To scan or not to scan - Question for explorers who has sold lots of data.

Controlledpress · May 12, 2015

So i've been looking around and I can't find a simple answer. At least not one that's spelled out in a single post.

Using the excellent visual guide made by DUbardo, NUtter and Volt - Let me know if i'm missing a credit here, i certainly can't take any of it.

Say for arguments sake i hit a system that's fairly uncomplicated

A Class M Star 1500Cr
A Class 1 Gas Jovial 5000cr
An Earthlike 30k Cr
A high metal content 6kCr

Now using those numbers - the total for the system would be 42500Cr

HEre's the question

What would I get if:

1. I only run the advanced discovery scanner at the arrival point. Discovering everything but scanning nothing
2. Only detail scan the star
3. Scan everything

4. Scan everything AND:
a the Jovial has life?
b the High metal content one is terraformable.

Would love some insight by someone who's actually paid attention when seling their data...

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI · May 12, 2015

You have to double all that credits values. After 1.2.0.3 they have doubled them all, and also doubled the requirements for rank progression.

Terraformable high metal or rocky pay something like 10x regular ones.
Earth like worlds reach 100000 alone if you were the first to discover.
Regarding gas giants, if they have life (water or ammonia) they are more valuable, but also the more rings they have the more the payout.

Black holes seems to be all 40000, while neutron stars range around 37000.

Basically, creditwise, distance is everything. Close objects are always worth if you can scan them while fuel scooping, otherwise do supercruise only if payout/distance ratio is to your advantage.
But honeslty, just scan whatever fancies your immagination, becouse, creditwise, trading and bounty huntng will always pay more.

Controlledpress · May 12, 2015

ok, i appreciate the answer, but I think you missunderstood the question

If an earthworld is worth 100k, what's it worth with just the discovery scan?

Murishani · May 12, 2015

Controlledpress said:
ok, i appreciate the answer, but I think you missunderstood the question

If an earthworld is worth 100k, what's it worth with just the discovery scan?

I remember reading that on average the DSS increases your profits by 30% from a standard scan, so maybe thats something to guess based on?

Astral Crawler · May 12, 2015

Controlledpress said:
ok, i appreciate the answer, but I think you missunderstood the question

If an earthworld is worth 100k, what's it worth with just the discovery scan?

Do bring a DSS. It's required to get 'first discovery', it adds a nice bonus even if you're not first. Why go exploring without it ?

Edit: I think I finally understood your question. All stellar bodies discovered are worth 500 Cr, whether it's a rocky moon or a terraformable world.

Controlledpress · May 13, 2015

Thank you all.

AzraelGFG · May 14, 2015

In "Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy"(https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=81653),this were the latest post(23.4) with the more or less up-to-date values.Some Objects are missing,like White Dwarfs,Wolf-Rayet Stars,Carbon Stars,Herbig Ae/BE - Stars

dognosh · May 14, 2015

AzraelGFG said:
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In "Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy"(https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=81653),this were the latest post(23.4) with the more or less up-to-date values.Some Objects are missing,like White Dwarfs,Wolf-Rayet Stars,Carbon Stars,Herbig Ae/BE - Stars

That is an excellent table, I used some of those in my list https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=141785
I found that white dwarfs are around 20K, still looking for rewards for C,S,W and AeBe

AzraelGFG · May 14, 2015

dognosh said:
That is an excellent table, I used some of those in my list https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=141785
I found that white dwarfs are around 20K, still looking for rewards for C,S,W and AeBe

The list you made is so awesome

Allitnil · May 14, 2015

Astral Crawler said:
Edit: I think I finally understood your question. All stellar bodies discovered are worth 500 Cr, whether it's a rocky moon or a terraformable world.

Not quite.

Stars are worth a sixth of what they would be scanned (so typically just over 400 credits)

Other bodies are worth 500 credits or a sixth of what they would be scanned if that is higher (eg an unscanned rocky planet would be 500 credits but an unscanned ELW would be around 10,000 credits).

Jaden · May 14, 2015

There is a good overview table in the wikia: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Explorer - go to "Rewards for exploring".

The table has a few too many * where they don't apply (as the * is mean to stand for "DSS scanned", but is also used behind "Unexplored Star" etc.), but you'll get the hang of it I'm sure.

Mostly if you DSS Scan an object you get +100% on its base value - for Stars it is significantly more.

If you are the "First Discovered by" when you sell it, you get an additional +50% on the base value.

Cheers