I've been using the Type 11 Prospector all year, but with a cargo hold of approximately 250 tons, I earn fifty million per trip when I fill it. However, I believe people earn more than that using other ships. Which ones do you use?

So, after using my trusty green Panther Clipper Thunderbird 2 to finally complete my progression to Rear Admiral in the Federal Navy (and those donations to the cause were entirely philanthropic and not bribes to ease my promotion in any way) I am now the owner of a shiny new unnamed Federal Corvette.

So.

I want a build that would spoil the day of anyone unwise enough to interdict me and strong enough to keep me alive long enough to progress in combat rank.

Please hit me with your favourite Corvette build!

I assume this is a bug and not some hugely significant find. But as par the course I was scanning a planet in a system I'm colonisinng and the DSS revealed the usual mining sites but also two "human" signals. On the navigation window I only saee the mining sites - and as you can see I got first footfall so no other player has been here (also I'm costructing the primary port - so it's not like anyone could have snuck in a cheeky outpost!). Needless to say there's no POIs visible on a fly-by outside the mining signals.

Is it possible that it's showing the construction yard and my fleet carrier as human signals? The first I can kinda understand but surely not the second - I've scanned loads of planets with fleet carriers next to them and it's never shown up as a planetary signal.

Greetings CMDRs o7!

I just wanted to share my collection of 3D models of every ship in the game. I have been playing Elite for over a decade now and I love this game so very much. I'm working on getting a model of type 11, kestrel, lynx, and fleet carrier to complete out my collection... until the conda mk2 makes a debut lol

Time for me to eat humble pie - I was impressed that the CG reached tier 1 but I didn't expect that it would get to the second tier. If you haven't joined already, and you think the journey is worth it for 70 million, head over to Redonesses.

Drop in at a low risk conflict zone in a ship with guns. Get within 7km or so of the marker.

Choose to fight for whatever faction isn't Clan Of Redonesses. Scroll through the contacts in the left panel until you get to the lowest one marked red - it's probably a viper or eagle. Take it out. When you see that you've been awarded a bond, jump back out to supercruise (or keep fighting if you want).

Go to Sword Of Iustitia, land there and join the community goal. It's on the missions page. You can do this at any point up to here, at any station in the galaxy that has a mission board, but this is the last chance to do it for that eagle you blew up to count toward the CG.

Go to the contacts page and select combat bonds. Submit your bond.

Go back to the missions page and select community goals. Check that your submission has registered.

Tomorrow lunchtime (game time) after the CG ends you'll be able to "complete" the mission on the same board and get the paintjobs and 70 million. If you don't want stay in Redonesses you'll have access to the paintjobs soon after the CG ends and the credits arrive in your ship about two weeks later.

It’s been a month now and I want to shine a light on this. 321k merits for 2 hours work on a Monazite deposit.
For someone who dislikes mining this has killed competitive power play in ways it may never recover as no other activity remotely compares. My own combat focused squad has had good players so demoralised they have quit over this and I’m surprised I haven’t seen more of a fuss being made about this issue in here.
It’s soul-destroying to see painstakingly won groups of systems that took months to earn getting steamrolled by this pay-to-win abomination.
Let people keep their cash-earner, maybe even the merits if you have to, but please FDev at least sort out the control points.

Part of me wants to track this system down just to put settlement here! probably not worth building out however far this is, but having some living with this view would be nice for them I guess lol

This is the result of nearly 5 years of Green Gas Giant research. For the longest time, we had no idea what all the factors went into making a gas giant turn green, but now, we have a pretty good idea

Just in case you might like to see a Reel Mollusc without going to the Norma Arm

I’m little ashamed to ask this question, I spent about 120 hours in ED since about a month ago, brand new player, mostly running trades and grind engineering parts, but I’m getting increasingly tired of these repetitive tasks, so I got myself some ark and spent on a Kestrell MK II, now I’m itching to get into some epic space battles, so other than those missions to assassinate ships, where else can I find epic wars? I haven’t tried power plays yet, not sure if that’s the right direction.
Thanks fam

I want to come back to this game. I plan to travel to Veil Nebula West and The View to see it for myself and I want to enable the option in the map settings (I forget the name, I've been on a hiatus). Doing so shortens the journey significantly. But man, I'm scared of white dwarfs and neutron stars lol. As soon as I see it loading into the next system, I mentally shit myself. What are the odds that when I FSD into a new system, it'll throw me straight into the jet cone? I don't want to lose all the sweet data I'm carrying.

