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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 current stuff that I think is noteworthy.
Oh, and I make no apologies for the fact that some of the recommended threads are my own!
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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 or about any of the content featured herein.
P.S. Some of you may have noticed that my thread has now been updated to [v2]. Unfortunately the first thread outgrew the storage capacity of its original home (my oh my how this little undertaking has grown since its inception) but hopefully the space I've now reserved here will allow this to continue long into the future.
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Stuff that's currently catching my eye (last updated 08/07/2020)
A victory for Turning The Wheel as The Dark Wheel get nudged one step closer to Sol!
turning-the-wheel
The Lavecon 2020 Buckyball Race (so fast you already missed it)
the-lavecon-2020-buckyball-race-3rd-5th-july-2020
Techniques for using fleet carriers to passively earn money through Tritium trading
tritium-trading-methods
Lave Radio have been salt mining
salt-mining-question
What exactly is a "tenuous atmosphere" and what does that mean for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey?
tenuous-atmospheres-how-will-they-work
What exactly is a "slave" and was does that mean for the Empire?
can-someone-explain-imperial-slavery
The Buckyball Racing Club are back with an engineer base themed race (runs from 20th - 28th June)
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-engineers-canyon-mayhem-20-june
Will Flanagan's bittersweet announcement
to-space-and-back-again
Cmdr SleepyDelegate's exploration journal (a beautifully illustrated account of one commanders journey into the black)
sleepydelegates-chronicles-taking-the-dbx-around-the-galaxy
Fuel Rats first post-update case requires use of fleet carrier to rescue pilot who spent months stranded in same system.
out-of-fuel-explorer-rescue-service-the-fuel-rats
Fleet carrier showcase
carrier-showcase
Frontier's Fleet carrier stuff
fleet-carriers-update-launch-announcement
fleet-carriers-update-patch-notes
fleet-carrier-update-known-issues
fleet-carrier-update-game-maintenance
Skoomer explains why his truly wonderful "Strange Worlds" series of exploration videos with friend Zach has come to an end. If you haven't seen the series then it's now been stitched together into a single epic video and it's truly one of the best made and most moving exploration journeys I've ever seen. If you like it then go send the dude some love.
elite-strange-worlds-a-documented-journey-across-our-galaxy-a-fan-made-elite-series
Obviously ... Odyssey - the official name for the new big Elite: Dangerous DLC as announced on 3rd June 2020.
elite-dangerous-odyssey-announcement
all-the-details-that-you-could-spot-in-the-odissey-trailer-positive-and-negative
post-your-support-for-elite-odyssey-to-have-vr-support
They called the Truckers crazy when they tried to deliver a mug to every station and now they're saying the same about Kai Zen for trying to push The Dark Wheel towards Sol in his attenmpt to trigger the appearance of Raxxla. Will you point and shake your head or will you join the ever growing throng of commanders now running missions out of Shinrarta Dezhra?
turning-the-wheel
Older stuff
turning-the-wheel
The Lavecon 2020 Buckyball Race (so fast you already missed it)
the-lavecon-2020-buckyball-race-3rd-5th-july-2020
Techniques for using fleet carriers to passively earn money through Tritium trading
tritium-trading-methods
Lave Radio have been salt mining
salt-mining-question
What exactly is a "tenuous atmosphere" and what does that mean for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey?
tenuous-atmospheres-how-will-they-work
What exactly is a "slave" and was does that mean for the Empire?
can-someone-explain-imperial-slavery
The Buckyball Racing Club are back with an engineer base themed race (runs from 20th - 28th June)
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-engineers-canyon-mayhem-20-june
Will Flanagan's bittersweet announcement
to-space-and-back-again
Cmdr SleepyDelegate's exploration journal (a beautifully illustrated account of one commanders journey into the black)
sleepydelegates-chronicles-taking-the-dbx-around-the-galaxy
Fuel Rats first post-update case requires use of fleet carrier to rescue pilot who spent months stranded in same system.
out-of-fuel-explorer-rescue-service-the-fuel-rats
Fleet carrier showcase
carrier-showcase
Frontier's Fleet carrier stuff
fleet-carriers-update-launch-announcement
fleet-carriers-update-patch-notes
fleet-carrier-update-known-issues
fleet-carrier-update-game-maintenance
Skoomer explains why his truly wonderful "Strange Worlds" series of exploration videos with friend Zach has come to an end. If you haven't seen the series then it's now been stitched together into a single epic video and it's truly one of the best made and most moving exploration journeys I've ever seen. If you like it then go send the dude some love.
elite-strange-worlds-a-documented-journey-across-our-galaxy-a-fan-made-elite-series
Obviously ... Odyssey - the official name for the new big Elite: Dangerous DLC as announced on 3rd June 2020.
elite-dangerous-odyssey-announcement
all-the-details-that-you-could-spot-in-the-odissey-trailer-positive-and-negative
post-your-support-for-elite-odyssey-to-have-vr-support
They called the Truckers crazy when they tried to deliver a mug to every station and now they're saying the same about Kai Zen for trying to push The Dark Wheel towards Sol in his attenmpt to trigger the appearance of Raxxla. Will you point and shake your head or will you join the ever growing throng of commanders now running missions out of Shinrarta Dezhra?
turning-the-wheel
Older stuff
Frontier want your reports, videos, songs, etc about fleet carriers - you could win an X52 Pro!
life-on-a-fleet-carrier-competition
Speaking of which ... getting a fleet carrier to Sagittarius A*!
beta-fleet-carriers-at-sag-a-the-fram-test
On this day in 2017
retrospective-on-salome-event-3-years-on
Wait ... there are signs of life ... yes, the Buckyball Racing Club are back with their 71st race!
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-signs-of-life-9th-may-to-17th-may-3306
Old Duck postulates a controversial thought.
borann-is-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-ed-in-a-long-time
A brand new (unofficial) Elite: Dangerous story starts to take shape.
beyond-the-frontier-an-elite-dangerous-book-project
Donate your fleet carrier to this very practical cause ..
the-deep-space-support-array-dssa-a-fleetcomm-initiative
.. or perhaps this somewhat less practical one?
ferry-services-to-collonia-may-finally-be-a-thing
Nick Web completes his absolutely sensational 2,100 part lego model of an SRV!
lego-technic-srv-wip ("I did it!")
From the ashes of the ECM rises vECM - yay, now everyone can attend!
ecm-cambridge-postponed-vecm-the-virtual-community-event-launched-11th-april-venue-the-internet
Frontier are staying at home ... and quite right too.
update-from-frontier-about-the-covid-19-situation
They have fuel, 70000 of you don't, any questions?
congratulations-fuel-rats-on-your-70-000th-rescue
At the request of a fan - that "little ravine" has now taken me over 3,000km and the adventure continues!
lets-see-where-this-little-ravine-takes-me
Bruce wants your face! (not at all sinister)
send-us-your-holo-me
Last butnot also least.
your-last-enjoyable-elite-activity
your-least-enjoyable-elite-activity
Fresh meat (Hi Bruce!
