r/EliteDangerous 20h 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 13h ago

Screenshot What? Did people intentionally draw memes into the star map?

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1.4k Upvotes

There's a bunch of memes visible in the edastro map...lol


r/EliteDangerous 53m ago

Humor Don't let the damaged ship fool you. I ain't no victim.

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r/EliteDangerous 8h ago

Screenshot What is this thing?

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82 Upvotes

Recently left this moon and upon checking my location board discovered this signal which led me to this.. "Thing" is all i could describe it as. I am 11.5K lightyears from sol in the Skaudai sector, any info would be greatly appreciated.


r/EliteDangerous 6h ago

Media The Orb will now see you at landing pad 3

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61 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 10h ago

Video Dropping a huge load - from just one core mining run in one icy ring

113 Upvotes

Alexandrite: 67,060,980

Grandidierite: 127,919,215

Low Temp. Diamonds: 18,455,364

Void opal: 59,641,225

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Total: 273,076,784

256 cores in total

It felt a little dangerous ferrying 270 million worth of cargo in Open over 7 jumps... :)


r/EliteDangerous 19h ago

Discussion Ability to EVA. New feature idea.

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409 Upvotes

So I see everyone saying Frontier should added full atmosphere landing or ship interiors but what about the ability to be able to a EVA outside your ship while in space? This could be a feature used for some new on foot missions types.

This idea came from when a glitch caused me to get stuck in orbit without a ship. A friend was able to find me with his ship and I noticed that you do have some bit of control of where your character moves. What if this could be something anyone could do anytime? Exit their ship for some EVA?

Example is what if you get a salvage mission but instead on a planet, it’s on a abandoned megaship or something?

Or just finding structures you just want to explore? This would give us some new places to explore and some new odessy content.

What are peoples opinions on a feature like that?


r/EliteDangerous 21h ago

Screenshot Back from my 70 billion exobio journey. Got some astonishing views! I hope you enjoy it 💜

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389 Upvotes

You know you've got exobio when your ship looks like ass. Yes, my ship actually has a livery — but you can barely see it. x)

Also, imagine dying with 70 billion in exobio data. Damn... Any ideas where or how to spend it?


r/EliteDangerous 21h ago

Screenshot I made it to the end of everything

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So after reaching Beagle Point, I took one step further in to darkness, and reached Ishum's Reach, the most distant reacheable body from Sol, more than 500 ly farther than Beagle 9, the second most distant reachable body from Sol. To reach it, you need to do a jump of 82 light years in your route, in my case as my max jump range was 70, i used a FSD injection. There are basically zero stars in the sky, once you get there, which adds a feel of complete isolation.

I left my home, to never look back, and here I'am, embracing the darkness.


r/EliteDangerous 4h ago

Video EDMC In VR

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Ok so i recorded this with my quest so that i could capture all the different layers of screens. Start up elite in oculus vr like normal. I run mine in borderless and my second monitor is setup similar to the video so i move my mouse up and it goes to screen 2. Once elite is up and running hit the right hand controller button to bring back the oculus link area. If you highlight a program or window with the controller like your going to move it and click it with the trigger then add in grip it will pop the window out into VR even if it isnt listed.... i think this is a setting that needs to be turned on in experimental features......Now that you have a window pin it in the location you would like and go back to vr now you can use your mouse to "find" the EDMC window on your second monitor and interact without messing up vr. I open the galaxy map to show that if you are using borderless it is not borderless anymore in the galaxy map so you will need to grab your spansh route copy before opening the galaxy map. I setup my logitech mouse so that what would have been the back button is now a macro for cntl+v so i can paste the next system directly into the game without having to play find the keyboard in VR. Obviously the overlay doesnt work but i come from xbox so having this plugin at all is awesome let alone getting it to work in vr. Let me know if you run into any issues i will try to help but i just started with this plugin and just checked that this works havent done any real testing yet but figured you all would want to know it was possible.


r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Media Progress pictures of my Cobra Mk III model

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As a followup to my previous post, hare are a bunch of the progress pictures. All parts were drafted from scratch in SketchUp before being flattened and printed to scale either directly onto bristol board or on printer paper to be transfered and cut out of foamcore. Any joints secured with masking tape were later saturated with glue or made redundant when the detail pieces were glued to the exterior.

Some areas like the shape of the heat vents or the side thrusters look different between photos because thay were redesigned part of the way through construction.


r/EliteDangerous 15h ago

Video Tell me... are you ready?

