Well I'm a dumbass!

So I've got an AspX moderately well outfitted for exploration (40ly jump range - only the jump drive is really engineered, no guardian stuff yet). And I decided to set off from Sol to Colonia, swing by Sag A, and then return to the bubble, hopefully earning my Elite status in Exploration by the time I got back.
Seems like a reasonable plan, right?
So for some reason in my haste to get underway I was selling all non-essential components. Including my Detailed Surface Scanner and worse, my Planetary Approach Suite. I'm now sitting about 2/3 of the way to Colonia, I've passed three systems with planetary bases that I couldn't land on, and have found at least two unexplored systems that I'd love to get my name attached to.
Hopefully I'm not losing out on too much valuable data...
 
Hopefully I'm not losing out on too much valuable data...
Sorry to break this to you, but the money in exploring is in mapping certain bodies. :(
But if credits are not what you're after, you'll only miss the 1st mapped tags & surface POI locations. :)
 
You can sell the Planetary Approach Suite?
Huh..
Learn something new every day.

Funny you include the DSS and Planetary Approach Suite as non-essential for an explorer ship. I would definitely put those in the essential category.
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Sorry to break this to you, but the money in exploring is in mapping certain bodies. :(
That's what I was afraid of. Ah well, hopefully I can buy them when I hit Colonia so the trip to Sag A and then back home won't be a waste.
 
That's what I was afraid of. Ah well, hopefully I can buy them when I hit Colonia so the trip to Sag A and then back home won't be a waste.
Yeah about that.. ugg im so sorry to break this to you..

Nah joking. you can pick up both those modules at Colonia.
 
That's what I was afraid of. Ah well, hopefully I can buy them when I hit Colonia so the trip to Sag A and then back home won't be a waste.
Don't worry, IIRC you'll still net about half a million for each EW & terraformable WW and maybe 350k Cr for AWs & terraformable HMCs you scan with the FSS. Mapping the bodies ups those amounts by a factor of 2-5, so you might want to bookmark some 'interesting' (and of course some otherwise interesting) systems for revisit & some mapping on your way back.
 
Yeah about that.. ugg im so sorry to break this to you..

Nah joking. you can pick up both those modules at Colonia.

lol, nice

Don't worry, IIRC you'll still net about half a million for each EW & terraformable WW and maybe 350k Cr for AWs & terraformable HMCs you scan with the FSS. Mapping the bodies ups those amounts by a factor of 2-5, so you might want to bookmark some 'interesting' (and of course some otherwise interesting) systems for revisit & some mapping on your way back.

Oh, good idea! I've definitely found like 7 or so new things for my codex on the journey over. I'll have to start bookmarking, though I don't think I'll be returning anywhere near the same route...
 
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