There are new discoveries spawning (up to 5 at a time). If those are for example credits or energy cells they will reward between 5k and 20k discovery points. If you got lucky and it spawned within range of an adv. sat. you can order any ship to pick them up and you will get those discovery points.Snafu_X3 wrote: ↑Sat, 12. Jun 21, 01:14Yes, agreed: that's my concern above!
Yes you canthink people have mentioned that you can buy a crate location using discovery points,Effectively no: you can /gradually/ gain Disco Points from simply (manually) flying around (already discovered) sectors, but it's an /extremely/ slow gain (presumably to prevent automated SETA exploits). AFAIK Disco points are only awarded for <player> actions (unless there's a crate that awards Disco points, but that wouldn't make sense..)but aren't discovery points limited in the game?
Could someone correct me if my thinking is wrong? My current thoughts are that remote ship discoveries within known sectors don't contribute to the DP 'bank': it requires <playership> to travel to that location to gain DP. This makes sense (at least to my mind): remote exploration may give a target, but personal intervention is required to gain the reward (hence no (eg) remote 'roid scanning for quick DP-gathering). Likewise a new sector discovery may be made by a remote ship with Explorer s/w, but doesn't provide DP unless <playership> is the first entrant (so keep remote explorer ships finding gates rather than travelling thru them.. altho IIRC there's a DP reward for finding gates..?)
For asteroids you indeed have to scan them yourself.
For station discovery i didnt pay enough attention to verify it either way.