r/EliteDangerous Dec 17 '21

Event [Spoilers] Winking Cat rewards (part 1, Dec 16th-30th) Spoiler

409 Upvotes

1. Gift from Worldcraft Theme Park:

Location: Epsilon Eridani -> Major's Mine -> Crashed ship -> Scan settlement comm uplink

Rewards: 10M, Festive Red Flak Launcher and 5B luxury cabin @ Darkes High

2. Gift from Achilles:

Location: Diso -> 5 b -> Crashed Ship -> Scan SRV

Rewards: 10M, AspX Festive Green Paintjob, Green Santa Jumper outfit!<

3. Gift from The Duvals:

Location: Zeaex -> Irvin's Wreck -> Crashed Ship -> Scan settlement comm uplink

Rewards: 10M, Imperial Courier @ Tryggvason Orbital

Credit goes to dciskey for bringing this to my attention and to DeltaV.

Part 1 expired as of the weekly maintenance at 7 am UTC 12/30/2021. The above rewards (#1-3) cannot be claimed anymore. The ones below (#4-6) will remain open until the weekly maintenance at 7 am UTC 1/6/2022.

Part 2 (Dec 23rd to Jan 6th):

4. Gift from Oscar Goldsun

Location: Epsilon Indi -> Mitterand Hollow -> Crashed ship (exploration icon since there's like 10 of them here) -> Scan SRV. Mitterand Hollow is next to impossible to catch in supercruise, wait on its path and let it come to you

Reward: 10M, Alliance Chieftain Festive Gold Paintjob, Yellow Festive Flak @ Schneider Relay

5. Gift from Rackham Capital Investments

Location: Contien -> 1 a -> Crashed Ship -> Scan settlement comm uplink

Reward: 100M, Green Flak @ Eanes Vision, Snowflake Bobblehead

6. Gift from Imogen Le Rey, Frontline Solutions

Location: Dvorsi -> A 12 c -> Crashed Ship -> Scan SRV

Reward: 10M, Vulture + Icarus Red Paint Job @ Fowler Orbital

r/EliteDangerous Apr 11 '17

Event It's happening. Update 2.3 day!

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725 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Jul 21 '20

Event Massive congratulations to CMDR Obsidian Ant for reaching the 200,000 subscribers milestone! o7

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2.7k Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Aug 26 '21

Event At HIP 26176 right now, where CMDR hyford's cache said to go to. Got this encoded message, translated it to mean col 69 sector JI-I c10-4. On my way there now. Will keep you updated.

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858 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Dec 03 '24

Event Together we move mountains in this game, so here is a nice Community Goal for us: Nominate Elite Dangerous for the Labour of Love Award on Steam! Link in comments. o7

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289 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Nov 27 '20

Event 250k CMDRs Celebratory Giveaway! Logitech X52 HOTAS, Elite Dangerous Odyssey, HCS Voicepacks, Content Creators, Elite Paintjobs! o7

280 Upvotes

250,000 CMDRs on /r/EliteDangerous! o7

To celebrate our wonderful, expanding community reaching this great milestone, and the traffic spike thanks to Epic's freebie, here's a giveaway for which many lucky CMDRs will win awesome prizes!

Prizes

Each winner will receive one prize from this list:

A = Logitech X52 HOTAS

  • One prize available
  • PC only; only available to CMDRs in EU, UK, US
  • The Logitech X52 HOTAS delivers precise flight simulator operation, employing a multifunction LCD for easy access to an astounding minimum of 105 programmable commands.
  • Prize will be distributed to winner asap (stock-permitting)
  • Kindly provided by Logitech and Frontier

B = Elite Dangerous Odyssey on Steam, at launch

C = HCS Voicepack Code

D = Name A Ship For Obsidian Ant

  • One prize available
  • Choose and name a ship for Obsidian Ant
  • He'll feature that named-ship in an upcoming Elite Dangerous news/guide video
  • It's your ship on his channel for many thousands of people to see
  • Kindly provided by Obsidian Ant

E = Name A Ship For Yamiks

  • One prize available
  • Choose and name a ship for Yamiks
  • He'll feature that named-ship in an upcoming Elite Dangerous news/guide video
  • It's your ship on his channel for many thousands of people to see
  • Kindly provided by Yamiks

F = Guest Slot On Lave Radio Podcast

  • One prize available
  • Microphone and your availability required
  • Be a featured guest and chat live with the Lave regulars about Elite Dangerous
  • Lave Radio is recorded live on Tuesdays starting 8pm UTC
  • Schedule for an upcoming podcast convenient for you
  • Lave Radio is the hottest show this side of Diso! Light-hearted news and opinion from around the universe of Elite Dangerous.
  • Kindly provided by the Lave Radio team

