Exploration does need a buff, badly. aside from people exploiting the road to riches it is by far the lowest paying thing in elite. you can spend an entire week out in the void and make a few hundred million. if you spent that same amount of time even just doing trade missions you would make 100X more easily. and dont get me started about the new combat payouts or mining. I dont think you should be able to go out and in a week make like 10billion or anything insane. but payouts should at least be double what they are imo
New exploration payouts
- Thread starter Sickinger_Immortal
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Only once per region for 50k Then after that once per system for 2.5k. I have saved most of my payouts from when the codex dropped and still only have 1.7m saved up!
a maxed out explonda, the most expensive usefull exploration ship costs ~260 mio cr including that 7A fuelscoop.
how many hours not CR optimized exploration do you recon being appropriate to refinance an explonda?
in my world i'd say you should need roughly 40 hours at least, more towards 100 hours - current exploration payout exceeds that expectation.
and most other activities are crazingly overpaid, i wish for them being dialled back at least to exploration levels.
that said i'd be totally up for shifting exploration payouts towards huge first discovery and first mapped boni and similar. but another buff i hope i won't have to cope with.
The problem isnt the conda, it is the fact that you can lose everything if you blow up making it risky, and the 7bil or higher price tag on the carriers. mining is to high atm i agree, but you should be able to mine, do combat, trade or explore and make a good amount and not have to grind for a year+ to get a carrier, and if you do you are forced to mine damn near to keep it with the upkeep costs. The other professions should match being able to keep one if you want one and not want to mine your life away.
Couple of links here;
Explorer
Explorer is an archetypal pilot career recognized by the Pilots Federation. The galaxy can be explored with near unrestricted freedom. Go sightseeing by observing the beautiful vistas in deep space. Gain credit for being the first to discover unique star systems. Walk on pristine planets with...elite-dangerous.fandom.com
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/avsszo/updated_visual_guide_to_scan_values_in_33/
Don't mean to necro this thread but it should be recent enough.
Just a quick question, is this visual still up to date?
it is.
Compression error most likely.
You can see the values here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/exploration-value-formulae.232000/
Thank you, that list is much simpler to use.
sorry folks if this has already been covered elsewhere, i tried to look but couldn't see anything in particular . Sooooo, im 2k+LY in the black trying to get as much credits and discoveries as i can find, but see when using the FSS, when you zoom into a planet/body and it comes up with the forever taking geological/biological features additional scanning, if i scrap that part and move to the next body does that affect the pay-out? would i get a higher pay-out if i let that bit do the additional scanning? TBH, i always try just let it scan that bit, but when your time challenged etc and im in a system with 15-20+ bodies that additional wait can take a bit of time, if i know i get additional creds for it then il wait. i know if i throw probes down onto it after flying to it after using fss i will get those features within that but i only fly out to do those ones if the body/planet itself is worth it and/or im FD with it, any help appreciated fellow commanders
No, no additional credits for letting scan finish. It's not even a thing in Odyssey (and I presume Horizons 4.0). You obviously do get additional credits for mapping bodies (DSS), and if you're looking to make money you'll want to DSS any terraformable planet, water world, or Earth-like.sorry folks if this has already been covered elsewhere, i tried to look but couldn't see anything in particular . Sooooo, im 2k+LY in the black trying to get as much credits and discoveries as i can find, but see when using the FSS, when you zoom into a planet/body and it comes up with the forever taking geological/biological features additional scanning, if i scrap that part and move to the next body does that affect the pay-out? would i get a higher pay-out if i let that bit do the additional scanning? TBH, i always try just let it scan that bit, but when your time challenged etc and im in a system with 15-20+ bodies that additional wait can take a bit of time, if i know i get additional creds for it then il wait. i know if i throw probes down onto it after flying to it after using fss i will get those features within that but i only fly out to do those ones if the body/planet itself is worth it and/or im FD with it, any help appreciated fellow commanders
thanks
Don't forget the bonus for complete system mapping! Can't let that slip through your fingers!
Er - no it isn't. 6 kylies away from the Bubble and you are in completely undiscovered territory!
How much is that already? AFAIK only noticable in already "wealthy" systems.
You get a paltry bonus 1000 per body for fully FSSing a system.
You get a pathetic bonus 10000 per mappable body for fully mapping a system.
I am still finding partially explored and the occasional completely unexplored systems around 1,000ly from the bubble, the problem is most people aim at the pretties, and follow the same path thousands of CMDR's have done before them.
Edit; In fact I have just jumped into a completely unexplored system exactly 1,189ly from Sol, so there's still stuff close to the bubble to find.
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