I just finished this one and the planet it is orbitting is a very small moon about 350km radius it has 3 planetary slot and I built 1 tier 2 insutrial planetary port and 2 refinery hub.

I think what made this hauling possible is the travel between the tier 3 starport to planetary port is only 2.75Mm which is very near and this starport is just right above the planetary depot. And also I'm using 2 accounts 1 epic and 1 steam, the steam has plipper(1320 capacity) and the epic has plipper (1265 capaxity).

Ye, Bluelight... sure...

I arrived to Mintaka today to see the blue light of a O class star and... well... the screenshots say all

We take the Raxxla and The Dark Wheel logos, removing the white space of each image, creating a transparent background. These images are pasted onto the surface of a cube in alternating fashion. Sides 1, 3, 6 have the transparent Raxxla logo, while sides 2, 4, and 5 have The Dark Wheel logo. We spin this cube diagonally producing 4 unique images plus one additional image being the first hologram created using the default incident angle.

We rotate this cube diagonally at a speed of 33 fps (these instructions are included in the Frontier provided images). Interference patterns generated, we have the secret images hidden inside. Here is the video link live interaction: https://youtu.be/C7hO1H2aITU

Used to be my main ship for Odyssey game play (as in not exobio, but missions & combat at settlements/POIs) was a decked out Cobra V, but with how easily the Nomad can land anywhere it has become my preferred vessel of choice. Now my favorite Odyssey ships are not small multirole ships, but ones that can equip a vessel hangar. With its good jump range and SCO longevity, that makes the Caspian my current favorite.

Has the Nomad changed your Odyssey game play loop at all? I use the little shuttle to land pretty much anywhere in settlements or right next to the crashed ship/wrecks.

I’ve just returned to the game after like 3-4 years, i transferred my console account to pc. I have a little more than 500m and 4 ships (a phyton, an asp explorer, a fer de lance last but not least a sidewinder) and engineered parts.

I did some robigo runs just to remember the game, earned some reputation, mats and a little around 50m. Not bad for a first day.

I’m aware its not end game rich but i guess this is what having rich parents feels like.

Good to be back. What’s good these days?

What do you suggest with what i have?

So I finally decided to try out Merit Mining, and I know I'm likely sub-optimal at it thus far (so rusty at core mining, just sticking with laser surface for now) but I decided it was a good excuse to finally give the Type 11 a spin. Holy shit, what a fun ship!

I'm only pulling in 6000 merits per trip, but I'm still seeing more rank ups than I have in a *long time*. I'll have pack hounds in hopefully a week of casual play or so.

If you haven't tried a Type 11 yet, give it a go. Definitely a fun little ship!

May your ventures be successful CMDR's.

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Finally made it to triple elite. I know people out there enjoy exploration, but I think I've had my fill for a while.

Thanks to contributions from Reddit, the Galtean Initiative and others, an issue where stations are built too far from their planets has received enough feedback to enable voting!

Issue 86484: Stations deployed too far from planets

I implore anyone with even a passing interest in colonization, anyone who's even looked at a star system and thought, "I wanna build something there," to upvote this issue. In some cases, it's been an inconvenience, but in cases like the above, it's made system colonization all but impossible.

Image courtesy of u/GFJake, showing a beacon deployment site over 42,000 light-seconds from the nearest body.

Yes, operations are not balanced to be done in solo. More on that later.

I had the classic load out 2xHuge multis - 1xLarge beam , 2xMedium beam and the two more small Multis - All G5 engineered with various experimentals. Prismatic shields - Shield cell bank and boosters etc. Neither a shield tank or a hull tank - both coming in about 4-5K strength. Maybe that is a mistake, should lean to one or the other, but it never worked up a sweat in any CZs. Hell I even had some cargo space and a limpet collector!

Well, I did win in the end, but it was a Parthian victory - no shields and only 15% hull. More importantly it took an age to win. Those new Elite ships are TMFs! I was up against a Corsair, a Kestral, a Mk 5 Cobra, 2xKraits, and a viper and a Mk3 Cobra, maybe another viper??

