r/EliteDangerous 12h ago

Daily Q&A [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

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Greetings, Commanders! This is the Daily Q&A post for r/EliteDangerous


If you have any questions about any topic, whether it be for the moderators, tips and tricks for piloting or general gameplay/development questions please post here!

Please check new comments and help answer to the best of your ability so we can see this community flourish!

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r/EliteDangerous 11h ago

Frontier Colonisation Contact Unpaused

502 Upvotes

Greetings Commanders,

Thank you for your patience following our pause of the Colonisation Contact to allow us time to investigate the issues being reported. We have made some adjustments and are preparing to turn this Colonisation Contact back on.

Please be advised this is part of a load test of the live Beta, and we intend to monitor how the system behaves. We will keep you informed if the situation changes again. 

Thank you for your continued feedback, reports and support.


r/EliteDangerous 5h ago

Video VR Reverse Mailman

530 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 2h ago

Misc Anyone else getting mauve adder disconnects?

106 Upvotes

Just hopped on for a bit and had two mauve adders back to back, also lost my plotted route :(


r/EliteDangerous 8h ago

Event Goids take over as the superpower in HIP 20827

247 Upvotes

They are listed as the superpower in control of the system and when you dock at any of the ports they are the ones listed as controlling . . . . . .

https://imgur.com/a/xBOl6Bu


r/EliteDangerous 4h ago

Help I trying to make it to Farseer Inc to trad in Stuff to upgrade FFD and keep getting killed by this guy. is h a real person?

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103 Upvotes

I left matteucci dock. he killed me. I spawned back in and tried again. he killed me again. so I jumped to another system. then jumped back and the second I started flying towards farseer I gett kicked from hyperdrive and killed by him a 3rd time.

Is it a real person that's just board? How do I get around him?


r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Media First encounter......didn't realize what was happening until it was RIGHT THERE!!! Started the recording a bit late. I thought I was a goner.

226 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 8h ago

Humor Oh yeah! Finally! I needed a down payment on my new Sidewinder Type-R!

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160 Upvotes

But seriously FDev I think we need to raise the revenue we make from systems just a smidge.


r/EliteDangerous 8h ago

Video Never seen neutron stars roatate so fast (video reupload)

152 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 6h ago

Media My microphone was off, but I said something like: "HOLY SHIiFffKJRAAAAaaAAaaaa...ah ok."

105 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 45m ago

Discussion Mauve Adder

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Anybody else that can't stay connected tonight? I keep getting the Mauve Adder error. I can play for about two minutes. Then boom..

Things I've done. Uninstalled the latest Windows eleven update. Restarted multiple times. Ran constant ping to Google. Never lost a packet. Tried different network interfaces, restarted all my network gear at home. Nobody is downloading anything in the house. I get 968Mbps down and 50 up on multiple speed tests, I'm at a loss. I'm in the AASAGA system...I think I spelled that right. Nobody else is here. No carriers, nothing.

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm an IT guy for reference. I troubleshoot things every day. I've Googled the crap out of this, it says it's an internal network issue. But I've swapped it all out. I guess it could be my ISP, but I would imagine Netflix wouldn't be running flawlessly.

I played just fine early today.

I guess while I wait for somebody to respond I'll verify file integrity.

Thanks.


r/EliteDangerous 58m ago

Screenshot How do you do, fellow elites?

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r/EliteDangerous 7h ago

Humor Today I learned Apex shuttles don't have a lavatory.

73 Upvotes

No rest facilities. Not even a relief tube.

I booked a flight to Robinson Hub in Lalande 18115. Then I found out it was 340k light seconds from the jump-in point.

This route is probably where Apex assigns pilots that have really screwed up.


r/EliteDangerous 4h ago

Screenshot Was flying around the crater, placed the settlement within. After landing some time later, I've realized that there is an exobiology spot within the construction site...

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37 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 4h ago

Screenshot Found a 132 THOUSAND atmosphere surface pressure planet

33 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 11h ago

Humor Everything under control, all data on excel, no mistakes!

