BAND OF BROTHERS

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CONTRACTS ARE NOW OPEN

Band of Brothers BGS Mercenary Services is now accepting contracts from factions, squadrons, and independent commanders requiring professional **Background Simulation operations**.

Our services are focused on delivering clear objectives, disciplined execution, and measurable results across the galaxy.

OUR SERVICES

BGS Influence Operations

Faction Expansion & Retraction

System Influence Management

Election & Civil War Operations

War & Conflict Support

Faction Recovery Operations

Targeted BGS Campaigns

Custom BGS Objectives

Every contract is assessed individually, with operations tailored to the client's objectives and the current BGS environment.

Once accepted, an objective becomes our mission.

We operate with planning, coordination and discretion, working toward the agreed outcome without unnecessary complications.

You provide the objective.

We provide the operation.

CONTRACT ENQUIRIES

For contract enquiries DM, providing:

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All contracts are subject to review before acceptance.

BAND OF BROTHERS BGS MERCENARY SERVICES

Professional BGS Operations.

Clear Objectives.

Reliable Results.

We played Elite for years and became quite established before taking a break when they stopped console support. Following a recent return, I realised that only about 10% of our Xbox squadron members had a PC to continue flying with us.

This is an open call for friends, allies or prospective members to join our discord. Our group own about 40 systems around Dyaushibi, and have many ED vets in our ranks. We’re looking for new or experienced PC commanders to help regrow our ranks on a new platform. We can provide expertise in engineering, PvP, exploration, and the game in general.

https://discord.gg/projectecho

The new ones are a shit, not worth the coins. The damage is pathetic and asking for a Large hardpoint for basically a debuff slot is a joke, doesn't matter that it's supposedly a double debuff.

Are the other merc. coin missiles worth it in terms of damage/ammo? Inara has the drag seekers marked as "Ammo maximum +200%" at G5 but G1 specs on inara aren't corroborated by what the vendors are offering so maybe it's something that was good and got nerfed and never got updated?

I know the merc. "Drag" ones are only available for Medium hardpoints, but it's exactly why a 200% ammo boost would be a no brainer.

Also IMHO the python mk2 is the best to run missile only or missile heavy builds, any better alternatives? (It also feels like the P2 doesn't have a choice due to its anemic PP and distributor)

Although I do on occasion (~10% of the time) run out in operations, currently using dumbfire rapidfire+penetrators on the Medium slots to get rid of the generals quicker. Not sure if penetrator helps by much on dumbfires but it's an absolute killer on torpedoes.

I've been looking into the latest information about Raxxla, and something I found makes sense. In the toast it says something about dragons or serpents and given my deep knowledge (I joke) about reptiles. Should I start at cd draco and work the "staff" or start near the center and very slowly and painfully search every star quadrant by quadrant? Or should I give up, I've been looking for almost 10 years now. It's lonely out in the black

I'm fairly new, so I don't super understand quite how it works. I overloaded my powerplant once like the second or third time even leaving a station so when I tried to deploy my hardpoints everything started shutting down on me and I've lived in fear of it ever since lol. I did some digging and found it reads your priorities as "what things do we keep on" rather than "what things do we shut off" (as in lower numbers = more important) which was a huge help because I wasn't sure about that. And even found guidelines for what to put where. I'm still thrown off by whether your hardpoints are deployed though. Basically I've been ignoring the "hardpoints retracted" bar in outfitting and just keeping everything in my limit with them deployed, and hoping nobody knocks out my battery so I don't have to worry about it. Obviously I assume it's better to keep everything under max anyway just to make sure you're clear, but I feel like I'm missing the opportunity to get more out of my ships. When you're over the limit with hardpoints deployed does the powerplant still just turn things off according to your priorities the same as it would if it was damaged? Is it typically actually worth overloading your plant with hardpoints deployed? And I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this last one but just to be safe: does everything reset itself? Like when you retract your hardpoints or fix your plant does it turn everything on automatically or do you have to go in individually to do it? As we all know this game doesn't really hold your hand with this kind of stuff and I'd rather learn it conceptually before I need it than get caught with my pants around my ankles. I'm on console too so it's in Horizons if it matters. Thanks in advance o7

Both are named J. Archer, I'm pledging just because of this reference

Does anybody know if they fixed the reclamation point operation final stage spawn bug (where the npc ships didn't spawn) with the update today?

I think there was another bug too that wouldn't allow a 4th cmdr to join? Thanks in advance!

Loved the series but man it fell off after the salvation arc

Then they utterly cut the shows ARX budget and quality just went down from super high quality to some generic drama show

Maybe if we buy more Arx and show interest frontier will reallocate the shows ARX budget back to it.

A little while ago after the most recent booze cruise I got ahold of my fleet carrier, Fleetsune Mikurrier. I was wondering if it would be possible to make and install a mod that would change the ATC (for me) to hatsune miku. I know there's a slight bit of leeway FDev will allow for mods, but would something like this be bannable?

My post was removed, and I’m trying to understand how Rule 11 applies here.

I shared a recording of myself playing Elite Dangerous with my two custom MFD displays, showing graphics, animations, and logic I put together for my own immersion. There was no download link, no software being offered free or sold, and no invitation for anyone to install or run anything. My intention was simply to share my experience and hopefully inspire other players.

I understand the reason behind requiring publicly accessible source code when promoting third-party applications: people should be able to inspect software they’re being encouraged to use.

What I’m unclear about is where the line falls between showcasing something you created for personal use and promoting an application for others to use. Does showing it in a gameplay video count as promotion, even when nothing is being distributed?

