>>2168586
>DW3 starts in three weeks
are you coming CMDRs?

ALL OF YOU COLONIZERS IN THE THREAD, POST THE POPULATION OF YOUR MOST POPULOUS SYSTEM RIGHT NOW

My most populous is 46 million, I'm working on a lot of systems right now.

Gotta travel 5000 ly from start to unlock Palin, is there anything worth going to that's that far out or should I just hitch a ride on the Colonia bus?
I still need to get the Guardian unlocks but idk how far out the Guardian sites are
>>2168591
Probably not, it sounds like a fun idea but I like being able to do bubble activities and being away for weeks sounds boring.

>>2168591
yes
i wish fleetcomm's discord server wasn't such a fucking mess, it's cool that they want to do a bunch of side things but christ it's hard to even find the place to sign up for launch day instances

>>2168591
I genuinely don't care about exploration in Elite Dangerous. That has come and gone, and all I see with regard to exploration as gameplay is people desperately clutching at the shadow of a long dead idea. There is nothing out there in the game, and all it amounts to is going out there to get your account name graffiti'd across a false eternity where it will only last until the servers go offline. The servers could be taken offline tomorrow.

>>2169235
In fact, all this shit really just makes the game itself less mysterious, and the mystery of space is the only reason I gave a rats ass. Letting players put their names on systems was a mistake.

There really should be some rare shit to discover

>got blown up twice in a row doing haz res bounties
fuck it, i'm going salvaging, this is getting too expensive

>>2168586
>https://cmdrs-toolbox.com/billionaires-boulevard
ATTENTION WHOEVER MAKES A NEW THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The old website has shut down for Billionaires Boulevard

NEW LINK!!!!!!!!!!

https://wanderer-toolbox.com/routes/billionaire-boulevard/

It is still a very easy way to get money as a new player. Odessey does go one sale sometimes and all you need is a hauler, surface scanner, and Artemis Suit. Risk free except if you crash.

>>2168723
>nobody in this thread does colonizing
lol

Can I go in photo mode while on foot ? The normal prompts don't work

>>2169748
Yeah its a different set of keybinds though. I can't remember where in the menus that shit is unfortunately and I rebound mine ages ago, so dig around.

>>2169774
Thanks, I'll look around next time I play

Is there a way to tell which powers are involved in a Conflict Zone before entering it? The only contested system for my power has like 8 other powers in it

>>2168591
I always like the idea of Distant Worlds but when it comes to actually committing to it I become completely unmotivated so I guess I'll just skip it.

Finally got my fleet carrier, time to do narco terrorism in favor of SIRA

>>2171282
Where is SIRA located? Once I'm done colonizing for the Feds I might consider expanding one or two new SIRA controlled systems.

I want to set up a colony just to have a place to call home, but I'm having a damn hard time deciding where to put it. None of the third party tools make it easy to find a candidate, spansh has nearly every filter you need but it isn't easy to find systems that contain at least one ring

>>2171315
All over the place:
https://inara.cz/elite/minorfaction/38108/

I'm currently trying to take over the systems in the Scutum Dark region

>>2171457
If it were easy to find this way someone else will have gotten it already unless its really far away from any bridges/the bubble.

>>2171468
Fair enough. Found a landable world with a ring ~230 Ly from Sol within colonization range, only downside is the primary port is around a gas giant, which the guides I've seen seem to think is bad?

>>2171497
The primary port is such a useless eyesore that it's best to ignore it and build everything else as if it weren't there. Register to FDev forums and add to the whining every time the topic of them letting us decommission it comes up.

>>2171568
If it doesn't matter that much I'll go ahead and put my 25 mil down.

>>2171468
>write code for a living
>how hard could it be to write a comprehensive colonization tool?
>slap together some a json parser
>the spansh dump is 100 GB compressed
oh my god

she python'd my anaconda until i became elite
also
>found a system with a bunch of unscanned biosigns just 500 LY from the bubble
love to see it

Thought about getting involved in that Powerplay thing, but I am bored to tears of conflict zones and don't see a point given the statistical realities.

>>2168723
mine is at 100m last time I checked but I got burned out and stopped after building a t3 planetary
i did that solely to see how bad it could possibly be to do that alone and yep it fucking sucks ass

>>2173142
>built a t3 planetary
Tell me you at least had a t1 planetary refinery economy on the same body when you did it.

>>2173436
i built it to be an infinity CMM composite factory, yeah

>>2173448
No, I mean did you build a refinery planetary outpost on the same body you built a t3 planetary port in order to make supplying your t3 with refinery commodities while constructing it not complete cancer.

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>>2171497
>>2171622
>gas giant has icy rings with tritium spots
Does this mean I'll get tritium on the market if I spec it for extraction?

>>2173702
as far as I can tell all (orbital?) refinery economies export Tritium, regardless of whether its present in-system

>>2173554
oh oops I misunderstood you, I had one on an adjacent moon for CMM/ceramics and I got all the other refinery crap from my coriolis
I just did 1 carrier load per day until it was done

does anyone knows where i can get ship models to tinker in blender? i know there are stl models for printing but they lack textures

>>2173910
>1 carrier load per day
Did that take you like, two weeks straight?