)
new-community-manager-bruce-garrido
Inspiration^2
what-inspired-your-playstyle
elite-inspiration
I'm under the influence! Cheers.
elite-influencers
Two new challenges for the price of one at the galaxy's hottest new race venue!
the-cortes-base-drag-strip-challenge-another-standing-srv-time-trial-from-the-buckyball-racing-club
cortes-base-circuit-challenge-an-elite-racers-standing-time-trial
The most addictive meme thread since the meme thread!
breaking-news
No news isgood bad news!
galnet-changes
an-open-letter-to-frontier-development
Commanders recall some unforgettable moments from the last 5 years.
what-stories-do-you-have-from-elite-dangerous-that-will-stick-with-you-forever
How do you do. How do I do what?
how-do-you-elite
"Frontier Flopping" at Dav's Hope ... a necessary evil? or just plain evil?
what-is-your-opionion-regarding-exiting-to-the-menu-and-back-to-collect-more-material-at-davs-hope-and-jameson-crash-site
Don't be salty, have some whiskey instead!
whiskeys-guide-to-not-being-salty
Frontier update on mining supply/demand changes.
notice-regarding-supply-and-demand-of-high-end-minerals
Following on from the somewhat salty have-we-been-lied-to thread this other thread popped up on Sunday which references (among other things) an interesting blog post (last updated in April 2019) listing what Frontier have promised and delivered thus far. Worth a read!
so-were-actually-on-schedule
Elite Community Meet dates and tickets announced and this year they're raiding Cambridge ... and also Texas!
ecm-2020-11th-april-cambridge-uk-ecm-mini-houston-tx-4th-april
The Hutton Truckers have come up with some insane plans in the past but this takes thebiscuit MUG!
pilots-of-the-galaxy-hutton-has-a-mission-for-you-operation-hot-mist
It's patch note feeding frenzy time!
january-update-patch-notes
January update drops on the 14th, work on fleet carriers and bug fixes continues but no more Interstellar Initiatives for a while.
community-update-january-3306
Awesome new nostalgia thread on Elite's apparent "niche" appeal, who it seems to attact and why.
the-obscurity-of-our-beloved-hobby
The Hull Seals take over the running of the next Buckyball Race and leave its reputation for risk averse and responsible piloting in tatters.
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-a-halpy-hand-11th-jan-19th-jan-3306
Attention philatelists everywhere!
elite-celebrated-on-stamps
Let's start the new year with a thread full of awe and wonder at this wonderful game we all love so dearly.
tis-the-little-things
New Buckyball Race (Total Recall 3) starts on Saturday
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-total-recall-3-14th-dec-22nd-dec-3305
With a 2x multiplier on Federation ranking and massive discounts on Federal ships (especially the Corvette) at the moment ..
is-the-corvette-worth-buying-at-discount-for-the-future-what-is-it-good-for
where-buy-cheap-corvette-like-really-cheap
Old Duck gets Rift S VR, asks some questions and writes up his thoughts on it ..
first-impressions-of-ed-in-vr
some-graphics-settings-questions-for-new-vr-guy
Frontier offer to solve a long running mystery
investigation-into-the-mysterious-stranger
Hardly news but the beta patch notes are out! (incl. lots of new BGS states + no more npc crew permadeath thanks to crew insurance)
january-update-beta-patch-notes
And all the info you need to do good productive beta testing is linked here ..
january-update-beta-is-live
Frontier release details of the bugs to be fixed in the January update + public beta test information
january-update-beta-announcement
Author and ED lore master Drew Wagar is planning a lore based tour of Elite: Dangerous in 2020
potential-2020-lore-tour
An interesting and informative discussion on how gravity wells affect supercruise speed
gravity-wells-and-speed
New Buckyball time trial race "Lava Loop" starts tomorrow (16th November) and runs until next Sunday (24th). Anyone can enter, at any time (and as many times) throughout the week - small and medium ships only (because it involves landing at outposts in low orbit around lave worlds).
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-lava-loop-16th-nov-to-24th-nov-3305
A new Guardian site has been discovered! (I read somewhere that it's possibly even the last as one was known to be missing).
the-guardian-research-division
Follow the adventures of Cmdr Rustnsawdust as he circumnavigates an unforgiving ice world (well worth following - a really good read so far!)
second-time-around
Speedbowl 3 is this weekend!
announcing-speedbowl-3-chasing-sanderling-9-10-november-3305
Yours truly has been comparing the size of Palin's new "Abel Laboratory" planetary base with various cities on Earth.
planetary-city-abel-laboratory-arque-to-scale
A new generation ship ("Golconda") has been found in the "Upaniklis" system. Personally I'd recommend heading out there and discovering the logs for yourself rather than reading this potentially spoiler heavy forum thread (even the thread's title is a spoiler).
<REDACTED>-generation-ship
Returning commander asks "what's new?" (but surely he must have seen huge piles of salt before?)
been-away-for-2-years-now-back-looking-for-suggestions-of-new-interesting-features
An out-of-game web front-end to the Elite: Dangerous cosmetics store is now available but people still aren't happy about ARX
new-elite-game-extras-web-store
On a lighter note - can't logout without landing/docking? always honk, even if you've been here many times? have to scoop with the star on your left?
what-is-your-elite-quirk
Planetary circumnavigator is going around again.
second-time-around
The bad news - fleet carriers delayed again, the good news - Frontier to focus on fixing bugs with open betas.
community-update-22-10
A Halloween tour of the most terrifying places in Elite: Dangerous!
spooky-space-spectacular
Elite Aid -24hr 36hr! charity livestream event in aid of the Queensland fire brigades - starts tomorow!
elite-aid-community-live-stream-event-2019-10-18-2019
Earn 945,000 credits per ton in second phase of the Scourge ... seriously?!?!?
the-scourge-overview-of-phases
Drat ... too late!
the-scourge-overview-of-phases
Enlightening discussion on differences between consoles and PCs and how it affects players' ability to compete in Buckyball races on a equal footing (or not).
discussion-on-separate-console-pc-leaderboards-for-buckyball-race-events
New "blight" state introduced as part of the "Scourge" interstellar initiative.
blight-state
New interstellar initiative "The Scourge"
the-scourge-overview-of-phases
Frontier have a new livestream series dedicated to racing called "Full Throttle". Kicks off this coming Thursday with the Buckyball Racing Club and a race which everyone can take part in called "Full Throttle at Pareco". The race is on NOW (so lay down some times for Frontier to try and beat) and runs until midnight Sunday.
full-throttle-at-pareco-an-official-frontier-developments-race-in-conjunction-with-the-buckyball-racing-club
We the undersigned ...
Petition: Community Requests to FDev for Elite Dangerous
Zac Antonaci's response
Nothing, definitely no "buildings" in Elite - ha ha - oh look! a badger (points frantically off into the distance)
roadmap-leaked
The September update (aka The Good, The Bad and the Ugly)
september-update-downtime-and-patch-notes
september-update-patch-1
september-update-known-issues (official list)
september-update-bugs-master-list (unofficial list)
STORE-icon-protest
turn-off-the-prompts and button-prompts
Still reading? Still like Elite? Then join the celebration.
celebrating-35-years-of-elite
Speedbowl 3
announcing-speedbowl-3-chasing-sanderling-9-10-november-3305
The new player experience and ARX
content-reveal-livestream-september-update-recap
arx-and-frontier-points-conversion
arx-and-frontier-points-conversion (further update on ARX incl. rough ideas of what things will cost)
Greatest "heist" in the history of Elite or EULA breaking rule infringement? Elite takes a step into the world of Eve Online courtesy of the Code.
breaking-news-largest-heist-in-galactic-history-takes-place-eic-robbed-by-the-code
Perpetual Elephant Butt Leather PS4 whinger "Old Duck" gets a taste of what it's like in the PC master race ... and likes it!
this-game-is-freaking-amazing
Frontier's record year and Elite breaks 3 million sales.
frontiers-annual-results-have-been-published-june-2018-to-may-2019-showing-a-record-year-and-elite-passing-3-million-basegame-sales
Celebration of early astronomy expedition, departing January 3306
celebration-of-early-astronomy-expedition
Farewell Brett C!
departing-frontier-station-for-deep-space-commanders
The record for the fastest time from Sol to Sagittarius A* has been broken by Cmdr Up2d4t3 who completed the journey in just 1h 52m 10s!
buckyball-racing-club-presents-the-a-challenge-v2-0
Dav Stott answers a few follow-up questions to his BGS "Discovery Scanner" - he's not at liberty to speak about th BGS hamster tho!
discovery-scanner-6-reshaping-the-simulation
The Buckyball Racing Club launch a new venture in Colonia!
