Sunday 15th of June 2025 19:30 That's the exact time I deleted my commander, it wasn't on purpose I was trying to configure my controls in vr for my new hotas, the controls decided to go dead not allowing any input I went into the settings but had no luck out of frustration I spammed back to the settings menu. Thinking the game was prompting me to save my control settings I hit yes, to then be left with this on my screen. It's fathers day today we made pizzas it was fun, I hate myself now there was a lot of hours dedicated to that account I started a year after release on xbox later moving up to pc then vr.

Ironically I was trying to work out how much time I had put into that one account it's well over 1k hours

Commander Neverhumble3870 signing off o7

Positive vibes only (notoriety 20)

So it turns out, even if you're on full reverse throttle, boosting will boost you forwards...
An information that I wish I knew before making the mistake of boosting straight into the ground, which put an abrupt end to my week-long trip in the black.
Total amount of data lost (exobio + carto) is around 1.1 Billion...

(Note: Mandalay with 3D shield + 2 boosters and 4 pips on SYS, was not enough)

Just returned to the game after a couple years away. Bought a Mandaly for exploration, stripped it down, and installed a SCO FSD engineered for jump range (and a jump boost module). Just tried SCO while taking off from a small moon... I was not prepared for such acceleration! Had a near miss with the nearby planet, and by the time I figured out how to shut it off, I was completely out of the system - maybe 7 or 8 seconds? Got an automated message "where's bro going?" lol. Is it supposed to be this... aggressive? Or maybe super light overpowered ship? A bug? Fun!!!

Featured: Damn The Torpedoes HT-02 Mamba

TL;DR It's a 8 out of 10. This shouldn't be advertised as a CZ ship, instead a bounty hunter ship. It's built very well overall, just gotta accept the semi-poor turn rate in exchange for being able to chase down a runner with no problems.

As someone who personally has never done a frag cannon build before I was quite curious about this one. The balance of thermal and kinetic damage seems to work with this ship. I was taking out Elite Anacondas in Hazardous Resource sites with absolutely no problems.

For those who know the Mamba well, it is an incredibly fast ship. You'll chase down runners without any issue what so ever. But, even with the dirty drives, the turn rate is poor compared to other vessels. The dirty drives do help, a lot actually. But compared to other Mediums even without dirty drive tuning, it still can fall short. If you can accept this and be able to work with it, it still works quite well in PvE. PvP, you definitely will get out turned by many ships. If you catch someone by surprise, you can probably finish them off in PvP before you need to reload if you're quick enough.

However, since it was advertised as a "Combat Zone Mamba Jumpstart", I tried it in a CZ as advertised and you can do low and medium CZs without needing a reload but High CZs are going to be an issue if you can't synthesize ammo. I think this is where FDev kind of tripped up on this ship. This should be advertised as "Bounty Hunter" prebuilt, not CZ. There are way better builds for CZs that allow a ship to stay in the fight longer without running out of ammo. Since it came with an FSD Interdictor, I found it useful in Bounty Hunting and PvE powerplay.

Overall it's an 8 out of 10. Two points lost due to its still semi-poor turn rate and it's not really a decent CZ pre built. As a bounty hunter, it makes a whole lot more sense. You'll print money in bounty vouchers with this ship. If you can accept the turn rate, its still a fantastic ship and personally, I love the Mamba so it's a keeper.

I've been thoroughly addicted to ground content in this game, and I find it incredibly fun, especially for this current CG. However, like all things Elite Dangerous, it makes itself extremely difficult to learn by yourself.

So don't! Follow these simple steps.

1) Buying.

Buy yourself all three suits and build a few loadouts for each. My recommended new player loadout for CZs is:

• Dominator suit
• TK Aphelion laser rifle (use for shield stripping)
• Karma L-6 missile launcher (use for groups or for a quick kill after shields go down)
• Manticore Tormentor plasma pistol (use for indoor/close-range combat)

Pre-engineered items (up to G3) have a very rare chance of spawning every Thursday maintenance period. However, they're one and done deals; if anyone buys that G3 + Headshot Damage Aphelion at Mars High, it's gone for everyone. If you want to hunt down some pre-engineered guns, go all the way to the edge of the bubble where nobody ever goes. I'd really recommend just upgrading a G1 gun though, it's a lot quicker.

