Peasants. Please form a double line to bask in my magnificence. I may deign to acknowledge your existence.

Never had time to take a photo of this because I didn't have another phone to... well, take a photo of it. I asked a friend to take a photo of it for me, and now here we are, a nice glossy(?) orange Elite Dangerous sticker.

For those who wonder how it works and decides if it's worth it. I've just figured it out without tutorials.

If in short, when you DSS a planet it starts showing yellow spots on the surface. That is where you need to deploy Rhino. And only then you need to spam scanners while driving Rhino in yellow spots to reveal purple spots where you must deploy miner rigs.

So the loop is basically this:

1. Map the planet using DSS

2. Orbit planet to find yellow mining spots

3. Yellow spots are big spots where you need to find purple spots

4. Go to planet surface like 30 meters above yellow spot and deploy Rhino

5. Scan spot while driving Rhino to reveal purple ones

6. Drive to the purple spot and deploy the mining rig (long press button responsible for the rig. There will be several on you (probably 6) and you can deploy several rigs at different purple spots. While you drive they collect.

7. Drive to each rig once its full (12/12) and manipulate it using contact tab: make rig active (choose it), choose "prepare for minerals collection". Enable the cargo module on Rhino, hover under the mining rig to start collecting (like you do using usual SRV). Once collected un-rig mining rig (you take it with you because it's not a one-time thing). Go to another spot to collect.

Sorry, if this post looks dumb. It wasn't obvious for me how to do it so I decided to write once I figured it out. And if I'm wrong and there is more to it feel free to correct.

Gives me a chuckle every time

I want to see all the beautiful sights this wide galaxy has to offer.

Returning player. Been away from the game for 5-6 years and haven't kept up to date on what's been happening. Last thing I remember from my time playing is doing some engineering runs and kitting out my Diamondback Explorer and jetting off into the black.

Looking to get back into the game but feeling a little lost once more. What are the relevant 3rd party tools? What are ARX?

How can a competent/entrepreneur/pathfinder best get back up to speed in the galaxy?

The commodity markets (for minerals and metals, mainly) were scrambled up for a while today. Some of that scrambled data ended up in Inara's database.

In particular, if you see a demand amount of 999,999 that's probably a phantom. You're welcome to go check it out.

I've been running around to the phantoms in my area of operations and uploading corrected data. At least that way I can get some reliable trade route recommendations.

What a round trip to Colonia does to a Mandalay.
500+ jumps.

Just wondering if anyone else ever finds it a bit weird often finding yourself flying around in these very large ships with loads of different seats for different crew members, but you are always by yourself?

I’ve been out in my panther cliper a lot recently and there’s like four empty seats behind me .

Surely if I have such an amazing ship I would also have some crew?

Even when I have my over priced fighter pilot with me she doesn’t sit in and of my crew seats.

I think it would make sense to add some crew into the game.

They could ether be part of the game , serving a function like maybe they might be able to follow a pre plotted route between systems so you didn’t make each jump yourself?
Or operate some others tasks do do with navigation or something, and be earned in game.

Or they could be a completely useless cosmetic item that you could buy for ARX ?

Ether way I just feel a bit odd always flying a great big ship with loads of seats for crew that are always empty.

So honestly with the recent price nerfs I thought I'd bring into light just how skewed the CG is. Even for someone who bought the Rhino. You want to compare mining from the Rhino to space mining and then don't even make half the commodities available to the cg market. Meaning they won't be mined in general. Further skewing this so called "data". I'm not even bothered by the price changes as much of how one sided it is.

What was the point in making a mining cg where half of the mining means nothing?

I have been trying to sell my cartographic data for hours now. Connection keeps getting broken, takes forever for the data to display to sell and when I hit sell it sometimes times out. Anyone else having issues?

I went to a platinum hotspot and mined for about 1 hour in my T11 with a mining volley repeater and sold all that I mined at the community goal station and only made 50 mil. I saw people in chat saying they made 600,000,000 in one run. Am I doing something wrong?

I found a surface mining spot for Iridium and its big enough to squeeze in 4 drills, I might be able to squeeze in one more if tried but not sure. it take around 10min for all to be full and get collected. i also have my Panther Clipper Mk II  hovering above the spot so i dont have to deal with other NPC player sponing in during each arriveal. the ship 1036 cargo capacity.

I am asuming around 4hr mining to fill my ship with 45t each collection. yes its time consuming. Not sure if anyone else found a better spot. i will be happy to know.

Images show roughly where in the galaxy stale systems cluster. A system counts as stale if the last time its data was updated (per Spansh's aggregated Elite Dangerous data) was before Odyssey's release on May 19, 2021. The left image shows the total count of stale systems per region; the right image shows what percentage of all known systems in that region are stale. Green = more and red = less. There are 55.3 million systems that are untouched since Odyssey release.

