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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 almost exactly 1 year ago) 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 17/10/2019)
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
A Halloween tour of the most terrifying places in Elite: Dangerous!
spooky-space-spectacular
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
Older stuff
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
A Halloween tour of the most terrifying places in Elite: Dangerous!
spooky-space-spectacular
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!
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
Older stuff
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
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.
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
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.
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
(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.
NOTE: since we've now moved to new forum software it's quite likely that 99% of the following information is now incorrect and/or redundant. I dare say in time I'll come up with fresh tips for the new forum!
Subscriptions
You can subscribe to individual threads via the "Thread tools" drop-down at the top (and by default will automatiicaly subscribe to any thread you create or submit a post to). Under the "Quick links" drop-down at the top you can then pick "Subscribed threads" 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. There's also an option, when you subscribe to a thread, to add that subscription to a different "folder" other than the default "Subscriptions" (via the "Folder" drop-down). This allows you to manage your subscriptions under different categories (for example I also have a "VR" folder and a "Reference" folder). When you use the "Quick links/Subscribed threads" link there's a "My subscriptions" section in the panel on the left where you can pick different folders to look at.
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 it's no longer possible to upload images directly to this forum, despite what the UI might suggest. Instead what you have to do 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 the "From URL" option on the "Insert Image" button. In fact, you can bypass use of that button completely by copying what's known as the "bbcode" from imgur and 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 With Quote" link 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 ends with "/pageN". Unfortunately these are unreliable since many people view the threads in reverse order (e.g. most recent post first) and/or may have altered the number of posts to display 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.
Replies to your posts
Currently there's no support in the forum for being notified when someone replies to one of your posts. However there is a trick to search a thread for replies to your posts. Basically go to the thread in question, click the "Search thread" link at the top right, pick "Advanced search" and then, in the "Keyword(s)" box type in your forum user name (in double quotes if it contains multiple words like mine does) and click "Search now". This will bring back a list of all the posts mentioning your user name. Unfortunately, if your forum user name is something like "immershun" or "git gud" then this might not work quite so well for you!
Switch editor to source mode
When you're editing a forum post there's a really handy little button in the top left of the edit window labelled A/A. 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 this button you switch into source mode where you can clearly see where these blocks begin and end and place the cursor accordingly. It also shows images as tagged links rather than as the actual images which can make editing text on mobile a lot easier.
Preferences
As the name suggests these are a matter of personal preference but a couple that I would personally recommend are:
Official Frontier Theme - use the drop-down on the left at the very bottom of the page to pick the "Official Frontier Theme" which I personally think is a lot easier to read than, say, the "Official Elite Theme". One word of warning tho' - since different themes use different background colours be wary of using colour in your forum posts since some people can end up seeing things like white text on a white background.
Display newest post first - click "Settings" at the top and then "General settings" from the panel on the left. Scroll down to where it says "Thread display mode" and pick "Linear - newest first". If you use the forum a lot, and especially if you use "Subscriptions" a lot, then I find it far more useful to land on pages that show the most recent posts rather than always having to manually select the last page.
Following Frontier developer posts
When someone from Frontier posts in the forum you'll see the folowing icon in the top-right corner of their post.
You can click on this to step through each subsequent Frontier post within the same forum thread.
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/
You can subscribe to individual threads via the "Thread tools" drop-down at the top (and by default will automatiicaly subscribe to any thread you create or submit a post to). Under the "Quick links" drop-down at the top you can then pick "Subscribed threads" 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. There's also an option, when you subscribe to a thread, to add that subscription to a different "folder" other than the default "Subscriptions" (via the "Folder" drop-down). This allows you to manage your subscriptions under different categories (for example I also have a "VR" folder and a "Reference" folder). When you use the "Quick links/Subscribed threads" link there's a "My subscriptions" section in the panel on the left where you can pick different folders to look at.
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 it's no longer possible to upload images directly to this forum, despite what the UI might suggest. Instead what you have to do 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 the "From URL" option on the "Insert Image" button. In fact, you can bypass use of that button completely by copying what's known as the "bbcode" from imgur and 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 With Quote" link 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 ends with "/pageN". Unfortunately these are unreliable since many people view the threads in reverse order (e.g. most recent post first) and/or may have altered the number of posts to display 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.
Replies to your posts
Currently there's no support in the forum for being notified when someone replies to one of your posts. However there is a trick to search a thread for replies to your posts. Basically go to the thread in question, click the "Search thread" link at the top right, pick "Advanced search" and then, in the "Keyword(s)" box type in your forum user name (in double quotes if it contains multiple words like mine does) and click "Search now". This will bring back a list of all the posts mentioning your user name. Unfortunately, if your forum user name is something like "immershun" or "git gud" then this might not work quite so well for you!
Switch editor to source mode
When you're editing a forum post there's a really handy little button in the top left of the edit window labelled A/A. 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 this button you switch into source mode where you can clearly see where these blocks begin and end and place the cursor accordingly. It also shows images as tagged links rather than as the actual images which can make editing text on mobile a lot easier.
Preferences
As the name suggests these are a matter of personal preference but a couple that I would personally recommend are:
Official Frontier Theme - use the drop-down on the left at the very bottom of the page to pick the "Official Frontier Theme" which I personally think is a lot easier to read than, say, the "Official Elite Theme". One word of warning tho' - since different themes use different background colours be wary of using colour in your forum posts since some people can end up seeing things like white text on a white background.
Display newest post first - click "Settings" at the top and then "General settings" from the panel on the left. Scroll down to where it says "Thread display mode" and pick "Linear - newest first". If you use the forum a lot, and especially if you use "Subscriptions" a lot, then I find it far more useful to land on pages that show the most recent posts rather than always having to manually select the last page.
Following Frontier developer posts
When someone from Frontier posts in the forum you'll see the folowing icon in the top-right corner of their post.
You can click on this to step through each subsequent Frontier post within the same forum thread.
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/
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