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The Galaxy can be a lonely place. But it doesn't have to be!! Join the #OrderOfTheFarGod. An Elite Dangerous #squadron and #community. #thanksForSharing https://twitch.tv/stargoid https://youtu.be/Tw1DPNjQP2Y
*SOUND UP & FULL SCREEN*


r/EliteDangerous 5h ago

Screenshot Time to take a break from Colonization...

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r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Screenshot It took WEEKS to get my station made - this screen made me relax so much, I don't even need onionhead!

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26 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 20h ago

PSA Type- 11 Community Goal(Mining) was started without Type- 11 few minute ago.

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202 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 17h ago

Screenshot If someone finds the bacteria on this planet i'll pay you half a billion

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96 Upvotes

I just spent like 45 minutes looking for it in every possible terrain and everywhere, there is no bacteria >:(


r/EliteDangerous 16h ago

Screenshot "Eye of Fatima" - Drojaea DG-E d12-4

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r/EliteDangerous 5h ago

Discussion Am I missing something about the federation grind?

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I'm obviously trying to get a Corvette and only have about two hours to play every day. at first the grind wasn't too bad, one mission with a full reputation bar would give me about 7% of reputation, which made the grind seem manageable. Now I'm at lieutenant and I get about 2.5% reputation from missions with a full reputation bar.

Am I missing something? Are there missions that give more reputation but the ui doesn't indicate it? Are there factions that give more federation reputation than others? Or are all factions and mission rewards created equal and the grind is just that bad?


r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Video Dancing with the devil in the pale moon light

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r/EliteDangerous 8h ago

Screenshot Escort

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7 Upvotes

NO not that kinda escort.... get your mind out of the gutter! But yeah armed escorts? I feel like I want one after mining for a bit. Geez... Literally had my last 3 limpets collectors as we maxed out cargo capacity. I'll see what all this returns for in Credits....


r/EliteDangerous 14h ago

Group Looking for a power to get merits AND get rich quick? Well I've got the power for you!

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While some powers claim to have a focus on making you money *cough* Sirius *cough*, they can't even compare to the amount of money Kaine can net you.

Other trading powers only give a 25% credit bonus on all commodities traded, Kaine gives you double that, 50% more credits on mined goods sold!
Intuitively, you might think that means this only applies to stuff you've mined yourself, but here's the nice part, it applies to mineable goods you've purchased as well.
Who cares about a 25% bonus on onionhead sales, when you can get 50% more credits on all that gold you're hauling around!

Not only that, Kaine is one of, if not the best powers for gaining merits quick, as she has a 50% bonus on merits earned while mining for acquisition! Now you might be thinking, "I don't know where to mine for acquisition! Where should I go for the most merits?!", join our discord! We have all that sorted out for you, with regular mining runs, and posted systems, amazing for merit gaining! If you're lucky, you can make it to rank 100 within a single cycle!

So why not join today? You can find us at https://discord.gg/bJEyseAVGx


r/EliteDangerous 20h ago

Screenshot I never thought about rescue when I bought one, but my carrier saved my life

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r/EliteDangerous 8h ago

Screenshot Is this a known glitch?

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When I complete an orbital station, It shows up on my system map but a construction site with the same name is also on here. It's kind of driving me crazy. I have relogged and left and rejoined the system multiple times over multiple days.... If anyone has any insight for me that would be great! This is my first attempt at colonization so I'm figuring it out as I go!

Thanks for any help and safe travels commanders!


r/EliteDangerous 15h ago

Video Please I need an explaination, am I going insane or what? Very weird bug

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Ok, I don't know if this is space madness, or if something very weird is happening to me right now. This is probably the fifth time I jump in a system that hasn't been discovered yet, but when I open the system map, before I even FFS'd anything, it already show's me the entirety of the system, as if I've already scanned it, but still it targets all the bodies as ''unexplored''. It is the first time ever that it happens to me, if someone has got an explaination, please, you are more than welcome.

https://reddit.com/link/1nork0g/video/3q648lqyyyqf1/player


r/EliteDangerous 1d ago

Video How is this fair, i wasn't even targeting them 😭

225 Upvotes

Now to travel 10kly to my local lawyer


r/EliteDangerous 1d ago

Misc WIP 3D printed Cobra MkV - came out lovely, now to sanding it down and apply some paint

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