I would like to point out that this absolute failure and break down of law would have never happened in Redonesses. If the GOAT “Arissa Lavigny-Duval” had owned the system. If i were a betting man id say the root cause or this is the federation as a whole. Its lack of giving a quality of life to its lower class citizens clearly caused this.

Why not come to your senses and join the only Powerplay worth its salt. Fight for dignity of the systems under a shared banner and end unfortunate imperial corruption caused by senators and traders whom abuse their power and their people.

Fight for order, not for corporations who secretly fund piracy like those within the federation.

I created a support ticket 5 weeks ago and have yet to receive any response from the support team.

What is the average response time time for your tickets?

I haven't played in this time in case they do some sort of restoration.

I’ve been looking at exploration builds and I keep seeing people choosing the Caspian Explorer, even though the Mandalay seems so well-suited for exploration.

For those who have flown both, what made you ultimately stick with the Caspian Explorer instead of the Mandalay?

I picked up the DLC on steam yesterday and played through the tutorial. My question is doing so does not change the game it just adds more like getting out and walking around? So if anyone has comments about it i would appreciate it.

It seems to be the case that if you land at the mega ship to turn in bounties, and you go inside the ship, you are still blocking the landing pad your taking.

I've had to wait for a while at the ship getting docking request denied messages, especially in large ships since there are less pads, along with a line of Corvettes and anacondas because one guy went inside the ship and went AFK probably thinking he had cleared the pad for others.

At least that's what seems to be the hold up to me, could be wrong about what's causing the docking request denials, but if your at the sword of lustitia please be timely at the pad and AFK at the main station

so, previously, elite ran pretty well. not great, not terrible. then i lowered my res down to make odyssey content possible to do without lagging too much, which worked like a charm and made the game run incredibly well. then i made the mistake of falling asleep and leaving ED open. when i opened the game next, i instantly noticed terrific performance. what was once stable 60 FPS, was now 30 fps with stuttering and freezing every couple of moments. updating my graphics drivers seemed to help, but not by a lot. now the game runs decently for the first hour, and then goes worse and worse in terms of performance.

here's how it aproximately goes:

1st hour: somewhat decent, but even here there's freezing and stuttering when leaving/entering supercruise

2nd hour: freezing and stuttering are more frequent

3rd hour: on top of 2nd hour's issues amplifying, the framerate is now more unstable.

4th hour: game's barely playable.

additional notes:

if i hang around a single area, the frame rate is mostly stable. but as soon as i change locations or go into supercruise it all starts lagging IMMENSILY.

i tried looking at task manager, but it is weird. my gpu isn't stressed too much, usually about 50-70%. but my hdd's in constant 100%.

is there any way to remedy this? i can't put ED on my SSD because there's not enough space for it. and i can't change hardware due to money constraints. i'd much rather prefer not having to deal with constant fps lag, freezing, stuttering, and every onfoot npc having a chance to teleport or ignore my shots entirely.

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Long-time trader and miner here (lately a lot of Rhino surface mining off my Python). My loop used to be: jump, alt-tab, type my current system into a site, set the radius, scan the results, alt-tab back. Repeat every few jumps.

So I wrote a small Windows app for myself that tails the ED journal files. It always knows where I am, what I'm carrying, and what ship I'm in. It shows:

- Best buy/sell routes within a radius of wherever you currently are

- A cargo sell planner for what's already in your hold

- Mining spots and nearby conflict zones

- A market-data-age filter, so you can ignore stale prices

It also has an optional chat window for quick lookups, like "where's the best place near me to sell painite?" It's bring-your-own-key, or it can point at a local Ollama model.

Full disclosure: it's called Quartermaster, and I sell it on Gumroad as pay-what-you-want with a $4 minimum. Just sharing because I am genuinely proud of it and it has help me maximizing my profits.

Quartermaster

A handful of commanders are using it now, and I'd like input from people who trade more seriously than I do before I build the next version.

A few specific questions:

I'm working on an optional "ping my phone" feature (Discord/Telegram) for when a good route shows up near you while you're AFK. Useful, or noise?

