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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.
o7 commanders!
(trending)
Stuff that's currently catching my eye (last updated 17/05/2019)
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
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.
Older stuff
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
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.
Older stuff
"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
Happy new year! What are your plans for 3305?
What-are-your-plans-for-3305-(2019)
The forum ship of the year is ...
Forum-Ship-of-the-Year-2018-The-Results!
Distant worlds hits 5,000 registrations!
DW2-Distant-Worlds-II-Fleet-Roster-Sign-Up-Thread
And Distant Worlds 3305 radio is now live!
DW2-Distant-Radio-3305-the-dedicated-Distant-Worlds-3305-radio-station
Deep core discussions (how to find them and the huge profits to be made)
PWS-Scanner-Does-it-really-work
Please-don-t-nerf-the-new-mining (linked to post from Will)
New epic mountain discovered on Smojai IT-P D6-2 A 2 A
New-Major-Mountain-Smojai-IT-P-D6-2-A-2-A
Bran Tse Mallory is back with his forum ship of the year competition
Forum-Ship-of-the-Year-2018-There-can-be-only-one!
Hutton Truckers net 1.3 billion credits in a single record breaking wing mining transaction!
Hutton-Truckers-are-proud-to-present-the-largest-single-trade-transaction-in-Elite-Dangerous
Update 3.3.01 (with patch notes)
Update-3-3-01
Preparing for DW2
DW2-Preparation-Week
We're all miners now!
Mining-Great-Job-FD!
Best-beginner-mining-ships-3-3
The-popular-guide-to-mining (UPDATED for 3.3)
Advanced graphics tweaks
Graphics-settings-Beyond-Ultra
Frontier raise �43k and rising (at the time of writing) during another epic 24hr livestream
Frontier-s-24-Hour-Charity-Stream-2018!
Yamiks flogs his dead horse and proves that the squadron max membership limit is indeed 500
Dead-horse-squadron-is-the-1st-500-member-squadron-CAN-WE-GET-MORE-SPACE-!
Codex selfies
Codex-Selfie
Analysis mode - it's balls right?
Why-do-we-need-Analysis-Mode
"What is it?" - assorted discussions on the hot new topic of Stellar phenomena and the Codex
The-New-quot-Stellar-Phenomenon-quot-A-Week-Within
Trolled-by-Codex
Missing-Stellar-Phenomena
Notable-Stellar-Phenomena-Question
Q09-Type-Anomaly-Found-(mystery-codex-item-)
I-don-t-understand-how-the-codex-works
Issue #16 of Sagittarius Eye magazine is out!
OUT-NOW-Sagittarius-Eye-Issue-16-(Get-your-copy-today!)
Frontier's festive store countdown has begun
Festive-countdown-in-the-store!!!!
SPVFA (the Stellar Photography, Videography, and Fan Art group who, among other things, supply the images used by Sagittarius Eye) celebrate their 1st birthday with a compilation video
Best of SPVFA 3304
Frontier release two new pilot training videos
Pilot Training - Exploration
Pilot Training - Mining
It's 3.3 update day - woo hoo - assorted threads on the subject
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Four-3-3-Patch-Notes
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Four-3-3
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Launch-Livestream-(11-12-2018)
Thank-you-a-note-on-the-beta-the-launch-and-your-valuable-feedback
Lifetime-Expansion-Pass-Holders-Update!
The-Last-Day
National-F5-day-11-12-2018
Here-we-go-The-Update-has-Started
Don't forget - Speedbowl II is happening this weekend!
Announcing-SpeedBowl-2-Bombelli-Or-Bust!-8-9-December-3304
The console SRV crash bug has finally been fixed!
Console-Players-SRV-Surface-Crash-Fix
Distant Worlds 2 - community goals
DW2-Community-Goals
Cmdr Explorix completes his circumnavigation of Olelbis 3a
Not-Yet-another-circumnavigation
Distant Radio website has now been created
DW2-Distant-Radio-3305-the-dedicated-Distant-Worlds-3305-radio-station
Old Frontier office building discovered in Elite: Dangerous - hunt is now on for the new premises
Old-Frontier-Towers-has-been-relocated-to-an-Orbis-Starport-Near-YOU!
Ongoing discussion re: the naming of the 42 new galactic regions
The-names-of-the-new-Galactic-Regions-what-do-we-think
Proposal for a Sagittarius Eye community Discord
Thread-SAGi-(Sagittarius-Eye)-Community-Discord-Server-(proposition-and-questions)
The Q4 "first mapped by" goldrush
The-mapping-gold-rush-in-3-3
Q4 releases on 11th December!
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Release-Date-Announcement
Aegis figure out how to neutralise the disruptive effects of Thargoid sensors on starports
Removal-of-UA-Bombing
Operation IDA launch "Happy Holiday Haul" charity fundraiser
Operation-IDA-Charity-Fundraiser-Starting-14th-Dec-To-Repair-Damaged-Starports-and-Improve-lives!
Frontier's traditional 24hr charity xmas livestream is happending again!
Frontier-s-24-Hour-Charity-Stream-2018!
Are you the greatest SRV driver that Elite: Dangerous has ever seen? No? Me neither but give it a try anyway!
The-Pomeche-Ridge-Challenge-a-standing-SRV-time-trial-in-association-with-the-Buckyball-Racing-Club
Distant Radio 3305 - a dedicated DW2 radio station
DW2-Distant-Radio-3305-(working-title)-the-dedicated-Distant-Worlds-3305-radio-station
To celebrate 50,000 rescues the Fuel Rats are having an art competition (with prizes)
50k-Fuel-Rat-Art-Contest-When-a-Rat-Meets-a-Thargoid
Discovery Scanner is back with a new livestream about the audio design and implementation of motherlode asteroids!
Discovery-Scanner-3-Audible-Asteroids-w-Ross-Stack
Q4 beta ends Monday December 3rd
3-3-Chapter-Four-Beta-End-Date
Do you remember when?
I-remember-when
Cmdr furrycat is at it again - this time sciencing the heck out of the reserve fuel tank
Reserve-tank-sizes-for-all-ships
Wonderful new exploration montage video (haven't had a chance to watch this yet but the comments on the thread speak volumes)
Crusina-presents-Nomad-an-Elite-Dangerous-Montage
As Frontier continue to nerf galactic wonders such as colliding planets and luminous gas giants a new petition springs up in their defence
Keep-Galatic-Anomalies-Petition! (tweaked to point at first Frontier response in thread)
Planetary Circumnavigation - one completed and another just begun
The-Planetary-Circumnavigation-Club
Distant Worlds 2 draw ever closer with a new trailer from Erimus Kamzel
Distant-Worlds-2-A-Journey-of-Discovery
Winners of the "Truckers Up Teide" in-game mountain climb race announced
Truckers-up-Teide-the-In-Game-Challenge!-11th-November
New BGS state announced on last night's stream for systems suffering Thargoid incursion
New-Thargoid-Incursion-State
Frontier's "beta blowout" final Q4 livestream
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-Beta-Blowout
Awesome video of the T9 canyon race from a couple of weekend's back!
Epic-Type-9-Canyon-Race-on-the-4th-of-Nov
Frontier announce winners of Colonia engineers screenshot context
Contest-Engineers-in-Colonia-Winners-Announcement
Have people been "wasting their time" in the beta? (tongue-in-cheek)
What-have-you-done-in-Beta
Discussions on how Q4 changes are going to affect the BGS
BGS-changes-Learnings-Issues-comments
The "Truckers Up Teide" in-game mountain climb race is happening this Sunday - come and join in the fun! (and maybe even win a prize)
Truckers-up-Teide-the-In-Game-Challenge!-11th-November
And meanwhile, the actual Truckers (who are cycling up a live volcano on Sunday) arrive in Tenerife and get a surprise message from William Shatner!
A very special message (twitter link)
Cmdr R4nger0 (or R4 to his friends), a lengendary character and streamer from the early days of ED, has almost certainly broken the record for farthest distance from Sol in a Sidewinder!
65-647-34-ly-in-a-Sidewinder
New Full Spectrum Scanner triggers migraine attacks for well known video creator and spells an end to his exploration career?
Well-I-ve-tried-but-nope-FSS-migraine-issues
The official Q4 beta "feature instructions" post has now been updated with the new squadron and mining stuff being released today.
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Feature-Instructions
And the patch notes for the 2nd week of beta are now up!
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-2
Mining and Squadrons coming to the Q4 beta tomorrow (7/11/2018)
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Update-(Week-2)
Fuel Rats hit 50,000 rescues!
Out-of-Fuel-Explorer-Rescue-Service-The-Fuel-Rats
Rootsrat's terrific Q4 lighting comparison video
Chapter-4-Beta-Lighting-Comparison-vs-Current-Game-(1-1)
Mengy's excellent analysis of travel methods and speeds in the Q4 beta
Traveling-Exploration-in-3-3-Is-it-dead-Surprisingly-the-rumors-may-be-exaggerated
Frontier's official Q4 beta FAQ post
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Questions
Frontier show off the new Q4 Squadron and Mining updates
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-Mining-and-Squadrons
Jonas Treesong's planetary circumnavigation of Ariel is complete!
Ariel-circumnavigation
Various threads which might help with Q4 control bindings and/or general testing and operation the new features in the beta
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-1-Feature-Instructions (official beta post from FD)
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-1-Feature-Instructions (similar/identical? post from bug report forum)
FSS-Observations-Tricks-and-Tips-for-Deep-amp-Speedy-Sweeps (some handy tips from Cmdr Ziljan)
How-to-switch-analysis-mode-without-entering-FSS (seems to be one of the most common problems people have been having)
Common-problems-&-Fixes-Workarounds
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-1-Known-Issues (worth a read before reporting Q4 bugs)
Also - note that the bindings to control the DSS probe launcher can (currently) be found under the multi-crew gunner role options!
The beta is here, as are the patch notes (over 2000 bug fixes!)
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Pre-Beta-Announcement
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-1
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-is-live!
Beta-Bug-Report-Forum-Guidelines
Betas and Livestreams - this is the day! (well, and Thursday)
COUNTDOWN-TO-THE-BETA
Beta-FAQ
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-(01-11-2018)-Mining-and-Squadrons
Distant Worlds 2 is a go for mid January 3305
Distant-Worlds-2-A-Journey-of-Discovery
Frontier show off the new Q4 BGS and "scenario" changes
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-Background-Simulation-and-Scenarios
On-the-fly-summary-of-Chapter-4-BGS-Scenarios-Livestream
With-Scenerios-(and-BGS)-changes-Elite-Dangerous-is-a-new-game!
Syllabus for the Elite Dangerous University course (a Youtube series coming on the 1st of November)
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/9nmeak/here_we_go_ladies_and_gents_the_full_syllabus_for/
Frontier show off new visual improvements (including "night vision"), cockpit interface changes, exploration mechanics and the Codex and the crowd goes WILD!
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-Exploration-and-the-Codex
after-stream-discussion
24-Hours-from-now-we-will-witness-the-future-of-Exploration
Q4-Exploration-Reveal
stunned-STUNNED-I-TELL-YOU
Orrery!
Night-Vision
Rumoured-Reported-Discovered
Kerenn "two jumps" Vatueil returns to ED after a long absence and finds there's a lot of new things to do and see.
Kerenn-s-Ketchup
And speaking of having lots of things to do ..
Too-MUCH-to-do-Problem-is-it-isn-t-all-going-to-be-fun
Jonas Treesong's planetary circumnavigation of Ariel is just about to get seriously interesting!
Ariel-circumnavigation (start of discussions about the "seriously interesting" part of the journey)
The Fuel Rats most desparate hour - "Help us CMDRs, youre our only hope"
Come save the Fuel Rats from losing their home system
Fuel Rats Mischief 46.7%, Constitution Party of Fuelum 45.3% after Tick
An-important-battle-won-but-the-war-is-not-over!-FOR-THE-RATS!!!
Type 9 canyon race on the 4th November 3304
Epic Type 9 Race Announcement (video)
While the Truckers climb a real mountain in Tenerife teams of SRV drivers will be scaling a virtual one in the Magec system!
Truckers-up-Teide-the-In-Game-Challenge!-11th-November
Issue #14 of the ever magnificent Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now!
OUT-NOW-Sagittarius-Eye-Issue-14-(Get-your-copy-today!)
Thread for the next Q4 livestream is up
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-(25-10-2018)-Background-Simulation-and-Scenarios
Nav beacon bobblehead now in store!
New-Bobble-head!!
Frontier announce Q4 livestream schedule, beta release date and a new Q4 teaser trailer
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Announcement
Frontier recognised as one of the games industry's best places to work (along with a superb mass Frontier group photo in their new offices)
Congratulations-to-Frontier-!-(GIBiz-awards-)
Fuel Rat's Fool Cat kills two!
