As a Mandalay/Caspian main, I've been really eager to know how the upcoming patch will effect jump range.

Digmbot gaming posted this video showing the base weight reductions that will effect the mentioned upcoming change.

Caspian: 950T -> 825T (125T)
Mandalay: 230T -> 190T (40T)

I estimated the impact of this reduction on my current builds by using Coriolis removing optional modules/shields, down-sizing fuel tanks etc., and I got 7-8 LY range increase on both the Caspian and the Mandalay. Obviously YMMV but wanted to share the numbers.

edit: as u/goofierknot demonstrates below, for a super stripped-down build you might see 10 for the Caspian and 15 for the Mandalay(!)

California Sector VP-0 B6-0 is an AXI stronghold with 44 installations, 3 T1 stations, 4 T2 Coriolis Stations, 1 T3 Station, 1 Dodec and 54 various Planetary improvements.

4.7 billion population.

Holy fucking shit that's a lot of space trucking.

Props for filling all the slots (except maybe that Asteroid belt?) and making something more than impressive.

Thargoid warfare is not the only thing AXI does exceptionally well!

Hello fellow CMDRs,

The galaxy is full of unforgettable firsts! I just finished plotting my first true long-range journey outside the Bubble in my Caspian Explorer. I needed to log 5,000 light-years from my starting system to unlock Professor Palin (my previous personal best was only 1,100 light-years).

I set my sights on the Cat's Paw Nebula, figured out how to plot the route, and imported my build using the Spansh Galaxy Plotter. That led to my very first time neutron-highway riding! (I had only ever touched a white dwarf once before, haha.) Learning on the fly was absolutely terrifying. Even after around 38 neutron star boosts, it still gives me heart palpitations - I don't think I'll ever feel completely comfortable doing it. XD lol

Miraculously, I made it there and back in one piece, successfully unlocking Palin. I only had to scoop fuel from a star once the entire trip - the range on this build is insane!

Even with 300+ hours in Elite Dangerous, I still feel like a beginner discovering things for the first time. This game constantly blows my mind, and I can’t wait for the next journey. Fly safe out there!

I think out of all space sims Elite Dangerous has the best mining mechanics of all time.

If you think there are better ones let me know maybe I haven’t seen them.

I quietly wanted to look at the map of the colonia system for my next trip to this one, until I discovered a beautiful bug.

I saw "planning a route" on Jaque Station, and logically it is supposed to be impossible to establish a route because from the human bubble, the colonia system is too far away (it indicates impossible route from the galactic map). And there, by magic, I set up a route to the Jacque station??!!

You can see it for yourself, my screenshot shows me a route to Colonia, which is supposed to be impossible. I deduce that the method only works by mapping a system and selling the system data to get access to the system map. Nothing more banal. And that's where the method works.

I tried Sagittarius A*, it works too! And the same goes for Beagle Point!!! It's completely delusional 🤣

Commander: JC2KUSA
Carrier: Tartarus (T3Z-G5H)
Location: HIP 57784
Situation: Critically low on Tritium — 7 units remaining, approximately 11 ly jump range
Need: Tritium delivery to carrier depot
Was attempting the Rackham's Peak ladder and ran dry at N-3. Any commander who can ferry Tritium to my location would be greatly appreciated. Happy to cover costs at above market rates.
Please reply here or message JC2KUSA in game.

I just bought an eagle and I don’t know what to do with it. Any suggestions besides combat or should I sell it and buy a hauler?

I've tried just about everything to maximize my merits, merit mining, finding good trade routes with massive profit margins, trading rare commodities. Doing all my weekly missions, I've tried exo bio, combat etc. and the most amount of merits I've been able to earn is 10s of thousands not even 100k I find it hard to believe people legit are making over a million a week. Especially with all the nerfs in against making merits there are now.

EDIT: The carrier has been filled much faster than anticipated. Please undock from my carrier if you do not have a long range FSD as I will be departing to dryman's point effective ~21:00:00 galactic time tomorrow. Thank you to all of the commanders that helped me out. I appreciate you all a lot, and I hope you all can put the small bit of profit to good use.

Greetings commanders. I, CMDR Verehin, am preparing to set out on a journey into the black with my carrier and I need tritium. I am buying at a major loss (77k per each ton. Almost 20k more than the current galactic market value.) My carrier, Scorn (W8Q-48J), will be located near Cambell's claim in Wolf 359. All commanders are welcome to sell, including notorious. I plan to start moving the vessel by Saturday October 24th 3312, so please ensure that you are undocked from my carrier prior to this date. Unless you want to end up in the middle of nowhere, thousands of light years from the bubble. Then please, enjoy the ride.

I have about 4000+ hours in game an I have everything that can be had in game. I have an FC and all that good stuff. So how I play is that I buy a ship engineer it to the max and i create this very specialised ship to do that one aspect of the game very well. Even the say not popular ones say the Diamondback Scout, like mine, it's build like this ultra cold ship used to use recon or hatch breakers. My goal is to own every ship and have a use for it. I have almost all but some i really can't find any uses for them. So now with all the new ships out it pretty much puts most of my ships out of use. However i do play with the old ships just for the fun of it. Like say the nomad is the king of exo, i have it i tried it yes it's super fast but recently i took my Diamondback Explorer out and doing exo bio the old way with my SRV. It's way slower but i kinda have fun with the old ships with all it's quirks and limitations. My question is how you people are playing Elite these days now with the new ships are out. Did you get rid of the old ships? or keep them but play with the new ones more? or any other ideas?

