Elvin's exploration record looks quite cool, finding even ordinaries without any tools!

Thanks! Not sure how grateful Elvin is, though I am certainly grateful to have the meta-game tools of foxybot and the mapscript :)

the one thing that pops up to my eye as a result of it is that those few ordinaries are exactly the points sticking out in the first graph too, for being a different type of resource from everything around

They do indeed stick out on the first, to my eye some appear a bit less buried on the second.

(e.g. the ordinary in the cdg patch is actually a rf, isn't it, while there are no tiny rf finds in that patch otherwise, are there?).

Correct. For rf and nt, he's only found smalls and ordinaries and his only wpl is a small. These were all found among tinies of other resources. In the case of wwb and f, he's only found tinies in those patches.

Hence, unless this is just an artefact of looking at the graph rather than the data, it's not only a bigger find but also a different find altogether so it might be interesting to look deeper into this as things evolve.

Yeah, I still need to look deeper at the data. Gnuplot is warmed up, R is next :)

Glad to see the bot and the graphs and all of it really put to some proper use by someone else, too. Thank you for this write-up, it made for a very pleasant read to start my day with!

Thanks, the pleasure was mine.

The idea to plot also the types of claims is not bad at all - the one thing that pops up to my eye as a result of it is that those few ordinaries are exactly the points sticking out in the first graph too, for being a different type of resource from everything around (e.g. the ordinary in the cdg patch is actually a rf, isn't it, while there are no tiny rf finds in that patch otherwise, are there?). Hence, unless this is just an artefact of looking at the graph rather than the data, it's not only a bigger find but also a different find altogether so it might be interesting to look deeper into this as things evolve.

Glad to see the bot and the graphs and all of it really put to some proper use by someone else, too. Thank you for this write-up, it made for a very pleasant read to start my day with!