The Fuel Rats apology to the Cmdr destroyed this morning.
Another week and another planetary circumnavigation begins!
A-Mercurial-Circumnavigation
Cmdr DARIVS has broken Keef Drow's "farthest distance from Sol" record!
Farthest-Distance-from-Sol-Record-Attempt
If your play-time is limited but you still fancy going on an expedition then The Fatherhood ("When the kids go to bed we go to space") have what you seek!
The-Lost-Souls-Expedition!-Launching-October-20th! (aiming to cover approx. 3kly per week)
Scott Manley demonstrates Elite: Dangerous to NASA
NASA-plays-Elite-Dangerous!
Various threads concerning a visit by a number of prominent(?) community members to Frontier's offices last Thursday to see all the new Q4 stuff
Community-guests-at-FD-HQ-on-27th-for-Q4-news (my own drunk posts begin here just after midnight - eventually this thread drowned in so much scepticism about the motives for the visit that I unsubscribed but make of it what you will)
Yamiks-Obsidian-And-and-Co-Creator-s-Roundtable-On-The-Visit-To-Frontier (fast forward about 1.5hrs to the Beyond + FD visit bit)
Round-Up-of-3-3-Impressions-FDev-Community-Visit (excellent thread by Golgot who's attempted to summarise all the comments from various threads and livestreams in one place)
Obsidian Ant's "3304" video about his visit to FD
Community guest FDEV visit 3.3 impressions (nice roundup of various comments from the "Blessed 17" over on reddit)
Cmdr Up2d4t3 breaks the unlimited class record for the Sagittarius A* Buckyball Run! (1hr 52m 29s)
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-A*-Challenge
Nice ongoing travelogue of one commanders journey to Colonia (with some terrific screenshots)
Moving-to-Colonia-a-Travelogue
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw - a new single player space gaming coming out next year that's worth a look (far more arcadey than Elite but really impressive nevertheless)
Rebel-Galaxy-Outlaw
Micro-jumps - the graphic novel, the video, the suggestion - awesomeness[SUP]3[/SUP]
Inter-Sun-A-Micro-Jump-Graphic-Novel
It's an old idea but done really well - Forum Bingo - eyes down for a full house!
Proposal-DD-BINGO-!
Cmdr Odengard's beautifully documented on-going journey to some of the more colourful corners of the galaxy.
The-Green-and-Pink-expedition-travelog
Frontier's description of the Q4 exploration changes are here!
Chapter-Four-Exploration-Reveal
Plus further explanation and feedback via livestream
Chapter-Four-Exploration-Recap
The dedicated mission server and an end to "board flipping"?
Implementation-of-a-dedicated-mission-server
Off-topic but how awesome and hilarious was that Banksy stunt! (or perhaps you disagree)
A-painting-by-Banksy-self-destructs
New Buckyball Race "Triangle Triathlon" (involving Ship, SRV and SLF stages) now on - runs until October 8th
The-Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Triangle-Triathlon-29th-Sept-to-8th-October-3304
Some positivity in a sea of doubt and uncertainty
After-3-years-I-m-still-playing-this-game-And-for-that-I-d-like-to-take-a-moment-of-appreciation
I-wish-I-could-share-my-style-of-playing-with-everyone
Further noteworthy discussions on the new exploration mechanics
Proposal-alternative-to-outright-removal-of-ADS-instascan-amp-system-map-minigame-for-explorers
New-Exploration-Mechanics-What-I-really-want-to-know
FDEV-Please-don't-ruin-exploration-Changes-you-are-introducing-for-ADS-are-a-massive-downgrade
The-Compromise-to-End-All-Compromises-Exploration-Scanner-Edition
Issue #13 of the ever wonderful Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now!
Sagittarius-Eye
Fresh from attaining record breaking galactic highs and lows, Cmdr Straha Yeager now turns his attention to planetary circumnavigation with what isalready proving to be a really interesting and educational forum thread quite simply the BEST thread on the forum as far as I'm concerned.
Meridian-a-planetary-circumnavigation
Expert advice on how to construct a forum rant (LOL)
How-to-rant-properly-in-DD
Hyperdicted Gnosis jump - Frontier's greatest fail or boldest storyline yet? Only time will tell but I'm reserving judgement for now.
BREAKING-NEWS-GNOSIS-STRANDED-GALNET-NEWS!
Updates from Frontier on the Gnosis story plus a status report on fixes for current issues
Let-s-talk-about-Gnosis-and-the-Cone-Sector
Status-on-Gnosis-related-Bugs
And a pretty decent article on the event from Kotaku.
If-Frontier-wanted-to-attract-interest-from-outside-press
It's been a while since the last one and we could do with lightening the mood, so - another thread showcasing the plethora of wonderful little subtleties built in to this game
Subtleties
With almost prescient timing IGN publish an interesting article on the power of video gaming communties
Interesting-article-on-gaming-community
A highly amusing take on the language used in FD's recent update announcement
Corpo-Speak-for-Commanders
Iridescent paint jobs! (Oh my god these are BEAUTIFUL - but if you want them all it's gonna set you back �156)
Iridescent-paint-jobs-In-the-store
The Hutton Truckers are cycling up a volcano for charity (hey, once you've made it to Hutton Orbital anything else is a piece of cake right?)
Commanders-do-the-craziest-things-pt-2-Truckers-up-Teide!
Official Frontier "Colonia Engineer" screenshot competition (win a Hyper X headset)
Contest-Engineers-in-Colonia
Far God surface bases discovered
New-Surface-Bases
The offices of Sagittarius Eye magazine have gone dark
What-the-hell-just-happened-to-Sagittarius-Eye
Sagittarius-Eye-Bulletin-Research-Aids-in-Thargoid-War-Signal-Detected
Nee "Hydra" Thargoid ship type (I think he means new)
Nee-Thargoid-Type
New Guardian stuff (SPOILERS!)
Massive-Guardian-Ship-found!
Cone sector now permit locked (and full of Hydra!) - but Gnosis jump is officially still going ahead - Watch the Skies!
Attention-Explorers-GNOSIS-Jumps-planned-THROUGH-a-permit-Lock-!
Patch notes for the Q3 update are up!
Update-3-2
Cmdr PrimetimeCasual completes his SRV circumnavigation of Mitterand Hollow, taking 51.5 hours and witnesssing 2,156 planet rises in the process!
The-Planetary-Circumnavigation-Club
His #TrippyHollow Twitter Feed
Cmdr straha20 reaches new Peak above the galactic plane (a truly awesome forum post - probably worthy of an "epic tales of derring do" entry)
Peak-A-new-high-point-in-exploration
Galnet article talks about new types of body-worn HUD to be revealed at an expo in October (surely there is an ar least 50:50 chance that this is FD teasing something?)
New-Computer-Designs-Announced
The Gnosis' five week mission to explore strange new worlds
Attention-Explorers-GNOSIS-Jumps-planned-THOUGH-a-permit-Lock-!
Official Q3 launch announcement with full details, images and video
Beyond-Chapter-Three-Launch-Announcement
List of new things announced at Gamescom (unofficial)
Gamescom-2018
And a leaked video from the evening event
3-2-Beyond-Video-with-teaser-trailer-and-Summary
Official-"Introducing-The-Guardian-Fighters"-3-2-SLF-Trailer-and-PCGamesN-article
New Buckyball Race starts today and runs for one week
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-On-The-Rocks-20-27-August-3304
Cmdr Edradour's promising new account of his adventures in Elite: Dangerous
A-Slow-Dance-in-Known-Space
Beyond Q3 teaser trailer and launch date (28/08/2018)
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Three-(3-2)-Release-Date-Announcement
Have you ever? (it's confession time)
I-have-never
Leading BGS groups propose new gameplay ideas
Factions-A-gameplay-proposal-by-leading-BGS-groups
Close examination of Krait cockpit reveals "classic" Rare trading map hidden in the details
Rares-map-on-Krait-rear-console
Head look lock lambasting inspires creation of awesome new weapons
Alleged-Headlock-Hack-Offers-New-Ideas-for-Weapons-to-Improve-Game-Play
Humanizing the AEDC! (OK, I admit it, I jumped to some conclusions about the AEDC - turns out they're human just like you and me and I apologise)
Lave Radio AEDC special with some fascinating insights into the world of the meta-BGS (link points directly at mp3 file)
Ed Lewis definitely was NOT down the pub and definitely did NOTeat this delicious plump breasted pigeon spill the beans on the Q4 update!
Focused-Feedback-Forum-Content-Schedule
Lockdown in Lave and the on-going struggle between the AEDC (Filthy [Alliance] weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!) and the supporters of Lave Radio (Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for the [Independents])
(note: use of Blackader quote implies a humourus tongue-in-cheek take on this - feel free to swap according to who's side you take in all this)
PSA-Lave-blockade-(regards-engineer-unlock)
Lockdown-Questions-(Lave-Brandy-for-Didi-Vatermann)
Lave-under-Lockdown
Operation-Hope-for-Lave
PC Gamer article with Dr Anthony Ross talking about Stellar Forge
PC-Gamer-Article-The-mind-bending-science-behind-the-planets-of-Elite-Dangerous
EDProfiler, the essential VR configuration utility created by drkai, has been receiving some awesome updates recently including a fantastic new "tone mapping" utlity which allow you to "make space dark again". Definitely worth checking out if you haven't already seen it (and may well be of interest to non-VR users too).
EDProfiler-A-New-Display-Switcher-Robust-Settings-Profiler-Switcher-Detector!
Frontier implement a new system for submitting applications for a player owned minor faction.
New-Player-Minor-Faction-System
Nothing ground-breaking (or especially new) but a few (occasionally somewhat trollish) threads I've been following this week.
Why-Elite-Dangerous-isn't-very-popular-on-twitch
Is-Chapter-4-make-it-or-break-it-for-you
No-Man-s-Sky-changed-my-perspective
Complaints from the future! (really quite funny)
Thread-reserved-for-future-complaints
The winners of Frontier's holo screen advert competition have been announced! (he says, with a cheesy grin on his face
)
Design-A-Holo-Screen-Advert-Winners
Design-a-Holo-Screen-Advert-Competition-Winners-Livestream
Krait ship kit now available in the store (and yes, it has a spoiler!)
Love-it-or-hate-it-the-Krait-gets-a-spoiler!
Cosmicspacehead returns to Elite after a long absence and documents his journey back into the game.
Diary-Of-A-Returning-CMDR
Yet another "advice for new players" thread (only time will tell whether this one proves worthy of preserving in the OP).
Best-advice-for-newcommers
New Buckyball Race - "The Race To The Poles" - on now and runs until midnight Sunday 22nd July!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Race-to-the-Poles-Polar-Ship-Fram-Celebration-14-22-July-3304
Excellent new interview with Braben and Co. about Frontier.
Terrific-new-MCV-article-on-Frontier-their-new-premises-scientific-authenticity-and-Cobra
Chapter Two Treasure Hunt (aka Screenshot) competition winner announced!
The-Chapter-Two-Treasure-Hunt-Competition
Issue #11 of Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now!
Sagittarius-Eye
At someone else's request - my three day struggle to ride my SRV on the back of a Thargoid is over.
Attack-on-Penal-Colony-BV-2259-(SRV-vs-Thargoid)
Tannik Seldon is orbiting planets in his SRV again! (with awesome Farseer Base fly-by)
Just-a-casual-cruise-over-Farseer-Base-Nothing-to-see-here
The Buckyball "Black Riband" smuggling race is back and it's bigger and better than ever before!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Black-Riband-Rebooted
Cmdr Malibu, who famously drew the Elite: Dangerous logo on the galaxy a few months back, needs your help with a new venture!
Drawing-the-Fuel-Rats-logo-on-the-galaxy-!-I-need-your-help-!
Join DWE organisers DrKaii and Erimus Kamzel this Sunday for the Sudden Mystery expedition! (73.05ly minimum jump range)
DW2-Sudden-Mystery-Expedition
Patch 3.1.1 has arrived - in particular it fixes the Guardian FSD booster (again - hopefully!)
Update-3-1-1
Which ship do you fly? The Crapwinder, a Jack of No Trades, a Toast Jammer or a Federal Courgette?
Compiling-a-list-of-nicknames-for-various-ships
Take part in the first great galactic census (why? no idea - couldn't find a TLDR, nice video tho!)
First-Great-galactic-census
Lists of things people want added are ten-a-penny but this is a pretty good one.
My-List-of-"realistic"-wishes-for-the-game-till-the-end-of-the-year
New things are being discovered in the Alien Breaking News thread.
Alien-archaeology-and-other-mysteries-Breaking-News-Theories-and-Tinfoil-Hattery
Problems with images being shared from imgur are being investigated.