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-the-colonia-trophy-dash
With fleet carrier threads now breeding uncontrollably the best thread about them is this meta thread about fleet carrier threads.
new-fleet-carriers-threads-thread
Cmdr Numerlor wins Buckyball Racing Club's "Hot Off The Press" by dying after boosting through a Buckyball holo-ad - what a way to go!
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-hot-off-the-press-17th-to-25th-august-3305
Thargoid's develop new racing ship, but too late to take part!
new-thargoid-variant
Cmdr turkwinif offers up to THREE BILLION CREDITS to anyone who can beat his Pomeche Ridge Challenge SRV race times!
the-pomeche-ridge-challenge-a-standing-srv-time-trial-in-association-with-the-buckyball-racing-club
Fleet carrier news!
gamescom-reveals-fleet-carrier-details
Also worth a watch:
Obsidian Ant's take on all this
The Buur Pit's take on all this
Let's hear a big ARF ARF ARF for the hull seals!
featured-commanders-the-hull-seals
Dav Stott explains how the Background Simulation managed factions.
discovery-scanner-6-reshaping-the-simulation
Fleet carrier preview incoming? (or is it just @PrimetimeCasual's new megaship speedbowling event?)
massive-frameshift-surge-detected-20-00-utc
More clarification on the Galnet news - yup, imho it's bad (but other opinions are available)
galnet-changes (update)
Latest Buckyball Race is Hot Off The Press!
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-hot-off-the-press-17th-to-25th-august-3305
Featured commander Malic_VR ..
featured-commanders-malic_vr
.. does several orbits of a planet in his SRV and then slingshots it off on a multi-day journey over an asteroid field and across to a neighbouring planet!
the-planetary-circumnavigation-club
Galnet to "concentrate on in-game activity" - seems good, but reading between the lines, sounds bad!
galnet-changes
Interesting update from Will re: the outcomes of the Enclave Interstellar Initiative (incl. Thargoid bobblehead).
the-enclave-overview-of-phases
Excellent "featured commanders" interview re: ToCoSo.
featured-commanders-cmdr-tocoso
Rootsrat's excellent list of player suggestions for Fleet Carriers
fleet-carriers-community-wishlist
The Enclave Interstellar Initiative, a change in Thargoid tactics and Palin's retreat from Maia + apparently some commanders are annoyed at being mildly inconvenienced by the ongoing inter-species war that's raging in and around the bubble!
the-enclave-overview-of-phases
palins-research-centre-has-been-attacked-by-thargoids
only-you-fdev-only-you
The Buckyball Racing Club's "Seven Sisters Speedway" event is now over! Who won? Arguably the Thargoids!
Roll up, roll up, roll up - the Buckyball Racing Club are back in town!
buckyball-racing-club-presents-seven-sisters-speedway-12-jul-3305-to-20-jul-3305
The long standing Buckyball A* challenge is now under new management courtesy of Cmdr Raiko
buckyball-racing-club-presents-the-a-challenge-v2-0
Yours truly attempts to dispel some myths about Stellar Forge.
myth-busting-on-stellar-forge-and-the-generation-of-everything-from-stars-to-rocks
Frontier reveal new content coming in September
lavecon-2019-content-reveal
Additional FAQ on ARX (new store currency)
arx-faq
"Into the Black" (book one of "Salome's Legacy") - a really excellent new fan written novel
fan-written-novel-announcement-and-release
What will Frontier show us at Lavecon and will it be a Yay, a Meh or a Boo?
lavecon-2019-speculations
The Apollo 11 expedition heads off in just 3 days time!
apollo-11-50th-anniversary-expedition
Not been there? Not done that?
what-havent-you-done-in-elite-lately
What's the average orbital speed of an unladen Scarab SRV?
srv-orbital-mechanics
Big fan of the Burr Pit so it's great to see this.
featured-commanders-the-buur-pit
Interstellar Initiative 02 - The Enclave!
the-enclave-overview-of-phases
New "Discovery Scanner" livestream on crafting the Krait MkII
discovery-scanner-5-crafting-the-krait-mkii-with-jordan-clarry-and-pawel-ptaszynski
Interesting suggestion on NPC crew
npc-crew-visible-and-working-in-our-ship-proposal
Commanders who aren't bored with Elite attempt to explain why.
i-still-play-every-day-players-help-me-understand-you
Planetary terrain generation - too extreme, too samey or just about right?
pls-loosen-the-screws-on-the-planet-generator
NPC SRVs anyone?
npc-srv-coming-with-4-0
Commander protests ED cheats by wedging an infinite shield Beluga in the Jameson Memorial mailslot.
so-theres-currently-a-cmdr-stuck-in-the-slot-station-defences-having-no-affect-assumed-hes-proving-a-point-about-cheats
An interview with the commander
Fantastic fan-made video showing what it might be like to climb into a Sidewinder from the ground and walk around inside it.
look-at-this
video-paseo-por-el-interior-de-una-sidewinder (the original Spanish thread)
Cmdr DasExorcist discovers an "astonishing assortment of mountain ranges averaging 25-30km in height"
a-guide-to-good-base-jumping-locations
Zende Partners FTW! (kinda)
bridging-the-gap-conclusion
How fast can you rank up from nothing to Elite? An official Frontier sponsored competition with prizes!
First Official Elite Rank Speed Run Competition! (Exigious video)
Brave commander's journey comes to a sad end.
michaels-journey-through-the-stars
Primetimecasual and co. circumnavigate the outermost moon of Semotus Beacon
the-planetary-circumnavigation-club
After 56 days (and 7,300km) on Kumay yours truly finally completes The First Great Planetary Expedition
the-first-great-planetary-expedition
Planetary explorer proves that "base building" (of a sort) is already possible in Elite: Dangerous
humor-the-first-ever-player-built-huge-planetary-settlement-in-ed-universe
Brave young Cmdr Michael recieves astonishing support from both Frontier and the wider ED community.
michaels-journey-through-the-stars
"Cheats never prosper" ... or do they?
cheating-in-elite-dangerous
The first Interstelllar Initiative moves into "phase 3"
bridging-the-gap-phase-three
More details about the "Bridging the Gap" interstellar initiative (there's even a decal!)
bridging-the-gap-overview-of-phases
Attention race fans - although the Buckyball Racing Club slumbers on (for now), The Okinura Sprint is once again open for business!
elite-racers-present-the-okinura-station-sprint-challenge
And the winner is ... Synuefe EN-H d11-96
bridging-the-gap-phase-one-results
Absent faces on the forum remembered ...
absent-friends-a-place-to-remember-forum-contribtors-you-liked-who-have-seemingly-stepped-back
As one great expedition comes to a close ..
distant-worlds-2-epilogue-final-thoughts-acknowledgements-and-a-guide-for-those-homeward-bound
.. another rolls on
the-first-great-planetary-expedition
Pilots Federation rescue commander stranded on the edge of the galaxy
stranded-at-the-edge-of-the-galaxy
Patch for the April update reverts controversial Drag munition change, allegedly fixes SRV damage multiplier for multiplayer instances and more besides.
april-update-patch-1
Attacking fellow commanders in the Pilots Federation District is stricly forbidden!
interesting-discovery-about-the-starter-district-pvp-screenshots
Cast your vote for one of five pseudo-random sequences of letters and numbers - woo hoo! /s
bridging-the-gap-phase-one-commencement
Isinona (the godfather of Elite: Dangerous story telling) is back making a brand new series of his superb "Flight Assist Off" videos. He'll be making two 25+ minute long adventures every month and you can now sponsor him on Patreon.