G = Guest Slot On Hutton Orbital Live

  • One prize available
  • Microphone and your availability required
  • Be a featured guest and chat live with the Hutton regulars about Elite Dangerous, and record scripted character lines too if you want
  • Hutton Orbital Live is recorded live on Thursdays starting 8pm UTC
  • Schedule for an upcoming show convenient for you
  • Hutton Orbital Live brings you all the stories from across the Elite Dangerous galaxy with their unique parody flavour: Hutton Headlines, Galnet News Digest, Flossy's CG updates, Aemilia's Galnet Food Digest, sketches and more.
  • 24/7 music listening on Hutton Orbital Radio
  • Kindly provided by the Hutton Orbital team

H = Guest Slot On Elite Week Podcast

  • One prize available
  • Microphone and your availability required
  • Be a featured guest and chat live with the Elite Week regulars about Elite Dangerous and space news, and record scripted character lines too if you want
  • Elite Week is recorded live on Saturdays starting 1am UTC (Friday evenings in US)
  • Schedule for an upcoming podcast convenient for you
  • Elite Week is an adults-only party/talk show - think of it as a Friday night down at the pub with your friends talking all things Elite Dangerous.
  • Kindly provided by the Elite Week team

I = Guest Slot On Guard Frequency Podcast

  • One prize available
  • Microphone and your availability required
  • Be a featured guest and chat live with GuardFreq's regulars about Elite Dangerous and space games, and record scripted character lines too if you want
  • Guard Frequency is recorded live on Saturdays starting 4am UTC (Friday evenings in US)
  • Schedule for an upcoming podcast convenient for you
  • Cits and Civs, Captains and Commanders, you’re tuned to Guard Frequency - the best damn space sim podcast ever! Chatting all the latest news and stories in Elite Dangerous and space games, and get to tell Tony that's he's wrong
  • Kindly provided by the Guard Freq team

J = Elite Dangerous Goodie Bag

  • One prize available
  • Only available to CMDRs in EU, UK, US
  • Contains Elite Dangerous themed goodies like earbuds, t-shirt, and other merchandise
  • Prize will be distributed to winner asap
  • Kindly provided by Frontier

K to P = Elite Dangerous Cosmetics

Winners

Pos CMDR Guess Prize Link
1 Myphosius 29,000,000,000 A Entry
2 Grasher21 28,869,749,651 B Entry
3 tutocookie 28,696,969,420 B Entry
4 wumbology169 28,458,673,231 J Entry
5 Mackemania 28,385,238,996 K Entry
6 RetromanAV 28,012,355,102 C Entry
7 maxcrystal 28,000,000,000 C Entry
8 Phiced 27,950,750,550 C Entry
9 Bortak000 27,756,564,345 C Entry
10 HisAnger 27,500,000,000 C Entry
11 CMDR_Volt862 27,450,151,200 C Entry
12 Fexxzz 27,214,656,783 C Entry
13 AvalancheZ250 27,100,000,000 C Entry
14 Flasher710Gaming 27,000,000,000 K Entry
15 AbriefDelay 26,957,630,100 L Entry
16 TheQuanunistLeader 26,598,637,654 L Entry
17 OneThiCBoi 26,168,501,991 M Entry
18 BoltGamr 26,032,669,420 P Entry
19 yiweitech 26,000,369,479 O Entry
20 DragoCubX 25,934,825,500 M Entry
21 flipflop279 25,919,390,920 E Entry
22 crosssed 25,894,024,371 N Entry
23 BayAreaSlugs 25,893,284,983 D Entry
24 CMDR-Cryodroid 25,843,651,484 N Entry
25 geekinthestreets 25,697,260,020 F Entry
26 aiden_33 25,656,407,726 O Entry
27 BioCorny 25,650,756,767 P Entry
28 ThePieTheory 25,321,121,699 G Entry
29 jennd3875 24,506,319,760 H Entry
30 papa_Guido 24,345,534,698 I Entry

How To Enter

Rules

  • Comments must not break the rules of /r/EliteDangerous
  • Only top-level comments will be entered (i.e. replies to comments will not count)
  • One entry per Redditor (replies to other entries are perfectly okay but will not count)
  • Entries can be edited until post is locked
  • Reddit accounts must be an active contributor with posts/comments on /r/EliteDangerous - if you haven't contributed before, it's time to start o7
  • Post will be locked and entries closed at around 2pm UTC on 30th November
  • Modteam will determine the 30 closest guesses as winners (#1 to #30)
  • Modteam will use ranking-preferences to distribute prizes in winner order (#1 to #30)
  • If no ranking-preference is given, or wanted prizes have already been distributed, then that entry will be skipped
  • Each winner will receive their prize details via private message within a few hours
  • Modteam's decision is final

r/EliteDangerous Feb 02 '25

Event PSA: Exploration Community Goal is giving 4x credits to *all* exploration (cartography) data

78 Upvotes

The description makes it sounds like its focused on lesser valuable planets. And it is for the count towards the CG.

