So quite often I find myself wanting to recommend a bunch of forum threads to other players and rather than having to dig around each time I thought I'd start a thread that attempts to pull all the good (IMHO) stuff together in one place. I'm going to try and keep on top of this and include a "Trending" section as well which showcases some recent stuff that I think is note worthy.
Oh, and I make no apologies for the fact that some of these are my own!
Since I aim to point new players at this thread from time to time (and if that's you right now - welcome!) I wanted to add that you should feel free to post questions in here about using the forum (might even do a separate section on forum tips) or about any of the content featured herein.
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Trending
Stuff that's currently catching my eye (last updated 24/01/2017)
Stuff for newbies
Handy tips and tricks (n.b. some of these are pretty old now but still contain some great little tips)
Day-0-A-guide-for-brand-new-commanders
Little-helpful-facts-Did-you-know-that
Words-of-Wisdom-(1-per-account)
New-Player-Tips-from-an-Old-Pro
The-1001newbie-tips-thread
Player written ED Manuals and guides
(n.b. this first one is REALLY old but has some great backstory and early concepts for the game)
Elite-Dangerous-Pilot-s-Guide-Manual-Tutorial-Help
Superb-new-Pilots-Manual-from-the-Exodus-Coalition
Codgers Elite Adventure (a Youtube series in which an old player starts afresh and takes you along for the ride. Each video is about an hour long and introduces new concepts at a nice leisurely pace. Also features a snoring pug which amuses me greatly.)
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/303947-New-Video-Series-Starting-from-Scratch
First impressions of ED (what others players like yourself think of the game)
Usually a very nice read and worth turning to when you're tired of hearing people slagging off the game ... usually!
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Frontier-Forums-Pop-in-and-introduce-yourself
If you ever run out of fuel, don't despair, call the Fuel Rats (a player run group who will come and rescue you, anywhere in the galaxy)
http:www.fuelrats.com
Screenshots and videos
The following screenshot threads should probably all be merged into a single thread but currently there are four really good ones that are all worth subscribing to.
Screenie(s)
The-Official-Explorers-Photography-Thread
Gratuitous-Selfie-Thread
Planet-showcase-post-your-most-beautiful-shots-that-you-are-really-proud-of
I've also done a couple of compilation videos featuring images taken from all four of these threads. I'll just include links to these rather than embed the videos because I've found that embedding loads of videos in a single post can make it load really slowly.
Elite: Glorious
Elite: Beautiful
Qohen Leth's excellent guide to taking great screenshots
Screenshots-101
Here's a selection of my favourite videos.
Isinona (for me and many others this guys videos are what got us into Elite in the first place, a constant source of inspiration, sadly no longer broadcasting)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjgBlzLxsgbVuHfZPe0AeIg
Erimus: Distant Worlds (first video series from one of THE great ED explorers and, like Isinona, something that got a lot of us into the game in the first place)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlxQlUpqv8OAF64b8n7rQk9XI0Rar1R0U
Cmdr Alot's Buckyball Sagittarius A* films (four films charting Cmdr Alot's record breaking attempts at the Sagittarius A* run - cool, funny and genuinely thrilling - basically works of genius)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcHakPgol0o&list=PLRxjMaBwN0-LEfUYcFiCNshAuwE-_lTb0
Flight Assist Off (still probably my all time favourite ED video)
https://youtu.be/Djy83O0nfds?list=PLSeEFsl5MwqThFc4G-14usbmkTEnfXKTO
Youtube channels, podcasts, etc
Obsidian Ant (one of the most popular ED Youtubers out there)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtiq6FTXiFKQm-wqMuRijgA
Vindicator Jones (and another)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5QlW7L8XZcVBmRvpScs8kA
Lave Radio (absolutely brilliant weekly ED podcast, basically THE ED podcast)
http://laveradio.com/
Escape Velocity (brilliant audio drama set in the ED universe, produced by Lave Radio's Chris Jarvis, now into its 3rd series)
http://laveradio.com/EscapeVelocity/
Radio Sidewinder (essential listening for that long exploration trip)
https://www.radiosidewinder.com/listen-now/
Hutton Orbital Radio (official radio/podcast of the Hutton Truckers and essential listening for that long loooong haul out to Hutton Orbital - a station which does NOT sell cheap Anacondas no what some people might tell you)
http://huttonorbital.com/radio.aspx
Pete Wotherspoon's brilliant Galnet News 3302 review
Galnet-News-review-of-the-year-3302
Useful reference lists
A list of new (as of release 2.2) in-game structures (ships docks, CQC installations, etc)
Ship-docks-CQC-structures-and-other-new-in-game-assets
Geysers and Fumaroles
Geyser-and-Fumarole-Location-Catalog-and-Data-Collection
Tourist Beacons
Requesting-Tourist-Beacon-Data!-Need-Your-Help-Commanders!