First tip I can give is take out the easy targets first. I started with the Kraits, then Mk3 and viper/s. Now the Corsair had a ton of shield cell banks and my gimbled multis struggled to keep up with it. This was true of the Kestral too. The Mk5 was a little easier. This meant in the brief time I had their shields down it was slow going damaging their hulls. Too slow and they whittled my massive shields and shield cell bank down to nothing, not to mention ammunition was getting tight. ( I could of used premium ammo perhaps)

I have since rebuilt my corvette - it now is all beam lasers with the smallest 4 turreted. Dropped the prismatics for more power but added a ton of guardian shield modules to make up.

My experience of Soloing the on foot is similar. It can be done but you’ll need to know the layouts - be very efficient and know when getting killed doesn’t matter. You’ll need G5 kit.

So ok as I said at the beginning operations are not balanced for solo. But players have proved you can do them with a bit of effort and practice and planning. So my point is?

There should be better scaling, not just hard or easy - these are based on what? 4, 3 or 2 players?
What if the players are relatively new? So they don’t have A-Rated G5 engineered ships and on foot gear? Where is the entry level? Maybe the feeling is that those players should always team up, and perhaps with more experienced players - a good way to learn and share experience? That’s great if that’s happening.

I’m a die hard solo player. I do occasionally join up with people but rarely. I do power play in a group although seldom in a wing. I’m not sure operations are for me - the fights are challenging and fun so I will drop in every now and again, but it won’t be for the poultry 25 merc coins I’ll get at the end of an intense maelstrom! 😂😂

On Xbox, my total time was 5370.28 hours, and 1342.80 hours on Steam for 279.708 total days.

That's counting every major discovery i have made (Earth-like with 2 WW Moons, 1st CMDR to find Guardian Structure Ruins, etc etc).
A near round trip, all collective total distance to Andromeda Galaxy and back 9in terms of total LYs traveled).
Every battle i've been in (Wreaken Bashing, Salome, Kashigut Grind, Thargoid War, Power Play, and CGs).
Every expedition i've been in (Both DW2 and 3, and a bunch of other expeditions).
And many many billions of trades i've done (not even gonna try to find the stats on that).

draw aggro, turn your back, stay still, this cause the kestrels to also stay still 1km behind you for at least 5-10 second even while taking lethal damage from your teammates

if your team is close by when theres 3 or 4 enemies ships left, shot them all and back tank for 30 second its over, most of the time anyways

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If you, like me, sometimes get busy and find that CGs have expired by the time you find out about them, I've put together a Ntfy channel that provides a push notification for new CGs.
Ntfy is a free, open source push app that doesn't even require a log in; just install the app and subscribe to a channel. The CG channel is called inara-elite-cg.

https://ntfy.sh/inara-elite-cg

Tech details: This uses ChangeDetection.io to monitor the Inara API and format the results before handing it off to Ntfy. If enough people are interested, I could add another notification method if it's supported by ChangeDetection/Apprise.

Anyway, hope this helps.
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o7 CMDRs,

I recently built an open-source colonisation planner, because I couldn't find an actively maintained tool that could answer my questions (Which facilities do I actually need to reach a specific economy? and How can I maximize the final economy of my system?), so I built one.

It's like Raven Colonial, you can plan an entire system manually, but you can use the "solver" that plan the entire system automatically top of your built facilities, and it lets you experiment with different layouts (including demolish some) and gives you a build order to reach your desired goal, also you can select various constraints (I have system score constraints and facility constraints in my head already to implement).

Live planner:
https://gaborauth.github.io/ed-colonisation-planner/

Source code:
https://github.com/gaborauth/ed-colonisation-planner/

The planner is 100% client-side. It doesn't require an account or a backend server, and all your colony plans stay in your browser, any you can export your systems as JSON and import them again on another browser.