Isinona is creating Videos
"known issues" with April update and some bugs currently under investigation
april-update-known-issues-24-04-2019
Discussion on the change to the "drag munitions" engineering special effect which is causing a bit of a stir in the PvP community.
space-force-presents-operation-drag-queen
April update patch notes and discussion
april-update-patch-notes
Detailed list of content covered in FD's April Update livestream.
april-update-content-reveal-livestream-recap
Details of the first Interstellar Initiative - called "Bridging The Gap"
interstellar-initiatives-bridging-the-gap-preview
April update (including advanced docking computer, supercruise assist, nav panel changes, in-game pilots handbook, interstellar initiatives and more!)
april-update-coming-23-april-2019
The First Great Planetary Expedition is well underway now and the 50+ commanders involved have been posting some fantastic images and videos of their adventures as they drive around Kumay in the Chi Herculis system
the-first-great-planetary-expedition
Frontier posts about newbug "issue" tracking system.
frontier-issues-tracker
And thebug "issue" tracker is now live!
issue-tracker-now-live
Raxxla Found, Anaconda "Sold Out", Panther Clipper Too Big
obsidianant-3305-elite-dangerous-raxxla-found-anaconda-sold-out-panther-clipper-too-big.
"We'll see you on the other side" (fingers crossed)
New-Forums-Release-Date-and-Downtime
Featuredlunatics commanders - the First Great Planetary Expedition.
Featured-Event-The-First-Great-Planetary-Expedition
Community goals are dead, long live community goals
Community-Goals-over-the-following-weeks-(13-03)
Dying can be a funny old business ...
Tell-us-your-favorite-personal-I-blowed-up-story
Interesting bar graph of paint pack/ship kit availability per ship type
Paint-Packs-and-Ship-Kits-How-loved-are-your-ships
It's that time of year when we play "guess the new IP" again
FDev-licences-new-IP-for-2021-game-starts-dev-later-in-2019
The First Great Planetary Expedition now has a logo, a route and a start date
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Details on the forethcoming BGS update
Background-Simulation-Update-(01-03)
Discussion on the community update from Obsidian Ant and DJ Truthsayer (DJ joins about halfway through)
OA-and-Dj-truthsayer-discuss-update-news
That announcement from Will on the looooooooong term future of Elite: Dangerous (and muchos subsequent reaction)
Important-Community-Update-(01-03)
New alien life discovered!
Alien-archaeology-and-other-mysteries-Breaking-News-Theories-and-Tinfoil-Hattery
Planning of the first great planetary expedition moves into phase 2!
The-first-great-planetary-expedition-Chi-Herculis-Kumay-(route-planning-phase)
A brand new forum cometh!
Forum-revamp-coming-soon!
After being stranded without fuel since November 3304 Cmdr Deluvian's long wait is nearly over - the Fuel Rats have arrived at his location and the rescue is scheduled for Saturday night.
Expedition-VI-The-Longest-Journey
Cmdr Highwaywarrior's twitch stream
Simultaneous cast of all 3 rescue streams
There is now a station near Sagittarius A*
Station-near-Sag-A*-is-here
Ed Lewis lands job as European Community Lead at Bethesda
Edward Lewis on Twitter
Releases 3.3.04 and 3.3.05 (neither of which I'd describe as especially exciting)
Update-3-3-04
Update-3-3-05
Frontier announce new monthly livestream series "in which your Community Managers will take you through the latest news for our Frontier games and communities."
New-stream-series-Frontier-Xtra
Squadron leaderboard graph porn
Season-1-Squadron-results-graphs-and-analysis
Some nice new ideas on planetary landing gameplay
Atmospheric-Planet-Thread-week-7-how-it-may-affect-everyone-s-gameplay
Frontier make some new ED "wallpaper" images available
Elite-Dangerous-(New)-Wallpapers
Obsidian Ant and co speculate over the implications of the phrase "big refresh" in a new Frontier financial report (yup, it's another slow news week!)
Video-ObsidianAnt-Frontier-s-Financial-Position-and-the-Future-of-Elite-Dangerous
Obsidian Ant video re-ignites cool discussion on the idea of a dark Pilots Federation for those that play on the opposite side of the law
Obsidian-Ant-on-Pilots-Federation-idea
Season one winners of the Squadron leaderboards have been announced.
Squadron-Leaderboards-Season-One-Results
Featured commanders livestream II - a recap of what the community has been up to in the last 6 months
Featuring-Commanders-II-with-Paige-Harvey
Interesting Polygon article on gameplay duality within DW2 and the wider ED gaming experience
Article-"Elite's-Distant-Worlds-2-expedition-proves-the-game-is-wildly-unbalanced-and-that's-OK"
Commanders successfully fly 250 million light years and earn a unique Cobra MkIII paintjob
Frontier-25-Community-Activities-Complete!
Planning a planetary expedition
A-group-planetary-circumnavigation-expedition-(scouting-phase)
Fuel Rats rescue update: Cmdr Deluvian has now been stranded for 58 days but the rescue team are closing in!
Expedition-VI-The-Longest-Journey
Stories of disaster from DW2
How-did-you-die-Tell-your-story
DW2 is hosting a planetary circumnavigation event starting today
DW2-Basecamp-Events
Commander hits triple Elite after spending only 10 credits on Fuel
Triple-Elite-Only-10cr-Spent-on-Fuel
Patch notes! (and a fix for the masslock bug among other things)
Update-3-3-03
Known issues with the BGS ("Isn't it easier to write a list of things that do work?")
Known-Issues-with-the-3-3-02-BGS-(orig-AEDC-Discord)
Out now! Issue #17 of Sagittarius Eye - the best damn Elite Dangerous magazine in the entire galaxy!
OUT-NOW-Sagittarius-Eye-Issue-17-(Get-your-copy-today!)
Let's get Ed Lewis immortalised in-game as well as in our hearts!
Request-for-an-Edward-Lewis-station-and-Bobble-Ed
Speaking of which - Ed's last ever livestream is tonight!
Distant-Worlds-2-Let-s-Play-and-My-Last-Livestream
The Fuel Rats are currently engaged in their longest ever mission - a rescue which could take over a month to complete!
Expedition-VI-The-Longest-Journey (a glimmer of hope)
Ed Lewis is leaving Frontier!