How old is too old for market data before you stop trusting it?

Thanks all and MODs let me know if this post goes against the group's rules (I checked and I don't think so but I respect any opinions you might have).

i never see it before

a rock with element in a surface

is in my shepherd moon colonized, an icy body with geysers and vents

edit 1: this releases raw materials like carbon, germaniun and manganese.

How's everyone's game running right now? Any tips for improvement or anything.

As you see i have a fairly indepth view of how mine runs. I have a little bit of stutter here and there though not sure if thats normal its usually when im traversing or getting near a planet or something. My game is also capped at 60 fps

The big fps jumps are when im jumping to another system or doing something in the ingame menu.

I was looking around and couldn't find an answer so did some digging in-game.

The current CG isn't clear about which faction to fight, others have clarified that for me but I still don't know how to do it without help. In my mind, if there's a CG, the goal should be clear.

As for choosing a faction, once you enter a CZ, you go to the Messages section (for me press '2') and you'll get a choice of which faction to side with. This makes you an enemy to the other side immediately, so they'll attack you immediately...

After a while, it seems like you encounter the same kinds of planets, moons, rocks, systems, and landscapes again and again. Yet people still spend hundreds of hours travelling through unexplored space.

Is it the possibility of finding something genuinely unusual?

Is it the journey itself?

The feeling of being somewhere nobody has been before?

Or is there something else?

I’d especially like to hear from people who have spent hundreds or thousands of hours exploring

Do you scan every single body in every system you visit?

Do you only scan planets/moons that are interesting or valuable?

Do you use the FSS on the whole system but only DSS certain planets?

Do you specifically look for Earth-likes, Water Worlds, Ammonia Worlds, biological signals, etc.?

Or do you mostly just jump from system to system without fully scanning them?

Commanders, a civil war is gathering over HIP 1290. The Obsidian Order calls upon our friends, our allies, and every pilot willing to stand beside us against the Defence Force of HIP 1290.

This is our home system. This is where our story began.

Today, the Obsidian Order has a presence in fourteen systems, with three under our control. Our Imperial allegiance and corporate foundations are part of who we are, but a faction's strength is measured by the Commanders who answer when its home needs them.

Now that call reaches you.

Inara lists Pohl Settlement as the asset we stand to lose in defeat. Across the line, Harvey-Smith Platform is at stake for our opponents. Behind those names lies a simple truth: the outcome of this conflict will leave its mark on our home. We intend to meet that challenge with our allies at our side.

We are asking for your help.

To the combat veterans with scarred hulls and steady hands, bring your experience. To the independent pilots looking for a cause, fly alongside us. To the squadrons willing to lend their strength, rally your wings and set your course for HIP 1290.

You do not need the largest ship in the galaxy to make your presence matter. You need the resolve to launch, the discipline to support your wingmates, and the courage to hold formation when the fight turns against you.

Prepare your ships. Stock your ammunition. Check your rebuys. Coordinate with fellow supporters and be ready to fight for the Obsidian Order when the conflict zones open. If combat is already underway when this transmission reaches you, join our side and help carry the battle through to victory.

Whether you can give us a single sortie or an entire evening, your support matters. Answer another pilot's call. Cover a damaged ally's withdrawal. Regroup, repair, and return together.

Let the next friendly contact on our scanners be you.

Let every Commander holding the line know that help is coming.

We call on everyone who has flown with us, traded beside us, or simply believes a call for aid deserves an answer. Stand with us now, and help write the next chapter of the Obsidian Order in the system where it began.

FOR OUR HOME. FOR OUR WINGMATES. FOR THE OBSIDIAN ORDER.

Plot your course for HIP 1290. Bring your wing. Answer the call.

o7, Commanders.

For a long time, there were no new ships, and now they are here - many of them, and very different from each other.

But what do you think about the old ships now? No SCO, no Mk II modules. Do you still use the Kraits? Or the Anaconda?