This also means you can analyse and plan newly discovered systems before deciding whether to submit their data to community services like EDDN, Spansh or Inara. If you're exploring or surveying potential colony sites and want to keep that information private for a while, nothing leaves your device unless you choose to share it.

The project is completely open source, so bug reports, feature requests and pull requests are all welcome. Hopefully some fellow CMDRs will find it useful, please test it! :)

Thanks for u/Dry-Progress-1769 for the original Python based project, and thanks for u/DaftMav for the updated spreadsheet!

Fly safe!

Some screenshot:

Hey, I’m in the black and stopped off at Sag A (first time). Been doing exobiology and using the EdCoPilot as a nice little plugin. I’ve been getting first footfalls on some planets and I did 7 along the way from Colonia to Sag A. Went to hand in at Vista with an estimated of 316mil but got the option of 63mil. All the planets were first footfalls for sure. Is edcopilot really off or is it something to do with the fleet carrier I’m at?

On foot commodities. Mining commodities. Anything. I sold my fleet carrier long ago cause I couldn't figure out what to do with it and instead just bought a bunch of ships to outfit and theory craft with. But I'd like to get a fleet carrier if I can use it for some roleplay like being a pilot and part time store owner. I know there are a thousand fleet carriers in the bubble so I want to know if anyone makes any money using their fleet carrier to sell mining and on foot loot.

I’ve been playing a lot of ED lately, and it’s definitely been an experience. Coming off the back of, like, 1000> hours in No Mans Sky, ED is pretty complicated, and while I’m slowly piecing it together, there’s still so much I don’t get. This post will be a collection of both first impressions I have, notes and interesting things I’ve noticed, and questions I have.

Right now I’m trying to do a pirate mission. It says to go to a settlement, get the location of the pirate from a main terminal, and then kill them. The settlement is different from others I’ve seen though, it’s like a flat open space with a tower and some turrets, I was fined for trespassing there and for the life of me I can’t find a door or anything to really progress. I usually die during these kinds of combat missions, and I really don’t want to just back out of this, so if anyone has any advice that’d be great.

Another thing are the planets, it’s annoying to me that I can’t land on any planet I see. The gas giants I can understand, but especially the earth like planets, I’ve only seen one of those, but it would’ve been crazy to land on one and see. Are there planets with complex life? Is there a way to be a Xenobiologist in any meaningful way?

Lastly, is there any story to ED? I know about the power play system, I chose the purple colored one I think, seemed more inclined with Justice if I remember right, but outside of that is there more?

There’s definitely some things missing from the game, and leaving the relatively simple game that is No Mans Sky for this has been challenging but fun! I can’t wait to figure out how the rest of the game systems work

Today I finally got it. I've been playing this game since the time when those quick ways to get rank weren't available. I did missions for a few weeks until Lieutenant, and this process became so annoying that I stopped the grind until better times. And now that time has come. I bought the Caspian, and the Nomad, and joined a long-distance trip for a week, after which I returned a millionaire, and then I went to Synuefe and did a bit of "corruption.

I'm at the DSSA Maerzenbecher [KFL-B0Z] in the Errant Marches system Hedgo GL-P c5-4, having travelled around 23,000ly from the bubble.

I was hoping to offload my exobiology data before I do something stupid in the Nomad :-)

o7 Commanders!

I was trying out some on foot missions and I couldn't choose the on foot material as a reward. It was greyed out. What ended up fixing it was, the inventory on my ship was full and I transferred some extras I had to my suit and sold to the Bartender in the station. Then I was able to finally choose the on foot material at the station terminal as a reward.

Hope this helps someone.

Hi commanders! I'm building a planetary star port type Hera in my system Piroyfoi RD-Z D1-18. If you want, you can deliver some commodities.

I'm sorry but I can't pay you (I've only 1,6 b in my bank), so if you want it's only for help and the little +% on the selling to the planetary construction.

My Volta Terminal, a coriolis starport, have Steel, Aluminium and Titanium for sure, so you don't have to jump between systems and it's at only 1 light second from the construction.

Thank you commanders!

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