The highest payout for one single system? (Apart from Zulu)

Qumfur

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So, I know this question came up a couple of times already but I also want to know if your highest paying system has changed since the last time this question came up.
The main point of this thread is to flex though.
I think I got one of the highest if not the highest payout for one single system:
97,049,922 CR

This number actually already dates back to June of this year so the 4x payout of the CG was actually not used here.
So obviously this is with the LYR-Bonus and system used is:
Prielee OD-D c27-9
I originally found this system in 2018 but came back this year to claim all the First Mapped bonusses too and because of this weird payout structure on bodies you have already First Discovered and then First Mapped it came out with this crazy high number.

From what i've heard and seen so far only CMDR Zulu Romeo should have a higher single system payout.
Can someone beat me?

Proof:
Screenshot of the ingame screen
My EDSM profile
 

goemon

goemon
Why do you exclude CMDR Zulu Romero? He plays (is playing sometimes still?) the same game as you (but with less eyeing to that kind of stats-check).
 

Qumfur

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goemon said:
Why do you exclude CMDR Zulu Romero? He plays (is playing sometimes still?) the same game as you (but with less eyeing to that kind of stats-check).
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Because he has the first tag on Sag A* which was worth 300 Mil if I remember correctly. That's obviously higher but also not recreatable in any way. So I didn't want to include him on this because he will have us all beaten by a mile.
 

goemon

goemon
Qumfur said:
Because he has the first tag on Sag A* which was worth 300 Mil if I remember correctly. That's obviously higher but also not recreatable in any way. So I didn't want to include him on this because he will have us all beaten by a mile.
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i don't think that's fair.

your first discovered system isn't recreatable in any way as well - as is my precious first discovered real galaxy hypergiant.
 

Qumfur

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goemon said:
i don't think that's fair.

your first discovered system isn't recreatable in any way as well - as is my precious first discovered real galaxy hypergiant.
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Well the system itself obviously isn't recreatable. The payout absolutely is though, it's just really hard.
Also this is not about "I'm greatest, I'm best and you all are not worthy to be in my presence".
I want to be beaten so I can admire how they did it and what kind of system you would need for that.
We all know Zulu Romero has the highest payout and it's not even close.
But I want to compare myself more with the other mortals on here.
 

Qumfur

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Zieman said:
Okay, what was the REAL value of the system, without the PowerPants cheat?
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I mean it's just a feature of the game, that's not really a cheat, is it?
The "REAL" value of the system as in "What would you get if you find the system now and get the FD+FM?"
I don't know the exact value but with 4TWWs, 1WW, 2THMCs and 2 AWs it should be somewhere close to 20 mil.
That's good but not record-braking good.
 

Zieman

Zieman
Qumfur said:
I mean it's just a feature of the game, that's not really a cheat, is it?
The "REAL" value of the system as in "What would you get if you find the system now and get the FD+FM?"
I don't know the exact value but with 4TWWs, 1WW, 2THMCs and 2 AWs it should be somewhere close to 20 mil.
That's good but not record-braking good.
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Yeah.
Isn't the LYR bonus 200% ?
So with "regular" bonuses, such as first discovered & first mapped, it would be around 33.3 million Cr - still way more than my best. :)
 

CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN

CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN
Non-LYR 39.1 mill
with LYR 79.4 mill

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Qumfur

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Zieman said:
Yeah.
Isn't the LYR bonus 200% ?
So with "regular" bonuses, such as first discovered & first mapped, it would be around 33.3 million Cr - still way more than my best. :)
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Well, yeah the LYR boost is "only" 200%, but 33 mil is definitely too high.
With the bodies in the system you should only get around 20 mil.
I think what boosted the rewards here was the increased payout that you get when you discover a system first and then map it at a later date. Read into the exploration payout formula thread for more info.
 

CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN

CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN
Qumfur said:
The 39.1 mill without LYR is really impressive!
Which system was that in?
(And how can you look up the highest payout without LYR? Or was this screenshot just taken before you sold to LYR for the first time?)
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Yeah it was before I ever did the LYR for the first time....I'm not quite sure of the system, just about has to be one of my 3 triple ELW systems though.
 

