Question for fellow explorers?

[Emanon]

Forgive me for not providing a screenshot as I'm not at my home computer right now but my question could not wait (AND I guess I'm too lazy to go to the official forums to try and look for this).

When looking at my commander stats the other night in panel 4 and going through all my credit making career stuff, I noticed there was a Level 2 Detailed Scans and Level 3 Detailed scans in my explorer section (again that may not be exact wording). Both of those items had zero in them - so I was wondering is that just future functionality? Because I have the Advanced Scanner and the Detailed Surface Scanner so I don't know how else to do level 2 and 3 scans.

Thank you to my fellow explorers! See you out and about in the big black!

[Loriath]

As far as I have heard, its for the Future. No idea what that will be.

[Nanosmo]

Yeah, placeholder for future exploration scans. So that means you need to go and Re-scan all your findings!

[duckofdeath]

The stats are live now, and you don't have to rescan anything.

I just don't know what they mean, which is why I'm here...

Just a short in the dark, Level 2 is undiscovered objects you've scanned and Level 3 is valuable objects like terrabforables? Not that I'm sure I can get the numbers to match that for me either, but what do I know?

[Zieman]

Level 2 is supposed to be detailed scans without the Detailed Surface Scanner and Level 3 is supposed to be detailed scans with the Detailed Surface Scanner. The scans have been retroactively added to everyone's statistics with 1.2.07 patch, but for some (most?) players the level 2 & 3 scans seem to be reversed, FDEV is aware of the bug and is looking into it.

[CrazedHatter]

Level 2 scans mean you've actually scanned the object, not just used a discovery scanner, level 3 scans mean you have a Detailed Surface Scanner onboard when you did the scan.

[Viking2010]

There's been an update to the post on the main Elite forums about this today by Frontier themselves. The link is here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=136192 and there looks to be a possibility of level 3 scans not being recorded at all and potentially millions of credits missing from explorer's bank balances.

[savinup4adeathstar]

Interesting. That means exploring could get a boost and actually become a worthy profession. I've spent my early days exploring and right now it doesn't even come close to fighting/trading - but I have zero lvl 3 scans...

[duckofdeath]

Interesting. That means exploring could get a boost and actually become a worthy profession. I've spent my early days exploring and right now it doesn't even come close to fighting/trading - but I have zero lvl 3 scans...

Exploration is actually a "fast track" into Elite and the permanent Founders World rebate. You can make Elite in a month while exploring, and by the time you're done you also have around 160M to spend at Jameson Memorial. And you don't even need a fancy 100M+ ship to do that, just a "little" grit. It is after all still thousands of systems you have to visit.

[Viking2010]

It could and I hope it does get a boost. I have 0 level 3 scans too and although I'm not that far out and only scanned a few hundred systems, it would be good to stay out of the habitable bubble until it's fixed. I'm hoping they find a fix for when the Power-Play update comes along.