Exploring the center of the galaxy

[ThatFederalGuy]

Im just half a million away from getting myself an ASP Explore and I wonder how much a trip there and back will pay me? With full discover scanner etc

[{RA}darkglacier]

depends how long you stay and if your the first to visit said system

[EightByteØwl]

If you take some time to scan, you can end up with 20-100 million.

[Malfeasance]

I'll let you know by tomorrow evening lol. Coming back from Sag A*, advanced discovery spam and a handful of main star scans only.

Good luck waging war with the galaxy map near the core though. It's currently hair-pullingly frustrating for me right now.

[SaStandDown]

It really depends on what you scan.....planets pay differently...ELW's, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes pay the most...
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Explorer

[ThatFederalGuy]

Originally posted by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯:

I'll let you know by tomorrow evening lol. Coming back from Sag A*, advanced discovery spam and a handful of main star scans only.

Good luck waging war with the galaxy map near the core though. It's currently hair-pullingly frustrating for me right now.

Thank you and good luck xD

[Malfeasance]

I'm home and the numbers are in!

I estimate around 1900 systems scanned, again with the advanced scanner only, no surface scanner. Took 2 or 3 smaller detours to see nebulae near my route but that was about it. Bee-lined it home.

Ranked up from I believe mostly aimless to Pathfinder and made approximately 15 million credits.

Good luck! :)

[boiler1]

How many hours did it take you to make 15 million?

[Malfeasance]

Originally posted by carlperry123:

How many hours did it take you to make 15 million?

Many. I was out for probably 20+ hours at least. That was at least 4-5 game days for me, grinding away.

Also I don't have any math behind it, but it felt like jumping multiple times before filling with the fuel scoop was much faster. Obviously this carries the risk of hitting multiple unscoopable browns which the game gladly threw my way after I insulted it's impossible routing near the core

[Flanker]

Originally posted by SupBro!:

Im just half a million away from getting myself an ASP Explore

You say that, but 1.5 for full discovery scanner, 5.1m for the top of the range FSD, then you'll want a fast fuel scoop, thats 900,000, if you're going to maximise your jump range, you'll also want the lightest modules....

Save a little longer....

I recently went to the Pleiades nebula, only 300ly, with a full discovery scanner and not doing the unexplored planets I made a little over 250,000.

I also found a station in the middle of the nebula, very interesting little trip...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=597264983
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=597264068
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=597264121

[Malfeasance]

Originally posted by CMDR Evil Flanker:

Originally posted by SupBro!:

Im just half a million away from getting myself an ASP Explore

You say that, but 1.5 for full discovery scanner, 5.1m for the top of the range FSD, then you'll want a fast fuel scoop, thats 900,000, if you're going to maximise your jump range, you'll also want the lightest modules....

Save a little longer....

I recently went to the Pleiades nebula, only 300ly, with a full discovery scanner and not doing the unexplored planets I made a little over 250,000.

I also found a station in the middle of the nebula, very interesting little trip...

I believe I took a screenshot from within that nebula, as I'm traveling to it. I thought it was neat that they had expanded into it.

Sadly I had the intention of buying a repair kit and did not.

Also mentioning the fuel scoop, here's a pro tip for you: don't skimp on the scoop. Less time filling = more exploring faster = more sanity.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=591473658

Here's the one, doubt it's the same station but that was the view going to it.

[EightByteØwl]

Took me about 6 hours to make a profit of 7 million or so, just exploring ~1000 ly from sol.

[Flanker]

Originally posted by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯:

Here's the one, doubt it's the same station but that was the view going to it.

I made an edit too, to include some screentshots I took, the name of the station was 'Obsidian' in the Maia system.

[Malfeasance]

Originally posted by CMDR Evil Flanker:

Originally posted by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯:

Here's the one, doubt it's the same station but that was the view going to it.

I made an edit too, to include some screentshots I took, the name of the station was 'Obsidian' in the Maia system.

Ah that was the one then. A recent addition to the game as I see it. Very cool. I was pretty surprised when I was still seeing ships in SC on my way out of human space.