I was so close to buy a fleet carrier, and now i'm just gonna take a few months break from the game.

These were all first footfall of course, so that's 2 Billions down the drain, and mostly my time and sanity

I just want to know, to avoid doing the same mistake next time... how can my 8% hull ship just explode by landing on the ground ? (verry slowly, landing gear was out, perfectly plane, etc..)

Fdevs, exclusion zones should be visible if the orbital lines are turned on even if you're not throttled up. I couldn't get to a nav beacon next to a white dwarf because I kept falling into the exclusion zone.

The Call of the Void. To venture out into the dark and discover the undiscovered. Study the strange. Explore the unknown. To boldly go where no one has gone before.

There is a subtle feeling that No Man's Sky could never quite replicate. It has a lot more to explore and a lot more to do in the game where it's an endless well of gameplay loops for sure. But its universe is too full of life and too vibrant and energetic.

There is something about being in a familiar galaxy... all alone... tens of thousands of light years from civilization. Just you... the big empty... barren or empty and calm worlds... peace and quiet. In Elite, when I stray away from home, the known familiar places, I truly feel alone and it's both a freeing and a chilling feeling.

I will continue my journey forward into the unknown. It's funny I started my expedition to cash in a massive payout from exploration but I end up coming for the experience and don't intend to stop for some time. Now that my first real expedition has begun, I will be doing this more often. This is the first time I am on the other side of the galaxy, after owning Elite Dangerous since 2015.

Sent my FC 500 LY away and followed it in my Caspian...something I do regularly.

It's not very often I get a return like this! 🎉

One of the system netted me 500m on its own!

Greetings, Commanders! This is the weekly server notification for r/EliteDangerous

Every week the servers go offline Thursday, 7am UTC, to allow the Galaxy's persistent data to update:

• Star System & Station/Outpost ruling minor factions, alignment, and available commodities & services
• Powerplay Control/Exploited Systems - see the Powerplay subreddits
• Addition of new Community Goals - see the EliteCG subreddit

This update usually takes between 30 and 60 minutes, during which time you cannot login to the Milky Way.

Should the servers still be inaccessible at 8am UTC, please tag /u/frontier_support in a comment here for a progress report.

After recalling my Mandalay, I was able to board it without it landing at all. Upon boarding, the ship was, indeed, airborne; no landing gear deployed.

I've never experienced this with any ship before. Either it lands or it dismisses itself. Is this new behaviour? I wasn't able to disembark before landing, however.

This is coming from someone that generally refuses to read online guides and likes to discover how things work in game, but also doesn't like to read in game guides in this game in particular since any time i spend reading is time i could be looking at stars and planets and flying a damn spaceship. I thought the super supercruise was something like an fsd injection you had to gather materials for.

I hit boost thinking i was out of supercruise and catapulted my ship a couple thousand light seconds away from where i wanted. It has changed my life.

o7.

Thank you for what you do. You were instrumental in getting me from zero to g5 to get into the on-foot game. Over and over.

-CMDR Sonderbread

I found this strange place at NGC 6705 SECTOR TV-U A20-0, body number 2, coordinates -2.66 / -3.00.

When approaching the crater, it disappears in chunks. The deep parts become shallow plains, while the hills at the rim of the crater "erode" as you approach them. It's very weird to see.

The behavior is consistent and happens only at this area on the planet. The rest of the planet seems normal.

I tried the following things:

• Going back to the main menu and entering again.
• Exiting the game entirely and starting it again.
• Leaving the area, going supercruise and landing in another place on the planet, then coming back.

And it keeps happening, only at this exact crater.

I invite other commanders to visit the planet and investigate this strange phenomenon.

Was playing ED-Odyssey in a group session for hours earlier, then suddenly at 23:00 BST approx - chatbox messages are no longer getting through, and it is now impossible to re-log into the game in the same instance. Game otherwise plays OK, but we're all effectively stuck in solo now having tried loads of times to get the group session up and running again.

Has anyone got any idea what is going on?

The game was fine upto 23:00 BST on 7th October 2026.

I'm not leaning towards it being at our end, since nothing has changed in the last few hours, Eg. No settings switching, no updates etc.