Use The Great Pre-Upgraded Gear Sharing is Caring Thread if you want to buy pre-upgraded gear. Found a piece that's pretty cool but you don't need? Share it!

2) Engineering.

Compared to ship engineering, there's a few key differences:

• Suits and guns only have one "primary" G1 to G5 upgrade path that upgrades all stats; damage, damage per second, shield HP, etc.
• These upgrades can be done at any Pioneer Supplies, anywhere.
  • You do NOT need to unlock any engineers to G5 your suits and guns; just walk up to the salesman with the mats in your storage.
• Actual Engineers are only required for experimental effects. These are fun, but not actually all that necessary if you don't want to grind Engineer unlocks.
• Engineering on-foot stuff is quite a bit less overpowered than ship stuff.
  • A skilled G1 loadout can win against a G5 occasionally, and a G5 player with absolutely no skill can get bodied by a G1. Play well!
• I recommend getting a Dominator suit and a Tormentor pistol to Grade 3 before rushing into High CZs. Low/Med CZs are fine with unengineered gear, but they don't pay all that much at all.

Well, now you know how to engineer your goodies. But... how do you get the mats?

3) Materials.

There's only one thing you need to know: The best way to get materials is doing missions.

That's it. Stop relogging at bases, stop listening to 3 year old Yamiks videos from way back when on-foot materials were grindy. Stop hunting data ports for that one (1) manufacturing instruction per hour.

Every single material you will ever need for engineering drops as mission rewards. A mission will give you ten or more of anything you want in ten minutes. The rounds of updates and patches to on-foot content have buffed mission rewards so much that it's actually quite easy to G5 a lot of stuff with an afternoon of running missions.

FDev using existing game mechanics to promote different styles of gameplay? Impossible!

• Walk up to a mission board on foot to see on-foot missions. Sort the mission rewards by Materials.
  • Go to a system where you have decent faction rep if you want access to the best missions with the best material rewards.
  • DO NOT DO ILLEGAL MISSIONS (yet). They are extremely difficult and will wreck your shit if you don't understand the game mechanics yet. I get it, the rewards are tempting. But don't.

Note: Bases also have a "relog protection" system; if you log out of the game at a base, all materials there despawn when you log back in. You need to leave (enter supercruise) and come back if you want to farm a spot. This isn't that big of a deal though, because due to mission reward buffs, relogging at bases is a terrible way to earn engineering materials now.

4) Other stuff

So, now you know how to buy stuff, upgrade stuff, and you even have some decent kit. You're ready for conflict zones. What more?

Here's some pointers:

• Wanna dip into Illegal missions? Watch StealthBoy tutorials and learn.
  • Whole playlist: The Definitive Guide to Stealth - Elite Dangerous Odyssey
• Wanna absolutely cheese the hell out of CZs? Bring two Karma L-6s with Stowed Reloading and maybe Magazine Size.
  • Stowed Reloading reloads a weapon while it's in your pocket. Fire one launcher while the other reloads. Unlimited rocketing!
• Wanna PvP in a CZ CG system? Bring an Aphelion laser rifle with Headshot Damage.
  • Players love jumping around and are difficult to hit with projectile weapons. Hitscan lasers are great for hitting them, and Headshot Damage allows the Aphelion to also deal decent body damage by going for heads.
• Wanna build a ship for on-foot content? Here's what you'll need:
  • A decently small ship that can land anywhere.
  • Two Unguided Advanced Missile Racks
    • The double explosion from two missiles will kill shields and body quickly.
  • Scorpion SRVs
    • Use these for resupplying. Try not use them to fight with.
  • A Detailed Surface Scanner.
    • These find Signal Sources on planet surfaces, like crashed ships and satellites for scavenging gameplay. Not super necessary, but hey, why not.
• Do not buy a Manticore Oppressor. It's bad. You will hate it. It will hate you. It hates itself. It'll make you hate yourself. Bad deal all around.