UPDATE: imgur's block on the forums has now been removed - phew!
Access-to-i-imgur-com-was-denied
3.1 bug notes!
Status-on-a-few-reported-issues-in-3-1
3.1 patch notes!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Two-3-1
Beyond chapter 2 update is launching today ..
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Two-Announcement-(28-06-18)
.. and among other things we get the Krait and the Challenger - here are the spec's for the 2 ships.
Challenger spec's
Krait spec's
Some interesting Elite: Dangerous concept art (including new surface ports and megaship designs) from Nick Tagney
https://www.artstation.com/nick_t
Following a question asked at Lavecon it seems all Colonia player faction bases will now be getting shipywards!
Shipyards-added-to-player-faction-bases-in-Colonia
Further details of the Q4 mining update are now available in focused feedback.
HITTING-THE-MOTHER-LODE
Cmdr rootstrat is planning on celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hermaszewski's trip into space by re-running the Winged Hussars Buckyball Race.
Feel free to join him if you're not too busy engineering your Kraits.
BRC-TWH-present-Hermaszewski-Celebration-Race
From a recent "list your three most used ships" thread, results are now available (the results might amaze you - then again).
The-results-are-in-from-your-three-most-used-ships-and-the-results-will-amaze-you!
A timely reminder that you might not be getting the best ED colours from your HDMI display (and there's a REALLY easy way to fix it)
The-black-just-got-blacker-Full-RGB
Various summaries of what was revealed at Frontier's Lavecon presentation
Lavecon-Panel-Beyond-Q4-Sneak-Peeks-Q-amp-A-Notes-Pix-amp-Vids
Lavecon-FD-Panel-Quick-Summary-(Exploration-Mining-News)
LaveCon-2018-QA-quick-recap
The results for the Lavecon 2018 Buckyball Race are up!
The-Lavecon-Buckyball-Race-2018
And (for those that have now developed a taste for it), there's a new Buckyball Race starting on the 16th June.
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Close-Encounters-(16-24-June-3304)
Cmdr Sanderling sets a new normal flight high-g enhanced speed record of 32,825 m/s!
Surface-Supercruise!
Cmdr Tannik Seldon travels the 50km from Ferguson Prospect to Elwood Camp on Wasat A 2 E in one mighty SRV bound!
The-Wasat-Leap-Launching-an-SRV-between-two-bases-without-touching-the-ground
Lavecon 2018 (8th - 10th June)
Lavecon-2018
Gnosis causes gravitational anomaly over Mitterand Hollow which is pulling SRV's off the planet's surface!
SRV-in-orbit!-700km-up-above-planet-surface-(Mitterand-Hollow)
"List your favourite ships" threads appear quite often but this one is especially good!
List-your-three-most-used-ships-and-tell-us-a-bit-about-them
Arghhhh, my immersion!
Little-things-that-break-immersion-and-world-integrity
There's lots more to this game than just exploration, mining, combat and trade! Check out Qohen Leth's fantastic career chart!
Comprehensive-Elite-Dangerous-Career-Chart
Beyond Chapter Two coming June 28!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Two-Release-Date
Hanekura Shizuka completes a record breaking circumnavigation of the entire galaxy in just over 7.5 days!
Around-the-Galaxy-in-7-553-days-a-DECE-Speed-Circumnavigation
Keef Drow just broke the furthest distance from Sol record - 65,707lys and still going!
Farthest-Distance-from-Sol-Record-Attempt
The Buckyball "Falling With Style" base jumping race/festival is over and the winners have been announced.
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Falling-With-Style-An-SRV-base-jumping-festival-(19-27-May-3304)
More stunning paint-job concepts courtesy of Qohen Leth
WHAAM!-2-18-Clipper-Paintjob-Concepts-Chris-Foss-Cargo-Beluga
Awesome new spinning station timelapse image from Qohen Leth.
Screenie(s)-v2
It's very rare that I post stuff like this but I like rootrat a lot and I think he's written a terrific post here ..
4-years-in-the-cockpit-the-magic-is-gone
Issue #9 of the fantabulous Sagittarius Eye magazine is now available to download!
http://www.sagittarius-eye.com/
Official new Elite: Dangerous card game ... yes, seriously!!!
Livestream-Elite-Dangerous-Battle-Cards-(24-05-7-00-PM-BST)
Expedition to visit all 9 of the generation ships has been declared a great success.
Futures-Past-The-Generation-Ship-Tour
If getting more stuff for less money/material is your thing then you'll love FD's bonus Weekend! (other opinions are available)
Bonus-Weekend-Trade-amp-Engineering-(24-05-to-30-05)
Cmdr Kith000's "Panels App" for Elite Dangerous is now in beta testing for Android!
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412067-RELEASE-Panels-for-iOS-(Android-Coming-Soon)-Alternative-to-Roccat-Power-Grid
Cmdr Keef Drow is attempting to break the record for farthest distance from Sol (and, with a multi-week supercruise journey, also the galaxy's most boring video stream!)
Farthest-Distance-from-Sol-Record-Attempt
Sandro has proposed some new Powerplay ideas including .... drum roll ... making Powerplay Open mode only! :-O
FLASH-TOPIC-Powerplay-Proposal
The Buckyball "Galaxy's End" galactic pub crawl race is over and the winner is ... errp ... well that's awkward!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-Presents-The-Galaxy-s-End-A-Buckyball-Pub-Crawl-(28th-April-to-13th-May)
Thorberg Shavestroke lands on a planet with atmosphere! (kinda)
Just-landed-on-a-planet-with-an-atmosphere
Summary of the Squadrons livestream
Summary-of-Focused-Feedback-Squadrons-livestream
Cmdr Baton has found a planet with Pumpkins, Brain trees, Bark mounds and geysers!
Space-pumpkins-story-so-far-and-a-new-discovery
Will Flannagan and Adam Bourke-Waite Squadrons livestream at 6pm tonight! (note earlier than usual start)
Livestream-Focused-Feedback-Squadrons-(10-May-6PM-BST)
The highly anticipated focused feedback forums for Squadrons are now up!
Beyond-Series-Focused-Feedback
The Outer Rim Station Tour - a 2 month long expedition to visit some of the more remote inhabited stations around the galaxy
Expedition-The-Outer-Rim-Station-Tour
A long running and very popular discussion thread on the subject of atmospheric landings (and space legs)
Will-Elite-Dangerous-have-Atmospheric-Landings-Space-Legs-or-Procedural-Cities-by-2019
And a more recent thread on atmospheric timeline speculation
Atmospheric-Landings-is-Not-Coming-Early-2019
Join the best damn Elite: Dangerous news team in the galaxy!
Seeking-video-editors-to-join-our-Bulletin-News-Team-(Sagittarius-Eye)
Mad Raptor's beautiful short film on geological features in Elite: Dangerous.
GEOLOGIC-AN-MWSOG-SHORT-FILM-(OUT-NOW)
Speed Bowl 3304 - winners announced!
Speed-Bowl-Championships-ANNOUNCEMENT
As the title suggests with some good ripostes to the question.
The-SRV-Why-is-it-so-bad?
When world's collide! (terrific video from Ghost Giraffe on colliding moons)
Moons-colliding-in-ED
Cmdr Malibu creates the universe's largest Elite Dangerous logo - basically the size of the galaxy!
Elite-Dangerous-logo-drawn-on-the-galaxy-map
Mat Recardo's absolutely frickin' awesome Elite Atmospherics videos (yes, that's right, plural - he's done another one!)
(HUMOUR)-Leaked-footage-from-secret-dev-build-Atmospherics
100 amazing new paintjobs now available!
WHAAM!-100-Paintjob-Concepts-For-Fun
Fancy having your own advertising billboard featured in-game?
Design-A-Holo-Screen-Advert
Deadline for Buckyball Race "The Galaxy's End: A Buckyball Pub Crawl" has been extended until 13th May 3304!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-Presents-The-Galaxy-s-End-A-Buckyball-Pub-Crawl-(28th-April-to-6th-May)
Frontier announce focused feedback schedule for Q4 updates
Focused-Feedback-Forum-Content-Schedule
It's the end of Elite: Dangerous on the Mac!
Important-Mac-announcement
The "genius of Elite" - a new player shares his story so far.
Living-Dangerously-My-Elite-Journey-So-Far
Off-topic - Spacebaboy's silly (but strangely compelling) picture quiz
Elite-Dangerous-Picture-Quiz-Do-you-know-your-stuff
Owww! Oh yeah, hurt me baby ... oh ... it's not that kind of thread.
Making-Punishment-Fun
Get orf moi land!
FD-can-you-please-come-up-with-a-soultion-to-CMDR-s-blocking-the-pads-at-the-outpost
Sandro continues to look into the idea of "handing yourself in to the cops" + improvements to friendly fire and notoriety decay
Crime-Update
Issue #8 of Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now and it's an absolute stunner!
Sagittarius Eye issue 8 - Crime in 3304
For those that missed it ... REALLY terrific "80 level" interview with Doctor Anthony Ross on the Stellar Forge and how it manages to generate our galaxy.
Generating The Universe in Elite: Dangerous
Help wanted in gathering resources for the Distant Worlds 2 expedition!
Distant-Worlds-2-Fleet-Logistics-Looking-for-Volunteers!
MadRaptor teases stunning new "Geologic" short film
MWSOG-Presents-Geologic-A-Short-Film
Children of the 70's gaze upon the game with childlike awe
childlike-awe
Cmdr Bomba Luigi completes his circumnavigation of planet Wilson
Planetary-Circumnavigation-Wilson-Edition
Cmdr Kris completes his 30 day circumnavigation of Syralaei BF-A d69 5 a
My-journey-around-366km-radius-rocky-moon-(travel-log)
A spoiler for your spoiler sir?
Oh YESSS Frontier store Master Trolls
Spoiler++ for the T-10 available!
D-day may be less than 48hrs away! (it wasn't)
D-day-is-Coming-Are-We-Ready
New Buckyball Race ("Poisson d'avril") - final weekend!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Poisson-d-avril-(Mar-31st-Apr-8th)
Cmdr Kathryn Kando gets interdicted at a Neutron star and loses her canopy - but 25mins of life support will be plenty right?
I-m-so-stupd-or-the-long-wait-for-death
Guardian FSD booster - great range, TERRIBLE fuel consumption!
Guardian-FSD-booster-question
FSD-boost-insane-fuel-use-hike
The winners of Frontier's 3.0 screenshot competition have been announced.
The-Great-3-0-Treasure-Hunt-Winners!
The Eagle Eyes seem to have woken up again?
New-Things-in-Pleiades-Sector-IR-W-D1-55
Yours truly visits Bomba Luigi on planet Wilson, falls into Sarlacc's Pit, escapes and spends some time with the intrepid circumnavigator.
Planetary-Circumnavigation-Wilson-Edition (Sarlacc's Pit)
-Planetary-Circumnavigation-Wilson-Edition (Chasing Bomba)
Will and Steve on Community Goals in tonight's Frontier livestream.
Livestream-Community-Goal-Action-(29-March-7PM-GMT)
Uh oh! Have the Thargoids already grown wise to the Eagle Eye installations?
New-Things-in-Pleiades-Sector-IR-W-D1-55
This week's Lave Radio features a Q&A with Adam Bourke-Waite and Will Flanagan (interesting statistic - over one weekend 1.6 million missions were completed!)
LAVE-RADIO-A-podcast-about-Elite-Dangerous
Meanwhile, Cmdrs Kris and Bomba Luigi continue their inexporable bids to join the ranks of the Planetary Circumnavigation Club
Kris - day 20
Bomba - day 4
New issue of the "Galactic Geologist" out now!
Galactic-Geologist-A-Magazine-for-and-by-Geyser-Fumarole-and-Organic-enthusiasts
ToCoSo's stunning collection of photoshopped ship scale images.
A-YEARS-WORTH-OF-FAN-ART-SHIP-SCALE-PICTURES
Frontier's "Treasure Hunt" screenshot competition turns it's attention to Thargoids and Guardians
The-Great-3-0-Treasure-Hunt-Thargoid-Marauder-or-Guardian-Ruin-Entry-Thread!
New update (3.0.5) to fix trade data issue.
Update-3-0-5
In a slow news week, a thread about it being a slow news week.
Is-it-getting-quieter-here
Patch notes for 3.0.4
Update-3-0-4
Wingman navlock bug has now been officially granted a Grade I listing on the Historic England heritage list! (this may not be entirely true)
Rant-Plea-to-fix-Wing-Beacon-issues-present-since-2-1
Famous castaway Bomba Luigi returns to planet Wilson and this time he intends to drive all the way around it!
