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    Elite Dangerous [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here. (November 29, 2019)

    November 29, 2019

    Elite Dangerous [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here. (November 29, 2019)

    [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here. (November 29, 2019)

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 08:49 AM PST

    Greetings, Commanders! This is the Daily Q&A post for /r/EliteDangerous

    If you have any questions about any topic, whether it be for the moderators, tips and tricks for piloting or general gameplay/development questions please post here!

    Please check new comments and help answer to the best of your ability so we can see this community flourish!

    Remember to check previous daily threads and the New Q&A FAQ.

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    Alien Moon

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 01:24 AM PST

    Months of preparing and I’m ready to head out on my first expedition to the great unknown. All in a 44ly T10

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 10:18 AM PST

    Ringed Earth-like world in co-orbit with a gas giant with life in its rings from its moon.

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 03:50 AM PST

    Came to mercury after I got the Sol pass, o7 commanders

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 12:24 PM PST

    Better late than never... catching up on the DW2 route...

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 02:53 PM PST

    Guardian Tech.

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 04:55 AM PST

    Midnight Black (Friday) Paintjobs now available

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 03:52 AM PST

    "This is your captain speaking, due to unforseen circumstances we will be arriving at our destination later than scheduled."

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 09:53 AM PST

    I May or may not have bought a shit ton of the paint...

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 07:23 AM PST

    I'm a good capitan

    Posted: 28 Nov 2019 04:49 PM PST

    To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 03:05 PM PST

    Frontier, please buff Shock Cannon! I really want to use it.

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 02:31 PM PST

    I really like the shock cannon, in my opinion it is one of the coolest weapon in game. It looks awesome, and the mechanics of it is a really good concept - shoot one round on every trigger pull without virtually no delay, and constantly auto loading the emptied places in the magazine, this is an awesome design imho.

    So there is a cool looking well designed gun in the game, but nobody use it. Why? Because it has a really really bad damage potential. Don't get me wrong the burst (and even the sustained dps) can be really good, but nowhere near as good as a frag cannon. The problem is the overall damage potential. The gun has a relatively small damage and an awfully low ammo count for the job what this gun does. The overall damage potential - you take the damage of one shot and multiply it with the ammo count - is the lowest among all the projectile weapons (only the size 1 rail has lower damage), and you can't even engineer it to help it somehow.

    Look at these numbers of the overall damage from one full ammo charge (I ordered the list based on the size 2 weapon class, since that size have all kind of projectile weapons):

    Unengineered weapons

    Small Medium Large
    Frag cannon 3024 6480 9936
    Plasma accelerator 5430 8340
    Multicannon 2310 4620 8190
    Cannon 2700 4380 6588
    Rail gun 1864 3320
    Shock cannon 2064 3120 4344 (wtf is this?!)

    Engineered weapons (for max overall dmg, usually high capacity with oversized, not the meta engineering)

    Small Medium Large
    Frag cannon 6480 13392 20304
    Plasma accelerator 9790 15030
    Multicannon 5040 9660 16800
    Cannon 5568 9024 13584
    Rail gun 3824 6832
    Shock cannon 2064 :( 3120 :(( 4344 :(((

    As you can see the Shock cannon is the worst choice from all the available guns and sizes. You have to grind for the tech broker unlock, since you have to unlock all the sizes and variants (fixed, gimballed, turreted) separately. You pay a lot of time and effort for the lowest total damage projectile weapon in game...

    Imagine this: and FDL armed with 5 Shock cannons. All your shots are hitting every time, there is not even a single bullet missing the target. The target is a Cutter. You shoot out ALL of your ammor from ALL of your guns, and you didn't even get the Cutter's shield down (and the Cutter doesn't even had to use a single shield cell for this). Now try that with 5 multicannons or plasma accelerators (well shit.. 2 medium engineered MCs or PAs have more overall damage than the 5 shock cannons...) This is bad and sad.

    In my opinion a tech broker unlock weapon should be somewhere between the basic weapons and the engineered ones (like the guardian modules doing this correctly right now). So it should be good around 7000-7500 total damage in the medium size. That means either the damage should be raised to 31 from 13 on a single shot, or the ammo count should go up to 576 from 240.

    Please Frontier buff the Shock cannon! I really tried to give some love to this gun multiple times by now, but it simply doesn't work in any situation. You shot down 2-3 ships and you have to land to rearm, when you go for an assasination against an Elite target, you simply run out of ammo before the target goes down (and don't even talk about PvP).

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    Edit: I would be so happy if they would change some numbers in the January patch :)

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    After seeing my first black hole, I had some leftover change on my gift card I got months ago. Explore in style!!

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 09:49 AM PST

    Red sky in the morning

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 01:17 PM PST

    Strong contender for my favorite system

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 12:36 PM PST

    Neutron Brown Dwarf

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 03:10 PM PST

    Midnight Black Is Honestly The Best Paint Job!

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 08:15 AM PST

    So after many exploration trips, I just discovered the Colonia Connection Highway

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 03:42 PM PST

    I have been to Sag A, Colonia, and Beagle Point multiple times... and I just discovered the Colonia Connection Highway!

    https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Colonia_Connection_Highway

    I arrived at Colonia today, seriously this would have helped - how come there is no information about this in the game!? Maybe there is and I just never saw it...

    Anyway, to all you explorers out there, keep the Highway in mind if you are going exploring, can make your trip a lot easier if you don't like being in the void by yourself for too long.

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    So, NOW will Elite Dangerous update the game to include this Black hole to visit? THAT would be SO cool!

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 10:32 AM PST

    Finally made it to Sol! Visiting the FNS Trandor, o7 commanders!

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 11:32 AM PST

    Not much of a photographer but I thought it would make a nice wallpaper

    Posted: 28 Nov 2019 10:51 PM PST

    How to Drop into NHSS

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 03:59 PM PST

    Can I turn in exploration data to Felicity Farseer before I get the meta-alloys or after?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2019 03:52 PM PST

    I'm taking my sweet time exploring on my way back to the bubble. I plan on using my exploration data to unlock the highest tier of engineering for Felicity Farseer. I was wondering if I could take the dangerous trip to get some meta-alloys after I've turned in the hundred million credits of data or if I need to get them before I turn the data in to unlock the tiers?

    P.s. I heard a weird tapping noise in FSS mode that I haven't heard before. It had a consistent ryrhm to it. No clue what it is so if somebody knows that'd be great as well.

    Thanks in advance, all help is appreciated.

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