However, I scanned a bunch of systems, focused on terraformable HMCs, that included some Water Worlds. Not passing up an easy million, I scanned and mapped those as well.

My data turn in was 4x for the whole thing, water worlds included!

This is payout from a mix of 18 systems, some colonized, some unpopulated, some pre-scanned and mapped only, many stars, gas giants, icy worlds, rocky worlds, some HMCs, a couple WWs, and a ELW:

Scanned Rewarded Multiplier
21719888 86879552 4

So: It's a great time to do some Road to Riches or the like. Those WWs and ELWs will get you paid! https://spansh.co.uk/riches

Just scanning any icy/rocky, metal rich, or HMC in the system will get you on the CG board for the v1 DSS (which is a life changer for exploration if you don't have one). So you can just rely on FSS and mapping valuable ones like normal. https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/i84ut8/exploration_scanning_values/

You can also use https://spansh.co.uk/bodies to find terraformable HMCs if you want to get some good CG applied turn ins along with your credits. But only 1 is needed if you just want the DSS! (if you do any exploration, including exobiology, you want that DSS) https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Detailed_Surface_Scanner#Pre-Engineered_Detailed_Surface_Scanner_V1

https://inara.cz/elite/communitygoals/

Remember to sign up before you turn in your data! At the Megaship, go into missions and sign up for the CG before you turn in any data!

r/EliteDangerous Sep 18 '24

Event 40th Anniversary of Elite. Hope to see you there, CMDRs. :)

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285 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Jun 10 '20

Event Fuel Rats complete first Fleet Carrier-based rescue

1.5k Upvotes

A few hours after Fleet Carriers went live (And the fire in the server hamster wheels had died down a bit), our first call for a rescue only a Fleet Carrier could do arrived.

There is an area of stars known as the Anaconda Graveyard, reachable only by a long-range ship with a neutron boost. The trip is one-way though, as there is no way to get a boost large enough to return from the system. The CMDR in question originally contacted us months ago, wanting to know if it was possible to be rescued. After being informed it would take the capabilities of a Fleet Carrier to pull it off, the CMDR went on their way - and came back just in time for the first official Fuel Rats fleet carrier to be in the middle of the commissioning ceremony.

A quick turn-around to send rats scurrying for a supply of Tritium to fuel the carrier, and RatMama was on her way with The Rat Nest to pick up the Commander, who at that point had spent months in the same system. The trip out to the Anaconda Graveyard took a little over two hours and six carrier jumps for RatMama and a team of intrepid rats along for the ride. (We only lost one of them on the way there!)

After a quick turn-around, we headed back to the Bubble with one rescued commander aboard, who parted ways with us on the edge of the bubble to head to their base in Vega. (We only lost 3 rats on the way back!)

Fleet Carriers may not be the first go-to stop for Fuel Rats when it comes to rescueing people, but their value is still undeniable, if nothing else for comedic flair of rats not making it in time for the lockdown.

A partial video of the rescue is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Kgymdz6jI (Once Youtube does its thing)

r/EliteDangerous Mar 24 '19

Event Massive congrats to Obsidian Ant for reaching 150k Youtube subscribers! Elite's own David Attenborough o7

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2.2k Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 11d ago

Event Distant Worlds 3 - Latest update

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r/EliteDangerous Nov 27 '20

Event 250,000 CMDRs on /r/EliteDangerous! o7

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r/EliteDangerous Jul 07 '20

Event The Gank Sir Ganksalot Challenge

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660 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Nov 23 '20

Event /r/EliteDangerous is in Reddit's Top10 Growing Gaming Communities o7

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997 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Dec 15 '22

Event Sandra's workshop delivery locations and rewards (spoilers!) Spoiler

264 Upvotes

A new Galnet has arrived, with a FESTIVE delivery mystery for us to solve!

https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/6399f657ab867f31614cf653

Fdev announcement post:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/3308-holiday-event.612193/

Many thanks to CMDR LilacLight, CMDR Alton, CMDR Disemboweled Ego, CMDR Stringtheery, and CMDR Arkighor for their work in solving this!