Planetary-Circumnavigation-Wilson-Edition
Hot hot hot!
Hot-Ships-hot-modules-outfitting-proposal
Hot-Ships-and-Bounties (focused feedback)
Eagle Eyed commanders are on the trail of something new in the Pleiades!
New-Things-in-Pleiades-Sector-IR-W-D1-55
Mengy's before and after 3.0 planetary comparisons thread
The-Voyage-Chromatic!-(sequel-to-The-Search-for-Color)-Revisiting-beige-worlds-for-comparison
Patch notes for todays update are now available
Update-3-0-2
The final(?) episode of the brilliant DarkenSpace video series is now available.
DarkenSpace-video-series
Cmdr Nick Sticks completes his epic 2 month long, 2785 km circumnavigation of a small planet in an SRV
The-circumnavigation-of-planet-Eol-Prou-FB-I-b25-50-1-a-funny-looking-rock
And just as he finishes, Cmdr Kris begins his own planetary circumnavigation attempt
My-journey-around-366km-radius-rocky-moon-(travel-log)
Cmdr Alot breaks the 2hr barrier for a Buckyball run to Sagittarius A*!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-A*-Challenge
Timmy Brabston accidentally drives his SRV into orbit and has to call the Fuel Rats (wonderful video)
The-Planetary-Circumnavigation-Club
New Buckyball Race "Chicken Run" is on NOW! (and runs until midnight Sunday 11th March)
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Chicken-Run
Best galactic exploration heat map yet?
Maps-and-visualizations
Guardian stuff is happening! (WARNING: spoilers!)
Guardians-Discussions (link to where it starts)
GUARDIAN-PUZZLE-SOLVED-synuefe-eu-q-c21-10
Not everyone is happy tho!
Please-for-the-love-of-guardians-Thargoids-stop-making-us-shoot-stuff
Fancy exploring the Pleiades in an Adder? Check out the "Eclipsis Adder Tour", heading out 1st March 3304.
Adder-Tour-by-Eclipsis-And-DSN
Comparison of Sol moons, before and after 3.0 surface colouration
Sol-2-4-vs-3-0-landable-moons-comparison
3.0 has landed - what have you done? what do you reckon?
3-0-is-here-what-have-you-been-trying-what-do-you-like
Maro-Val re-creates the Interstellar docking sequence with an SLF and a spinning Corvette
VIDEO-Boarding-a-FREEFALLING-CORVETTE!
I need your help creating a list of SRV base jumping locations!
A-guide-to-good-base-jumping-locations
Excellent and very funny (but incredibly sweary) video on what ED is like in VR
Funniest-Video-on-getting-started-with-ED-VR-I-have-seen-hands-down
Information on Elite Meet (in Reading) and Pizzameet (in Portland Oregon)
Elite-social-get-togethers-Elite-Community-Meet-(Reading)-and-Portland-Oregon!
Even better than the patch notes!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-the-features-of-3-0
New "Celeste" COVAS voice pack available on the store!
New-COVAS-voice-pack-on-the-store-(so-new-voice-packs-are-going-to-be-store-items-then)
Patch Notes!!!!!!!!!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-3-0
Servers down - 3.0 cometh!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-Server-Downtime-(27-02-18)
While you wait for 3.0 to download why not watch some live streams?
Beyond-Chapter-One-Launch-Livestreams
Oh, and watch SushiCW's stunning video of his time on the "World of Death" too!
Challenge-to-land-on-the-world-of-death
On-going Kill Warant Scanner feedback discussion (I think Sandro's pretty much arrived at a solution now)
Kill-Warrant-Scanner-Feedback
Charity auction to "name your own megaship"
GameBlast-Auction-Name-your-own-class-of-Mega-Ship-in-Elite-Dangerous!
Beyond 3.0 Chapter One is being released next Tuesday (27th Feb)
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-Release-Date
The February edition of the excellent Sagittarius Eye magazine is now available
The-February-Issue-of-Sagittarius-Eye-is-Now-Out!
Official summary of C&P updates for 3.0 Beyond
Crime-and-Punishment-in-Beyond-Chapter-One
Rejoice - Isinona has dropped a new video
New-Isinona-Video-!-Thief
Sandro Sammarco wants your feedback on the 3.0 Kill Warrant Scanner changes
Kill-Warrant-Scanner-Feedback
A reminder and update to Cmdr Arithon's wonderful set of ED ship blueprints (as featured in the main "Best of" post) plus a superb new trailer video!
Blueprint-series-update
****ie Landing and Willie Highwake take over Hutton Orbital News Radio (Ed Lewis and Will Flanagan get VERY silly indeed!)
hutton-orbital-news-thursday-9th-february-2018
Qohen Leth's beautiful DW2 "Grand Tour" printable poster artwork
Grand-Tour-wallpaper-printable-poster
Sandro explains more tweaks to the C&P system
Crime-System-Changes
And also - increases to material storage limits!
Materials storage and FSD synthesis
The Dove Enigma expedition finally made it and have been partying in style!
Enigma-Expedition-to-Colonia-for-Charity-and-for-with-CMDR-DoveEnigma13
It's time to to start officially signing up for DW2!
DW2-Distant-Worlds-II-Fleet-Roster-Sign-Up-Thread
Questions wanted for Thursday's Q&A with Sandy
Questions-needed-Beta-Discussion-Livestream-with-Sandy-Sammarco
The Buckyball "Medevac Memorial Challenge" race is now over - hmmm, I wonder who won?
Buckyball-Racing-Club-Presents-The-Medevac-Memorial-Challenge-(27JAN-04FEB)
Planetary fog is back (YAY!), Dark side of planets is no longer dark (BOO!)
Beyond-3-0-Beta-3-Patch-Notes
Help Cmdr Dreamstate with his investigation into the age old "dark squares on planet surfaces" bug!
Planetary-Square-Bugs-Your-Help-Required!
3.0 beta finishes on the 9th Feb (after one more update on the 6th Feb)
Chapter-One-Beta-closure-and-last-weekend-of-the-beta-treats
"Staggering outpouring of support" will hopefully save the Dove Enigma expedition!
Dove-Enigma-and-the-Enigma-Expedition
The release of 3.0 beta 2 brings with it better engineer rolls, the ability to pin all grades of a given blueprint and easier progression through grades 1-5 if you already have higher reputation with that engineer. FD may have just hit the sweetspot with this release.
Beyond-3-0-Beta-2-Incoming
Beyond-3-0-Beta-2-Changes-to-Engineers
With-Beta-2-Engineering-I-Think-You-ve-Hit-The-Sweet-Spot-FD
Beta bug allows Cmdrs to boost their ships to over 2MM/s! (with video evidence)
Old-Rolls-vs-New-Rolls-megathread
Cmdr Persera's ongoing galactic adventure (she of epic Fuel Rat rescue on the fringes of the galaxy fame)
The-Void-Beyond
A bunch of interesting beta 3.0 threads for those unafraid of spoilers
Planetary-Colours
Old-Rolls-vs-New-Rolls-megathread
C&P-FAQ-Things-you-might-not-know
Mass-Manager-vs-Deep-Charge (getting the best FSD from the new engineer changes)
Beyond-3-0-Open-Beta-Aliens-Spoilers (Canonn discussion beta spoiler thread)
FD posts a 3.0 known issues list
3-0-Open-Beta-Known-Issues-List
The 3.0 beta patch notes are up!
3-0-Open-Beta-Patch-Notes
Some excellent (and nicely illustrated) ideas on new styles of Elite: Dangerous gameplay
Designing-new-gameplay
Summary of content featured in third Beyond livestream (Engineering, Materials trader and Galnet audio)
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(23-01-2018)-Part-3-Recap
The "Enigma" expedition - over 500 cmdrs on a life affirming journey from Jackson's Lighthouse to Colonia all in support of Cmdr DoveEngima13 and his valiant battle against cancer. With 15 days left to go it's not too late to join in!
Enigma-Expedition-to-Colonia-for-Charity-and-for-with-CMDR-DoveEnigma13
Got stuck in the toast rack? Recalled ship just blown up? Ghost Giraffe's terrific new instructional video with 5 handy tips that every pilot ought to know!
5-Things-Everyone-Knows-Except-for-You
The January edition of the superb Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now!
http://www.sagittariuseyes.com/january-3304.html
Good list of things to try (if you haven't already)
Things-every-CMDR-should-do-once
Answers to the questions asked following the second (Chieftan) livestream have now been posted.
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(18-01-2018)-Part-2-Recap (additional answers)
Answers to the questions asked following the first (C&P) livestream have now been posted.
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(16-01-2018)-Part-1-Recap (additional answers)
Summary of content featured in second Beyond livestream (Planets, Chieftan, Trade tools, etc)
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(18-01-2018)-Part-2
Summary of content featured in first Beyond livestream (Crime & Punishment, Wing missions)
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(16-01-2018)-Part-1-Recap
Cmdr Arithon (he of ship blueprint fame, among MANY other things) needs your help with his Vehicle Codex
Vehicle-Codex-WIP-Help-Info-needed
Elite Racers host new "Breakout" racing season with ladder-style 1v1 race events around 3 separate space installation circuits
Elite-Racers-present-Breakout-Series-1v1-Touranment
Cmdr Nick Sticksbegins continues his epic circumnavigation of a small potato moon in a bid to join the ranks of the Planetary Circumnavigation Club.
The-circumnavigation-of-planet-Eol-Prou-FB-I-b25-50-1-a-funny-looking-rock
Plans are afoot for a major CG (and much more) in support of the Distant Worlds Expedition II
Distant-Worlds-II-Some-ideas-on-getting-the-most-out-of-the-upcoming-content
A bunch of threads reacting to what was shown in the 2nd Beyond livestream
Devs-deserve-some-love-right-now-!
Recon-Limpet
Colorful-planets-shown-from-Part-2-of-the-Beyond-Livestream
The-New-Trading-System-Amazing-Improvement-but-Please-Balance-Profits
So-that-Tech-Broker
SPOILER!-I-don-t-think-frontier-intended-to-reveal-this
Beyond livestream schedule
Livestream-schedule-Beyond-Chapter-One-content-reveals-(dates-content-and-time)
Ed Lewis leaks Beyond info' on Pixel Bandits podcast including more Chieftan details (medium ship, no rank lock, 2 Large, 1 medium and 3 small hardpoints)
Beyond-Inside-News-(Interview-with-Ed-Lewis)
What philosophy do you live by in Elite?
Philosophy-that-you-live-by-in-space-Share-yours!
First great "things you love about ED" thread of 2018
Things-you-love-about-Elite-Dangerous
Cmdr's Alot and Hanekura Shizuka win in their respective classes of "The Last Gasp" Buckyball Race
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Last-Gasp
White knight? post something negative, forum whinger? say something positive.
The-Forum-Opinion-Reversal-Challenge
Beyond Q1 beta update (including Chieftan + a whole raft of improvements) coming Thursday 25 January!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-Beta-Announcement
Title says it all really!
Obsidian-Orbital-in-Maia-has-been-attacked-by-the-thargoids
New Buckyball Race "The Last Gasp" starts 06.01.3304! (what would you do if you only had 25 minutes to live?)
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Last-Gasp-(06.01.3304-14.01.3304)
Say hi to new community manager Will
Introducing-new-Community-Manager-Will
Finally some progress for attacked stations under repair!
Starport-Status-finally-updating!
Starports-"Under-Repair"-change-to-visibility-of-progress
Wing Atlantis have managed to find the Thargoid Scout ship seen in David Braben's video!
Second-thargoid-scout-has-been-found
Slightly off-topic but ... new Jurassic World Evolution footage (and it's looking frickin' awesome)
So-IGN-First-just-put-out-another-Jurassic-World-Evolution-trailer
Operation "Beyond the Void" - Cmdr Highwaywarrior's blog recounting the events leading up to the extraordinary rescue of Cmdr Persera, 65,659Ly from Sol and 48hrs in Supercruise beyond the outer edge of the galaxy!
operation-fuel-beyond-the-void
Obsidian Ant's review of the last year
Pete "we read the news so you don't have to" Wotherspoon's Galnet summary of 3303
Cmdr Cocalarix pulls together some of the best ED screenshots of 2017
Screenie(s)
ED new year's resolutions
My-Elite-Dangerous-Resolution-for-2018-is
Even older stuff
Trending threads pre3304
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
Happy new year! What are your plans for 3305?
What-are-your-plans-for-3305-(2019)
The forum ship of the year is ...
Forum-Ship-of-the-Year-2018-The-Results!
Distant worlds hits 5,000 registrations!
DW2-Distant-Worlds-II-Fleet-Roster-Sign-Up-Thread
And Distant Worlds 3305 radio is now live!