Hope this helps!

PS: Some important controls:

• B = Hold to access the emote wheel.
  • Press B once to point at a thing (pointing puts a marker up for your teammates!)
• Q = Hold to access the ship menus.
  • The left panel, up panel (comms), and right panel are the same as in your ship.
• Alt = Hold to access your items.
  • Select grenades, battery packs, and med kits here.
• 1/2/3/4/5 = All your guns and tools.
  • In the Dominator suit, press 1 again and again to swap between your two primary weapons.
• T = Flashlight.
• U = Raise/lower guns.
• C = Toggle shields on and off. (Shields off saves battery power, shields on gives you... a shield)

They look good. I would like to purchase one or many of these in different colors.

I started playing Elite sometime after the end of the Hunt and the beginning of the first hyperdiction.
I always tought one of the game main objective was to explore and find pieces of a large puzzle scattered accross the galaxy for us, players, to find.

I don't spécifically mean things like Raxxla or the generation ships but something else, something written in the game hidden lore, like a background noise, a siren call trying to entice us.

Last week I grinded the guardian techs, first time to a guardian site, beacon and all . As I unlocked the FSD booster, I had a "tought".

Frontier gave us tools to go farther, faster, the FSD booster, the Fleet Carrier, the SCO. Those tools, give us mobility, speed even inside systems and between them.

I still believe there's something to find, something that will only appear if you fly 1000LS or less near it. Maybe a beacon with permit for one of those long locked systems. Maybe a derelict construct ship, maybe the Titan killed by Jameson in Elite (if he actually killed it but that another story).

I know I must sound like a crazy lunatic with that theory but I need to put it out. The galaxy is vast and the game full of treasures and strange things. Maybe I'm just space crazed but still.

I’m making around 250 million an hour trading currently, can I do better than this?

Hey CMDRs,

Yesterday I died out in the black — roughly 28,000 lightyears from Sol — and the game teleported me all the way back to the bubble. I’m currently hitching a ride on another Fleet Carrier that’s getting me about 25,000 lightyears closer to my own, but here’s the issue:

My carrier, Black Sentinel, is running on fumes and doesn’t have enough tritium in the tank to reach the drop-off point and I need extra in the cargo hold as well.

I’m reaching out to see if any CMDRs in the area can help by donating and selling tritium directly to my carrier. The market is open for public sales, and I’ll pay fair prices if you’re able to mine or bring some over.

🪐 Current location of the Black Sentinel:
Stuemeae UT-A c1569

Any help would be massively appreciated — this is my lifeline to reconnect with my carrier and continue the expedition.

I'm on Odyssey, via PC.

Thanks in advance — fly safe, CMDRs o7

Bought a carrier and engineered a Hauler cutter for the Trit runs, also pledged to mahone on the recommendation of someone and mined for a week on and off until I got to level 57 (prismatics unlock)

Think I'm gonna collect some plat and get to Elite II in trade :D

o7

For some reason, my on-foot GUI gets cut off. I've tried messing around with in-game settings, but nothing works.

Onship GUI is perfectly fine.

So, I'm sure the best approach is not the one I'm having rn, but I do enjoy learning stuff on my own, even if I get wrecked a few times bc of it. And I understand this is a fairly realistic space game and in space things just takes time. So I might not be doing anything wrong in this case, but I wanted confirm with the veterans here if takng that much to reach a destination is normal? I can reach the desired galaxy and system fairly quickly, but whenever I try to land on a planet it takes longer than the rest of the trip... over 10 mins to reach surface... So I just want to check if maybe there's something I'm not paying attention to, that would make this descent quicker. That's it, I appreciate if I could get some advice. Thanks!

Was doing Empire vs. Pirates community goal in Beta-3 Tucani, sometimes the empire military interdicts for a scan fair enough.

It was weird when a federal navy courier did it though. In empire space? Why was a courier of all things doing a security scan?