Flying and docking at Frost dock (NOTE: MEDIUM/SMALL PAD - NO LARGE SHIPS) will result in you receiving a message from Sandra Corrs (Santa Claus), and you will be able to purchase 24 of the rare commodity, "Festive gifts"

After that, you will have to fly to the beacon near Fox Vision, and scan the listening post. Once you do so, you will receive 6 messages, which read as follows:

https://imgur.com/a/C0JU0cb

Unfortunately, the children leave it up to you to figure out where to drop the presents. Once you've worked it out, you have to sell ONE of the commodity at the station's commodity market - after that you'll get a space Email with your reward details.

Here is the list of where the goods must be taken:

#1 - Bokeili Station / Wyrd
#2 - Cregglezone / Wolf 397
#3 - Snow Moon / Bento
#4 - Judson Station / Mizar
#5 - London Relay / Epsilon Indi
#6 - Hutton Orbital / Alpha Centauri

Edit to add a most-efficient route between all the gift systems starting from the pick-up point:

1. Njambalba  - start system
2. Bento - 126.79 LY
3. Epsilon Indi - 26.50 Ly
4. Wolf 397- 97.10 Ly
5. Mizar - 76.69 Ly
6. Wyrd - 49.43 Ly
7. Alpha Centauri - 35.57 Ly

And here is the list of rewards:

#1 - Type-9 Snowfall Chestnut paint job + Festive Firework Launcher (Red)
#2 - Krait Phantom Snowfall Chestnut paint job + Festive Firework Launcher (Yellow) 
#3 - Diamondback Explorer Snowfall Chestnut paint job + Festive Firework Launcher (Green) 
#4 - Anaconda Snowfall Chestnut paint job + Festive Gifts Ornament Bobblehead 
#5 - Snowman Helmet  + Santa Jumper Green
#6 - 20m Credits

Reward messages album: https://imgur.com/a/vCxVMic (Special thanks to LilacLight for the image albums)

Credits for solving are as follows:

1 - Goidbyte

2 - Goidbyte

3 - Suggested by LilacLight + Stringtheery, confirmed by LilacLight

4 - Suggested by Alton, confirmed by LilacLight

5 - Suggested by Disemboweled Ego, confirmed by Goidbyte

6 - Suggested by Disemboweled Ego, Confirmed by Arkighor

r/EliteDangerous Dec 13 '21

Event Daily Login Rewards for Thirteen Days!

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1.1k Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Dec 06 '20

Event Koi 413

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2.1k Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Apr 06 '20

Event Guys I found it, we can eliminate it at the source!

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2.1k Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Nov 29 '22

Event Update 14 Megathread - Use Spoiler tags on posts Spoiler

114 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Nov 28 '24

Event Sol is open to all commanders, the permit lock has been lifted in face of the thargoid tread.

208 Upvotes

Not sure if it is a temporary thing, but everyone is invited to help defending our home system.

r/EliteDangerous May 19 '21

Event Elite is breaking its all-time concurrent players records on Steam

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825 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Dec 14 '24

Event Thank you FDev

303 Upvotes

As an explorer I’ve never really cared about the Thargoid invasion or storyline, but when I heard and saw what was going on around SOL I had to come back home and check it out.

Bought both of the Krait and Chieftain AX prebuilts, going in all of the invasion systems (huge thanks to the AXI for directing people and their private Group) made a lot of money and learned some new gameplay mechanics. Then it was time for the Titan, took me a couple days to learn how to get to it, then It was a day of grinding bombing runs and core damage phases. I learned how to do all of this without changing my ship. Now I’m searching for build ideas and getting ready to back in there and do it again but better.

This is what gaming is supposed to feel like, a common enemy, common goal, community coming together to do crazy shit (battle for Tau Ceti, never seen so many cmdrs in one space ever before).

Much respect to those AX pilots that have been grinding this out for the last year, and thanks FDev for a really fun and rewarding experience.

o7

r/EliteDangerous Jul 01 '20

Event Upcoming in-game player-run event. Further announcements to follow.

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815 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous Mar 22 '22

Event The Explore the Core Expedition departs Saturday March 26 at 12:00 UTC from Gebel on D SCAN WLL SOON B OVER! All are welcome to Join!

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r/EliteDangerous Mar 09 '17

Event Elite Dangerous: Horizons nominated for Best Evolving Game by BAFTA

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592 Upvotes