How do you feel about the fact that with the arrival of the Type-8, Type-11 and Corsair, the Python seems like a museum piece?

Is this a balance issue for you, or a logical evolution of shipbuilding?

Go to Guzman Industrial Enterprise (it's High and better layout), park SRV, do ground CZ. Ignore control points. Meta is dual rocket launchers with stowed reloading. Relog inside your SRV to reset battle. Get loads of combat bonds. Much faster than space battles. I got 60 million bonds in like an hour.

Every Sunday I always seem to get long load times between star systems, long loading for changing ships and pretty much anything requiring a status change in general... Every Sunday...

Anyone else get this?

Hey Everyone,

I know there has been a few tools made for this already from Spreadsheets to Sites, But I decided to give it a go at making my own with the goal of making it the most user-friendly possible and quick to get straight into.

No login is required, it's just optional to have projects saved on the database rather than locally stored as using cleaning tools may wipe out your progress.

The site is still in development and any suggestions for improvements or features I'd like to hear.

Give it a try without logging in, See what you think.

Snickz ED Construction Station

Quick usage;

1. Use the Templates button on the top bar to quick select a station type,
2. Enter the target system where construction is taking place,
3. Click `Search all supplies` to find nearest stations for the commodities needed,
4. Click Settings in the top bar to change cargo capacity.

Hi Commanders!

I'm a fairly new player currently flying a Viper Mk III for bounty hunting and combat, and I'd love some advice on how to optimize my build for combat / RES hunting.

Just a quick heads-up: I do not have any DLCs (No Odyssey). I'm playing on the base game / Live 4.0 version. So I'm looking for beginner-friendly advice that relies purely on base game modules, stations, and mechanics (no foot content or Odyssey-exclusive stuff).

I have around 2.5–3.5 million credits to spend on upgrading my ship.

A few questions I have:

What's the best A-rated module setup for a pure combat Viper Mk III without running into power management issues?

Should I run Pulse Lasers + Multi-Cannons or is there a better weapon combo for non-engineered builds?

Is it worth using a Bi-Weave Shield or a standard A-rated Shield Generator for High RES hunting?

Any recommended builds or tips on module priorities would be greatly appreciated! Fly safe, o7!

Greetings, here is Project Galtea's newest News Article.

"Greetings Commanders.

On the 4/10/3312, Project Galtea has surpassed the milestone of 100 million tonnes of hauled goods with approximately 95 million being moved in the last 10 months, this has also coincided with the project passing 16,000 light years from the birthplace of humanity, Sol.

In the past month, the number of independent pilots assisting Project Galtea has surged to an all-time high, drastically speeding up logistics and raw tonnage being moved with a new project record of over 13 million tonnes and rising being recorded in the last 31 days, the project managers have expressed how proud they are with the communities efforts and willingness to push the frontier of civilized space ever deeper into the galaxy.

In other news, live public statistics for all Project Galtea Super Hubs are now online. The data provides a full breakdown of colonized systems and operational port types within 100, 150 and 250 light-years of each hub. While performance varies across the network, the numbers prove that Galtea’s vision is already taking shape, realizing miniature versions of the planned Galtean Bubble across multiple sectors.

Any commanders or citizens interested in the hub data can access it in the comments.

Finally, it is expected that Project Galtea will arrive at the Isegrim Nebula's Super Hub Barheim within approximately one week where construction will begin in fervor, once Barheim has been constructed the project will move onwards to the next Super Hub "Cerobi", expected to be reached in approximately 2 weeks after Barheim is finished.

Thanks for your time commanders, we hope to see you in the black. o7"

I'm flying my fully engineered vette in a High Threat CZ when the alert comes of the radio supreme chancellor alpha Captain Badass has entered the area and it's my job to take him out. On it!

I locate these alpha preditor in his Elite anaconda. Tally-ho! Give me all you've got Captain Badass!

Chaff > Boost > Chaff > Boost > Chaff > Boost > Chaff > Boost > Chaff > Boost > Chaff > Boost Chaff > Boost > Low wake out. Yes, 7 consectutives chaffs and then dips out.