Earth-like worlds
List-of-Earth-like-worlds-v2
Permits list
Updated-Permit-List
Discounts on ships & outfitting
Active-Discounts-thread
Minor faction news and the BGS (Background Simulation)
A-Guide-to-Minor-Factions-and-the-Background-Sim
Rare commodities
Rare-Commodities-List!
Rares-Trading-Metro-Map
Alternative HUD colours
NO2O!-The-Definitive-List-of-1-7-2-2-Compatible-HUD-Colour-Color-Configs-(please-add-yours!)
Things to try in-game
How-many-of-these-have-you-tried
How-many-of-these-have-you-tried-Part-2
Science and Mystery
Stuff to do with aliens, barnacles, ancient ruins, formadine rift, etc.
The big Canonn threadnought (Canonn science is the player group that really gets off on this kind of thing).
Alien-archeology-and-other-mysteries-Thread-9-The-Canonn
Formadine Rift (if you know your Elite lore then you'll know what this is, it's basically heavily influenced by writer Drew Wagar's "Elite: Reclamation" which is now being used to inspire new in-game mysteries including the mysterious Salome character and a group called the Children of Raxxla)
So-you-want-to-know-about-the-Formidine-Rift-(Part-3)
Drew Wagar's background lore document
http://www.drewwagar.com/elite-dangerous-saga/elite-dangerous-lore/
Misc' other useful links
NeilF's livestream announcment thread
Livestream-announcement-thread-Subscribe-to-be-notified-of-livestreams
Colonia connection route map
The-Colonia-Connection-Route-Map
Fuel Rats official thread (for tales of rescue and daring do + general Fuel Rat banter)
Out-of-Fuel-Explorer-Rescue-Service-The-Fuel-Rats
Buckyball Racing Club official thread (general race club banter - subscribe to hear about upcoming race news)
Buckyball-Racing-Club
Stuff to do with VR
There's loads of great discussion about using VR to play Elite, these are just a few of my favourite threads.
The-Oculus-Rift-CV1-General-Discussion-Thread
How-to-get-Elite-in-VR-looking-CRYSTAL-CLEAR-D
VR-or-not-to-VR-that-is-my-question
Rift-hdmi-port-users
3rd party tools
EDDB (brilliant website database for looking up all sort of stuff about systems, commodities, etc)
https://eddb.io/
ED Shipyard & Coriolis (brilliant websites for experimenting with ship builds and outfitting while out of game)
http://www.edshipyard.com/
https://coriolis.edcd.io/
Inara (terrific website containing all sorts of information, particularly useful for info to do with engineers)
http://inara.cz/galaxy-engineers
Voice Attack (a brilliant bit of 3rd party software which allows you to control your ship with macro'd joystick/keyboard bindings and voice commands)
https://voiceattack.com/
HCS Voicepacks (add-ons for Voice Attack that add new voices and characters to your Voice Atack setup)
http://www.hcsvoicepacks.com/
Drkaii's ED Profiler - Drkaii is a prominent ED Youtuber and explorer who's written this great tool for managing multiple Elite profiles (collections of graphics settings, control bindings and HUD colours) that you can switch between at the click of a button (really handy for switching between VR and non-VR play)
EDProfiler-A-New-Display-Switcher-Robust-Settings-Profiler-Switcher-Detector!
ED Toolbox (a terrific utility for picking up information from the running game such as current system, galnet news, etc) and relaying it into a separate website that you can view on another screen. You can also get data from this website that can be fed into Voice Attack so you can use text to speach to have it read it out to you.
ED-ToolBox-A-companion-app
Wavescanner (a nice little website that interactively illustrates the different SRV wavescanner patterns)
Tool-SRV-Wave-Scanner-Object-Identifier
http://www.wavescanner.net/
An external list of 3rd party tools
http://edcodex.info/
