Quote Originally Posted by BonzaiFerroni View Post
Conclusion:
The third hypothesis seems the most valid in light of this data.

This analysis has limitations. It doesn't completely rule out hypothesis #2, it could be that the Champagne Supernova! was just particularly lucky. It also only looks at the sectors up through 11. It could be that hypothesis #1 or #2 becomes more relevant for higher level sectors. I'll continue to explore to rule this out! (Hypothesis #1 actually is certain for sectors 17 and beyond, there is a minimum surveillance requirement of 90)
This is really pretty good I can't imagine that you would have gotten particularly more lucky than any of the rest of us in finding new sectors. I for one feel convinced that as far as sector discovery goes, there's no benefit from stats at this point.

This just leaves us with the next experiment to try different ship stats on something simple like deep red/blue/green crystals for yield etc