Should I use Detailed Surface Scanner

[Name can't be blank]

I'm using Road2Riches[www.spansh.co.uk] to earn some money from discovering planets. Should I bother doing the detailed seruface scan on the planets? Will it increase my earnings? If so, by how much? Thanks :)


Edit

Sorry I meant "surface mapping" with probes, not "Detailed Surface Scanner". I wanted to know if dropping probes on a planet is worth the time. Thanks to Estelyen for correction.

[kegomatix]

I made a pretty short exploration trip today and came back to $41 mil payout. Not too bad.

[Name can't be blank]

Publicado originalmente por Estelyen:

Please take care with the names, so nobody gets confused here: The "Detailed Surface Scan" as it is called by the game itself is done by activating the full spectrum scanner and briefly looking at the planet with it. That can be done in a few seconds...

The thing you get by flying to a planet and shooting probes at it is called "Surface Mapping" by the game.

Thank you so much for the clarification. Yes, sorry, what I actually meant is shooting probes at the planet, i.e. "Surface Mapping".

Publicado originalmente por Estelyen:

see this list:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/elite-dangerous/images/9/9f/3x5JrAK.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170424182716

Wow, this is super useful, thanks for sharing. In this image we can see the higher prices marked as Terr: https://imgur.com/a/7F8JLHl

What are those "Terr." prices? Maybe those correspond to the planets with mapped surfaces (shooting probes)?

Publicado originalmente por Estelyen:

The problem is that the payout screen doesn't differentiate the two methods, so it would require two players working together to figure it out; one doing just a Detailed Surface Scan and the other a Surface Map, then going 20ly in any direction to sell the stuff and compare what they get.

Yes, we can actually check this. We can go to a specific planet. One person will just scan it, while the other will shoot the probes. And we can compare the payout. Anyone wants to help me?

[titanopteryx]

This is the sale price of a water world pre scan

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1595701602

it'a just over 100k.

This is the same world after a detailed surface scan.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1595707618

It's over 400k now.

[Estelyen]

Publicado originalmente por Sheepish Beginner:

In this image we can see the higher prices marked as Terr: https://imgur.com/a/7F8JLHl

What are those "Terr." prices? Maybe those correspond to the planets with mapped surfaces (shooting probes)?

No. That image was from before the latest patch which introduced the surface mapping. "Terr." refers to terraformable worlds, they fetch quite a lot more than non-terraformable worlds.

[Name can't be blank]

Publicado originalmente por titanopteryx:

This is the sale price of a water world pre scan

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1595701602

it'a just over 100k.

This is the same world after a detailed surface scan.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1595707618

It's over 400k now.

Wow, you've actually done it. Thank you very much. In this example, we get 113K for a detailed surface scan, but we get 474K if we also map the surface with probes. So you get about 4 times more money from a planet by doing the surface map.

Conclusion: dropping probes on planets can not be neglected. Totally worth the time. :)

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Publicado originalmente por Sheepish Beginner:

Conclusion: dropping probes on planets can not be neglected. Totally worth the time. :)

Only for worthy planets. If a hypothetical rocky world planet gives 10k for a normal scan and 40k for a surface mapping, then flying to it and doing the mapping will take more time than just jumping to another system and FSS scanning 3 extra such planets.

[Name can't be blank]

Publicado originalmente por Dolphin Bottlenose:

Publicado originalmente por Sheepish Beginner:

Conclusion: dropping probes on planets can not be neglected. Totally worth the time. :)

Only for worthy planets. If a hypothetical rocky world planet gives 10k for a normal scan and 40k for a surface mapping, then flying to it and doing the mapping will take more time than just jumping to another system and FSS scanning 3 extra such planets.

Good point! I'm currently only visiting planets that are worth more than 300K using Road2Riches[www.spansh.co.uk]. So now I know that I should not skip the probe dropping. :)

[Nasenhupe]

When I scan planets with my probes or look at them on the galactic map, i can see who first discovered them and who was first to scan (? idk what to call it in english) them. What do i have to do to do that? There was a planet which was discovered but not scanned so i probed the planet but i do not appear in the list of who first scanned it. I also can land on that one but there are no facilities to approach. Never understood how that works.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

You can see who first discovered it and who first mapped it, if you open a local star system map and point at that planet, or in the FSS screen when pointing at it. If it doesn't say who has discovered it, then you are the first one.

Now, to actually claim your discovery, you need to sell the navigation data at a station. Until you do it, it's still not claimed by you. And if somebody else has scanned it before and sells that data before you do - he will be written as the first one to discover it.

[Nasenhupe]

And mapping means probing it?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Publicado originalmente por Nasenhupe:

And mapping means probing it?

Yes, launching seismic probes at a planet.

[titanopteryx]

Publicado originalmente por Nasenhupe:

And mapping means probing it?

Whether you were serious or you were trolling, you'd probably word that the same way either way. Mapping is shooting the probes from the detailed surface scanner modules if it's installed and 100% mapping the surface of the planet.

[Nasenhupe]

No i am not trolling lol. I am playing the game in german and therefore the game uses different terminology for certain things. But thanks for your help, i am going to sell all the data :)=

[titanopteryx]

Publicado originalmente por Nasenhupe:

No i am not trolling lol. I am playing the game in german and therefore the game uses different terminology for certain things. But thanks for your help, i am going to sell all the data :)=

German? Well in America space aliens are known for 3 things: Making crop circles, pestering people in Nome, Alaska, and probing people.

[GAD]

Wish I'd known this before I scanned my 100th (Road to Riches) system. I spent the whole of Sunday scanning systems and only gave up at 100 (I was getting fed up too by this time) and I made 67 million - enough to buy (and regret) a larger ship. I now have a Diamondback Explorer for exploration and an Asp Explorer for mining. I'm pretty much on Noob ladder rung 3, so this info was priceless, thank you.