Qumfur

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CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN said:
Yeah it was before I ever did the LYR for the first time....I'm not quite sure of the system, just about has to be one of my 3 triple ELW systems though.
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There is no way to get a list of you own most valuable systems ingame or in any of the common tools, right?
Back in 2018 I wrote a little Excel-VBA Makro that (among other things) produces a sortable and filterable list of systems you discovered.
I had to learn VBA for work so I did that as a little learning project that was also somewhat useful.
So for me I can do that already but it would be cool if EDDiscovery a simmilar function.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
goemon said:
Why do you exclude CMDR Zulu Romero? He plays (is playing sometimes still?) the same game as you (but with less eyeing to that kind of stats-check).
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Qumfur said:
Because he has the first tag on Sag A* which was worth 300 Mil if I remember correctly. That's obviously higher but also not recreatable in any way. So I didn't want to include him on this because he will have us all beaten by a mile.
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Alas, way back when Zulu Romeo tagged Sag A, the payouts for exploration were much, much lower. I believe he got 300,000 credits for Tagging Sag A.
 

Qumfur

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Sapyx said:
Alas, way back when Zulu Romeo tagged Sag A, the payouts for exploration were much, much lower. I believe he got 300,000 credits for Tagging Sag A.
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I know payouts were much lower back then. I played with much lower payouts myself. What I heard (Here for example) was 300 mil. If that's not true, there's no reason why I would exclude him. I just didn't want to include this special case because, you know, it's a one time thing no one will ever be able to do again. I'm interested in the special systems all around the galaxy with all the shiny rocks that are somewhat secret not in the black hole in the center everyone knows about.
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
I think it was 128,000,000 for tagging Sag-A* in Gamma. If I remember correctly Michael Brookes said it should have been 128,000, and they promptly fixed it as I only got 128K for it when cashing in the Distant Suns data a few weeks later.

Even 128K was a massive payout for exploration back then. The whole Distant Suns trip to Beagle and back netted only 29 million in total!

Edit.. could have been 1.28m for Sag-A* after the fix, not 128K.. it was 6 years ago so the memory is hazy on these things ;)
 
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marx

marx
Sapyx said:
Alas, way back when Zulu Romeo tagged Sag A, the payouts for exploration were much, much lower. I believe he got 300,000 credits for Tagging Sag A.
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Nope, you're off by about an order of magnitude. It was also enough to instantly propel him to Elite, making Zulu Romeo the first CMDR to reach it in exploration.

The reason Zulu Romeo got a huge payout for Sgr A* was that it was bugged, and used the same payout value calculation as regular black holes did. Which depends on mass, and it's a supermassive black hole. Frontier quickly fixed this, but decided to let Zulu Romeo keep the payout and the rank. (Let's not forget that space was much more dangerous back then, with NPC interdictions happening all over the galaxy - and there was no evasion mini-game for them either.)


As for other unobtainable records: during the recent Ammonia Worlds CG, selling at the base paid four times the usual credit values. I'm fairly certain it counted towards the highest payout value as well, but all I could verify on the Codex was that it was the multiplied value that got counted in your statistics under "Profits earned". So it's entirely possible that the highest payout now is held by someone who did it during the CG, and it can't be broken now.
 
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Qumfur

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marx said:
As for other unobtainable records: during the recent Ammonia Worlds CG, selling at the base paid four times the usual credit values. I'm fairly certain it counted towards the highest payout value as well, but all I could verify on the Codex was that it was the multiplied value that got counted in your statistics under "Profits earned". So it's entirely possible that the highest payout now is held by someone who did it during the CG, and it can't be broken now.
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Yeah, that could be the case and if it is it would be cool to see who did it.
But I personally don't think that happened for multiple reasons:
1. You would still have to find an extremly good system to be unbreakable
2. The bonus was only on for 1 week and you would need to get there in time
3. And you would need to even know the bonus was already on. Many people didn't knew because the wording on the CG didn't really suggest it was.
4, And finally, the one who presumably did this would need to care enough about all this to do all this.

It is definotely possible someone got an unbreakable record but I doubt it did happen.
 
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