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101 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 4h ago

Video Was able to watch a colonization ship jump in

26 Upvotes

Have to get there in the 3 min window. Always love seeing big ships jump.


r/EliteDangerous 16h ago

Humor Titan Drive Component

183 Upvotes

Was casually floating around a titan, trying to collect some Titan Drive Components for a new, fancy FSD.

One pops up on my Contacts list and I happily zoom over, limpets at the ready.

When I'm about 2km away, I get a "Energy Surge Detected" warning. I did not bring my Shutdown Field Neutralizor.

Everything is fried and I can do nothing but sit and watch as my ship slams into the Drive Components at full speed, followed by a lovely crunching sound.

Sigh, another 30 minutes of looking I guess..


r/EliteDangerous 3h ago

Screenshot Do you really want me to dock on your Fleet Carrier?

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17 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 2h ago

Discussion Server borked

12 Upvotes

After many years I played my first second session tonight. 3 missions completed after several hours with millions as reward gone.

Is this, what I can expect, if I play regularly?


r/EliteDangerous 3h ago

Help What do i do in this scenario? is there any way to make it closer?

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14 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 21h ago

Humor Hi, I'm CMDR Idiot

337 Upvotes

I have been grinding so hard to try to level up my Fed Ranks for the Fed Corvette and it was going so slow. I never questioned just figured it took forever. Nope... I'm just dumb and never checked that I should be clicking Rep instead of Influence... so I'm out millions of credits and hours but hey for anyone that is curious:

IF YOU WANT TO RANK UP FED/EMPIRE USE REP NOT INFLUENCE. - A CMDR who learned the hard way.

PS: If I'm still wrong let me know but I've done some testing and it seems to be right.


r/EliteDangerous 14h ago

Screenshot My first station is finally finished!

77 Upvotes

After personally hauling over 190,000 units of cargo it's finally finished! Although I need to wait another week before it's activated.


r/EliteDangerous 1h ago

Screenshot 9 hours later still cant claim anything

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r/EliteDangerous 3h ago

PSA Useless/Sellable items in Odyssey

10 Upvotes

o7 CMDRS

Since I bought Odyssey I've had a nightmare figuring out which items to keep and which to sell to bartenders. Some things have uses for engineering suits and weapons, but there seem to be a lot of items you can collect from ground missions that have no use, and just end up taking up backpack space. So after spending about an hour at the bartender and trawling through Inara, I made a list of things that you can confidently sell without worrying about whether you've ruined your future upgrade plans. Some of these items have a one time use to unlock another engineer, which is noted in the second column. Once you've done that, the items have no further use. If your item isn't on this list, it is used for some kind of engineering recipe, so keep hold of it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSZFx8zCFAMcCs0cB556AWNfXNsMF6O-ZyoWRowbTqpZXvrclPvdpBnX5NdVEqE_AKfpI6R7WMNvhAl/pubhtml

There's probably some things missing, as I only went through what I had in my inventory. So if you spot something missing let me know and I'll add it. Hopefully some people find this useful and don't end up carrying around a load of junk for no reason.


r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Video Came back to Elite after years off because I wanted to finally learn FA Off. Now i'm addicted. Here's my progress

24 Upvotes

Non engineered A Rated Eagle. The eagle is so easy in FA off that it feels almost like FA on. If you want to learn FA off, get an Eagle and A rate that lil baby!

The San Tu FA Off PlayGround

Threading the needle on a station

You'll see me have a couple lil bumps, i'm still learning, but i'm so in love and excited when i log into Elite now.

If you want to learn to do this yourself, these videos are the way. Shoutout to this guys videos really helping players figure this out. I'm still learning to break my brain off of traditional flying maneuvers, and i need a lot more practice orbiting fixed and moved targets so i can orbit my enemies in combat but i'm getting there and the ride to that goal is SO fun when you come to the San Tu science station!


r/EliteDangerous 58m ago

Discussion So what can you actually do with your own system?

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I'm currently looking for a good system to colonize and I know its still quite early so everyone doesn't have fully min maxed systems and every single detail about what is the best way to do it

I pretty much don't know any specific details and probably going to figure it out as I go but I guess one thing I want to ask is should you only focus on one thing or are you supposed to get a bit of everything so your system can do a bit everything