DW2-Distant-Radio-3305-the-dedicated-Distant-Worlds-3305-radio-station
Deep core discussions (how to find them and the huge profits to be made)
PWS-Scanner-Does-it-really-work
Please-don-t-nerf-the-new-mining (linked to post from Will)
New epic mountain discovered on Smojai IT-P D6-2 A 2 A
New-Major-Mountain-Smojai-IT-P-D6-2-A-2-A
Bran Tse Mallory is back with his forum ship of the year competition
Forum-Ship-of-the-Year-2018-There-can-be-only-one!
Hutton Truckers net 1.3 billion credits in a single record breaking wing mining transaction!
Hutton-Truckers-are-proud-to-present-the-largest-single-trade-transaction-in-Elite-Dangerous
Update 3.3.01 (with patch notes)
Update-3-3-01
Preparing for DW2
DW2-Preparation-Week
We're all miners now!
Mining-Great-Job-FD!
Best-beginner-mining-ships-3-3
The-popular-guide-to-mining (UPDATED for 3.3)
Advanced graphics tweaks
Graphics-settings-Beyond-Ultra
Frontier raise �43k and rising (at the time of writing) during another epic 24hr livestream
Frontier-s-24-Hour-Charity-Stream-2018!
Yamiks flogs his dead horse and proves that the squadron max membership limit is indeed 500
Dead-horse-squadron-is-the-1st-500-member-squadron-CAN-WE-GET-MORE-SPACE-!
Codex selfies
Codex-Selfie
Analysis mode - it's balls right?
Why-do-we-need-Analysis-Mode
"What is it?" - assorted discussions on the hot new topic of Stellar phenomena and the Codex
The-New-quot-Stellar-Phenomenon-quot-A-Week-Within
Trolled-by-Codex
Missing-Stellar-Phenomena
Notable-Stellar-Phenomena-Question
Q09-Type-Anomaly-Found-(mystery-codex-item-)
I-don-t-understand-how-the-codex-works
Issue #16 of Sagittarius Eye magazine is out!
OUT-NOW-Sagittarius-Eye-Issue-16-(Get-your-copy-today!)
Frontier's festive store countdown has begun
Festive-countdown-in-the-store!!!!
SPVFA (the Stellar Photography, Videography, and Fan Art group who, among other things, supply the images used by Sagittarius Eye) celebrate their 1st birthday with a compilation video
Best of SPVFA 3304
Frontier release two new pilot training videos
Pilot Training - Exploration
Pilot Training - Mining
It's 3.3 update day - woo hoo - assorted threads on the subject
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Four-3-3-Patch-Notes
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Four-3-3
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Launch-Livestream-(11-12-2018)
Thank-you-a-note-on-the-beta-the-launch-and-your-valuable-feedback
Lifetime-Expansion-Pass-Holders-Update!
The-Last-Day
National-F5-day-11-12-2018
Here-we-go-The-Update-has-Started
Don't forget - Speedbowl II is happening this weekend!
Announcing-SpeedBowl-2-Bombelli-Or-Bust!-8-9-December-3304
The console SRV crash bug has finally been fixed!
Console-Players-SRV-Surface-Crash-Fix
Distant Worlds 2 - community goals
DW2-Community-Goals
Cmdr Explorix completes his circumnavigation of Olelbis 3a
Not-Yet-another-circumnavigation
Distant Radio website has now been created
DW2-Distant-Radio-3305-the-dedicated-Distant-Worlds-3305-radio-station
Old Frontier office building discovered in Elite: Dangerous - hunt is now on for the new premises
Old-Frontier-Towers-has-been-relocated-to-an-Orbis-Starport-Near-YOU!
Ongoing discussion re: the naming of the 42 new galactic regions
The-names-of-the-new-Galactic-Regions-what-do-we-think
Proposal for a Sagittarius Eye community Discord
Thread-SAGi-(Sagittarius-Eye)-Community-Discord-Server-(proposition-and-questions)
The Q4 "first mapped by" goldrush
The-mapping-gold-rush-in-3-3
Q4 releases on 11th December!
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Release-Date-Announcement
Aegis figure out how to neutralise the disruptive effects of Thargoid sensors on starports
Removal-of-UA-Bombing
Operation IDA launch "Happy Holiday Haul" charity fundraiser
Operation-IDA-Charity-Fundraiser-Starting-14th-Dec-To-Repair-Damaged-Starports-and-Improve-lives!
Frontier's traditional 24hr charity xmas livestream is happending again!
Frontier-s-24-Hour-Charity-Stream-2018!
Are you the greatest SRV driver that Elite: Dangerous has ever seen? No? Me neither but give it a try anyway!
The-Pomeche-Ridge-Challenge-a-standing-SRV-time-trial-in-association-with-the-Buckyball-Racing-Club
Distant Radio 3305 - a dedicated DW2 radio station
DW2-Distant-Radio-3305-(working-title)-the-dedicated-Distant-Worlds-3305-radio-station
To celebrate 50,000 rescues the Fuel Rats are having an art competition (with prizes)
50k-Fuel-Rat-Art-Contest-When-a-Rat-Meets-a-Thargoid
Discovery Scanner is back with a new livestream about the audio design and implementation of motherlode asteroids!
Discovery-Scanner-3-Audible-Asteroids-w-Ross-Stack
Q4 beta ends Monday December 3rd
3-3-Chapter-Four-Beta-End-Date
Do you remember when?
I-remember-when
Cmdr furrycat is at it again - this time sciencing the heck out of the reserve fuel tank
Reserve-tank-sizes-for-all-ships
Wonderful new exploration montage video (haven't had a chance to watch this yet but the comments on the thread speak volumes)
Crusina-presents-Nomad-an-Elite-Dangerous-Montage
As Frontier continue to nerf galactic wonders such as colliding planets and luminous gas giants a new petition springs up in their defence
Keep-Galatic-Anomalies-Petition! (tweaked to point at first Frontier response in thread)
Planetary Circumnavigation - one completed and another just begun
The-Planetary-Circumnavigation-Club
Distant Worlds 2 draw ever closer with a new trailer from Erimus Kamzel
Distant-Worlds-2-A-Journey-of-Discovery
Winners of the "Truckers Up Teide" in-game mountain climb race announced
Truckers-up-Teide-the-In-Game-Challenge!-11th-November
New BGS state announced on last night's stream for systems suffering Thargoid incursion
New-Thargoid-Incursion-State
Frontier's "beta blowout" final Q4 livestream
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-Beta-Blowout
Awesome video of the T9 canyon race from a couple of weekend's back!
Epic-Type-9-Canyon-Race-on-the-4th-of-Nov
Frontier announce winners of Colonia engineers screenshot context
Contest-Engineers-in-Colonia-Winners-Announcement
Have people been "wasting their time" in the beta? (tongue-in-cheek)
What-have-you-done-in-Beta
Discussions on how Q4 changes are going to affect the BGS
BGS-changes-Learnings-Issues-comments
The "Truckers Up Teide" in-game mountain climb race is happening this Sunday - come and join in the fun! (and maybe even win a prize)
Truckers-up-Teide-the-In-Game-Challenge!-11th-November
And meanwhile, the actual Truckers (who are cycling up a live volcano on Sunday) arrive in Tenerife and get a surprise message from William Shatner!
A very special message (twitter link)
Cmdr R4nger0 (or R4 to his friends), a lengendary character and streamer from the early days of ED, has almost certainly broken the record for farthest distance from Sol in a Sidewinder!
65-647-34-ly-in-a-Sidewinder
New Full Spectrum Scanner triggers migraine attacks for well known video creator and spells an end to his exploration career?
Well-I-ve-tried-but-nope-FSS-migraine-issues
The official Q4 beta "feature instructions" post has now been updated with the new squadron and mining stuff being released today.
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Feature-Instructions
And the patch notes for the 2nd week of beta are now up!
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-2
Mining and Squadrons coming to the Q4 beta tomorrow (7/11/2018)
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Update-(Week-2)
Fuel Rats hit 50,000 rescues!
Out-of-Fuel-Explorer-Rescue-Service-The-Fuel-Rats
Rootsrat's terrific Q4 lighting comparison video
Chapter-4-Beta-Lighting-Comparison-vs-Current-Game-(1-1)
Mengy's excellent analysis of travel methods and speeds in the Q4 beta
Traveling-Exploration-in-3-3-Is-it-dead-Surprisingly-the-rumors-may-be-exaggerated
Frontier's official Q4 beta FAQ post
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Questions
Frontier show off the new Q4 Squadron and Mining updates
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-Mining-and-Squadrons
Jonas Treesong's planetary circumnavigation of Ariel is complete!
Ariel-circumnavigation
Various threads which might help with Q4 control bindings and/or general testing and operation the new features in the beta
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-1-Feature-Instructions (official beta post from FD)
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-1-Feature-Instructions (similar/identical? post from bug report forum)
FSS-Observations-Tricks-and-Tips-for-Deep-amp-Speedy-Sweeps (some handy tips from Cmdr Ziljan)
How-to-switch-analysis-mode-without-entering-FSS (seems to be one of the most common problems people have been having)
Common-problems-&-Fixes-Workarounds
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-1-Known-Issues (worth a read before reporting Q4 bugs)
Also - note that the bindings to control the DSS probe launcher can (currently) be found under the multi-crew gunner role options!
The beta is here, as are the patch notes (over 2000 bug fixes!)
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Pre-Beta-Announcement
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-1
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-is-live!
Beta-Bug-Report-Forum-Guidelines
Betas and Livestreams - this is the day! (well, and Thursday)
COUNTDOWN-TO-THE-BETA
Beta-FAQ
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-(01-11-2018)-Mining-and-Squadrons
Distant Worlds 2 is a go for mid January 3305
Distant-Worlds-2-A-Journey-of-Discovery
Frontier show off the new Q4 BGS and "scenario" changes
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-Background-Simulation-and-Scenarios
On-the-fly-summary-of-Chapter-4-BGS-Scenarios-Livestream
With-Scenerios-(and-BGS)-changes-Elite-Dangerous-is-a-new-game!
Syllabus for the Elite Dangerous University course (a Youtube series coming on the 1st of November)
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/9nmeak/here_we_go_ladies_and_gents_the_full_syllabus_for/
Frontier show off new visual improvements (including "night vision"), cockpit interface changes, exploration mechanics and the Codex and the crowd goes WILD!
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-Exploration-and-the-Codex
after-stream-discussion
24-Hours-from-now-we-will-witness-the-future-of-Exploration
Q4-Exploration-Reveal
stunned-STUNNED-I-TELL-YOU
Orrery!
Night-Vision
Rumoured-Reported-Discovered
Kerenn "two jumps" Vatueil returns to ED after a long absence and finds there's a lot of new things to do and see.
Kerenn-s-Ketchup
And speaking of having lots of things to do ..
Too-MUCH-to-do-Problem-is-it-isn-t-all-going-to-be-fun
Jonas Treesong's planetary circumnavigation of Ariel is just about to get seriously interesting!
Ariel-circumnavigation (start of discussions about the "seriously interesting" part of the journey)
The Fuel Rats most desparate hour - "Help us CMDRs, youre our only hope"
Come save the Fuel Rats from losing their home system
Fuel Rats Mischief 46.7%, Constitution Party of Fuelum 45.3% after Tick
An-important-battle-won-but-the-war-is-not-over!-FOR-THE-RATS!!!
Type 9 canyon race on the 4th November 3304
Epic Type 9 Race Announcement (video)
While the Truckers climb a real mountain in Tenerife teams of SRV drivers will be scaling a virtual one in the Magec system!
Truckers-up-Teide-the-In-Game-Challenge!-11th-November
Issue #14 of the ever magnificent Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now!
OUT-NOW-Sagittarius-Eye-Issue-14-(Get-your-copy-today!)
Thread for the next Q4 livestream is up
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Livestream-(25-10-2018)-Background-Simulation-and-Scenarios
Nav beacon bobblehead now in store!
New-Bobble-head!!
Frontier announce Q4 livestream schedule, beta release date and a new Q4 teaser trailer
Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Announcement
Frontier recognised as one of the games industry's best places to work (along with a superb mass Frontier group photo in their new offices)
Congratulations-to-Frontier-!-(GIBiz-awards-)
Fuel Rat's Fool Cat kills two!
The Fuel Rats apology to the Cmdr destroyed this morning.
Another week and another planetary circumnavigation begins!
A-Mercurial-Circumnavigation
Cmdr DARIVS has broken Keef Drow's "farthest distance from Sol" record!
Farthest-Distance-from-Sol-Record-Attempt
If your play-time is limited but you still fancy going on an expedition then The Fatherhood ("When the kids go to bed we go to space") have what you seek!