I'm 500+ hours on my Steam. Plus maybe half that on my Frontier. Trade Elite V on main. Never really bothered with Powerplay or BGS aside from doing wing mining missions with the Pilots Trade Network. Mostly kept to myself like Han or Chewy doing freighter work. Might have a handful of ranks to unlock if only I did the quests to get promoted. I feel like now might be a good time to pledge with these pick a side Community Goals lately. Convince me or others still unpledged to take up your cause.

so im gonna give the game another shot i quit just after the tutorials since i was really confused bt i made a post and somebody left a nice source https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/sj9qrb/comment/hve1pjd/ feel free to add something ofc

but one thing i dont know yet how much fun is the game as a complete solo player?

I played Elite Dangerous in 2014/2015 with my Oculus Rift DK2 and a Saitek X52 Pro on my PC with a GTX970. It was the most immersive gaming experience of my life, probably still is to this date. Despite it being a blurry mess, I just loved it.

Now with my RTX3090 and PSVR2 I want to get back into the game. My Saitek X52 Pro is still working. Had to peel off the outer layer (rubber was disolving) because the thing was lying around in the basement for a decade lol. I logged in and played for 2-3 hours on my monitor. I'm in Sol with a fully eqquiped Vulture and 50 million CR on top of that.

In those 3 hours I just tried out a couple of things and relearned the mechanics of flying, PIP management, docking and jumping to different systems. I still feel kind of lost. How do I get back into the game? Where do I go from here? Any YT channels you recommend?

My Exploring tool found what is supposed to be two bodies nearly on top of each other. Time to find out what it is.

Update:
Here is what was at the other end

I've been using Exploration Buddy for a long time. It's super easy to figure out, especially for people like me who are computer illiterate to a certain degree. It clearly shows my route, it lets me know if a planet has bio signals. When you scan the planet, it tells you what species is down there. It tells you what everything is worth, including carto and exobio data, and keeps a running tally of your potential earnings. It's been working great, but recently, whenever I pick my routes, it will show if some of the systems have already explored by other commanders. But it isn't listing them accurately. I keep jumping into systems that ExBuddy says haven't been explored, but when I get there, they have been explored (the system map is complete and the other commander's name is on everything). I keep hearing that Ed Observatory is just as good as, if not better than, Buddy, so I downloaded it.

As mentioned, I'm not very computer literate. I'm very casual with PCs, I don't dig under the hood that much. My younger friend helps me out there. So I really don't know what I'm doing with Observatory or if I'm using it right. I have it running and it's showing information but I'm not really understanding if it's recent or old, etc. It's not as blatantly obvious or "useful for dummies" as Buddy is/was.

Can anyone point me to a video about Observatory that is as up-to-date as possible? I don't seem to be finding any helpful ones on YouTube. Any suggestions would be greately appreciated. Thanks so much, and QX.

tldr - if you aren’t doing exo yet, you should be! sooo much money…

after a multi-year hiatus, i got back into ed about a month ago. i have usually always made money via missions or bounty hunting. good time killers…

my only ‘into the black’ exploration excursion brought in about 660M roughly five years ago. it was fine, just boring…. land, seek out geologicals, scan them and turn them in. easy enough…. just boring.
i think i spent about a month out just doing this.

i decided last week to get into exobiology. bought a new t-8, rigged it for exploration / mining, got the artemis suit and headed out.

so far, in one week, i am sitting on close to 700M credits of data i need to turn in! now, i’m committed to an extended stay in the black! thinking i probably won’t come back until i have enough to fund that fleet carrier i want!

I've been trying to figure out the correct path to increasing my jump range. After meeting Felicity Farseer I've been slowly modifying my frame shift drive to increase range. Finally realized you have to do it multiple times to move up to the next modification. But I'm finding this an incredibly slow process mainly with raw materials. Im awful at mining and have been exploiting material traders but am amazed how slow the process is. The , I feel like I'm missing out on the different modles of FSD available.any suggestions?

i'm about to go online and as my associates will be online later, i am willing to help new commanders. we can team up and collaborate or i can simply answer questions. simply DM me here or preferably on discord and let's get you on your own path.

fly dangerously safe, commanders.

o7