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From reading the guides I know I want both a surface and an orbital refinery to source materials
I kind of want to build the orbital as an Asteroid Base (they're cool), but if I have it right I'll miss out on the 140% base refinery strength (and 140% industrial) from orbiting a Rocky Ice World.
My question is, how bad is this hit going to be? I'm only going to use it to build up the rest of the system, not make a mini-bubble, and I'm willing to take a small hit for the asteroid aesthetic
Pic related, Coriolis on top, Asteroid on bottom

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>Finally regain enough skill to consistently kill Basilisks
>Only about 55 ARX versus 45 average for Cyclops despite way tougher fight

>>2174670
As long as you keep extraction from surpassing industrial or refinery in the top two slots, you should be good. How many slots are on the planet? If it's just one, you're screwed. Two you can at least build a refinery hub to keep refinery as the #1 slot, three you could also build an industrial settlement to make sure extraction stays in third.

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>>2174844
There's 4 slots, the pic I posted was with a planned 1 civilian outpost, 1 refinery, 1 industrial settlement
>As long as you keep extraction from surpassing industrial
How bad is Ext / Ref / Ind (in that order)? The surface outpost is going to be Ref / Ind / Ext, but it's going to be almost impossible to get an orbital Asteroid base to have Refinery or Industrial higher than Extraction. I still don't understand how the "cannibalizing" works, is it fine to have a Ref/Ind ground outpost linked to a Ext/Ref orbital port?

>>2174953
Extraction being in the lead has a good chance of cannibalizing the third place industry materials needed for colonization. You might have to ditch the asteroid base idea if you REALLY want to be sure you produce all the materials needed for colonizing.

>>2174974
>Extraction being in the lead has a good chance of cannibalizing the third place industry materials needed for colonization
Gotcha, so this means my asteroid will most likely not export industrial goods, but will it also "eat" the industrial goods coming out of the surface port? I don't mind making the extra trip down to the planet, since I only want to build a few stations rather than a whole mini-bubble
The primary port >>2173702 will also supply a few industrial goods, I think.

>>2174670
>tfw spent the last two months straight bridging to and building my own little mini-bubble
I hate myself

>>2175079
Throw me a system, I'll make your mini bubble a little bigger

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>>2174013
something like that
although I didn't play every day at all, according to raven it took me about 2 months in real time

>>2175304
>two months to build a single in-game structure via mind numbing back and forth hauling
Amazing and fun content, for sure. Very cool fdev.

>servers died while i was jumping around looking for rocks for the CG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kguaGI7aZg

i need a PvP build for the python MK.2

Colonisation is awful. How do you people tolerate this?

>>2177013
Painfully

>>2177013
Had a few irl friends who played but quit after the Odyssey dumpster fire
"Bought a system, who wants to haul tens of thousands of tons until we have our own base?" got a surprising number of them back

>>2177157
>tfw no friends and do all the hauling myself

>>2177783
post your system and I'll haul you some steel

>dw3 mass jump signup was buried in a discord pinned message instead of being visibly available on the website
i hate this retarded application

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>>2180410
honestly will probably be way less chaotic to just do a rando instance on launch day, I dunno why they are trying to be so autistic about it this time around. DW2 iirc they just told us to go to a nav beacon, keep doing it until you get an instance, have someone do the countdown in the in-game chat
like fucking christ wtf is this shit

>>2180463
i long for the day people stop trying to force a group chat IM program that doesnt even have a working search index to be used as a forum and information repository

>>2180410
based on the spreadsheet they posted the vast majority of people won't be doing the """official""" ones anyway, not really sure why they made some poor sod type that all up
discord is complete cancer tho, I just looked and they made like 20 voice channels for people to organize their own instances, I'm sure that won't be a complete mess of people screeching for wing invites for an hour!

Anyone have RES show up in their colony? I've got some rocky rings but so far no RES

Yeah I have a bunch in multiple different systems. Pretty sure I've had them appear right after finishing the primary port, but if not the Thursday tick might gen them.

>>2182006
I see them in other players colonies all the time.

>>2182006
they showed up in mine right after I finished my primary

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Did the CG for like 2 hours while listening to podcasts on youtube.

Comfy but I think I'll shelf this game for now.

So how badly did colonization fuck up the immersion? Hundreds of dead systems around the bubble, I assume

Is there/will there ever be an alternative to this game? And No, Fag's Sky is not alternative.

>>2183328
>hundreds
Try thousands. Thousands of systems with a single outpost and nothing else.

i'm still asking for >>2176726 also i could use a guide on how to PvP, how to build, what ships to use, movement techniques, and what else is there

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Fuck these cracker ass cunts.
Was searching a good 30m for this.

