Cr, so if the penalty applied to rank progression, I wouldn't have gotten it.)
Unfortunately, I forgot to note down the carrier balance at this part.
Second, I gathered samples from undiscovered planets: namely, 913,100 Cr from three species (Electricae Radialem, Tubus Conifer, Tussock Serrati), and made sure that this time I did get the first logged bonus. The sale screen payout listed the 1,826,200 Cr value, so there was no penalty applied there: however, oddly enough, my actual credit balance only changed by 1,825,292 Cr. That's -908 Cr though, while a supposed -25% would have been -456,550 Cr instead.
As for rank progression, I went from 0% Mostly Directionless to 49% Mostly Directionless, which means there was no penalty to rank progression either.
The carrier's balance stayed the same, so zero credits there.
So, there we go. When I was selling exobio data on my own carrier, there was no -25% penalty, and the carrier didn't receive any cut from the sale either. When first logging bonuses were involved, there was a tiny decrease on my balance than what was displayed(!) on the sale screen, but the difference was much smaller than it should have been.
So, here's my request: could others try selling to Vista Genomics on someone else's carrier please, and note down payouts and rank progression? Especially since there was a small error in payout when first logging bonuses were involved, but the difference was only -0.05%, not -25%.
Here are the details of how my testing went:
First off, I started with a character with zero prior exobiology sales. I gathered 1,525,700 Cr of data from four species (Aleoida Gravis, Clypeus Lacrimam, Stratum Paleas, Tussock Triticum), making sure that I wouldn't get the first logged bonus for these. With the supposed -25% carrier payout penalty, this should have given me 1,144,275 Cr: instead, it gave the standard 1,525,700 Cr, and I got the Mostly Directionless promotion as well. (That one's at 1,500,000 Cr, so if the penalty applied to rank progression, I wouldn't have gotten it.)
Unfortunately, I forgot to note down the carrier balance at this part.
Second, I gathered samples from undiscovered planets: namely, 913,100 Cr from three species (Electricae Radialem, Tubus Conifer, Tussock Serrati), and made sure that this time I did get the first logged bonus. The sale screen payout listed the 1,826,200 Cr value, so there was no penalty applied there: however, oddly enough, my actual credit balance only changed by 1,825,292 Cr. That's -908 Cr though, while a supposed -25% would have been -456,550 Cr instead.
As for rank progression, I went from 0% Mostly Directionless to 49% Mostly Directionless, which means there was no penalty to rank progression either.
The carrier's balance stayed the same, so zero credits there.
So, there we go. When I was selling exobio data on my own carrier, there was no -25% penalty, and the carrier didn't receive any cut from the sale either. When first logging bonuses were involved, there was a tiny decrease on my balance than what was displayed(!) on the sale screen, but the difference was much smaller than it should have been.
