Exploration question - discovering a new system

[BrendanDH]

Do you get a bonus payment for finding an undiscovered system and scanning the entire system?

Is there any incentive for scanning all the planets and stars and discovering them all?

[Oku]

You get a +50% bonus to any object you are the first to discover.

[morph113]

And just to clarify in case you didn't know, first discovered means the first one to sell the cartography data for an object, not the first one to have scanned an object. That's why you shouldn't reveal the system name if you haven't turned in the data yet if you have found something really exceptional so nobody can steal the discovery from you :)

[BrendanDH]

Thanks for the replies. I know that discovering a planet gives a bonus - but does discovering all the planets in a system give an extra bonus?

Just want to know if it is worthwhile to scan the worthless rocky worlds far out from the sun.

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by BrendanDH:

Thanks for the replies. I know that discovering a planet gives a bonus - but does discovering all the planets in a system give an extra bonus?

Just want to know if it is worthwhile to scan the worthless rocky worlds far out from the sun.

No, there is no "Scan all Bonus"

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Originally posted by caduryn:

Originally posted by BrendanDH:

Thanks for the replies. I know that discovering a planet gives a bonus - but does discovering all the planets in a system give an extra bonus?

Just want to know if it is worthwhile to scan the worthless rocky worlds far out from the sun.

No, there is no "Scan all Bonus"

And because of this, stick with Terraformables, Water Worlds, Earthlikes and Class Gas Giants for Detailed Surface Scans.

[Sapyx]

There's some debate about the merits of "scanning everything" versus "scan only what's necessary". Some people with OCD or similar motivations "must" scan everything, even if it takes them days to complete a large, complex star system and the vast majority of the things they scan are only worth a few hundred credits each. At the opposite end, are explorers who deliberately do not tag some of the valuable items in the system, so that other explorers can place an "I waz here" tag in the system too.

Personally, these days, I tend towards the latter. I'm already at Elite exploration and have more than enough credits in the bank for my current gamplay choices, so I only explore for the fun of it. And for me, part of that fun is seeing other commanders following behind me, tagging some of the valuable items I've left behind for them in "my" systems.

[Schuetze_Klaus]

Originally posted by BrendanDH:

Do you get a bonus payment for finding an undiscovered system and scanning the entire system?

Is there any incentive for scanning all the planets and stars and discovering them all?

Hey whats that DH in your Nickname standing for?

[Neonity]

Originally posted by GERSchütze Klaus:

Originally posted by BrendanDH:

Do you get a bonus payment for finding an undiscovered system and scanning the entire system?

Is there any incentive for scanning all the planets and stars and discovering them all?

Hey whats that DH in your Nickname standing for?

Dock Head

[Schuetze_Klaus]

Than the DG in you Name stands for Dock grabber?! If you dont know it, just dont post 5hit...

[Neonity]

Originally posted by GERSchütze Klaus:

Than the DG in you Name stands for Dock grabber?! If you dont know it, just dont post 5hit...

Nope, it stands for Departure Group.
Also, it was a joke so don't get so butthurt over nothing.

[Schuetze_Klaus]

also it was a joke from me. but now you are the colonia dock grabber. i think galnet will write about you. :-P

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Sapyx:

At the opposite end, are explorers who deliberately do not tag some of the valuable items in the system, so that other explorers can place an "I waz here" tag in the system too.

Personally, these days, I tend towards the latter. I'm already at Elite exploration and have more than enough credits in the bank for my current gamplay choices, so I only explore for the fun of it. And for me, part of that fun is seeing other commanders following behind me, tagging some of the valuable items I've left behind for them in "my" systems.

Sounds like me. Very rare I'll bother to scan every valuable object, even rarer for me to scan an entire system. I do tend to tag the star as soon as I drop into a system, so everyone who follows knows I was there first :)