The-Lost-Souls-Expedition!-Launching-October-20th! (aiming to cover approx. 3kly per week)
Scott Manley demonstrates Elite: Dangerous to NASA
NASA-plays-Elite-Dangerous!
Various threads concerning a visit by a number of prominent(?) community members to Frontier's offices last Thursday to see all the new Q4 stuff
Community-guests-at-FD-HQ-on-27th-for-Q4-news (my own drunk posts begin here just after midnight - eventually this thread drowned in so much scepticism about the motives for the visit that I unsubscribed but make of it what you will)
Yamiks-Obsidian-And-and-Co-Creator-s-Roundtable-On-The-Visit-To-Frontier (fast forward about 1.5hrs to the Beyond + FD visit bit)
Round-Up-of-3-3-Impressions-FDev-Community-Visit (excellent thread by Golgot who's attempted to summarise all the comments from various threads and livestreams in one place)
Obsidian Ant's "3304" video about his visit to FD
Community guest FDEV visit 3.3 impressions (nice roundup of various comments from the "Blessed 17" over on reddit)
Cmdr Up2d4t3 breaks the unlimited class record for the Sagittarius A* Buckyball Run! (1hr 52m 29s)
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-A*-Challenge
Nice ongoing travelogue of one commanders journey to Colonia (with some terrific screenshots)
Moving-to-Colonia-a-Travelogue
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw - a new single player space gaming coming out next year that's worth a look (far more arcadey than Elite but really impressive nevertheless)
Rebel-Galaxy-Outlaw
Micro-jumps - the graphic novel, the video, the suggestion - awesomeness[SUP]3[/SUP]
Inter-Sun-A-Micro-Jump-Graphic-Novel
It's an old idea but done really well - Forum Bingo - eyes down for a full house!
Proposal-DD-BINGO-!
Cmdr Odengard's beautifully documented on-going journey to some of the more colourful corners of the galaxy.
The-Green-and-Pink-expedition-travelog
Frontier's description of the Q4 exploration changes are here!
Chapter-Four-Exploration-Reveal
Plus further explanation and feedback via livestream
Chapter-Four-Exploration-Recap
The dedicated mission server and an end to "board flipping"?
Implementation-of-a-dedicated-mission-server
Off-topic but how awesome and hilarious was that Banksy stunt! (or perhaps you disagree)
A-painting-by-Banksy-self-destructs
New Buckyball Race "Triangle Triathlon" (involving Ship, SRV and SLF stages) now on - runs until October 8th
The-Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Triangle-Triathlon-29th-Sept-to-8th-October-3304
Some positivity in a sea of doubt and uncertainty
After-3-years-I-m-still-playing-this-game-And-for-that-I-d-like-to-take-a-moment-of-appreciation
I-wish-I-could-share-my-style-of-playing-with-everyone
Further noteworthy discussions on the new exploration mechanics
Proposal-alternative-to-outright-removal-of-ADS-instascan-amp-system-map-minigame-for-explorers
New-Exploration-Mechanics-What-I-really-want-to-know
FDEV-Please-don't-ruin-exploration-Changes-you-are-introducing-for-ADS-are-a-massive-downgrade
The-Compromise-to-End-All-Compromises-Exploration-Scanner-Edition
Issue #13 of the ever wonderful Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now!
Sagittarius-Eye
Fresh from attaining record breaking galactic highs and lows, Cmdr Straha Yeager now turns his attention to planetary circumnavigation with what is
Meridian-a-planetary-circumnavigation
Expert advice on how to construct a forum rant (LOL)
How-to-rant-properly-in-DD
Hyperdicted Gnosis jump - Frontier's greatest fail or boldest storyline yet? Only time will tell but I'm reserving judgement for now.
BREAKING-NEWS-GNOSIS-STRANDED-GALNET-NEWS!
Updates from Frontier on the Gnosis story plus a status report on fixes for current issues
Let-s-talk-about-Gnosis-and-the-Cone-Sector
Status-on-Gnosis-related-Bugs
And a pretty decent article on the event from Kotaku.
If-Frontier-wanted-to-attract-interest-from-outside-press
It's been a while since the last one and we could do with lightening the mood, so - another thread showcasing the plethora of wonderful little subtleties built in to this game
Subtleties
With almost prescient timing IGN publish an interesting article on the power of video gaming communties
Interesting-article-on-gaming-community
A highly amusing take on the language used in FD's recent update announcement
Corpo-Speak-for-Commanders
Iridescent paint jobs! (Oh my god these are BEAUTIFUL - but if you want them all it's gonna set you back �156)
Iridescent-paint-jobs-In-the-store
The Hutton Truckers are cycling up a volcano for charity (hey, once you've made it to Hutton Orbital anything else is a piece of cake right?)
Commanders-do-the-craziest-things-pt-2-Truckers-up-Teide!
Official Frontier "Colonia Engineer" screenshot competition (win a Hyper X headset)
Contest-Engineers-in-Colonia
Far God surface bases discovered
New-Surface-Bases
The offices of Sagittarius Eye magazine have gone dark
What-the-hell-just-happened-to-Sagittarius-Eye
Sagittarius-Eye-Bulletin-Research-Aids-in-Thargoid-War-Signal-Detected
Nee "Hydra" Thargoid ship type (I think he means new)
Nee-Thargoid-Type
New Guardian stuff (SPOILERS!)
Massive-Guardian-Ship-found!
Cone sector now permit locked (and full of Hydra!) - but Gnosis jump is officially still going ahead - Watch the Skies!
Attention-Explorers-GNOSIS-Jumps-planned-THROUGH-a-permit-Lock-!
Patch notes for the Q3 update are up!
Update-3-2
Cmdr PrimetimeCasual completes his SRV circumnavigation of Mitterand Hollow, taking 51.5 hours and witnesssing 2,156 planet rises in the process!
The-Planetary-Circumnavigation-Club
His #TrippyHollow Twitter Feed
Cmdr straha20 reaches new Peak above the galactic plane (a truly awesome forum post - probably worthy of an "epic tales of derring do" entry)
Peak-A-new-high-point-in-exploration
Galnet article talks about new types of body-worn HUD to be revealed at an expo in October (surely there is an ar least 50:50 chance that this is FD teasing something?)
New-Computer-Designs-Announced
The Gnosis' five week mission to explore strange new worlds
Attention-Explorers-GNOSIS-Jumps-planned-THOUGH-a-permit-Lock-!
Official Q3 launch announcement with full details, images and video
Beyond-Chapter-Three-Launch-Announcement
List of new things announced at Gamescom (unofficial)
Gamescom-2018
And a leaked video from the evening event
3-2-Beyond-Video-with-teaser-trailer-and-Summary
Official-"Introducing-The-Guardian-Fighters"-3-2-SLF-Trailer-and-PCGamesN-article
New Buckyball Race starts today and runs for one week
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-On-The-Rocks-20-27-August-3304
Cmdr Edradour's promising new account of his adventures in Elite: Dangerous
A-Slow-Dance-in-Known-Space
Beyond Q3 teaser trailer and launch date (28/08/2018)
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Three-(3-2)-Release-Date-Announcement
Have you ever? (it's confession time)
I-have-never
Leading BGS groups propose new gameplay ideas
Factions-A-gameplay-proposal-by-leading-BGS-groups
Close examination of Krait cockpit reveals "classic" Rare trading map hidden in the details
Rares-map-on-Krait-rear-console
Head look lock lambasting inspires creation of awesome new weapons
Alleged-Headlock-Hack-Offers-New-Ideas-for-Weapons-to-Improve-Game-Play
Humanizing the AEDC! (OK, I admit it, I jumped to some conclusions about the AEDC - turns out they're human just like you and me and I apologise)
Lave Radio AEDC special with some fascinating insights into the world of the meta-BGS (link points directly at mp3 file)
Ed Lewis definitely was NOT down the pub and definitely did NOT
Focused-Feedback-Forum-Content-Schedule
Lockdown in Lave and the on-going struggle between the AEDC (Filthy [Alliance] weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!) and the supporters of Lave Radio (Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for the [Independents])
(note: use of Blackader quote implies a humourus tongue-in-cheek take on this - feel free to swap according to who's side you take in all this)
PSA-Lave-blockade-(regards-engineer-unlock)
Lockdown-Questions-(Lave-Brandy-for-Didi-Vatermann)
Lave-under-Lockdown
Operation-Hope-for-Lave
PC Gamer article with Dr Anthony Ross talking about Stellar Forge
PC-Gamer-Article-The-mind-bending-science-behind-the-planets-of-Elite-Dangerous
EDProfiler, the essential VR configuration utility created by drkai, has been receiving some awesome updates recently including a fantastic new "tone mapping" utlity which allow you to "make space dark again". Definitely worth checking out if you haven't already seen it (and may well be of interest to non-VR users too).
EDProfiler-A-New-Display-Switcher-Robust-Settings-Profiler-Switcher-Detector!
Frontier implement a new system for submitting applications for a player owned minor faction.
New-Player-Minor-Faction-System
Nothing ground-breaking (or especially new) but a few (occasionally somewhat trollish) threads I've been following this week.
Why-Elite-Dangerous-isn't-very-popular-on-twitch
Is-Chapter-4-make-it-or-break-it-for-you
No-Man-s-Sky-changed-my-perspective
Complaints from the future! (really quite funny)
Thread-reserved-for-future-complaints
The winners of Frontier's holo screen advert competition have been announced! (he says, with a cheesy grin on his face
)Design-A-Holo-Screen-Advert-Winners
Design-a-Holo-Screen-Advert-Competition-Winners-Livestream
Krait ship kit now available in the store (and yes, it has a spoiler!)
Love-it-or-hate-it-the-Krait-gets-a-spoiler!
Cosmicspacehead returns to Elite after a long absence and documents his journey back into the game.
Diary-Of-A-Returning-CMDR
Yet another "advice for new players" thread (only time will tell whether this one proves worthy of preserving in the OP).
Best-advice-for-newcommers
New Buckyball Race - "The Race To The Poles" - on now and runs until midnight Sunday 22nd July!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Race-to-the-Poles-Polar-Ship-Fram-Celebration-14-22-July-3304
Excellent new interview with Braben and Co. about Frontier.
Terrific-new-MCV-article-on-Frontier-their-new-premises-scientific-authenticity-and-Cobra
Chapter Two Treasure Hunt (aka Screenshot) competition winner announced!
The-Chapter-Two-Treasure-Hunt-Competition
Issue #11 of Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now!
Sagittarius-Eye
At someone else's request - my three day struggle to ride my SRV on the back of a Thargoid is over.
Attack-on-Penal-Colony-BV-2259-(SRV-vs-Thargoid)
Tannik Seldon is orbiting planets in his SRV again! (with awesome Farseer Base fly-by)
Just-a-casual-cruise-over-Farseer-Base-Nothing-to-see-here
The Buckyball "Black Riband" smuggling race is back and it's bigger and better than ever before!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Black-Riband-Rebooted
Cmdr Malibu, who famously drew the Elite: Dangerous logo on the galaxy a few months back, needs your help with a new venture!
Drawing-the-Fuel-Rats-logo-on-the-galaxy-!-I-need-your-help-!
Join DWE organisers DrKaii and Erimus Kamzel this Sunday for the Sudden Mystery expedition! (73.05ly minimum jump range)
DW2-Sudden-Mystery-Expedition
Patch 3.1.1 has arrived - in particular it fixes the Guardian FSD booster (again - hopefully!)
Update-3-1-1
Which ship do you fly? The Crapwinder, a Jack of No Trades, a Toast Jammer or a Federal Courgette?
Compiling-a-list-of-nicknames-for-various-ships
Take part in the first great galactic census (why? no idea - couldn't find a TLDR, nice video tho!)
First-Great-galactic-census
Lists of things people want added are ten-a-penny but this is a pretty good one.
My-List-of-"realistic"-wishes-for-the-game-till-the-end-of-the-year
New things are being discovered in the Alien Breaking News thread.
Alien-archaeology-and-other-mysteries-Breaking-News-Theories-and-Tinfoil-Hattery
UPDATE: imgur's block on the forums has now been removed - phew!
Access-to-i-imgur-com-was-denied
3.1 bug notes!
Status-on-a-few-reported-issues-in-3-1
3.1 patch notes!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Two-3-1
Beyond chapter 2 update is launching today ..
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Two-Announcement-(28-06-18)
.. and among other things we get the Krait and the Challenger - here are the spec's for the 2 ships.
Challenger spec's
Krait spec's
Some interesting Elite: Dangerous concept art (including new surface ports and megaship designs) from Nick Tagney
https://www.artstation.com/nick_t
Following a question asked at Lavecon it seems all Colonia player faction bases will now be getting shipywards!
