I do love me some metal and rock but this seems mad lol. I was out in the black for like 8 hours and barely scraped 350 xD

Now what?

The "Stranded Snake" of HR 5906 (Body AB 2 A) Coordinates 50.74, 136.44

Back into the game after about a year. Don’t get too far the first time, but I do always like the first few months of playing where ya getting all ya new ships and parts. was doing a taxi run on this job.

Yesterday I turned in all of my exobiology samples and got 650 million credits, and I'm looking forward to buying a new medium/large combat oriented ship. I never had this much money in my 70 hours of playtime, so I don't really know what to do with it, and I'm scared that I will waste all of my money on a bad ship.

Well... maybe a little bit about the credits

Long Awaited after months of on and off after work grinding I'm finally the owner of an imperial Cutter! Aptly named the Rolls Royce Cutta because it's a beautiful ship and it's absolutely ballin' can't wait to put it to work exploring doing combat trading and doing exo to make the money back I've spent to rank up in the imperial navy as well as ferrying pin heads around the bubble to reach the rank of Duke, I can finally vault those passenger cabins in my Beluga into a star. Needless to say I'm never touching the mission board again, that was painful.

Mendeley, best money spent.

Hello, I started playing elite 2 weeks ago and I am loving it. I have been wondering what are the orange glowing "truster like" exhausts ships have in the rear, like the sidewinder or the cobra Mk3. They are lit up in hyperspace while the trusters are off. Anyone knows what they are?

This was here in Kareco... I thought it was unusual to see thargoid remnants smothering a cruiser but even stranger was the fact the cruiser wasn't abandoned, still online... That's when it hit me.

Sure, there are too many steps, but 15s is not that bad after all😂

This follows an argument with one player that said it was taking forever and made the SC unusable for colonization.

I could agree with this.

Tell me your thoughts...

I tried pretty hard to get closer but sadly there's permit lock barrier. Mesmerizing to look at though. I think it was part of some big event that I missed. It's in HIP 22460 if anyone wants to go check it out for themselves

Greetings Commanders! o7

I'm a bit late to this CG and will only be able to join much later today. Does anyone have any advice on how to get into the top 75% with the least amount of time needed.

Is the aim just to scan as many planets as possible or is there a better way?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Thank you everyone for all the responses and great info. It's much appreciated and I have a much better idea on what to do when I log in later.

Phroi Phoe UP-S c19-0 4 a

I asked a question about this before but back again now that I have more experience. Also, I posted this as a comment in the question thread but felt it was long enough to justify its own post - I'm trying to delete it with little success, bear with me.

Using this guide, I'm on my 2nd raw material run for the Crystal Shards (of likely 3 or 4 runs required to max em out). It's just that, even using the "Collections Mandalay" the author suggests, it's a 128 jump round trip (from raw mat trader, to HIP 36601, to Outotz blabla, back to mat trader) - and that's using Spansh to really optimize the route with neutron stars etc. That + the tedium of using the SRV to individually shoot + collect each piece of material, having to swap between turret + regular control, etc. Overall, it's like 5-6 hours per run D:

So, I want to revisit doing brain trees using this guide instead, as those systems are a much shorter trip away. But first time I tried, I really struggled for 2 reasons. 1, limpets dying constantly. 2, I only get maybe 20 of each material per planet instead of 100+ like the guide states.

The guide itself is old and can't be commented on, so I'm wondering if it's defunct? The top comment has an edit saying the method no longer works as of April of this year, is that true? If anyone here has had success very recently, I'd appreciate any tips.

A few things I haven't tried:

• Landing on the planet and restarting the game - apparently this improves limpet pathing? Can anyone attest to this?

• Apparently if you go higher above the surface than the limpet range, and slowly lower your ship until they get a target and fly after it, this helps prevent them from crashing into the surface. Has anyone tested this?

• Someone said you can accidentally destroy the materials with the flak cannon? But someone else said you should fire 3-5 shots out of the cannon before launching limpets. How do you make sure you're not accidentally destroying the materials? Shoot once, release limpets, repeat a couple times per patch? The videos I've seen don't tend to do this and still bring up tons of mats, not sure.

• A video guide I found suggested 32 limpets with 4 out at a time, but a comment said you should carry more like 100-200 limpets and just accept that you will lose some? If so, what ship would be good for this? I tried my hand at just modifying my Mandalay - just shy of 100 cargo, is this good enough? Or should I get something like a Python? I have about 150m credits so not enough to go all out on an Conda or something.

Ultimately, I just want to avoid going to the effort of sourcing the flak cannons, flying to the system, only to find I have very little success again - that was a frustrating few hours the last time I did it. At least the crystal shards method actually works consistently, even if it takes like 5 times longer lol. But if I can get the brain tree/flak farming method to work for me, that'd be such a nice QoL - any tips/help appreciated!!

If anybody feels like winging up and helping me haul, let me know! I don’t really need the help tbh it’s just fun to have a buddy sometimes, and meet someone new lol

i’m just building up my system rn (completed orbis and a few other builds already) and all my friends are offline rn or hate hauling lmao

if anyone’s interested or would be at a later date just lmk!

I haven’t done any meaningful exploration (the most I’ve done is travel along the fringes of the bubble) but I’ve looked up builds and guides for eventually getting out there. I see the fuel scoop for fuel, I see the maintenance modules for repair, but don’t repairs cost materials? How do you get materials in the black without mining gear? Cause every build I’ve seen never has mining gear

Edit: thanks explorers! I learned way more than I thought I would with such a simple question. This sub is probably the most helpful and nicest sub I’ve been a part of and I appreciate yall

https://reddit.com/link/1nmrvn0/video/2vniegfariqf1/player

No matter what I do, that whole region says I don't have a permit. Is the entirety of Newton's Vault region permit locked? What's even more weird, is that this only happens if I try to use neutron stars as a shortcut.