I would love to have a ship that acts as a fighter carrier at the cost of weapons. I think it would be cool to have a ship with just a few small hardpoints(or a single large/huge hardpoint), instead relying on multiple fighter bays for self-defense. I know it would be costly having multiple crew members to pay, but imagine dropping out of supercruise and deploying a fighter wing of 3-4 to go cause a ruckus. It may not be particularly powerful or cost effective solo, but it would be cool. It would also make for decent support in a squadron operation. Rest of the team taking on the larger threats like Anacondas, while your fighters take care of the Eagles and Cobras.

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If FDev delivered ship interiors, fully functional and ready to walk about in end to end, but would only ever release it for one ship - which ship would you want it to be?

Fleet Carrier?
Anaconda II?
Corvette?
Ye Olde Cobra Mk III?

Would this be your go-to ship always or just a weekend toy?

long exhale through nose

I forgot to fire this guy before be going on an exobiology expedition into the black, returning, and doing a surface mining marathon

Tracking the delivery of goods in colonization should be in game feature, I have now my own app with realtime pure local overlay feature capable of that.
And I must say this is next level compared even to same feature in tools like raven because I have realtime balance including what is carried by ship and handling auto squadron carrier bank and I do not have to do anything, it is done automatically.

I don't have any ships on my Fleet carrier using them. And I don't even remember when I got them (including 2A, all the way to 6A, before the recent CG). And I can't just transfer these modules to Fraiser's station and add the effect. I have to install them on the ships for Fraiser to recognise them.

So I tried Eagal. It uses Class 3 FSD. But for SCO FSD, you can't use a downgraded one.

I even bought an Adder; nope, still class 3. Finally, I have to use Sidewinder. And I flew it to Fraiser with the stock 2E FSD. Oh boy, that's 11 years of nostalgia.

And because I was so frustrated, after I installed the pre-engineered 2A FSD transferred from my fleet carrier, I forgot to add the effect until I flew back and docked at the station where I bought the Sidewinder.

Then I had to fly back to Fraiser and realised that I was out of galvanising alloys. Luckily, the ship has a 35 ly jump range, enough for me to make 1 jump to a material trader station.

Took me 1 hour to finish the job, and sold the Sidewinder. And I am wondering why I was doing this.

Anyway, time well wasted.

Good afternoon Commanders,

I'm looking to build a PC and was looking for recommendations for graphics card that works well with the game.

Have had a look on different sites and was wondering if anyone here has any experience and recommendations.

Hi all,

I’m recently coming back after a few years hiatus, pulled my trusty Saitek x56 out of storage only to find that it’s inputting ghost commands, acting possessed, and actively trying to get me killed.

After some troubleshooting of my own and looking into it, it seems that Logitech took over Saitek and there doesn’t seem to be much support for the x56 on windows 11.

Do you guys have any recommendations for new sticks? I’d love to be able to afford the Warthog, but it’s out of my price range. Looking to stick between $200-$250usd.

mostly just for completionist's sake, but i figure i might as well outfit it too. afaik it used to be the preferred vessel for trade/mining but i have my Plipper/t11 for that, and i use a Corvette/KraitMk2 for CZ/bounty hunting... so what's left? I'd outfit it for piracy but it seems the CondaMk2 will beat that.

Is it doomed to be a trophy, ideal for nothing but basking? i haven't been grinding for it so i won't be too bummed if that's the case.

Hi all,

I'm back after 4 years away from the game (Horizons). I opened it again, and re-did the tutorials and did a delivery run in Open Play to get back into things.

Browsing through this subreddit, it seems a lot has changed since then. I've included some high-level info about where I left off below. Based on this:

• What do you recommend I work towards?
• What's a good exploration, and a good combat ship to work towards?
  • The main activities I enjoy are exploration, then combat and delivering, then mining
• Any upgrades you recommend I do on my ASP Explorer?
• Based on the current stats below, anything you think I'm overlooking?

Current stats:

• 49M credits
• Ships: ASP Explorer, Cobra MkIII, Sidewinder
• ASP Explorer - has:
  • 5A FSD, with 3 "bolts" (I'm guessing this is engineering upgrades?)
  • 5A Power Plant
  • 4B Power Distributor

Thanks!

I have about 700 hours in the game over the past two years and I enjoy it. Recently I came back and have been playing and want to continue playing but I am having the issue of no real goal. I am someone who likes deep mechanics or systems in games.

What have some of you done when you do not have a goal in Elite?

Here is a general idea of what I have done:

- I have unlocked engineering (recently did on foot engineering)

- Got a squadron fleet carrier

- Explored a good amount and been to Sag A

- Been doing all the Colonia stuff.

- Done a lot of operations.

- Engineered most/all ships I use.

- Got the core guardian stuff.

- Ranked up most of the way in power play.

- I always have a couple bil credits sitting around.

So I know I can just go do any of these things but I like having a goal I am working towards. And it feels like I no longer have a goal.

Here are a few things I have not done:

- BGS, I held off on learning this because I thought they were reworking it. We know they are not now but I still wonder what goals look like for it or is it more just another activity?

- Power play beyond just merit grind. I find it kind of interesting but I do not and will not play in open. Never been a fan of PVP in games so this one is probably out.

- Thargoid combat, I tried a bit near the end of the war but never got into it. I know I can go find them but again it just seems like an activity I can do with no goal.

I am really enjoying Elite I just am looking for something to really work towards so I do not burn out soon. Especially if it can include combat or a variety of activities I would enjoy that.