What do the different Expedition Icons mean?

[Jivebot]

Some have blue semi circles in their map icons. Others have a single yellow semi circle. Or no semi circles at all.

Even when they're greyed out on the map, many of them have different greyed out symbols. Most on the left are a blank circle and the ones toward the right tend to be a circle with a star or something in the middle.

Some have a small pod number in the lower right corner when you mouse over them, but a MUCH larger pod cost when you click them.

Why do some have a "Min" number?

What does all this stuff mean? I tried looking at the wiki and found nothing to explain this stuff

[maxximux2010]

No ring - Basic expedition, Basic rewards, Basic drop pod resources

Yellow ring/arc above - 'Higher Difficulty' Expedition, Additional bonus reward, Costs drop pod resources to begin the expedition, with higher gains if completed

Blue double ring/arc above - Same as yellow ring, but part of the World Slayer DLC

Rewards are all based on the time / length of the expedition ultimately, but the idea is if you pay to enter, you get more rewards for completion per timescale.

Edit - There isn't a timer anymore, this is correct, however, if a normal and ring expedition are expected to take equal amounts of time without an god tier build, then you should get 1 additional rolled pieces with a chance of legendary.

Also, not all expeditions have the same rewards even when compared between normal and 'ringed', this is because, for example, a boom town can be clear significantly faster than an archways of enoch, so they have weighted the longer expeditions to grant more rewards, with the idea of achieving the same "rewards per minute" so that there was no benefit to run only certain expeditions, with the caveat that the expedition requiring drop pods have a slightly better risk/reward scenario. So while timers don't play a part, actual play time does.

[Leopard]

So far I recalled, the blue ring requires Resources. For Achievements, the Blue ring requires Co-op member to complete it.

The ones without blue ring won't work.

[Jivebot]

It probably doesn't matter but I am curious. What about the two greyed out circles?

You know, when the expeditions are not selectable but some of them are Grey with a Circle and others a Grey with a Star?

[Leopard]

Grayed circle means you need to level up around Apoc level 15 or more to get into the map.

For the star, I can't recall.

[John Wick (El Coxedor)]

Originally posted by maxximux2010:

No ring - Basic expedition, Basic rewards, Basic drop pod resources

Yellow ring/arc above - 'Higher Difficulty' Expedition, Additional bonus reward, Costs drop pod resources to begin the expedition, with higher gains if completed

Blue double ring/arc above - Same as yellow ring, but part of the World Slayer DLC

Rewards are all based on the time / length of the expedition ultimately, but the idea is if you pay to enter, you get more rewards for completion per timescale.

Edit - There isn't a timer anymore, this is correct, however, if a normal and ring expedition are expected to take equal amounts of time without an god tier build, then you should get 1 additional rolled pieces with a chance of legendary.

Also, not all expeditions have the same rewards even when compared between normal and 'ringed', this is because, for example, a boom town can be clear significantly faster than an archways of enoch, so they have weighted the longer expeditions to grant more rewards, with the idea of achieving the same "rewards per minute" so that there was no benefit to run only certain expeditions, with the caveat that the expedition requiring drop pods have a slightly better risk/reward scenario. So while timers don't play a part, actual play time does.

Are these things still up to date? I have vanilla game and I see icons with blue color. Also have not seen yet one without yellow or blue color. And I've read elsewhere on the forums that blue should indicate that it is harder and need drop pods to enter, but I had a blue one that does not require anything to enter.