Why does scanning Gas Giants w/ life pay less than Gas Giants w/o life?

[lohpopo]

A simple question as the title says.
Currently in science, life on gas giants is hypothetical at best. Yet in game, gas giants with life pay less than almost any other gas giant types.
What makes this especially confusing is that these giants pay less than their respective dead types.
Gas giants w/ ammonia life pay up to 1,700, while class 1 gas giants (aka ammonia clouds) pay up to 7000.
Gas Giants with Water life pay up to 2300, while class 2 gas giants (aka water clouds) pay up to 54000.
It just seems very strange, and possibly even unintended on the dev's part :S . Wouldn't biologist be rather interested in all the strange stuff growing on these planets? Maybe they have microbes that produce strange and rare chemicals that can be harvested.
Thanks for any replies.

 

[Redfox]

The question implies one or more of the following: Life on such a planet...
1) ...has enough monetary worth...
2) ...has enough scientific worth...
3) ...is rare enough...
...to justify a higher payout in the 34 century. I guess number 2 could be argued for, but with the lack number 3 that probably wouldn't really work out.

That said, I personally would love to see them being rarer and better paid.

 

[Para Handy]

Could it be that because of the presence of life, one cannot (or should not) exploit or in any way contaminate the planet?

 

[Jon474]

...not everything makes actual sense in the Elite Galaxy.

Flying increasingly despondently
Jon
Type-6 Explorer

 

[space voyager]

I was thinking the same for a long time now. It could be that life is seen as an economic minus, like archaeological remains found on a land parcel where somebody wanted to use for building...

Also, why do the type II gas giants yield so much?!

 

[YinYin]

I'd say the worth of a gas giant are pure resources. Class II should be the easiest to extract Hydrogen from (our energy source). Easier than scooping it from stars (lower temperature).

Life contaminates that by processing the resources into all kinds of junk we would have to purify again first.

 

[Templehof]

I'd say the worth of a gas giant are pure resources. Class II should be the easiest to extract Hydrogen from (our energy source). Easier than scooping it from stars (lower temperature).

Life contaminates that by processing the resources into all kinds of junk we would have to purify again first.

yeah I was thinking if you have two bowls of gold. You'd want the one without dirt in it XD