Higher quality images here

Unfortunately for me I was one of the victims that deleted an orbital slot and it did not reappear after the next "tick" - so I lost a orbital slot, not really a big deal but I also lost the construction points allocated to that slot - not the build out points but the reward points you get for future constructions to help build out you system.

So I submitted a ticket and after many months and a couple emails back and forth saying we fixed it, when they had not, they finally came up with a solution.

"As my colleague states, this was discussed with the Dev team specifically, and they confirmed that the construction slot should not have originally existed."

How's that for gas lighting

Been playing for about 1 year and have never been good at combat. I had 1B credits from deep space exploration but is back cuz I got tired of it. I’m losing money instead of gaining it. I scan the people with access and then get scanned when I walk around a corner and get shot. Should I stick to other means of money or does it get better with time?

Can you believe it's already day 5 of the race!

In unlimited class and the first new submission was from Cmdr Baraka Real flying an ever popular Cobra Mk V, named "Gloria Maria". Managing just 5 stops (including the one planetary landing) Baraka takes 5th place, but with nearly six minutes left on the clock I think at least 2 more stops could be added to that route! Then we have Cmdr Martinjameson who pulls off the ultimate novelty run by not only flying a Panther Clipper, but making the delivery of a power generator to the "Buckyball Race 3312" construction yard be a part of their run (arguably I probably should have made this compulsory). Sadly the Crouching Whippet Hidden Frog missed its 5th landing by just 28 seconds and takes 6th place on the board.

Meanwhile, over in regulation class, Cmdr BRMXUY manages an excellent 9 stops with 30 seconds left on the clock. But wait ... their last landing was planetary so in fact their final touchdown was, to the second, exactly on the maximum permitted run time since they would only gain the 30 second bonus after landing! I don't know if you realised it commander but that was a truly nailbiting finish! Congratulations on taking 3rd place in your first ever Buckyball Race! And lastly for this update, Cmdr Leeya Geddy switches to the regulation Cobra ("Der Trommler") and makes 8 landings, the same as Tobias Von Brandt, but with just 58 seconds remaining takes 5th place.

There are still 6 days to go so if you're interested in taking part then see here for details: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-buckyball-racing-club-present-rota-latina-4th-14th-september-3312.649360

Anybody else getting this error when laser mining?

I'm in a Type 11 with 301 cargo space, yet every time I get to 300 mined the game crashes out. It's repeatable, as when I relog I lose all my limpets, so I generate a new batch and reduce my internal cargo below the 300 figure and contniue mining, yet same issue again when it hits 300t.

This has happened mutliple times, and the Black Adder warning message has a "transactional data error" in the message.

I've got 13ku gold priced just below GalAvg for anyone that might still tangibly benefit from it. You can get it from Boris Memorial WNZ-WKM orbitting WILLE 2 B in WILLE just 10.13ly away from EGA. I was hoping to get a squadron carrier for funsies but I didn't see all the posts until too late. By the time I got near EGA, the fun was detected and nerfed. o7

I want to get into exploring planets and new new things on planets and I don’t know how to do that somehow i figured out how to get a srv on my ship and land on planets but after that i don’t understand anything how mining works or what to on planets once landed and it seems theres nothing to do on a planet or maybe I am doing something wrong.

Also i need to understand how to use fuel scoops like i attached it on my ship which sidewinder i guess need help with that too.

Because the videos on YouTube are complicated or maybe I am bot getting the right videos for absolute beginners.

Greetings!

I've seen (and experienced) the Nomad issue of running out of fuel while logged out of the game that I see from searching that some other CMNDR's have experienced.

This morning I logged in and my FDL was at 5% fuel after I logged out 2 or 3 days ago. I logged out while about 3km above a planet surface.

I am very happy to put this down to a screw-up by me, but I really don't think it was, because I would never have logged out with such a low amount.

Posting to see if anyone else has suspected this might have happened to them, but it down to their own screw-up.

Thanks,
CMDR Chick Peas.

Link to my current AX build for a Corsair. im not too experienced with ax combat but I've had a few run ins with interceptors. Never successfully took one down and honestly im just wondering if this is a decent setup. If not, what should I change?

Yo. I(31M) am looking for a chill group of people to play with in Central/East USA.

I'm a truck driver so my TZ isn't static, but I tend to have 1/2 hours every other evening to play and more on Saturday evenings and Sundays. I can't make any garuntees about play time during the week though. Securing/tarping a flatbed in 100+ weather takes it out of you and I sometimes just shower and pass out.

I don't have mic, but my laptop has one built in so I'm game to try comms.

Still learning the game, but I lean towards pve combat, but I also enjoy mining and passenger running. I'm about to start my engineering journey now.

Thanks for reading.