Leaving-Frontier-A-New-Adventure-and-the-Best-Community-Ever
Distant Worlds 2, despite being awesome, is off to a shaky start
Servers-offline-after-the-first-jump-of-Distant-Worlds-2-Come-on-Frontier! (on server issues as thousands of DW2 commanders bring FD's servers to their knees)
I-hope-DW2-gets-ganked-all-the-way-to-Beagle-Point (salty title for a thread discussing early flurry of DW2 ganks and whether FD should be restoring commanders ships)
For those staying in the bubble - the Buckyball Racing Club are back with their first race of 3305
The-Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Wiccan-Ware-Race-12-22-January-3305
Share your fondest memory of Frontier games to be in with a chance of winning a prize!
Competition-Your-Fondest-Frontier-Memory!
This month Frontier celebrate 25 years of Frontier developments with a months worth of livestreams, giveaways, CGs, etc
Frontier-Developments-Celebrating-25-Years!
"Leaked" images of Thargoid insectoid models confirmed as #fakenews
Video-Leaked-Thargoid-models (FD comment)
Video-Frontier-response-&-NEW-Thargoid-"Leaked"-3D-models (Yamiks response)
Ability to use mutliple Abrasion Blasters to knock multiple lumps of same surface deposit confirmed as bug
FDEV-Please-Comment-exploit-or-feature-Multiple-fragments-using-Multiple-abrasion-blasters
Even older stuff
Trending pre 3305
Trending pre 3304
life-on-a-fleet-carrier-competition
Speaking of which ... getting a fleet carrier to Sagittarius A*!
beta-fleet-carriers-at-sag-a-the-fram-test
On this day in 2017
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Wait ... there are signs of life ... yes, the Buckyball Racing Club are back with their 71st race!
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-signs-of-life-9th-may-to-17th-may-3306
Old Duck postulates a controversial thought.
borann-is-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-ed-in-a-long-time
A brand new (unofficial) Elite: Dangerous story starts to take shape.
beyond-the-frontier-an-elite-dangerous-book-project
Donate your fleet carrier to this very practical cause ..
the-deep-space-support-array-dssa-a-fleetcomm-initiative
.. or perhaps this somewhat less practical one?
ferry-services-to-collonia-may-finally-be-a-thing
Nick Web completes his absolutely sensational 2,100 part lego model of an SRV!
lego-technic-srv-wip ("I did it!")
From the ashes of the ECM rises vECM - yay, now everyone can attend!
ecm-cambridge-postponed-vecm-the-virtual-community-event-launched-11th-april-venue-the-internet
Frontier are staying at home ... and quite right too.
update-from-frontier-about-the-covid-19-situation
They have fuel, 70000 of you don't, any questions?
congratulations-fuel-rats-on-your-70-000th-rescue
At the request of a fan - that "little ravine" has now taken me over 3,000km and the adventure continues!
lets-see-where-this-little-ravine-takes-me
Bruce wants your face! (not at all sinister)
send-us-your-holo-me
Last but
your-last-enjoyable-elite-activity
your-least-enjoyable-elite-activity
Fresh meat (Hi Bruce!
)new-community-manager-bruce-garrido
Inspiration^2
what-inspired-your-playstyle
elite-inspiration
I'm under the influence! Cheers.
elite-influencers
Two new challenges for the price of one at the galaxy's hottest new race venue!
the-cortes-base-drag-strip-challenge-another-standing-srv-time-trial-from-the-buckyball-racing-club
cortes-base-circuit-challenge-an-elite-racers-standing-time-trial
The most addictive meme thread since the meme thread!
breaking-news
No news is
galnet-changes
an-open-letter-to-frontier-development
Commanders recall some unforgettable moments from the last 5 years.
what-stories-do-you-have-from-elite-dangerous-that-will-stick-with-you-forever
How do you do. How do I do what?
how-do-you-elite
"Frontier Flopping" at Dav's Hope ... a necessary evil? or just plain evil?
what-is-your-opionion-regarding-exiting-to-the-menu-and-back-to-collect-more-material-at-davs-hope-and-jameson-crash-site
Don't be salty, have some whiskey instead!
whiskeys-guide-to-not-being-salty
Frontier update on mining supply/demand changes.
notice-regarding-supply-and-demand-of-high-end-minerals
Following on from the somewhat salty have-we-been-lied-to thread this other thread popped up on Sunday which references (among other things) an interesting blog post (last updated in April 2019) listing what Frontier have promised and delivered thus far. Worth a read!
so-were-actually-on-schedule
Elite Community Meet dates and tickets announced and this year they're raiding Cambridge ... and also Texas!
ecm-2020-11th-april-cambridge-uk-ecm-mini-houston-tx-4th-april
The Hutton Truckers have come up with some insane plans in the past but this takes the
pilots-of-the-galaxy-hutton-has-a-mission-for-you-operation-hot-mist
It's patch note feeding frenzy time!
january-update-patch-notes
January update drops on the 14th, work on fleet carriers and bug fixes continues but no more Interstellar Initiatives for a while.
community-update-january-3306
Awesome new nostalgia thread on Elite's apparent "niche" appeal, who it seems to attact and why.
the-obscurity-of-our-beloved-hobby
The Hull Seals take over the running of the next Buckyball Race and leave its reputation for risk averse and responsible piloting in tatters.
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-a-halpy-hand-11th-jan-19th-jan-3306
Attention philatelists everywhere!
elite-celebrated-on-stamps
Let's start the new year with a thread full of awe and wonder at this wonderful game we all love so dearly.
tis-the-little-things
New Buckyball Race (Total Recall 3) starts on Saturday
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-total-recall-3-14th-dec-22nd-dec-3305
With a 2x multiplier on Federation ranking and massive discounts on Federal ships (especially the Corvette) at the moment ..
is-the-corvette-worth-buying-at-discount-for-the-future-what-is-it-good-for
where-buy-cheap-corvette-like-really-cheap
Old Duck gets Rift S VR, asks some questions and writes up his thoughts on it ..
first-impressions-of-ed-in-vr
some-graphics-settings-questions-for-new-vr-guy
Frontier offer to solve a long running mystery
investigation-into-the-mysterious-stranger
Hardly news but the beta patch notes are out! (incl. lots of new BGS states + no more npc crew permadeath thanks to crew insurance)
january-update-beta-patch-notes
And all the info you need to do good productive beta testing is linked here ..
january-update-beta-is-live
Frontier release details of the bugs to be fixed in the January update + public beta test information
january-update-beta-announcement
Author and ED lore master Drew Wagar is planning a lore based tour of Elite: Dangerous in 2020
potential-2020-lore-tour
An interesting and informative discussion on how gravity wells affect supercruise speed
gravity-wells-and-speed
New Buckyball time trial race "Lava Loop" starts tomorrow (16th November) and runs until next Sunday (24th). Anyone can enter, at any time (and as many times) throughout the week - small and medium ships only (because it involves landing at outposts in low orbit around lave worlds).
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-lava-loop-16th-nov-to-24th-nov-3305
A new Guardian site has been discovered! (I read somewhere that it's possibly even the last as one was known to be missing).
the-guardian-research-division
Follow the adventures of Cmdr Rustnsawdust as he circumnavigates an unforgiving ice world (well worth following - a really good read so far!)
second-time-around
Speedbowl 3 is this weekend!
announcing-speedbowl-3-chasing-sanderling-9-10-november-3305
Yours truly has been comparing the size of Palin's new "Abel Laboratory" planetary base with various cities on Earth.
planetary-city-abel-laboratory-arque-to-scale
A new generation ship ("Golconda") has been found in the "Upaniklis" system. Personally I'd recommend heading out there and discovering the logs for yourself rather than reading this potentially spoiler heavy forum thread (even the thread's title is a spoiler).