Shipyards-added-to-player-faction-bases-in-Colonia
Further details of the Q4 mining update are now available in focused feedback.
HITTING-THE-MOTHER-LODE
Cmdr rootstrat is planning on celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hermaszewski's trip into space by re-running the Winged Hussars Buckyball Race.
Feel free to join him if you're not too busy engineering your Kraits.
BRC-TWH-present-Hermaszewski-Celebration-Race
From a recent "list your three most used ships" thread, results are now available (the results might amaze you - then again).
The-results-are-in-from-your-three-most-used-ships-and-the-results-will-amaze-you!
A timely reminder that you might not be getting the best ED colours from your HDMI display (and there's a REALLY easy way to fix it)
The-black-just-got-blacker-Full-RGB
Various summaries of what was revealed at Frontier's Lavecon presentation
Lavecon-Panel-Beyond-Q4-Sneak-Peeks-Q-amp-A-Notes-Pix-amp-Vids
Lavecon-FD-Panel-Quick-Summary-(Exploration-Mining-News)
LaveCon-2018-QA-quick-recap
The results for the Lavecon 2018 Buckyball Race are up!
The-Lavecon-Buckyball-Race-2018
And (for those that have now developed a taste for it), there's a new Buckyball Race starting on the 16th June.
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Close-Encounters-(16-24-June-3304)
Cmdr Sanderling sets a new normal flight high-g enhanced speed record of 32,825 m/s!
Surface-Supercruise!
Cmdr Tannik Seldon travels the 50km from Ferguson Prospect to Elwood Camp on Wasat A 2 E in one mighty SRV bound!
The-Wasat-Leap-Launching-an-SRV-between-two-bases-without-touching-the-ground
Lavecon 2018 (8th - 10th June)
Lavecon-2018
Gnosis causes gravitational anomaly over Mitterand Hollow which is pulling SRV's off the planet's surface!
SRV-in-orbit!-700km-up-above-planet-surface-(Mitterand-Hollow)
"List your favourite ships" threads appear quite often but this one is especially good!
List-your-three-most-used-ships-and-tell-us-a-bit-about-them
Arghhhh, my immersion!
Little-things-that-break-immersion-and-world-integrity
There's lots more to this game than just exploration, mining, combat and trade! Check out Qohen Leth's fantastic career chart!
Comprehensive-Elite-Dangerous-Career-Chart
Beyond Chapter Two coming June 28!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-Two-Release-Date
Hanekura Shizuka completes a record breaking circumnavigation of the entire galaxy in just over 7.5 days!
Around-the-Galaxy-in-7-553-days-a-DECE-Speed-Circumnavigation
Keef Drow just broke the furthest distance from Sol record - 65,707lys and still going!
Farthest-Distance-from-Sol-Record-Attempt
The Buckyball "Falling With Style" base jumping race/festival is over and the winners have been announced.
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Falling-With-Style-An-SRV-base-jumping-festival-(19-27-May-3304)
More stunning paint-job concepts courtesy of Qohen Leth
WHAAM!-2-18-Clipper-Paintjob-Concepts-Chris-Foss-Cargo-Beluga
Awesome new spinning station timelapse image from Qohen Leth.
Screenie(s)-v2
It's very rare that I post stuff like this but I like rootrat a lot and I think he's written a terrific post here ..
4-years-in-the-cockpit-the-magic-is-gone
Issue #9 of the fantabulous Sagittarius Eye magazine is now available to download!
http://www.sagittarius-eye.com/
Official new Elite: Dangerous card game ... yes, seriously!!!
Livestream-Elite-Dangerous-Battle-Cards-(24-05-7-00-PM-BST)
Expedition to visit all 9 of the generation ships has been declared a great success.
Futures-Past-The-Generation-Ship-Tour
If getting more stuff for less money/material is your thing then you'll love FD's bonus Week
Bonus-Weekend-Trade-amp-Engineering-(24-05-to-30-05)
Cmdr Kith000's "Panels App" for Elite Dangerous is now in beta testing for Android!
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412067-RELEASE-Panels-for-iOS-(Android-Coming-Soon)-Alternative-to-Roccat-Power-Grid
Cmdr Keef Drow is attempting to break the record for farthest distance from Sol (and, with a multi-week supercruise journey, also the galaxy's most boring video stream!
)Farthest-Distance-from-Sol-Record-Attempt
Sandro has proposed some new Powerplay ideas including .... drum roll ... making Powerplay Open mode only! :-O
FLASH-TOPIC-Powerplay-Proposal
The Buckyball "Galaxy's End" galactic pub crawl race is over and the winner is ... errp ... well that's awkward!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-Presents-The-Galaxy-s-End-A-Buckyball-Pub-Crawl-(28th-April-to-13th-May)
Thorberg Shavestroke lands on a planet with atmosphere! (kinda)
Just-landed-on-a-planet-with-an-atmosphere
Summary of the Squadrons livestream
Summary-of-Focused-Feedback-Squadrons-livestream
Cmdr Baton has found a planet with Pumpkins, Brain trees, Bark mounds and geysers!
Space-pumpkins-story-so-far-and-a-new-discovery
Will Flannagan and Adam Bourke-Waite Squadrons livestream at 6pm tonight! (note earlier than usual start)
Livestream-Focused-Feedback-Squadrons-(10-May-6PM-BST)
The highly anticipated focused feedback forums for Squadrons are now up!
Beyond-Series-Focused-Feedback
The Outer Rim Station Tour - a 2 month long expedition to visit some of the more remote inhabited stations around the galaxy
Expedition-The-Outer-Rim-Station-Tour
A long running and very popular discussion thread on the subject of atmospheric landings (and space legs)
Will-Elite-Dangerous-have-Atmospheric-Landings-Space-Legs-or-Procedural-Cities-by-2019
And a more recent thread on atmospheric timeline speculation
Atmospheric-Landings-is-Not-Coming-Early-2019
Join the best damn Elite: Dangerous news team in the galaxy!
Seeking-video-editors-to-join-our-Bulletin-News-Team-(Sagittarius-Eye)
Mad Raptor's beautiful short film on geological features in Elite: Dangerous.
GEOLOGIC-AN-MWSOG-SHORT-FILM-(OUT-NOW)
Speed Bowl 3304 - winners announced!
Speed-Bowl-Championships-ANNOUNCEMENT
As the title suggests with some good ripostes to the question.
The-SRV-Why-is-it-so-bad?
When world's collide! (terrific video from Ghost Giraffe on colliding moons)
Moons-colliding-in-ED
Cmdr Malibu creates the universe's largest Elite Dangerous logo - basically the size of the galaxy!
Elite-Dangerous-logo-drawn-on-the-galaxy-map
Mat Recardo's absolutely frickin' awesome Elite Atmospherics videos (yes, that's right, plural - he's done another one!)
(HUMOUR)-Leaked-footage-from-secret-dev-build-Atmospherics
100 amazing new paintjobs now available!
WHAAM!-100-Paintjob-Concepts-For-Fun
Fancy having your own advertising billboard featured in-game?
Design-A-Holo-Screen-Advert
Deadline for Buckyball Race "The Galaxy's End: A Buckyball Pub Crawl" has been extended until 13th May 3304!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-Presents-The-Galaxy-s-End-A-Buckyball-Pub-Crawl-(28th-April-to-6th-May)
Frontier announce focused feedback schedule for Q4 updates
Focused-Feedback-Forum-Content-Schedule
It's the end of Elite: Dangerous on the Mac!
Important-Mac-announcement
The "genius of Elite" - a new player shares his story so far.
Living-Dangerously-My-Elite-Journey-So-Far
Off-topic - Spacebaboy's silly (but strangely compelling) picture quiz
Elite-Dangerous-Picture-Quiz-Do-you-know-your-stuff
Owww! Oh yeah, hurt me baby ... oh ... it's not that kind of thread.
Making-Punishment-Fun
Get orf moi land!
FD-can-you-please-come-up-with-a-soultion-to-CMDR-s-blocking-the-pads-at-the-outpost
Sandro continues to look into the idea of "handing yourself in to the cops" + improvements to friendly fire and notoriety decay
Crime-Update
Issue #8 of Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now and it's an absolute stunner!
Sagittarius Eye issue 8 - Crime in 3304
For those that missed it ... REALLY terrific "80 level" interview with Doctor Anthony Ross on the Stellar Forge and how it manages to generate our galaxy.
Generating The Universe in Elite: Dangerous
Help wanted in gathering resources for the Distant Worlds 2 expedition!
Distant-Worlds-2-Fleet-Logistics-Looking-for-Volunteers!
MadRaptor teases stunning new "Geologic" short film
MWSOG-Presents-Geologic-A-Short-Film
Children of the 70's gaze upon the game with childlike awe
childlike-awe
Cmdr Bomba Luigi completes his circumnavigation of planet Wilson
Planetary-Circumnavigation-Wilson-Edition
Cmdr Kris completes his 30 day circumnavigation of Syralaei BF-A d69 5 a
My-journey-around-366km-radius-rocky-moon-(travel-log)
A spoiler for your spoiler sir?
Oh YESSS Frontier store Master Trolls
Spoiler++ for the T-10 available!
D-day may be less than 48hrs away! (it wasn't)
D-day-is-Coming-Are-We-Ready
New Buckyball Race ("Poisson d'avril") - final weekend!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Poisson-d-avril-(Mar-31st-Apr-8th)
Cmdr Kathryn Kando gets interdicted at a Neutron star and loses her canopy - but 25mins of life support will be plenty right?
I-m-so-stupd-or-the-long-wait-for-death
Guardian FSD booster - great range, TERRIBLE fuel consumption!
Guardian-FSD-booster-question
FSD-boost-insane-fuel-use-hike
The winners of Frontier's 3.0 screenshot competition have been announced.
The-Great-3-0-Treasure-Hunt-Winners!
The Eagle Eyes seem to have woken up again?
New-Things-in-Pleiades-Sector-IR-W-D1-55
Yours truly visits Bomba Luigi on planet Wilson, falls into Sarlacc's Pit, escapes and spends some time with the intrepid circumnavigator.
Planetary-Circumnavigation-Wilson-Edition (Sarlacc's Pit)
-Planetary-Circumnavigation-Wilson-Edition (Chasing Bomba)
Will and Steve on Community Goals in tonight's Frontier livestream.
Livestream-Community-Goal-Action-(29-March-7PM-GMT)
Uh oh! Have the Thargoids already grown wise to the Eagle Eye installations?
New-Things-in-Pleiades-Sector-IR-W-D1-55
This week's Lave Radio features a Q&A with Adam Bourke-Waite and Will Flanagan (interesting statistic - over one weekend 1.6 million missions were completed!)
LAVE-RADIO-A-podcast-about-Elite-Dangerous
Meanwhile, Cmdrs Kris and Bomba Luigi continue their inexporable bids to join the ranks of the Planetary Circumnavigation Club
Kris - day 20
Bomba - day 4
New issue of the "Galactic Geologist" out now!
Galactic-Geologist-A-Magazine-for-and-by-Geyser-Fumarole-and-Organic-enthusiasts
ToCoSo's stunning collection of photoshopped ship scale images.
A-YEARS-WORTH-OF-FAN-ART-SHIP-SCALE-PICTURES
Frontier's "Treasure Hunt" screenshot competition turns it's attention to Thargoids and Guardians
The-Great-3-0-Treasure-Hunt-Thargoid-Marauder-or-Guardian-Ruin-Entry-Thread!
New update (3.0.5) to fix trade data issue.
Update-3-0-5
In a slow news week, a thread about it being a slow news week.
Is-it-getting-quieter-here
Patch notes for 3.0.4
Update-3-0-4
Wingman navlock bug has now been officially granted a Grade I listing on the Historic England heritage list! (this may not be entirely true)
Rant-Plea-to-fix-Wing-Beacon-issues-present-since-2-1
Famous castaway Bomba Luigi returns to planet Wilson and this time he intends to drive all the way around it!
Planetary-Circumnavigation-Wilson-Edition
Hot hot hot!
Hot-Ships-hot-modules-outfitting-proposal
Hot-Ships-and-Bounties (focused feedback)
Eagle Eyed commanders are on the trail of something new in the Pleiades!
New-Things-in-Pleiades-Sector-IR-W-D1-55
Mengy's before and after 3.0 planetary comparisons thread
The-Voyage-Chromatic!-(sequel-to-The-Search-for-Color)-Revisiting-beige-worlds-for-comparison
Patch notes for todays update are now available
Update-3-0-2
The final(?) episode of the brilliant DarkenSpace video series is now available.
