exploration

In july commander InfWhale has reported a vast, thousands of light years wide and deep area absolutely infested with Notable Stellar Phenomenas- those so called NSPs are vast fields of metallic, silicate and ice crystals and are inhabitated by creatures called Molluscs. On july 21st the First...

My distraction du jour has been the Pilot's Federation District. The Explore the Galaxy mission is becomes available to new players in the Pilot's Federation District as soon as they have managed to receive a single rank in Combat, Trade or Exploration. Combat and Trade can be taken care of...

Greetings CMDRs. CMDR ADM Infwhale here. I have been out mapping the NSP sites around the NGC 3199 Nebula since March. Now, with a little community help and the launch of the Banana Nebula Expedition, there are numerous CMDR's hard at play, mapping all of the NSP's (See the reddit - Banana...

...I run into a ton of fleet carriers in and around the Bubble, Colonia, and even nebula. But when I wake up and have a cup of coffee in the bridge of my own fleet carrier, which is stationed in my own private bubble out in the literal middle of nowhere, and I see two other fleet carriers on the...

On 2 March of this year I arrived in Kojeara for the completion of Lost Worlds 2. Soon after, I decided my next adventure was to (finally) complete a circumnavigation. And so, after fixing some blueprints and shedding some weight, the Beluga Liner Quixote of La Mancha set out from Colonia on 5...

Hi! An idea for discovery missions: The missions would be to discover certain planet or star types within a given LY range or sector, sub-sector near or around the bubble. So, let's say a faction is wanting to colonize a new earth-like far off. The mission is to actually be the first to...

I'm confused - I thought multicrew allowed copilots to share the discovery tags and rewards from universal cartography, but that's not what happen when I just tried it. Am I doing something wrong, or is only combat and trading rewarded? If the latter, while ignore one out of the three major rank...

Greetings Commanders! I'm proud to share what I've been working on recently. It's a plugin for Elite Dangerous Market Connector that allows explorer players to see their progress from one star system to another. Enter where you started at and where you want to go in the Settings, and the plugin...

tl;dr Am taking my FC to this area rich in undiscovered black holes, about 18k LY from Sol. A 2-3 week trip. Commanders are welcome to join and use FC services for free. Itinerary Departure: Sunday, July 5th. 2000 hrs. Arrival at destination July 8th (or 9th). Return: Sunday July 18th. 2000 hrs...

As fleet carriers are effectively mobile travelling stations, and to aid their future navigation. It’s in the best interests of that fleet carrier and its crew to amass as much cartography data as possible. (For realistic pretend gameplay reasons) Isn’t it a good idea for the FC’s cartography...

"God, this is taking FOREVER!" Commander Golden-Knight had gone for about a hundred or two lightyears out of "The Bubble" before the first day was done, as far as the trip around the galaxy was going. The pilot lost count of how many worthless ice balls had to be scanned with a fine-tooth comb...

Since the development of the fast frameshift drive opened the galaxy to independent CMDRs a substantial proportion of stars from the Hipparcos (HIP) catalog have been visited and surveyed in detail. However, a significant minority (roughly one in six) of the approximately 120,000 stars in the...

It would be useful to have a "bread crumbs" feature on the SRV's scanner, so you can easily see where you have been. It feels like it would be a relatively common navigation software feature for and exploration vehicle like an SRV.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to afford a fleet carrier; I hate grinding and the nerfs are coming! Thing is, I don't need to own a fleet carrier to do what I want. I would happily rent a FC from another player, but this means that player would need to actually "give" me their carrier for a...

Operation Restless End Logo WIP Fleet Carrier Name: DSSA Ronin V1Q-95G Fleet Carrier Owner: AEtherial Samurai Destination Region: Galactic Centre Destination System: Phipoea WK-E d12-1374 4 B (Crown of Ice) Launch From: LP-547-159 2 (D2EA/TEAC home system) 18 July 3306 Comms Platform...

Welcome CMDR o7 My name is CMDR MIKE RK Leader of the GSC. I am in my own small squadron with only a few members however, I am putting together a small expedition to a set of stars the you can only get to via a carrier. My carrier the Exodus Pryor will be departing from “NUENETS” which is one...

Hello, commanders! The DSSA King's Pass is humbly a part of the Deep Space Support Array Initiative and we are destined to Nuekea RP-M D8-161 (nicknamed Delacor) in the Norma Expanse! I wanted to take the time to give a nice guide for visitors of this amazing system! As a young...

Hypotetical : Let's say I scanned a whole system with fss, then sell it. Then make a wing with my buddy. Does he see the system as undiscovered? Can he/we still scan it for him to then sell? Trying to understand how "already known" data is shared in a wing. Thanks!

Greetings CMDRs, I wanted to inform any explorers that I stationed my FC, A Moment's Rest, within the Bubble Nebula to support any explorers passing through. It is located in Bubble Sector LX-T B3-1. It will stay there indefinitely, or at least until Odyssey comes out depending on what new...