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Returning commander asks "what's new?" (but surely he must have seen huge piles of salt before?)
been-away-for-2-years-now-back-looking-for-suggestions-of-new-interesting-features
An out-of-game web front-end to the Elite: Dangerous cosmetics store is now available but people still aren't happy about ARX
new-elite-game-extras-web-store
On a lighter note - can't logout without landing/docking? always honk, even if you've been here many times? have to scoop with the star on your left?
what-is-your-elite-quirk
Planetary circumnavigator is going around again.
second-time-around
The bad news - fleet carriers delayed again, the good news - Frontier to focus on fixing bugs with open betas.
community-update-22-10
A Halloween tour of the most terrifying places in Elite: Dangerous!
spooky-space-spectacular
Elite Aid -
elite-aid-community-live-stream-event-2019-10-18-2019
the-scourge-overview-of-phases
Drat ... too late!
the-scourge-overview-of-phases
Enlightening discussion on differences between consoles and PCs and how it affects players' ability to compete in Buckyball races on a equal footing (or not).
discussion-on-separate-console-pc-leaderboards-for-buckyball-race-events
New "blight" state introduced as part of the "Scourge" interstellar initiative.
blight-state
New interstellar initiative "The Scourge"
the-scourge-overview-of-phases
Frontier have a new livestream series dedicated to racing called "Full Throttle". Kicks off this coming Thursday with the Buckyball Racing Club and a race which everyone can take part in called "Full Throttle at Pareco". The race is on NOW (so lay down some times for Frontier to try and beat) and runs until midnight Sunday.
full-throttle-at-pareco-an-official-frontier-developments-race-in-conjunction-with-the-buckyball-racing-club
We the undersigned ...
Petition: Community Requests to FDev for Elite Dangerous
Zac Antonaci's response
Nothing, definitely no "buildings" in Elite - ha ha - oh look! a badger (points frantically off into the distance)
roadmap-leaked
The September update (aka The Good, The Bad and the Ugly)
september-update-downtime-and-patch-notes
september-update-patch-1
september-update-known-issues (official list)
september-update-bugs-master-list (unofficial list)
STORE-icon-protest
turn-off-the-prompts and button-prompts
Still reading? Still like Elite? Then join the celebration.
celebrating-35-years-of-elite
Speedbowl 3
announcing-speedbowl-3-chasing-sanderling-9-10-november-3305
The new player experience and ARX
content-reveal-livestream-september-update-recap
arx-and-frontier-points-conversion
arx-and-frontier-points-conversion (further update on ARX incl. rough ideas of what things will cost)
Greatest "heist" in the history of Elite or EULA breaking rule infringement? Elite takes a step into the world of Eve Online courtesy of the Code.
breaking-news-largest-heist-in-galactic-history-takes-place-eic-robbed-by-the-code
Perpetual Elephant Butt Leather PS4 whinger "Old Duck" gets a taste of what it's like in the PC master race ... and likes it!
this-game-is-freaking-amazing
Frontier's record year and Elite breaks 3 million sales.
frontiers-annual-results-have-been-published-june-2018-to-may-2019-showing-a-record-year-and-elite-passing-3-million-basegame-sales
Celebration of early astronomy expedition, departing January 3306
celebration-of-early-astronomy-expedition
Farewell Brett C!
departing-frontier-station-for-deep-space-commanders
The record for the fastest time from Sol to Sagittarius A* has been broken by Cmdr Up2d4t3 who completed the journey in just 1h 52m 10s!
buckyball-racing-club-presents-the-a-challenge-v2-0
Dav Stott answers a few follow-up questions to his BGS "Discovery Scanner" - he's not at liberty to speak about th BGS hamster tho!
discovery-scanner-6-reshaping-the-simulation
The Buckyball Racing Club launch a new venture in Colonia!
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-the-colonia-trophy-dash
With fleet carrier threads now breeding uncontrollably the best thread about them is this meta thread about fleet carrier threads.
new-fleet-carriers-threads-thread
Cmdr Numerlor wins Buckyball Racing Club's "Hot Off The Press" by dying after boosting through a Buckyball holo-ad - what a way to go!
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-hot-off-the-press-17th-to-25th-august-3305
Thargoid's develop new racing ship, but too late to take part!
new-thargoid-variant
Cmdr turkwinif offers up to THREE BILLION CREDITS to anyone who can beat his Pomeche Ridge Challenge SRV race times!
the-pomeche-ridge-challenge-a-standing-srv-time-trial-in-association-with-the-buckyball-racing-club
Fleet carrier news!
gamescom-reveals-fleet-carrier-details
Also worth a watch:
Obsidian Ant's take on all this
The Buur Pit's take on all this
Let's hear a big ARF ARF ARF for the hull seals!
featured-commanders-the-hull-seals
Dav Stott explains how the Background Simulation managed factions.
discovery-scanner-6-reshaping-the-simulation
Fleet carrier preview incoming? (or is it just @PrimetimeCasual's new megaship speedbowling event?)
massive-frameshift-surge-detected-20-00-utc
More clarification on the Galnet news - yup, imho it's bad (but other opinions are available)
galnet-changes (update)
Latest Buckyball Race is Hot Off The Press!
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-hot-off-the-press-17th-to-25th-august-3305
Featured commander Malic_VR ..
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.. does several orbits of a planet in his SRV and then slingshots it off on a multi-day journey over an asteroid field and across to a neighbouring planet!
the-planetary-circumnavigation-club
Galnet to "concentrate on in-game activity" - seems good, but reading between the lines, sounds bad!
galnet-changes
Interesting update from Will re: the outcomes of the Enclave Interstellar Initiative (incl. Thargoid bobblehead).
the-enclave-overview-of-phases
Excellent "featured commanders" interview re: ToCoSo.
featured-commanders-cmdr-tocoso
Rootsrat's excellent list of player suggestions for Fleet Carriers
fleet-carriers-community-wishlist
The Enclave Interstellar Initiative, a change in Thargoid tactics and Palin's retreat from Maia + apparently some commanders are annoyed at being mildly inconvenienced by the ongoing inter-species war that's raging in and around the bubble!
the-enclave-overview-of-phases
palins-research-centre-has-been-attacked-by-thargoids
only-you-fdev-only-you
The Buckyball Racing Club's "Seven Sisters Speedway" event is now over! Who won? Arguably the Thargoids!
buckyball-racing-club-presents-seven-sisters-speedway-12-jul-3305-to-20-jul-3305
The long standing Buckyball A* challenge is now under new management courtesy of Cmdr Raiko
buckyball-racing-club-presents-the-a-challenge-v2-0
Yours truly attempts to dispel some myths about Stellar Forge.
myth-busting-on-stellar-forge-and-the-generation-of-everything-from-stars-to-rocks
Frontier reveal new content coming in September
lavecon-2019-content-reveal
Additional FAQ on ARX (new store currency)
arx-faq
"Into the Black" (book one of "Salome's Legacy") - a really excellent new fan written novel
fan-written-novel-announcement-and-release
What will Frontier show us at Lavecon and will it be a Yay, a Meh or a Boo?
lavecon-2019-speculations
The Apollo 11 expedition heads off in just 3 days time!
apollo-11-50th-anniversary-expedition
Not been there? Not done that?