DarkenSpace-video-series
Cmdr Nick Sticks completes his epic 2 month long, 2785 km circumnavigation of a small planet in an SRV
The-circumnavigation-of-planet-Eol-Prou-FB-I-b25-50-1-a-funny-looking-rock
And just as he finishes, Cmdr Kris begins his own planetary circumnavigation attempt
My-journey-around-366km-radius-rocky-moon-(travel-log)
Cmdr Alot breaks the 2hr barrier for a Buckyball run to Sagittarius A*!
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-A*-Challenge
Timmy Brabston accidentally drives his SRV into orbit and has to call the Fuel Rats (wonderful video)
The-Planetary-Circumnavigation-Club
New Buckyball Race "Chicken Run" is on NOW! (and runs until midnight Sunday 11th March)
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-Chicken-Run
Best galactic exploration heat map yet?
Maps-and-visualizations
Guardian stuff is happening! (WARNING: spoilers!)
Guardians-Discussions (link to where it starts)
GUARDIAN-PUZZLE-SOLVED-synuefe-eu-q-c21-10
Not everyone is happy tho!
Please-for-the-love-of-guardians-Thargoids-stop-making-us-shoot-stuff
Fancy exploring the Pleiades in an Adder? Check out the "Eclipsis Adder Tour", heading out 1st March 3304.
Adder-Tour-by-Eclipsis-And-DSN
Comparison of Sol moons, before and after 3.0 surface colouration
Sol-2-4-vs-3-0-landable-moons-comparison
3.0 has landed - what have you done? what do you reckon?
3-0-is-here-what-have-you-been-trying-what-do-you-like
Maro-Val re-creates the Interstellar docking sequence with an SLF and a spinning Corvette
VIDEO-Boarding-a-FREEFALLING-CORVETTE!
I need your help creating a list of SRV base jumping locations!
A-guide-to-good-base-jumping-locations
Excellent and very funny (but incredibly sweary) video on what ED is like in VR
Funniest-Video-on-getting-started-with-ED-VR-I-have-seen-hands-down
Information on Elite Meet (in Reading) and Pizzameet (in Portland Oregon)
Elite-social-get-togethers-Elite-Community-Meet-(Reading)-and-Portland-Oregon!
Even better than the patch notes!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-the-features-of-3-0
New "Celeste" COVAS voice pack available on the store!
New-COVAS-voice-pack-on-the-store-(so-new-voice-packs-are-going-to-be-store-items-then)
Patch Notes!!!!!!!!!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-3-0
Servers down - 3.0 cometh!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-Server-Downtime-(27-02-18)
While you wait for 3.0 to download why not watch some live streams?
Beyond-Chapter-One-Launch-Livestreams
Oh, and watch SushiCW's stunning video of his time on the "World of Death" too!
Challenge-to-land-on-the-world-of-death
On-going Kill Warant Scanner feedback discussion (I think Sandro's pretty much arrived at a solution now)
Kill-Warrant-Scanner-Feedback
Charity auction to "name your own megaship"
GameBlast-Auction-Name-your-own-class-of-Mega-Ship-in-Elite-Dangerous!
Beyond 3.0 Chapter One is being released next Tuesday (27th Feb)
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-Release-Date
The February edition of the excellent Sagittarius Eye magazine is now available
The-February-Issue-of-Sagittarius-Eye-is-Now-Out!
Official summary of C&P updates for 3.0 Beyond
Crime-and-Punishment-in-Beyond-Chapter-One
Rejoice - Isinona has dropped a new video
New-Isinona-Video-!-Thief
Sandro Sammarco wants your feedback on the 3.0 Kill Warrant Scanner changes
Kill-Warrant-Scanner-Feedback
A reminder and update to Cmdr Arithon's wonderful set of ED ship blueprints (as featured in the main "Best of" post) plus a superb new trailer video!
Blueprint-series-update
****ie Landing and Willie Highwake take over Hutton Orbital News Radio (Ed Lewis and Will Flanagan get VERY silly indeed!)
hutton-orbital-news-thursday-9th-february-2018
Qohen Leth's beautiful DW2 "Grand Tour" printable poster artwork
Grand-Tour-wallpaper-printable-poster
Sandro explains more tweaks to the C&P system
Crime-System-Changes
And also - increases to material storage limits!
Materials storage and FSD synthesis
The Dove Enigma expedition finally made it and have been partying in style!
Enigma-Expedition-to-Colonia-for-Charity-and-for-with-CMDR-DoveEnigma13
It's time to to start officially signing up for DW2!
DW2-Distant-Worlds-II-Fleet-Roster-Sign-Up-Thread
Questions wanted for Thursday's Q&A with Sandy
Questions-needed-Beta-Discussion-Livestream-with-Sandy-Sammarco
The Buckyball "Medevac Memorial Challenge" race is now over - hmmm, I wonder who won?
Buckyball-Racing-Club-Presents-The-Medevac-Memorial-Challenge-(27JAN-04FEB)
Planetary fog is back (YAY!), Dark side of planets is no longer dark (BOO!)
Beyond-3-0-Beta-3-Patch-Notes
Help Cmdr Dreamstate with his investigation into the age old "dark squares on planet surfaces" bug!
Planetary-Square-Bugs-Your-Help-Required!
3.0 beta finishes on the 9th Feb (after one more update on the 6th Feb)
Chapter-One-Beta-closure-and-last-weekend-of-the-beta-treats
"Staggering outpouring of support" will hopefully save the Dove Enigma expedition!
Dove-Enigma-and-the-Enigma-Expedition
The release of 3.0 beta 2 brings with it better engineer rolls, the ability to pin all grades of a given blueprint and easier progression through grades 1-5 if you already have higher reputation with that engineer. FD may have just hit the sweetspot with this release.
Beyond-3-0-Beta-2-Incoming
Beyond-3-0-Beta-2-Changes-to-Engineers
With-Beta-2-Engineering-I-Think-You-ve-Hit-The-Sweet-Spot-FD
Beta bug allows Cmdrs to boost their ships to over 2MM/s! (with video evidence)
Old-Rolls-vs-New-Rolls-megathread
Cmdr Persera's ongoing galactic adventure (she of epic Fuel Rat rescue on the fringes of the galaxy fame)
The-Void-Beyond
A bunch of interesting beta 3.0 threads for those unafraid of spoilers
Planetary-Colours
Old-Rolls-vs-New-Rolls-megathread
C&P-FAQ-Things-you-might-not-know
Mass-Manager-vs-Deep-Charge (getting the best FSD from the new engineer changes)
Beyond-3-0-Open-Beta-Aliens-Spoilers (Canonn discussion beta spoiler thread)
FD posts a 3.0 known issues list
3-0-Open-Beta-Known-Issues-List
The 3.0 beta patch notes are up!
3-0-Open-Beta-Patch-Notes
Some excellent (and nicely illustrated) ideas on new styles of Elite: Dangerous gameplay
Designing-new-gameplay
Summary of content featured in third Beyond livestream (Engineering, Materials trader and Galnet audio)
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(23-01-2018)-Part-3-Recap
The "Enigma" expedition - over 500 cmdrs on a life affirming journey from Jackson's Lighthouse to Colonia all in support of Cmdr DoveEngima13 and his valiant battle against cancer. With 15 days left to go it's not too late to join in!
Enigma-Expedition-to-Colonia-for-Charity-and-for-with-CMDR-DoveEnigma13
Got stuck in the toast rack? Recalled ship just blown up? Ghost Giraffe's terrific new instructional video with 5 handy tips that every pilot ought to know!
5-Things-Everyone-Knows-Except-for-You
The January edition of the superb Sagittarius Eye magazine is out now!
http://www.sagittariuseyes.com/january-3304.html
Good list of things to try (if you haven't already)
Things-every-CMDR-should-do-once
Answers to the questions asked following the second (Chieftan) livestream have now been posted.
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(18-01-2018)-Part-2-Recap (additional answers)
Answers to the questions asked following the first (C&P) livestream have now been posted.
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(16-01-2018)-Part-1-Recap (additional answers)
Summary of content featured in second Beyond livestream (Planets, Chieftan, Trade tools, etc)
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(18-01-2018)-Part-2
Summary of content featured in first Beyond livestream (Crime & Punishment, Wing missions)
Content-Recap-Beyond-Chapter-One-Livestream-(16-01-2018)-Part-1-Recap
Cmdr Arithon (he of ship blueprint fame, among MANY other things) needs your help with his Vehicle Codex
Vehicle-Codex-WIP-Help-Info-needed
Elite Racers host new "Breakout" racing season with ladder-style 1v1 race events around 3 separate space installation circuits
Elite-Racers-present-Breakout-Series-1v1-Touranment
Cmdr Nick Sticks
The-circumnavigation-of-planet-Eol-Prou-FB-I-b25-50-1-a-funny-looking-rock
Plans are afoot for a major CG (and much more) in support of the Distant Worlds Expedition II
Distant-Worlds-II-Some-ideas-on-getting-the-most-out-of-the-upcoming-content
A bunch of threads reacting to what was shown in the 2nd Beyond livestream
Devs-deserve-some-love-right-now-!
Recon-Limpet
Colorful-planets-shown-from-Part-2-of-the-Beyond-Livestream
The-New-Trading-System-Amazing-Improvement-but-Please-Balance-Profits
So-that-Tech-Broker
SPOILER!-I-don-t-think-frontier-intended-to-reveal-this
Beyond livestream schedule
Livestream-schedule-Beyond-Chapter-One-content-reveals-(dates-content-and-time)
Ed Lewis leaks Beyond info' on Pixel Bandits podcast including more Chieftan details (medium ship, no rank lock, 2 Large, 1 medium and 3 small hardpoints)
Beyond-Inside-News-(Interview-with-Ed-Lewis)
What philosophy do you live by in Elite?
Philosophy-that-you-live-by-in-space-Share-yours!
First great "things you love about ED" thread of 2018
Things-you-love-about-Elite-Dangerous
Cmdr's Alot and Hanekura Shizuka win in their respective classes of "The Last Gasp" Buckyball Race
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Last-Gasp
White knight? post something negative, forum whinger? say something positive.
The-Forum-Opinion-Reversal-Challenge
Beyond Q1 beta update (including Chieftan + a whole raft of improvements) coming Thursday 25 January!
Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-Beta-Announcement
Title says it all really!
Obsidian-Orbital-in-Maia-has-been-attacked-by-the-thargoids
New Buckyball Race "The Last Gasp" starts 06.01.3304! (what would you do if you only had 25 minutes to live?)
Buckyball-Racing-Club-presents-The-Last-Gasp-(06.01.3304-14.01.3304)
Say hi to new community manager Will
Introducing-new-Community-Manager-Will
Finally some progress for attacked stations under repair!
Starport-Status-finally-updating!
Starports-"Under-Repair"-change-to-visibility-of-progress
Wing Atlantis have managed to find the Thargoid Scout ship seen in David Braben's video!
Second-thargoid-scout-has-been-found
Slightly off-topic but ... new Jurassic World Evolution footage (and it's looking frickin' awesome)
So-IGN-First-just-put-out-another-Jurassic-World-Evolution-trailer
Operation "Beyond the Void" - Cmdr Highwaywarrior's blog recounting the events leading up to the extraordinary rescue of Cmdr Persera, 65,659Ly from Sol and 48hrs in Supercruise beyond the outer edge of the galaxy!
operation-fuel-beyond-the-void
Obsidian Ant's review of the last year
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Screenie(s)
ED new year's resolutions
My-Elite-Dangerous-Resolution-for-2018-is
Even older stuff
Trending threads pre3304
(distant worlds 2)
Figured I should just include a permanent entry here for Distant Worlds 2 since it's such a massive thing for the coming year. Click the logo below to go to the official web page where you'll find links to all the information about the expedition including the forum threads, fleet roster, signups, community goals, press coverage and much more besides.
Newsletters:
- Newsletter #0 ("As I type this, there are nearly 11,000 of us.")
- Newsletter #1 ("Hello humans! Off to a good start!")
- Newsletter #2 ("Goodness! Where to begin! Can everyone please stop being so awesome, we are setting the bar way too high.")
- Newsletter #3 ("This weeks newsletter is going to be a shorter one, and this will happen for up to half of the newsletters.")
- Newsletter #4 ("Business as usual. We are deep in the galaxy now.")
- Newsletter #5 ("We are at the end of the largest leg of the expedition so far.")
- Newsletter #6 ("Well hello there. Didnt see you come in. Can I just say, you are looking fine tonight.")
- Newsletter #7 ("This week, we have an initiative to finish what we started build a station in the core of the galaxy.")
- Newsletter #8 ("It is time to say some goodbyes, and I am never good at that.")
Epilogue - Acknowledgements, the Voyager Trail Route, and DW3 Speculation
(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 [SUP]A[/SUP]/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 [SUP]A[/SUP]/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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