>spent several hours yesterday doing bgs influence shit for a minor faction
>check back today and nothing changed or updated
Cool

>>2185435
kek how badly did you fuck up

>>2185435
BGS only ticks once per day at completely random times, could be it just hasn't happened yet

>>2185454
I thought the daily tick was around 7am every day, or is that just the Thursday maintenance time?

>>2185474
bgs ticks at it's own time
back when i was doing bgs autism it was usually between midnight-3am in game time but it can be whenever the hell it feels like

If Elite Dangerous is going to go forward and Frontier is serious about utilizing it, it needs to be fixed so it's far more user-friendly.
May genuinely be time to sunset it and make a new game.

>>2187037
>Elite: Too Dangerous

>>2187037
There is never going to be another Elite. This is the final one.

>>2187086
Says who

>building up one of the systems I colonized
>dogshit docking ai gets stuck on their dogshit orbital construction platform so badly I have to quit and log back in just to fix it and get respawned 20km out
Cool game fdev.

>>2187290
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Man, the rank progression is just fucked.

My chief activity is chilling around the Pleiades killing Interceptors to earn the weekly ARX quota and yet I haven't advanced more than 20% towards Combat Elite I. Meanwhile, I only do some token participation in shipping CGs and yet, voilá.

Is this the best space game ever or what.

>>2187502
Depends who you ask. It certainly scratches an itch but it's not very deep. For me it's autistic scanning with exploration. Ship building is also fun

>>2187502
It's only the "best" because there's nothing else like it.

>>2187502
I don't know if I'd say that. I do like Elite a lot though. Its probably the best exploration sim, though. And a very (the best/most) relaxing space-trucking game.

X4 has it beat for overall space sandbox, even Star Citizen in its state, Eve online and NMS are better in some regards.

>>2187037
I mean what is there more too add? I think they need to keep updating current ED, it runs well, it still looks good, there isn't much to improve on at a fundamental level, my current Wishlist would be that
>Ship interior
>ability to create a squad with AI commander that follow you around
>same as above but for planetary pve or exploration
>slowly try to shift away from the core bubble by making some kind of 'gate' that would link us a new bubble growing elsewhere
>more weapon variety instead of new ships

>>2187601
I want atmospheric planets with an actual atmosphere. Volumetric clouds from orbit to surface would be awesome. Imagine procgen storm systems.

>>2187977
That would be very nice, I can imagine some atmospheric planet with esoteric meteorology, which also happen to have very valuable relics, the more dangerous the planet is, the more valuable the relics on the ground are. And you have event like stalker emission but ranging from many different type of climate, and forces you to always be careful

>>2188256
Death stranding in space, in that the environment is the main threat, sounds very appealing. I also want to fly in the upper layers of gas giants. But all that is so much work it may as well be a distant dream

>>2188265
Well Frontier isn't going to make a new Elite game I believe, space sims aren't as followed as they were back in 2015-2016. A sequel to Elite: Dangerous would be too much of a gamble, they could try to create another content expansion instead, I wouldn't mind paying for that again, but after odyssey they clearly have no idea what to do despite the community asking for the same thing ad nauseam, so we'll see.

>>2187977
This game definitely needs meteorology
Maybe some actual pop dynamics to add depth to faction play too
Actually there is just so much that can be done to further flesh out the gameplay. It's a fucking shame devs are squandering all this potential

It gets increasingly cringe and irritating how a group of people LARPing on Discord are treated as though they're the official game-influencing word when it comes to things being official within Elite.

>>2188421
For instance, "Grom is actually on the Imperial side in the enclave and not on the Independent side he was sided with in the actual CG by FDev." and "The war is paused due to Distant Worlds 3. Everyone should stop trying so my specific power can bulldoze."
And then you have the cringey fanfiction-laden DW3 shit where they demand people don't use elements of the game under threat they'll remove them from any participation award list if FDev opts to give them an emblem.

>>2188424
I am once more vindicated by staying away from other people and just doing my own thing.

>>2188424
>The war is paused due to Distant Worlds 3.
the fuck?

>>2188954
GalNet Digest put out a video claiming that the war over the Radicoida is on pause due to DW3. No, it fucking isn't.
Some people in the community really piss me off.

I paid 0 attention to the stupid powerplay war because I knew my power was gonna get raped

>>2189646
Same, don't care at all. Would rather build up my own little area of space and selected factions.

the mandalay looks ugleh

>>2190104
But the jump range is so juicy.

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>finally got around on buying an anaconda
>got 500 mil balance: 300 from grinding the CG, 200 from exobio during a brief expedition to the seagull nebula
>bought the ship from an LYR station for that 30 million discount
>SCO 6A FSD: 6M
>8A distributor 23M
>mfw seeing the price for the 8A Power plant

>>2190720
hmmm no, it's still ugly, not liking the cockpit windows because it feels like the distance between the seat to the windows is a kilometer away which makes it hard to do exobiology. switching back to my Diamondback explorer until i get the FSD booster

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>>2190795
>hmmm no, it's still ugly
The body kits really help it.