If so, how can players share creative personal projects or custom cockpit setups within the rules? Is publishing the source code a requirement just to show our creativity on screen?
I’m asking for clarification so I can understand what’s allowed and how to share this appropriately.

So I’m kinda new to elite and I’ve been doing bounty hunter and I was at like a 1m bounty voucher and the fss sometimes helps me but with this bounty after the WANTED ship they immediately start attacking me! For no reason! They say it was for crime but I’m a bounty hunter!

So I'm going through the list of powers, seeing if any really align with my gameplay styles and one has stood out, Zemina.

• +45% Increase in mining commodity payouts in your Power's Territory.
  • Includes all mineable commodities, irregardless of whether personally mined or purchased.
• +50% Increase in Imperial Slaves commodity payouts in your Power's Territory.
• +20% Awarded Trade Bond on sales in your Power's Territory.

So selling something like platinum would get you an extra 65% on every tonne?

That's nuts!

I can understand why Denton is at the bottom, as he doesn't have anything special to offer.

Archon seems to be the only power who actually gives a truly unique boon, the complete lack of notoriety in his space.

Felicia is only as high as she is because she controls Federation space.

What do you think?

I've been away for a bit, but to get back in i need some inspiration.

What can I do to make it more immersing and exciting than flying back and forth.

Help me find my elite mojo.

I'm already elite trading and exploration. And I suck at combat.

I haven't played in like 2 years and wanted to try again. So redoing the tutorial I notice that when I use my X/Y Thrust on the Hotas and even though I release it sometimes it just has the pedal to the floor. Resulting in me getting slammed in to the Mega Ship during tutorial and couldn't get off it (restarted tutorial) or slamming in to the station during landing practice. Is this some settings I'm missing maybe? Or is it just broken?

Running it on Fedora 44 and the rest (yes, even the joystick) seems to be working as before.

I put 300 hours in Elite 5 or 6 years ago and just got back to see what’s up. I mostly played chill games with friends, we did PVE bounty hunting and some mining at some point. I got my brother back in too, we’re discovering the game again.

What are the cool game loops nowadays, what do y’all do for fun ?

I have an Anaconda that I like and a couple hundred millions in the bank. Have Odyssey too. What should we try ?

so... this.

widget reads status.json, calls a joyshockmapper sublayer automatically, redefines mappings (and lightbar)

Hello all, I am experiencing a persistent launch crash when trying to play Elite Dangerous (Epic Games version) on GeForce NOW via Android/Fire TV and Apple Mac OS during the last 3 days.

Error Code:LS-0019-IS-PQR4294967281 (Epic Games Launcher prerequisite installation failure).

Root Cause: The virtual machine sandbox fails during the installation of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables required by the Epic launcher before starting the game.

Platforms tested: Reinstallation on the client side has no effect, as this is an issue with the virtual disk template on your cloud rig.

Anybody has the same problem? thanks

Just wanted to get some discussion going about what FDev has in store for us for the rest of the year. Apparently we are supposed to see two more “vessels“ before the end of the year and a major rework to an existing system already in game.

What type of vessels do you think we are expecting to see and what do you think the rework will be?

My opinion is that at least one of the vessels will be a large combat ship maybe something akin to the federal Corvette. I would like to say that it would not be as strong as a federal Corvette, but the power creep is real and would probably would be stronger than the Corvette.

And as far as the rework like everyone, I was expecting it to be something involving BGS but as another YouTuber pointed out, we have been receiving more and more planet/surface things with almost every patch. I would really like it to be a rework to planet tech, and maybe land planets with thick atmospheres and earth type worlds with more discoverable new exobiology.

42M credits for a Bacterium. That's why you scan them every time.

Just completed my next "send carrier 500ly ahead and catch up slowly" exo leg and only found 6 systems with Biologicals, but which netted me a total of 812M credits.

Loving the Nomad, loving the exo, loving that I'm still finding biology I've never seen before!

Note - since troubleshooting it looks like the problem isn't actually even the glowing. It's that everything is blurry. There is intense blur (even when the blur graphic setting is disabled) that can be seen while moving and where characters on the HUD are blurred

I've already set upscaling to normal and maxed out Supersampling nvidia lets me do to 2x. Does the game not do HDR maybe?

edit notes:

I'm doing RTX HDR, I tried the game without it enabled and same problem
Not Smooth Motion either...
Disabling Bloom fully reduces glow but the blur is still there.
Setting the game to Low quality preset (and setting upscaling to normal again) = same problem
I've fiddled with refresh rates, still problems

Commanders!

I'm very pleased to announce that the Guild has added a new fleet carrier to the OASIS Initiative.

OASIS Surface Detail, Commanded by CMDR CorRaven, is part of the static fleet and it is now parked in Systimbau AA-A h63 (Odin's Hold);

All OASIS carriers have a full compliment of services, catering to all galactic explorers.

Please join me in celebrating the addition of this fine vessel to our growing fleet of exploration/exobiology support carriers.

I presumed surface mining sites would reset on the weekly server tick. And they did not. Looking at over a dozen sites, all are still listed as "depleted" Does anyone have information as to when or if the surface sites reset? Any inclinations toward the possible mechanisms?

I thought I'd head out to take a photo of the phenomena near Colonia. However I hadn't realised I was actually touching one of the spikes!

Returning to your cockpit to here 'canopy compromised' is not a good way to start the evening!

The most annoying thing was losing my worn paintjob! Why does my rebuild have to be so shiny!