what-havent-you-done-in-elite-lately
What's the average orbital speed of an unladen Scarab SRV?
srv-orbital-mechanics
Big fan of the Burr Pit so it's great to see this.
featured-commanders-the-buur-pit
Interstellar Initiative 02 - The Enclave!
the-enclave-overview-of-phases
New "Discovery Scanner" livestream on crafting the Krait MkII
discovery-scanner-5-crafting-the-krait-mkii-with-jordan-clarry-and-pawel-ptaszynski
Interesting suggestion on NPC crew
npc-crew-visible-and-working-in-our-ship-proposal
Commanders who aren't bored with Elite attempt to explain why.
i-still-play-every-day-players-help-me-understand-you
Planetary terrain generation - too extreme, too samey or just about right?
pls-loosen-the-screws-on-the-planet-generator
NPC SRVs anyone?
npc-srv-coming-with-4-0
Commander protests ED cheats by wedging an infinite shield Beluga in the Jameson Memorial mailslot.
so-theres-currently-a-cmdr-stuck-in-the-slot-station-defences-having-no-affect-assumed-hes-proving-a-point-about-cheats
An interview with the commander
Fantastic fan-made video showing what it might be like to climb into a Sidewinder from the ground and walk around inside it.
look-at-this
video-paseo-por-el-interior-de-una-sidewinder (the original Spanish thread)
Cmdr DasExorcist discovers an "astonishing assortment of mountain ranges averaging 25-30km in height"
a-guide-to-good-base-jumping-locations
Zende Partners FTW! (kinda)
bridging-the-gap-conclusion
How fast can you rank up from nothing to Elite? An official Frontier sponsored competition with prizes!
First Official Elite Rank Speed Run Competition! (Exigious video)
Brave commander's journey comes to a sad end.
michaels-journey-through-the-stars
Primetimecasual and co. circumnavigate the outermost moon of Semotus Beacon
the-planetary-circumnavigation-club
After 56 days (and 7,300km) on Kumay yours truly finally completes The First Great Planetary Expedition
the-first-great-planetary-expedition
Planetary explorer proves that "base building" (of a sort) is already possible in Elite: Dangerous
humor-the-first-ever-player-built-huge-planetary-settlement-in-ed-universe
Brave young Cmdr Michael recieves astonishing support from both Frontier and the wider ED community.
michaels-journey-through-the-stars
"Cheats never prosper" ... or do they?
cheating-in-elite-dangerous
The first Interstelllar Initiative moves into "phase 3"
bridging-the-gap-phase-three
More details about the "Bridging the Gap" interstellar initiative (there's even a decal!)
bridging-the-gap-overview-of-phases
Attention race fans - although the Buckyball Racing Club slumbers on (for now), The Okinura Sprint is once again open for business!
elite-racers-present-the-okinura-station-sprint-challenge
And the winner is ... Synuefe EN-H d11-96
bridging-the-gap-phase-one-results
Absent faces on the forum remembered ...
absent-friends-a-place-to-remember-forum-contribtors-you-liked-who-have-seemingly-stepped-back
As one great expedition comes to a close ..
distant-worlds-2-epilogue-final-thoughts-acknowledgements-and-a-guide-for-those-homeward-bound
.. another rolls on
the-first-great-planetary-expedition
Pilots Federation rescue commander stranded on the edge of the galaxy
stranded-at-the-edge-of-the-galaxy
Patch for the April update reverts controversial Drag munition change, allegedly fixes SRV damage multiplier for multiplayer instances and more besides.
april-update-patch-1
Attacking fellow commanders in the Pilots Federation District is stricly forbidden!
interesting-discovery-about-the-starter-district-pvp-screenshots
Cast your vote for one of five pseudo-random sequences of letters and numbers - woo hoo! /s
bridging-the-gap-phase-one-commencement
Isinona (the godfather of Elite: Dangerous story telling) is back making a brand new series of his superb "Flight Assist Off" videos. He'll be making two 25+ minute long adventures every month and you can now sponsor him on Patreon.
Isinona is creating Videos
"known issues" with April update and some bugs currently under investigation
april-update-known-issues-24-04-2019
Discussion on the change to the "drag munitions" engineering special effect which is causing a bit of a stir in the PvP community.
space-force-presents-operation-drag-queen
April update patch notes and discussion
april-update-patch-notes
Detailed list of content covered in FD's April Update livestream.
april-update-content-reveal-livestream-recap
Details of the first Interstellar Initiative - called "Bridging The Gap"
interstellar-initiatives-bridging-the-gap-preview
April update (including advanced docking computer, supercruise assist, nav panel changes, in-game pilots handbook, interstellar initiatives and more!)
april-update-coming-23-april-2019
The First Great Planetary Expedition is well underway now and the 50+ commanders involved have been posting some fantastic images and videos of their adventures as they drive around Kumay in the Chi Herculis system
the-first-great-planetary-expedition
Frontier posts about new
frontier-issues-tracker
And the
issue-tracker-now-live
Raxxla Found, Anaconda "Sold Out", Panther Clipper Too Big
obsidianant-3305-elite-dangerous-raxxla-found-anaconda-sold-out-panther-clipper-too-big.
"We'll see you on the other side" (fingers crossed)
New-Forums-Release-Date-and-Downtime
Featured
Featured-Event-The-First-Great-Planetary-Expedition
Community goals are dead, long live community goals
Community-Goals-over-the-following-weeks-(13-03)
Dying can be a funny old business ...
Tell-us-your-favorite-personal-I-blowed-up-story
Interesting bar graph of paint pack/ship kit availability per ship type
Paint-Packs-and-Ship-Kits-How-loved-are-your-ships
It's that time of year when we play "guess the new IP" again
FDev-licences-new-IP-for-2021-game-starts-dev-later-in-2019
The First Great Planetary Expedition now has a logo, a route and a start date
The-First-Great-Planetary-Expedition
Details on the forethcoming BGS update
Background-Simulation-Update-(01-03)
Discussion on the community update from Obsidian Ant and DJ Truthsayer (DJ joins about halfway through)
OA-and-Dj-truthsayer-discuss-update-news
That announcement from Will on the looooooooong term future of Elite: Dangerous (and muchos subsequent reaction)
Important-Community-Update-(01-03)
New alien life discovered!
Alien-archaeology-and-other-mysteries-Breaking-News-Theories-and-Tinfoil-Hattery
Planning of the first great planetary expedition moves into phase 2!
The-first-great-planetary-expedition-Chi-Herculis-Kumay-(route-planning-phase)
A brand new forum cometh!
Forum-revamp-coming-soon!
After being stranded without fuel since November 3304 Cmdr Deluvian's long wait is nearly over - the Fuel Rats have arrived at his location and the rescue is scheduled for Saturday night.
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Cmdr Highwaywarrior's twitch stream
Simultaneous cast of all 3 rescue streams
There is now a station near Sagittarius A*
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Ed Lewis lands job as European Community Lead at Bethesda
Edward Lewis on Twitter
Releases 3.3.04 and 3.3.05 (neither of which I'd describe as especially exciting)
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Frontier announce new monthly livestream series "in which your Community Managers will take you through the latest news for our Frontier games and communities."
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Squadron leaderboard graph porn
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Some nice new ideas on planetary landing gameplay
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Frontier make some new ED "wallpaper" images available
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Obsidian Ant and co speculate over the implications of the phrase "big refresh" in a new Frontier financial report (yup, it's another slow news week!)
