Exploration money

[WamblyGrain]

It's been a while since I've been on Elite and the new update is slightly confusing. When I use the discovery scanner it gives me the orbital plane thing. When I scan, does it still give me the credits for the bodies I scanned? Or do I have to use the FSS thing to get those credits?

[malorob]

my understanding you can still as they say honk and go.
fss is the prefered methord now as you will be able to scan the whole system if it has not been discovered yet.
if it has been discovered you should see all the planets in the system but just undiscovered by you.
these two methords will earn credits
third methord probs you can now prob a planet to get your suface scan.

achivements now is first discovered and also first mapped meaning first probed.
full system scan and prob will get you the highest reward

i think that how it works

[WamblyGrain]

Originally posted by malorob:

my understanding you can still as they say honk and go.
fss is the prefered methord now as you will be able to scan the whole system if it has not been discovered yet.
if it has been discovered you should see all the planets in the system but just undiscovered by you.
these two methords will earn credits
third methord probs you can now prob a planet to get your suface scan.

achivements now is first discovered and also first mapped meaning first probed.
full system scan and prob will get you the highest reward

i think that how it works

Yeah thats what I thought it would be. It would make no sense for the honk and go method to be removed as exploration would become a mission of exploration, not exploration and credits. I've yet to figure out the most efficient way to use fss. Any tips?

[Manwith Noname]

If you want to really make money from exploration you'll need the planetary scanner and probe earth like worlds.

Honk populates signals on the fss scanner. Rough tune to a signal and point around. "Arrows" will appear when your close to something around where you are tuned. Areas of the frequency spectrum represent different types of bodies. A little foot note tells you which. Follow the arrows when they appear and fine tune to produce a solid identification.

Just practice with it and you'll pick it up no doubt. It's also really handy for identifying and picking out signal sources you might be interested in. Saves a lot of flying around.

[krayzkrok]

This image helped me figure it out, by showing how much you earn for exploration credits for each type of scan and planetary body. It's a bit out of date, it doesn't talk about surface scans which appear to be similar to ADS scans, you can't surface scan stellar bodies, but it shakes out about the same - you can honk, scan from a distance, or surface scan, and you earn more credits for each. It shows you which bodies are worth the effort to surface scan, basically.

https://i.imgur.com/3x5JrAK.jpg

[Casual Overload Gaming]

There are levels of payout now. Honking a system will establish all the stars in a system and pays level 1. Using the FSS to scan individual planets pays level 2. Mapping an indvidual planet or using the surface scanner to probe rings pays level 3. (The levels mentioned are arbitrary and used simply to illustrate the complexity of payouts associated with exploration).

[Tanyon]

I was Elite ranked in exploration in less than 40 hours I did a 13K LY trip came back and solf all my stuff to felicity.. I also made a little over 500M doing it.

[WamblyGrain]

Originally posted by Calean:

There are levels of payout now. Honking a system will establish all the stars in a system and pays level 1. Using the FSS to scan individual planets pays level 2. Mapping an indvidual planet or using the surface scanner to probe rings pays level 3. (The levels mentioned are arbitrary and used simply to illustrate the complexity of payouts associated with exploration).

So honking still establishes all stars and planetary bodies? Sorry for being a nuisance. Just trying to figure this out before I continue with DW2

[malorob]

honking will get sum but not as much as it use too

[WamblyGrain]

Originally posted by malorob:

honking will get sum but not as much as it use too

oof okay thanks

[Chikuwu]

1, you discover the PLANE of the system by using Discovery Scanner. This reveals how many bodies there are (Lets say theres 36 found stellar bodies)

2, lets assume someone has visited, but not found everyone of them. Only 6 are displayed on your system screen.

3, enable FSS (Full spectrum scanner) and scan the system for the undiscovered stellar bodies.

4, Map them all for extra "efficiency bonus" credits + mapping credits = yield is more higher than ever.

I just did a single run around 600LY's trip on my Python, came back with 18 million credits worth of findings. Took about 4 hours. Scanned every unscanned undiscovered systems, and mapped only Water based gas giants, ammonia giants, ammonia planets, water worlds and earth-likes.

[WamblyGrain]

Originally posted by Pingviini:

1, you discover the PLANE of the system by using Discovery Scanner. This reveals how many bodies there are (Lets say theres 36 found stellar bodies)

2, lets assume someone has visited, but not found everyone of them. Only 6 are displayed on your system screen.

3, enable FSS (Full spectrum scanner) and scan the system for the undiscovered stellar bodies.

4, Map them all for extra "efficiency bonus" credits + mapping credits = yield is more higher than ever.

I just did a single run around 600LY's trip on my Python, came back with 18 million credits worth of findings. Took about 4 hours. Scanned every unscanned undiscovered systems, and mapped only Water based gas giants, ammonia giants, ammonia planets, water worlds and earth-likes.

So would step 3 be the equivalent to honking before the update? I can definitely do that efficiently. Up to step 4 on long range expo is definitely a nono

[Chikuwu]

Originally posted by WamblyGrain:

Originally posted by Pingviini:

1, you discover the PLANE of the system by using Discovery Scanner. This reveals how many bodies there are (Lets say theres 36 found stellar bodies)

2, lets assume someone has visited, but not found everyone of them. Only 6 are displayed on your system screen.

3, enable FSS (Full spectrum scanner) and scan the system for the undiscovered stellar bodies.

4, Map them all for extra "efficiency bonus" credits + mapping credits = yield is more higher than ever.

I just did a single run around 600LY's trip on my Python, came back with 18 million credits worth of findings. Took about 4 hours. Scanned every unscanned undiscovered systems, and mapped only Water based gas giants, ammonia giants, ammonia planets, water worlds and earth-likes.

So would step 3 be the equivalent to honking before the update? I can definitely do that efficiently. Up to step 4 on long range expo is definitely a nono

But when you map those, you get possibly even up to 1.6 million.

before mapping, the gains were around 500k at max.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by WamblyGrain:

Originally posted by Calean:

There are levels of payout now. Honking a system will establish all the stars in a system and pays level 1. Using the FSS to scan individual planets pays level 2. Mapping an indvidual planet or using the surface scanner to probe rings pays level 3. (The levels mentioned are arbitrary and used simply to illustrate the complexity of payouts associated with exploration).

So honking still establishes all stars and planetary bodies? Sorry for being a nuisance. Just trying to figure this out before I continue with DW2

No if you enter a virgin system there is no longer a quick way to see all the planets period. You will go into your FSS screen and honk and then there based on the various wavelengths revealed you can decide if it's worth your time to stay and scan.. but no.. nothing not even honking will simply reveal all the bodies in a system anymore.. either they were already discovered and you can see them or the system map remains blank until you scan them individually in the FSS mode.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by WamblyGrain:

So honking still establishes all stars and planetary bodies?

All stars, but only other bodies in an immediate vicinity.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by WamblyGrain:

Originally posted by Pingviini:

3, enable FSS (Full spectrum scanner) and scan the system for the undiscovered stellar bodies.

So would step 3 be the equivalent to honking before the update?

No. It will be equivalent to honking + approaching every object to do a detailed scan of it.