How many systems scanned/Ly's traveled/cartegraphics sold to raise explorer rank any?

[caaront]

While trying to decide what to do with a Cutter in another thread, I thought about making it a fancifeid spandangled high fallutin exploration ship, for 1/1000th of a second.

I then recalled that I have been on three miniexploration jsunts and have sold millions in scanned data and in long as I remember/started actually paying attention to my explorer rank, I have gone from Ranger 48%, all the way to Ranger at 49%.

I never worried about rank as far as anything other than King and Admiral until recently.

I ranked Elite in trade many moons ago with no idea what it was, I was just taking missions out the wazoo, then got a notice I was promoted to Elite.

One day I looked over and said, How did I get ranger in exploration, to 48%, I had never done much of anything, had not scasnned crapola.

Then after I consciencely started trying to add points , from then till now, I've added one point.

I raise my combat points easily by BH'g.

But I spend three hours, scanning 20 systems, stars, planets, everything,and sell the data, then make 20 hops at 55-60 Ly per hop scanning just the trarget system, and scan every new system along th4 way when traveling to engineers and sell the data...

All that over a couple of months just here and there, and have gained 1% in rank.

I am lost.

[Turd Ferguson]

exploration rank depends on how much exploration data you've sold.

so... scanning in and of itself won't get you rank.

selling low value exploration data won't get you much either.

I think its about 1 billion in total exploration data sold to get elite. the last rank alone is like 300 million.

[caaront]

So 5 million is useless then.

So to make any rank one would really have to spend a month of 8 hour days scanning non stop to get enough good data to sell.

LOL, I went from Aimless to mostly aimless, scout, surveyor, trailblazor, pathfinder, to Ranger at 48% without a clue.

But since I started trying I went up 1%.

That is funny stuff there, lol.

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by caaront:

So 5 million is useless then.

So to make any rank one would really have to spend a month of 8 hour days scanning non stop to get enough good data to sell.

LOL, I went from Aimless to mostly aimless, scout, surveyor, trailblazor, pathfinder, to Ranger at 48% without a clue.

But since I started trying I went up 1%.

That is funny stuff there, lol.

for 7.5 million you can buy instant allied status from neutral with any controlling faction..... unless of course they happen to be in a state that ignores exploration rep.

it doesn't take THAT long if you scan valuable systems. a good system can be worth millions.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

taking named passengers will up your explo rank faster

[caaront]

Originally posted by the smoking mค็็็็็n:

taking named passengers will up your explo rank faster

Short VIP trips, or longer VIP tours?

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

both

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

it is just how much money you earn doing them
the cargo got old with me quick out at sothis , so i started doing beacon trips from ceos to sirius atmospherics in sothis,mostly crims, they are much faster to do
i went from scout to pioneer pretty quick, that last rank is a pita though, i'm only 26% done and i swear i had been doing it longer than it took me to do all the other ranks
i'm off doing engineering now

[caaront]

I loved the becon runs, but wqas too scared back then to take criminals, I did not realize how simple stealth is, lol.

[Bailey]

Do a search for 'Road to Riches' its a list of exploration stuff: systems with high payout stuff like water worlds and earth like worlds. scanning these will get you decent payouts for exploration rank

[DownSouth05]

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

exploration rank depends on how much exploration data you've sold.

so... scanning in and of itself won't get you rank.

selling low value exploration data won't get you much either.

I think its about 1 billion in total exploration data sold to get elite. the last rank alone is like 300 million.

I don't know about that total figure, to be honest. I have a grand total exploration income of 230 million and I am at 54% Pioneer.

Been doing the road to richs on and off and frankly I don't get the logic in the way they chose the planets to add to that list. I went to one system and the two planets listed, one was earth like and one was a water world, yet the very next planet in the system and NOT on the list was also a water world.

In another example there was one planet in the system to do and it was #9 I think. Since I had to fly past 1 to 8 anyway I scanned them on the way. All 8 were high metal content worlds and the only one on the list, #9 was a high metal content world. What made #9 special and 1 to 8 not even mentioned?

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by Skinny_Legs:

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

exploration rank depends on how much exploration data you've sold.

so... scanning in and of itself won't get you rank.

selling low value exploration data won't get you much either.

I think its about 1 billion in total exploration data sold to get elite. the last rank alone is like 300 million.

I don't know about that total figure, to be honest. I have a grand total exploration income of 230 million and I am at 54% Pioneer.

Been doing the road to richs on and off and frankly I don't get the logic in the way they chose the planets to add to that list. I went to one system and the two planets listed, one was earth like and one was a water world, yet the very next planet in the system and NOT on the list was also a water world.

In another example there was one planet in the system to do and it was #9 I think. Since I had to fly past 1 to 8 anyway I scanned them on the way. All 8 were high metal content worlds and the only one on the list, #9 was a high metal content world. What made #9 special and 1 to 8 not even mentioned?

both the numbers and payout may have changed since I got my elite in exploration.

[caaront]

I have been seeing 49%, but ity is still at 48%.So I have been at 48% all this time.

[caaront]

I've done two ten-twenty system trips from the RTR and got zero more rank %.

Like I said, from day 1 to the day I knew what exploration actually was I went from zero to Ranger 48%.

Then I started trying to raise it a bit, and I am still at Ranger 48%.

But, right nowe I care less.

I want to gather engineer mats and wake scans, and make money on my missions.

[caaront]

I've done at least 10 15 full systems, made money but zero rank, I followed RTR's out 10 systems out twice, once out, then once back toward home.

[caaront]

brb, let me see
betwwen 8-9 million