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Obsidian Ant video re-ignites cool discussion on the idea of a dark Pilots Federation for those that play on the opposite side of the law
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Season one winners of the Squadron leaderboards have been announced.
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Featured commanders livestream II - a recap of what the community has been up to in the last 6 months
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Interesting Polygon article on gameplay duality within DW2 and the wider ED gaming experience
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Commanders successfully fly 250 million light years and earn a unique Cobra MkIII paintjob
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Planning a planetary expedition
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Fuel Rats rescue update: Cmdr Deluvian has now been stranded for 58 days but the rescue team are closing in!
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Stories of disaster from DW2
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DW2 is hosting a planetary circumnavigation event starting today
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Commander hits triple Elite after spending only 10 credits on Fuel
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Patch notes! (and a fix for the masslock bug among other things)
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Known issues with the BGS ("Isn't it easier to write a list of things that do work?")
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Out now! Issue #17 of Sagittarius Eye - the best damn Elite Dangerous magazine in the entire galaxy!
OUT-NOW-Sagittarius-Eye-Issue-17-(Get-your-copy-today!)
Let's get Ed Lewis immortalised in-game as well as in our hearts!
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Speaking of which - Ed's last ever livestream is tonight!
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The Fuel Rats are currently engaged in their longest ever mission - a rescue which could take over a month to complete!
Expedition-VI-The-Longest-Journey (a glimmer of hope)
Ed Lewis is leaving Frontier!
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Distant Worlds 2, despite being awesome, is off to a shaky start
Servers-offline-after-the-first-jump-of-Distant-Worlds-2-Come-on-Frontier! (on server issues as thousands of DW2 commanders bring FD's servers to their knees)
I-hope-DW2-gets-ganked-all-the-way-to-Beagle-Point (salty title for a thread discussing early flurry of DW2 ganks and whether FD should be restoring commanders ships)
For those staying in the bubble - the Buckyball Racing Club are back with their first race of 3305
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Share your fondest memory of Frontier games to be in with a chance of winning a prize!
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This month Frontier celebrate 25 years of Frontier developments with a months worth of livestreams, giveaways, CGs, etc
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"Leaked" images of Thargoid insectoid models confirmed as #fakenews
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Video-Frontier-response-&-NEW-Thargoid-"Leaked"-3D-models (Yamiks response)
Ability to use mutliple Abrasion Blasters to knock multiple lumps of same surface deposit confirmed as bug
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Even older stuff
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(forum tips and tricks)
Seeing as this is a guide to what's good on the forum here I thought it might be worth posting a bunch of tips and tricks I've picked up re: the actual use of the forum itself. Apologies if some of these are bloomin' obvious, it's often hard to tell.
Subscriptions
You can subscribe to individual threads via the "watch" button at the top-right (and by default will automatically subscribe to any thread you create or submit a post to). Along the grey menu bar near the top you can then pick "Watched" to see a summary of all the threads you've subscribed to. Threads which have new posts (since you last looked at that thread) will be highlighted in bold.
Jumping into threads
You can jump into threads at three different places via the summary display as shown here:
Posting images
There are some screenshot links further down this page (including a nice guide by Qohen Leth on how to take good ones) but the main thing to note is that there's a limit to the number of images you can upload directly to this forum so what I suggest you do instead is upload your images to an image sharing website (most people use http://imgur.com/ which is free) and then post the image into the forum using what's known as the "bbcode" from imgur, pasting that directly into your post (the bbcode is just the image url enclosed inside [img]...[/img] tags).
Linking to another post
You can of course just use the "Reply" link at the bottom of a post when you want to respond to someone else's post within the same thread but sometimes you want to include a link to another post (perhaps from a different thread) within your own post. I see a lot of people including page URLs (i.e. the URL that's typically in your browser's address bar when you're reading the forum) which end with "/page-N". Unfortunately these are unreliable since people may be seeing the threads with a different number of posts per page. A much better technique is to use the URL of the specific post. You can get at this by clicking the "#" number that's shown in the top-right hand corner of each post.
Switch editor to source mode
When you're editing a forum post there's a really handy little button in the top toolbar of the edit window which looks like a little gear (with the "Toggle BB code" tooltip). With this unchecked you're in WYSIWYG mode which can be useful for seeing what your post is actually going to look like but is problematic for editing since it can be difficult to place the text cursor outside of things like emphasised or hypertext linked blocks. By clicking the toggle button you switch into a source mode where you can clearly see where these blocks begin and end and place the cursor accordingly. It also shows images as bbcode's rather than as the actual images which can make editing text on mobile a lot easier.
Following Frontier developer posts
When a Frontier developers posts in the forum you'll see a highlighted "Dev Post" next to their their post in the forum summary. Clicking on that will take you to the first dev post in the thread. If there are subsequent dev posts in the same thread then the highlighted "Dev Post" on the right-hand side of their actual post will take you to the next one.
Oh, and if you want to see all recent posts by the Frontier dev's (and other key figures) then you can use the following link.
https://elitedevtracker.com/
Uncheck Reddit, Steam and Twitter at the top if you just want to see Forum posts.
You can subscribe to individual threads via the "watch" button at the top-right (and by default will automatically subscribe to any thread you create or submit a post to). Along the grey menu bar near the top you can then pick "Watched" to see a summary of all the threads you've subscribed to. Threads which have new posts (since you last looked at that thread) will be highlighted in bold.
Jumping into threads
You can jump into threads at three different places via the summary display as shown here:
Posting images
There are some screenshot links further down this page (including a nice guide by Qohen Leth on how to take good ones) but the main thing to note is that there's a limit to the number of images you can upload directly to this forum so what I suggest you do instead is upload your images to an image sharing website (most people use http://imgur.com/ which is free) and then post the image into the forum using what's known as the "bbcode" from imgur, pasting that directly into your post (the bbcode is just the image url enclosed inside [img]...[/img] tags).
Linking to another post
You can of course just use the "Reply" link at the bottom of a post when you want to respond to someone else's post within the same thread but sometimes you want to include a link to another post (perhaps from a different thread) within your own post. I see a lot of people including page URLs (i.e. the URL that's typically in your browser's address bar when you're reading the forum) which end with "/page-N". Unfortunately these are unreliable since people may be seeing the threads with a different number of posts per page. A much better technique is to use the URL of the specific post. You can get at this by clicking the "#" number that's shown in the top-right hand corner of each post.
Switch editor to source mode
When you're editing a forum post there's a really handy little button in the top toolbar of the edit window which looks like a little gear (with the "Toggle BB code" tooltip). With this unchecked you're in WYSIWYG mode which can be useful for seeing what your post is actually going to look like but is problematic for editing since it can be difficult to place the text cursor outside of things like emphasised or hypertext linked blocks. By clicking the toggle button you switch into a source mode where you can clearly see where these blocks begin and end and place the cursor accordingly. It also shows images as bbcode's rather than as the actual images which can make editing text on mobile a lot easier.
Following Frontier developer posts
When a Frontier developers posts in the forum you'll see a highlighted "Dev Post" next to their their post in the forum summary. Clicking on that will take you to the first dev post in the thread. If there are subsequent dev posts in the same thread then the highlighted "Dev Post" on the right-hand side of their actual post will take you to the next one.
Oh, and if you want to see all recent posts by the Frontier dev's (and other key figures) then you can use the following link.
https://elitedevtracker.com/
Uncheck Reddit, Steam and Twitter at the top if you just want to see Forum posts.
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