exploration

Can't believe there is no thread. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STTTp9nDFOE Launching small green aliens into space again.

I didn't know who to tell, but after doing lazy exploration for 4 years, I finally hit Elite :D

Hi I was in elite dangerous (ED) about 1000hours and I have lots of suggerstion. ( I m not eng user so my writing is not perfect. sorry for that) ED experience get more boring after i engaged into exploration game play. there are nothing in large galaxy. just empty. ED need new motivation to...

We are growing and looking for brand new players and veterans to come fly with us. We are setup and ready to give basic flight school as well as advanced trainings in all areas of Elite Dangerous. New players will receive Combat Ship, Exploration Ship, and Trade Ship upon completion of basic...

This subject was originally posted by @ORANGEORANGE here , but I figured that continuing discussing it there would be off-topic, and it's interesting enough to be posted on its own, so here we go. There's a cluster of unexplored sectors at the end of the Outer Arm, beyond what's known as the...

Leviathan Discord Server LSR Facebook Community LSR YouTube Channel Founded in 3303 after a series of serendipitous encounters around the Sol system, the Leviathan Scout Regiment is a private military faction that engages in a wide variety of missions, ranging from trade and transportation...

There is a gap in ships focused on the three primary career paths in Elite, the Alliance is also the only super power that does not have a third tier unlock. The Federation gets a powerful Corvette, and the Empire gets the elegant Cutter. I propose an Alliance, tier 3 ship focused on...

Greetings, best way to explain is to show: I wasn't moving anything and got just bumped out when trying to scan it, first time i get this issue I didn't recorded it, this is the second today (never had this before) I had to go next to said planet to scan it. Anyone getting that issue? Seems...

Hi, I played ED from release but stopped when Odyssey hit ( I have a carrier, 10 or so fully equipped ships and about 30 billion cr) - I will have some time over xmass to play again starting maybe as early as this weekend and would like some advice. I would like to progress my exploration and or...

With how the payouts for exobio samples have shot through the roof recently, and how thin water atmospheric bodies tend to have the highest payouts on average, I decided to write up the data and analysis on them. Well, I did look into them before, but never cleaned up and posted the data...

Right, so I'm out in the black and thought I'd do some biological scanning. After spending half an hour drifting aimlessly around the "blue" area for the one and only signal, a biological one, I found a site of Luteolum Anemones. I scanned the first thing I'm looking for easy enough. I then...

Hi, Exploration rant here. I've been out in the black for about a year now. Off and on for sure. I went from the Bubble to Sag - A to Beagle and now to Colonia. And all I have to show for it is about 300M in data. I made 600M in like 5 weeks playing with some friends doing combat missions...

Asterion is a PC group currently recruiting and is dedicated to the building of a Player Faction. Squadron currently has 2 fleet carriers to call home. Commanders who love exploration can enjoy trips out into the black away from the eyes of the bubble, while other more hands on commanders can...

What is the fastest way to grind Exobiologist Rank ? Right now Im scanning Stratum Tectonicas that have been found before, that means it gives me 806k each. I was using and grinding rock body that has thin water atmosphere but didnt explore before. But between the systems that spansh gave me...

Greetings fellow CMDRs! What the title of this post says. For some time, I wanted to publish the news of an achievement of CMDR Rick Floss and myself. Managed to spare some time to finish the last details and publish the news. This was CMDR Rick Floss's idea. I was asked if I would like to...

The Chimaera Void Expedition is an expedition deep into the region Xibalba. Our final destination is Sepositus Beacon, the furthest system away from Sagittarius A* It has a similar view to Beagle Point. There will be several stops along the way of nebulae and other POIs. If you want to come...

I found this world a while ago. I was not the first to discover it (it's on the Colonia Road so many different people have their nametags in the system). It's an interesting stop for a trip to Colonia. It's a super-hot Jupiter that orbits a brown dwarf extremely quickly (once every 1/3 of a day)...

From the people who brought you the popular Apollo 11 and Apollo 15 Expeditions... A voyage to the darkest depths, and the brightest parts of the Milky Way, and beyond!!! This is a journey from the foundations of CMDR Jameson's beginnings in the Lave system (Elite 1984), through the galaxy as...

We are Benevolence. Greetings, CMDR, We are Benevolence [BNVC]. We're always looking for new members and anyone is welcome. If you're interested in joining but don't have an interest in our main squadron activities, you're still very welcome to join and will be greeted with open arms (as long...

It has a very high temperature (592 Kelvin (605.93 Fahrenheit for the other 'Muricans ) ) and is located very close to the star. It has no atmosphere or pressure to keep the ice in place. I want to know how this planet formed and how is it not a scalding hot WW. It's mostly ice and there isn't...

