Economy

Which system pays best? One of high wealth. A system's economy has a type and a wealth, low, medium, or high, shown as one, two, or three stars on the galaxy map. Wealth decides what a system pays, and the type changes nothing you could plan on. Pirate systems, marked Pirate Controlled on the galaxy map, hold more class S tools, but weak ones.

Wealth

A system offers about the same number of tools at any wealth, and a pirate one a little fewer. What wealth changes is what those tools are: class S is 0% of tools at low wealth, 2% at high, and 5% in a pirate system, and 0.24% of tools hold adjacent slots at low wealth against 4.2% at high. Pirate systems sit apart, with only 0.27%. Multitool classes shows why. Wealth does not move the technology merchants a station sells.

Wrecks barely notice: a medium wealth system holds about 4,300, a pirate one about 3,800.

Wealth	Tools in a system	Wrecks in a system	Class S tools	Adjacent tools
Low	297,452	4,365	0%	0.24%
Medium	305,387	4,265	1%	1.6%
High	306,278	4,263	2%	4.2%
Pirate	250,495	3,821	5%	0.27%

Charted systems of Euclid, Uncharted left out.

Economy type

The median stays between about 300,000 and about 300,000 tools in a system, whatever the type.

Economy	Tools in a system	Wrecks in a system	Class S tools	Adjacent tools
Power Generation	295,046	4,224	1.2%	1.4%
Mining	296,048	4,247	1.2%	1.4%
Scientific	296,778	4,244	1.2%	1.4%
Technology	297,065	4,205	1.2%	1.4%
Material Fusion	298,264	4,240	1.2%	1.4%
Trading	300,461	4,259	1.2%	1.4%
Manufacturing	300,503	4,269	1.2%	1.4%

Charted systems of Euclid, Uncharted left out.

Classes do not follow the type either. Only pirate and abandoned systems move them, and an uncharted one pays no tool at all. Uncharted means a system with no lifeform, no space station, and no shop or monolith.

Economy	C	B	A	S
Uncharted	—	—	—	—
Material Fusion	49%	35%	15%	0.91%
Trading	49%	35%	15%	0.91%
Mining	49%	35%	15%	0.9%
Manufacturing	49%	34%	15%	0.9%
Technology	49%	34%	15%	0.89%
Scientific	49%	34%	15%	0.9%
Power Generation	49%	34%	15%	0.9%
Abandoned	60%	30%	10%	0%
Pirate	85%	5%	5%	5%

Share of tools at each class in Euclid, staffs included.

Nor do multitool types. A Mining system pays no more Atlantid tools than a Trading one.

Economy	Rifle	Pistol	Atlantid	Sentinel	Experimental	Alien	Royal
Abandoned	34%	23%	35%	8.5%	0.087%	0.095%	0.06%
Pirate	40%	28%	27%	1.3%	1.5%	1.5%	0.054%
Mining	44%	30%	25%	1.4%	0.12%	0.12%	0.027%
Manufacturing	44%	30%	25%	1.5%	0.13%	0.12%	0.028%
Power Generation	44%	30%	25%	1.4%	0.11%	0.12%	0.019%
Trading	44%	30%	25%	1.4%	0.12%	0.13%	0.024%
Scientific	44%	29%	25%	1.5%	0.14%	0.11%	0.027%
Technology	44%	29%	25%	1.4%	0.12%	0.12%	0.023%
Material Fusion	44%	29%	25%	1.3%	0.11%	0.12%	0.024%

Share of each type among tools that reach a list, in Euclid. Staffs left out.

Conflict

Conflict moves the finds a little.

Conflict	Tools in a system	Wrecks in a system	Class S tools	Adjacent tools
Low	298,821	4,325	0.7%	1.3%
Medium	305,060	4,264	0.9%	1.6%
High	307,606	4,274	0.9%	1.6%
Pirate	250,495	3,821	5%	0.27%

Charted systems of Euclid, Uncharted left out.

Which system will be pirate

Stars in a voxel are not shuffled: a system's number sets the odds of its station. Low numbers are almost all inhabited, the middle holds the pirates, and high numbers are where abandoned stations gather. So coordinates tell you what to expect before you jump, and distance plays a part too, as where to look shows.

System number	Inhabited	Pirate	Abandoned	Uncharted
0 to 99	85%	1.5%	1.4%	12%
100 to 149	82%	7.6%	0.99%	9.4%
150 to 599	69%	12%	2%	17%
Over 600	49%	2.6%	36%	13%

Stars of Euclid. The number is the part of a portal address after the first glyph, in base 16.

The galaxy map shows one more thing before you jump, the population, and races says when it counts.