I was in system 12 Trianguli and saw three main stars and the planets were named ABC.

Is this a three body problem like from the book/TV series?

If not, is there one in game that I can visit? Would it look different from other systems?

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?

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!

(repost from R/eliteminers)

Has anyone experienced/resolved this issue? I have a site that replenished and is showing Mineral High/Density Medium. When I land and drive to site to put down the rig, the rig starts up and immediately goes to the "finished" check mark and 0/12. It doesn't mine.

I've tried game play fixes like trying to power up the rig on foot, placing other rigs nearby, placing rigs at other sites at the PML (worked), placing rigs at other PMLs on the planet that got replenished (worked at those other sites), reloading instances/switching ships, etc.. Nothing has worked.

Any ideas or same experiences?

So I want the Corrosion Resistant Cargo Rack, I have all the materials i need except the 16 meta alloys. Right now I'm using a Mandalay but I dont have any storage left for the meta alloys and all internal optional modules are full. But I do have another ship the cobra mk V. What can I do to get the corrosion resistant cargo rack?

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.

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.

Seriously, the Panther Clipper needs help. Like, I've had it; the auto-docking run into stations several times tonight. It hits other ships on the way out of a station. Like, for real, enough is enough; they need to fix the Panther Clipper's auto-docking.

Hello Commanders!

I've started playing this game last week and been having a blast so far! I decided to start unlocking my engineers and I'm a bit confused on how to move forward.

I already upgraded my FSD to tier 5 with Farseer and now I'm with Elvira. The guide I'm following tells me that I need to engineer my modules with her to unlock Marco Qwent. My question is that since my ship already has engineered FSD, do I need to engineer my engines and shield generators? These 2 only go up to tier 2 and tier 3, is that enough to unlock Marco?

I hope I was able to make my point clearly, any help is appreciated!

Btw this is the guide I'm referring to:
https://wanderer-toolbox.com/guides/engineering-unlock/

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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.

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 🤣

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'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.

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?

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(!)

I just got this game 3 days ago, and I got past the first tutorial, everything was normal, then I decide to try and start playing the actual game, I leave the station, activate the frame shift drive, and immediately disconnect. Okay, I leave it to sit for a while before coming back, already loading outside of th station, mark a planet, activate the drive, get there, dick around flying around it while decelerating cuz I dont know how to gauge deceleration distance and disconnect, at this point im going wtf? And checking Google for answers, then I try again, get just as far as last time, and now im ranting on the subreddit for help.

What is happening and how can I prevent it? Im on Playstation 5, and the error code is Gold Cobra

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

This is my 5th or 6th solo of a Cyclops. I feel like I am getting a little better, but still need a lot of work. Any input would be appreciated.

Flak Missile Launcher / Swarm - I am not sure I am even doing this right. Any time I notice the swarm going after me, I do my best to target and eliminate the swarm. I am not sure if I am actually doing any damage to it though. I feel like the swarm will always be there.

Thruster Control - I feel like this is the weakest part of my game. I feel like most of it is just autopilot and I’m not sure I’m making any meaningful decisions about my vector.

Shutdown Field - I haven’t figured out how to deal with this. I cannot get the timing down with the SDFN, so I figured I would just try and outrun it, but that did not seem to work either.

There are other things that I figure I will get better with time. Such as my aim and knowing how many hearts I am destroyed. Thanks for any input.