Operation Mandy's Rest Last October I did a 24 hour game stream to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, at the time my aunty was fighting cancer and despite knowing it was going to be terminal she continued to live and enjoy life as much as she could. On June 3rd she lost her fight with...

A bit of a QoL improvement for the exploring kind. And why not others, as well. But yeah, like the title says. A bindable key one can press to switch between Map and Orrery views while perusing the System Map. It's kind of jarring at the moment as the view selection buttons hide inside the...

Please do not consume food and drink on the carrier. Tea & Coffee available. Air Conditioning. In flight entertainment includes Bingo and Compere. Travel in relative style. Curtain windows provided for your comfort and privacy. Driver with 25 years experience and hardly any points on pilot...

The booking office is now open, please leave your name and 25 Tritium deposit below. Please do not consume food and drink on the carrier. Tea & Coffee available. Air Conditioning. In flight entertainment includes Bingo and Compere. Travel in relative style. Curtain windows provided for...

o7 Greetings, Commanders! I am Shinzo, a newbie in Elite who is eager to explore the whole palette our beautiful galaxy can offer. Inspired by other expeditions, I decided to try and make my own. Ever since I started playing space games, I always made sure that I try to explore it as much as...

To contrast my other thread of mine about the lovely pirating opportunities that Borann brought to the game, I'm now encountering one of the major flaws of Borann (and perhaps mining in general) - the devaluation of credits. Things that used to make feel like I accomplished something no longer...

Greetings to you, Pilots! We merrily announce our new political fraction "Internationale Krötenpartei" (International Toad party). Mining, exploring and friendly playing together are our attitudes. Do you feel the risk during the flight while carrying over a hundret diamonds with you? Tired of...

The newly founded Norse Exploration Corp. is recruiting CMDRs to help with the deployment of the NEC Fleet Carrier "Huginn" in the Odin's Hold Sector, halfway between Colonia and Sagittarius A* as part of the Deep Space Support Array. About the expedition The Bifrost Initiative Expedition is...

Here's a simple question that would potentially make a huge difference to a poor explorer like me. Will carrier owners make any credits when another player uses their UC? Is there any way to "trade" this data, where the carrier owner can pay a lower fee and then sell that data at a higher price...

The galaxy is big, or so I'm told. As a species we must continue to grow to survive, we have the space and we have the technology, what we need now is find suitable worlds, identify new resources, search for advanced technology and find safe harbour from the Thargoid threat. The Independence...

Hello cmdrs! Check out my exploration film I made on a trip across the galaxy: O7 cmdr akerstache

Hi, all, I hope all of you are doing well? I seem to have bumped into somewhat of a problem today: I'm currently in the Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm, farting about around Colonia, and a couple of days ago, I came up with the "great" idea of trying to "complete"/"fill" the Codex, by going to the...

I'm amazed at how few of the existing game play mechanics are used by the fleet carriers. Fleet carriers could make use of existing game play loops that are already familiar to players. I believe the following mechanics would significantly enhance the capabilities of the carriers and make them...

Last year I had the great privilege of collaborating with a group of fellow explorers for an epic voyage to the depths of the galaxy - I have finally finished a video recounting the adventure, and a little history of the galactic limits. Fleet Carriers will soon push these limits out even...

Fleet Carriers seem to come with quite a few benefit as well as close-to-crippling costs. This is especially the case for explorers that will have to seriously top up the onboard credit account to be able to take them anywhere for prolonged periods of time. One solution often suggested is to...

Hey all, I'm a very new Elite player (I just started 2 days ago) and, as an avid Star Trek fan, there is nothing more in this game that I would like more than to be to the person who discovers a whole new system, the person who travels the furthest ever travelled in this game. I understand that...

OK, so, there's a significant uproar from the Exploration community (myself included) about carriers. They seem, at the moment, literally useful for miners, minor combat applications, traders aannnnndd...... that's it. So, what do we get out of it? Well, nothing, other than a 5 billion credit...

Couple things need to change: More jumps per full tank, maybe four. Time spool-up and cool-down needs to be half an hour, not an hour. (maybe if exploration is speced into only) my engineered ship can do 500ly in about 2~ hours if I push it with guardian FSD Boosters. Fleet Carriers should be...

My proposal would be for Fleet carriers to have an exploration data secure storage utility. The fleet carrier commander would set a percentage figure which would be a cut of the value that would normally be received by a commander on sale of exporation data to universal catorgraphics. Data...

This is not meant to be a post on the costs or upkeep of an FC. I want a more optimistic ideal about them. Something we know is that FCs can jump 500ly at a time. And they can be modified tailored to Exploration, Mining, Bounty Hunting. Etc. Where do you want to park yours? I’m thinking of...