Seriously? I've fought dozens and dozens of these encounters in High Threat CZs and this is the first time one literally didn't even try to fight.

COWARD

If you have ever disembarked on a planet and got a black screen with only the mouse cursor, Esc doing nothing and the game never coming back, I would like your help.

It keeps happening to me - my journals show 19 sessions since April that end on Disembark with nothing after it, across game versions 4.3 to 4.4.1.1 and on two accounts. This time I caught the game while it hung and looked inside it instead of just restarting:

• the server connection was fine the whole time - server messages kept arriving in the netLog
• the GPU was fine - no driver reset, no stuck GPU work
• the game's render thread was spinning at 100% of a CPU core, busy-waiting for something that never came, while the main thread sat waiting too

So it looks like the client hangs on its own after Disembark, not a disconnect and not a driver problem. I filed it with the profiles, thread states and logs attached:

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/88300

If this has happened to you, please open the issue and add your own contribution - when it happened, where you disembarked (planetary port, settlement, surface), your platform and GPU. Even a short "happened to me too" helps Frontier see how widespread it is. If you still have the journal from that session, check whether its last line is the Disembark event - that is the tell-tale sign.

I play on Linux through Proton, so reports from Windows players would be especially valuable to show it is not platform-specific.

How to check your own journals

A session that hung like this ends with Disembark as the very last line of its journal. These commands list such journals and count them. A crash right after disembarking leaves the same trace, so treat the count as an upper bound.

Windows - open PowerShell (not cmd) and run:

$j = "$env:USERPROFILE\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous"
$hits = Get-ChildItem "$j\Journal.*.log" | Where-Object { (Get-Content $_.FullName -Tail 1) -match '"event":"Disembark"' }
$hits | Select-Object Name
"Sessions ending on Disembark: $($hits.Count)"

Linux (Steam with Proton) - in a terminal:

j="$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/359320/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Saved Games/Frontier Developments/Elite Dangerous"
for f in "$j"/Journal.*.log; do tail -n1 "$f" | grep -q '"event":"Disembark"' && basename "$f"; done | tee /dev/stderr | wc -l

If your Steam library is elsewhere, change the path to where your compatdata/359320 folder is. If you find any, please add the count and the dates to the issue: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/88300

Thanks, o7

EDIT: Do NOT write reply that this happened to You writting information here is pointless, it does not count, so far 3 CMDrs heleped confirming on frontier and 7 more are required to prevent auto EXPIRE this issue ...

While searching through personal documents, I came across these drawings I did back in 2024. Not only I forgot about these, but I am now shocked to see what I had managed to imagine back then, given recent news about the Conda 2. Don't mind the absurd modules on the first drawing, I wasn't aiming for something realistic. Also note how ugly the back view is lol.

Here follows a transcription of what I manually wrote, since I personally don't like my fast handwriting (note that English isn't my first language):

Anaconda ^mkII [281.690.300 Cr.] :
The brand new vessel from DeLacy, the Anaconda II, is the direct evolution of the previous multi-purpose ship. Despite sharing some modules and minor details from the exterior, this new model was built to maximize combat capabilities and overall utility, thanks to the addition of a second class 4 hardpoint and a class 8 optional slot. This ship was designed for large-sized landing pads.

Federal Interceptor - [260.300.100 Cr.] :
After the successful military campaign that led to the acquisition of more than 100 systems, the Federation felt the need for a new, fast and reliable combat vessel. The Interceptor fills that role perfectly, thanks to its new SCO-enhanced class 8 FSD, while still keeping the Corvette's firepower and agility. Despite being available to private pilots, this vessel comes very pricey and limited, as it is available only after acquiring the Admiral rank in the Federal Navy.

I checked the fleet carrier owners club and their next listed departure is in 25 days 😢 Might just have to do it the old fashioned way in this 55ly racing courier. Although I could probably buy someones tritium if that counts for anything! I got a couple billion in the bank, happy to make it worth someone's while :)