I finished my trip to Beagle Point before I made my account on the forums. so I decided for my first post, i'd make a compilation of all the notable things I found on my journey. the first few legs of my trip were pretty unremarkable. I then stumbled upon this star system Eord Prau EB-X...

I wrote up for myself a bunch of systems in the Vulcan Gate region, but then I had an idea later: why not compile all of them into a public list and share it with others? Especially if other interesting systems will be found here too, or if I missed any. So, with that in mind, here's a CMDR's...

Expose your findings to the world. Become one of the pioneers of Elite Dangerous. Hello to all explorers, The project was born a short time ago : Being in love with the game and especially the exploration gameplay, a few veteran friends and I decided to make it a community and epic thing...

Hey! I’ve been playing Elite: Dangerous for a while, and I‘ve decided to start writing articles about my favourite aspects of the game! My first path into Elite was exploration. I had no idea what the hell I was doing. I decided to go exploring in a Dolphin of all things. Unengineered. I took it...

Currently there is an elaborate fuel store that serves no purpose when the normal fuel button exists. I suggest the addition of new fuel types to the game. I am not sure how this would be justified scientifically, but I would imagine it would be something along the lines of adding other elements...

With the new content coming in Update 11(Fleet Carrier Interiors) I wanted to make a proposal. I call it the Outer Rim Initiative. The Goal would be to find isolated pockets that require a fleet carrier to get into and out of. I know that at least one place was discovered before fleet...

Players who looked at the Codex have probably noticed that Anomalies are numbered in various types, and a few are missing from the sequences: namely, these were L-02, L-07, P-06, T-03. Of course, just because some numbers are missing from a sequence doesn't guarantee that anomalies corresponding...

so, i can't take samples at Bio sites. how many others have same issue? the scanner not reacting at all. how i get images to add?

Hi Commanders, I've been away from Elite for a few months, leaving my ship out near the Eta Carina nebula. I'd like to return to the Bubble soon, and with my Imperial Eagle's low jump range, 9000 LY is a bit of a trek. Has anyone got a FC in the area going back that way I could tag along on...

I'm not so brash as to think I'm the first one to think of this but it may be good to hash it out, some folks from FDEV might lend some insight as well. In a time and age where we can have a computer plot a rout for us through around 400 billion stars and in the blink of an eye be off scooping...

"I'd buy that for a dollar!"... Or several. Million. Typically, exploration has only ever really rewarded the player with fairly small (comparatively) sums of credits, and the odd bit of materials in the form of elements from shooting rocks, or rocks glued to rocks, and the odd crashed gubbins...

Hello everyone, First, I´d like to thank devs for working hard on fixes and some of the new stuff they implemented in past few months. I also appreciate info about whats going on and what we can expect in next update. However, after playing Odyssey for arround half a year now I´d like to point...

A new exploration data type to add to explorers' earnings and reward actual exploration of a planet's surface. This would add a further layer of data underneath honk, FSS, and DSS that would sit close to the Odyssey plant bagging, and codex stuff for surface features. These "surveys" would...

Good morning! I suggest implementing a method of manual repair of the powerplant while landed and disembarked. The inability to repair the powerplant is a serious lack of functionality which seriously impedes long-range exploration and the overall experience. One should be able to shut it down...

I really enjoy the federal medium ships. My favorite one is the dropship. It just has 1 major issue, its jump range is abysmal. There is a simple solution to this problem. It has a hull mass of 580T. The ANACONDA has a hull mass of 400T, 180 less than a ship a bit more tyan half its size. (See...

About half the modules in my somewhat anaemic explorer are powered down at any given time, it feels like an oversight that I can't shut down an extra fuel tank. How cool it would be if you could explore without a diminished jump range, and turn on the spare from the module tab when you want to...

Don't mind the title I was just hungry at the time. To give a little bit more clarity to this post I have been wandering around the galaxy on the Great Infernal Galactic Circumnavigation Expedition. This has given me some thinking time about exploration, and how the current mechanics could be...

What is the reason that physical multicrew does not give teammates redeemable exploration data for themselves to turn in, or any credits at all for that matter? Unlike teleprescene, they are literally there in the seat next to me - onboard the ship, just like you; scanning and mapping things and...

I find it really silly that in so technologically advanced universe as is presented in ED the concept of cloud saving is totally absent. You can order your ship to move from one system to another even if it is as distant as Colonia to Bubble but apparently if your ship is destroyed and it...

If anybody is interested there is Minor Wreckage and 4 Distress Beacons on OOCHOXT-JI-C B19-0 1 (unexplored system). No idea when I'll cash in the exploration / mapping data. Co-ordinates below. 2 of the sites are protected by skimmers. Minor Wreckage -23.2881 -25.1774 2 skimmers Tea...