Selling Exploration Data

[KodiakAlpha]

The ability to sell data a page at a time has helped selling exploration data, but it is still a long and painful process. I think the biggest offender right now is the display of the things for which you are the first discoverer. I love the idea of tracking the first discoverer, and I want to see the list of places I am first discoverer as I sell the data, but it takes a long time to display them all because it uses a slow, type-it-out style of display. I think it would be much better if it would just pop up a grid with all of the items and their bonuses instead of trying to look like it is being typed out a character at a time. It would also be nice if it was displayed in a sorted order instead of the seemingly random order it is in now.

 

[shadowbyte]

Exploring & Data & other Misc.

Whilst under this topic of suggestions, I was thinking would it not make sense that once you completed exploring a system:-

1. You should not need to re-explore it again and should stay in your universal database for that commander save. With over 4 billions star systems there plenty of credit to make. (on this note in reality we update records but only completely re-enter the data if there was no backup and was lost - only make sense if new stars was born in that system to re-scan/explore it.)

2. If your ship is destroyed and I don't believe your data or bounties should be lost - even in reality we have black boxes. This is supposed to be in future. There's nothing to say you that a black box is on a USB stick of which one could remove when ejected and have the data recovered and that would be simplistic of imagination.

Thinking of this being in the future, should there not be far more advanced technology then we have already. On that note in the Elite First Encounters I remember there was Holographic Video presentation in the major system stations. Should there not be an Interstellar AI network that records your data anyway - abit like our local police computer network in reality - if you committed a crime that does not get lost if your destroyed so why should bounties.