When you use a wake scanner the data is stored with you and ejected in your escape pod if your ship is destroyed. However data gathered from discovery scanners is not.
I understand these are two different devices and have separate data storage and so if your discovery scanners are destroyed along with your ship that copy of the data goes with it. However after your ship is destroyed you can still go back to your galaxy map and see the information of the systems that were part of the data that was lost.
Why shouldn't you be able to just sell a copy of that data to Universal Cartographics? It clearly went with you the same way the Wake Scanner data did.
I'm asking this because it is becoming clear that Stellar Cartography Data is valuable to Explorers which is making them targets. Explorers are unable to hand over this data. So if they were stopped by pirates there is nothing to give them, thus logically they should just let them go.
In reality what is happening is they are becoming targets to griefer players. Destroying weeks or even months worth of work for no gain in game. They do it just to make the Explorers angry at the loss of all that work. If you are wanting this type of behavior in your game then please handle data in one way or the other.
Can you either allow selling of the data in your galaxy map to Universal Cartographics or have the Wake Scanner data destroyed along with your ship?
(P.S. I would even take Pirates being able to take the data banks of the Discovery Scanners.)
I understand these are two different devices and have separate data storage and so if your discovery scanners are destroyed along with your ship that copy of the data goes with it. However after your ship is destroyed you can still go back to your galaxy map and see the information of the systems that were part of the data that was lost.
Why shouldn't you be able to just sell a copy of that data to Universal Cartographics? It clearly went with you the same way the Wake Scanner data did.
I'm asking this because it is becoming clear that Stellar Cartography Data is valuable to Explorers which is making them targets. Explorers are unable to hand over this data. So if they were stopped by pirates there is nothing to give them, thus logically they should just let them go.
In reality what is happening is they are becoming targets to griefer players. Destroying weeks or even months worth of work for no gain in game. They do it just to make the Explorers angry at the loss of all that work. If you are wanting this type of behavior in your game then please handle data in one way or the other.
Can you either allow selling of the data in your galaxy map to Universal Cartographics or have the Wake Scanner data destroyed along with your ship?
(P.S. I would even take Pirates being able to take the data banks of the Discovery Scanners.)
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