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    Elite Dangerous [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

    July 24, 2021

    Elite Dangerous [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

    [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 08:50 AM PDT

    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 Q&A threads and the New Q&A FAQ.

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    Van Gogh Mkii

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 04:23 AM PDT

    I wish fighters had landing gear.

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 06:56 AM PDT

    Holy Hell! First time using a neutron star FSD Boost!

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 12:06 PM PDT

    Literally an hour in supercruise for 3.2 mil CR

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 10:46 PM PDT

    I can see why CQC is dead and nobody touches it.

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 10:00 AM PDT

    After several hundred hours playing, I decided to queue CQC in the background as I was doing my missions and finally got into a game.

    So you're telling me, FD in their infinite wisdom, decided that matchmaking is just a clusterfuck of "whoever turns up gets to play".

    I'm brand new to CQC, managed to get to level 4 after about 10 battles and quit.

    Playing deathmatch with 5 other players and the same two guys rinsed everyone else. I checked their stats, both 60,000+ CQC kills each.

    They have the best ships, all the unlocks, they can drain your shields in 3 seconds and kill you in another 3 before you've even drained 2 rings of their shields.

    It's a shame, because the concept could actually be very fun, but alas, FD fucked it with the execution. Now I see why nobody plays and the wait times are 30+ minutes for a match.

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    What I do with my Mamba.

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 12:12 PM PDT

    This game is so pretty!

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 02:56 AM PDT

    Just started playing ED this week. My friend compared it to learning quantum mechanics. Accurate.

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 01:59 PM PDT

    Late to the mamba party, busy with a weapons test

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 08:50 AM PDT

    There are many like it, but this one is mine... I present to you: Xerxes' Spear!

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 02:39 AM PDT

    When you're in a hurry

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 03:10 PM PDT

    A star rise in the Flying Flea nebula

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 10:27 AM PDT

    Your home station?

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 02:13 PM PDT

    Just a general question but what's your home station? Mine used to be fox enterprise in lft-625 but that 45,000 fly to the blinking thing hurt especially when you had pirate's on your butt. Now I usually chill in Sete at Fox Dock.

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    New player experience

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 12:54 PM PDT

    Went from side winder with courier jobs to the viper mark 4 guess, started doing bounty contracts and now into mining and holy cow mining gets some cash !

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    How much money do explorers make: a quick report

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 05:06 AM PDT

    I just returned from my 5th expedition. For newer players or curious new explorers, I thought I'd give you a breakdown of how much money you make on that trip, and how long it takes to do so.

    The ship

    Asp Explorer "Foxgerald's Pride II"

    Jump range ~70ly

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    The route

    Gentle curve from the Bubble to the core, explore the far side of Sag A* for a while, drop down below it, then a big arc back to the bubble.

    Total jumps: 665

    Total distance travelled: 66,050 light years

    July 7 - July 24, 2021. 40 hours of play time.

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    The method

    1. Limit jumps to KGBFOAM, neutrons, black holes. This doesn't make for the highest likelihood of systems with big payouts, but it does mean you don't have to think about fuel much. Pick your priorities based on your play style.
    2. Honk every system
    3. FSS all rockies, high metal contents, metal rich, water, earth-like, ammonia
    4. DSS all terraformables, all water, all earth-like, all ammonia within about 130,000 light seconds
    5. DSS many landable worlds, if they're close
    6. Land if you detect biologicals

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    The take

    In total this trip got me 453,757,161 credits from universal cartographics, plus a measly 4,829,200 credits from my genomics data.

    So in total that came to 11,464,659 credits/hour. Not too bad. There are probably more efficient or lucrative methods of exploration. Keen to hear if anybody knows of a better one.

    There are certainly more lucrative ways to spend your time in the game, but exploration has its own rewards.

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    Lore-wise, exactly "is* Glide? How does it work?

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 08:26 AM PDT

    Glide mode appears to be something in between supercruise and normal space, used for closing in on a planet to land. There's sufficient evidence to show that glide isn't just falling really fast in normal space while the ship's speed limiter temporarily allows you to exceed your maximum speed:

    1) When gliding with Flight Assist off, your trajectory will still always be straight forward as you turn, just like being supercruise, implying the FSD is being used to some degree to propel your ship (as the FSD only propels you forward)

    2) When you turn hard enough while gliding, your pilot can blackout or redout due to G-forces, implying your ship in glide can pull more Gs than your ship's vertical thrusters are capable of generating, which means an external force (the FSD) must be propelling you

    However we know glide isn't just supercruise because you audibly hear the FSD dropout sound when you enter glide, and while in supercruise, your ship experiences no G effects from acceleration or moving like you do in glide. Also, while in supercruise, your ship's thrusters are off and do not respond, unlike glide where you can visibly see your thrusters and even boost (though to no real effect)

    This leads me to think glide mode in Elite is actually achieved by the ship using both its main thrusters for thrust and its FSD to compress spacetime in front of it slightly to achieve higher speeds. As the FSD is unable to fully function when too close to a solid mass, glide must've been developed by the modern FSD's inventors as a very limited form of frame-shift able to be used to close in to a planetary mass before full FSD shutdown

    But that's just a theory...

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    It seems a little less impressive since Odyssey added more elite ranks but I just got my explorer elite.

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 09:05 AM PDT

    How do you guys handle being targeted by two ships at the same time?

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 11:06 AM PDT

    When you're in a conflict zone or some kind of larger scale battle and two ships from two different directions are firing on you. How do you deal with that?

    Do you try to fight back or do you run away?

    NOTE: I'm in an unengineered Viper Mk III which I now know is not advised for Conflict Zones (I was at a reformatory attacked by pirates). My shields were gone before I could even turn to face them.

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    The Otter Academy, an Xbox and pc squadron teaching new players!

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 10:01 AM PDT

    I've Created A Small Database/Website For The Elite 1984 Classic Ships Including 3D Models.

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 01:49 AM PDT

    Sidewinder with a surprise, from my 9yr old baby girl.

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 02:27 AM PDT

    Now I can say, that this planet is mine

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 11:15 PM PDT
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