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Removed the surface scanner by accident, got about the same credits per explored system.

I don't really understand this concept. There are systems known and system unknown, even populated ones. Why would this card company give me 20000 credits for a scan of a known system, just 20LY ahead?

The discovery scanner is a money machine. Just plot a voyage, use economic routes. Jump from system to system and just do one scan, without surface scanning. Bigger systems make more money than smaller ones explored bit by bit. It also seems that the mass of an object =/= credits, so if you do surface scan just bother about the big bodies. There was a glitch where scanning a black hole (a lot of mass) would pay you a fortune, this does not work anymore.