Newcomer / Intro It's been a while...

Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
Greetings Commanders
I've been away for five or six years and the galaxy has changed. It looks the same, but my memory is rusty and the ghost of a ship that's been floating in space for all this time, feels unfamiliar. I push buttons, flip switches, twiddle knobs. Nothing does as I expect. Accidentally, while trying to remember what does what, I put the ship in silent running too close to a star. I don't know at the time which button did it and don't know how to undo it. My ship explodes and I begin again at a station somewhere I vaguely remember.

I'd been out in the black and had amassed enough data to change up a gear. Now I've lost all that exploration data and don't remember where I've been.
The reason I stopped playing was the fear. The fear, every time, that I'd hyperspace straight into a star. I'd frantically push the x key on ONE of the countdown and again on the sound of exit from Hyperspace. The reality that IRL, when I went to sleep, I'd dream of star trails, gas clouds zooming toward me and then the unexpected.

Maybe, I wasn't meant to be an Explorer. I'd only got a couple of thousand light years out and was heading home for a Community Goal.

So now I think I'm on the edge of the bubble again (I don't know how big it is yet). I haven't experienced the Thargoids yet (I assume they'll leave me alone as I'm unarmed and have no cargo, but who knows?), but I've managed to land on planetary bodies, which is cool.
I've decided to head left on the Orion Spur, do less JUMP JUMP JUMP and enjoy the views.

o7 Commanders
 

Dragsham

Dragsham
You present so many questions.
1) what platform are you playing elite on? Pc? Xbox?
2) what controller are you using? Hotas, keyboard & mouse ?
3) where are you in relation to Sol? I ask this because I'm assuming you haven't fired up the galaxy map.
It's important you bind the buttons to the relevant commands you want so this silent running accident won't happen again. It took me 2 weeks to bind my hotas to how l wanted it so no rush.
Sorry you lost the data. Hard knock I know I've been there twice.
Try to pick yourself up. Head into the bubble and just freelance bum around get a feel again of what your good at.
Running data courier missions given to you from space station factions is a easy way. Just be ready to pew pew or high wake if your attacked.
You can engineer your ship now to have better weps more powerful shields and hull armour.
Perhaps u wanna mine. I suggest reading up on it first. By all means message me I will help.
Warning of Googling and utube help vids....read the DATE. Cos lots changed.
Hope to hear from you if not good luck

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Krieger

Krieger
Welcome back to the Elite Galaxy commander!

Sorry you lost your exploration data (been there, done that). @Dragsham's gave you some very good advice and I have little to add really.

On avoiding stars when exiting hyperspace: simply pull up hard and roll towards the side you see open space and you'll easily avoid a collision. You'll find you can exit hyperspace at full throttle and still avoid a star, even in the least manoeuvrable ships (Anaconda, Cutter). The only dangerous ones are brown dwarfs, white dwarfs and neutron stars. They are small and you exit hyperspace very close to their exclusion zone. A small agile ship can still avoid them at full throttle but an Anaconda will plough straight into them unless you close the throttle quickly.

Don't worry too much about the Thargoids for now. They lie in wait in non-human signal sources which you can simply avoid. They do sometimes pull ships from hyperspace and scan them (only around the Pleiades Nebula, Witch Head Nebula and Coalsack Nebula). If you don't carry Thargoid related cargo (meta-alloys, thargoid probes, etc) they leave you alone after scanning. Being "hyperdicted" for the first time is a great experience though.

You've probably already found most of the resources listed below. If not, have a look at them and in any case don't hesitate to ask questions here in the forum.

In-game help is available in the form of menu links to the Pilot's Handbook and the Codex (right-hand cockpit panel 1st tab).
For a very good beginner's guide see: An in-depth beginner’s guide to Elite: Dangerous.
Tutorials covering all aspects of the game, many of them in the form of YouTube videos, are available from ED Tutorials.
There is a wealth of useful information available in these forums spread out over hundreds of threads. Thanks to commander @Alec Turner you can access all of that information and more via a single thread: Alec's best of the forum (and elsewhere) [v2].
Here is a good guide on the background simulation (BGS) that simulates the economical and political changes caused by player actions in inhabited systems.
Also check out the inara.cz and eddb.io websites with (almost) realtime info on practically everything in the game.
The coriolis.io and edsy.org websites let you design your ships before buying them.
There are many more Tools and Websites created by fans that make life in the galaxy better.
And last but not least, the Elite Dangerous Wiki contains extensive information on nearly all aspects of the game.

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Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
Hi Cmmdr Dragsham,
I'm playing on a PC with Keyboard and Mouse.
Currently, I'm in Harermid about 100LY from Sol. When my ship exploded, I was about 1600LY out and ended up back at Lembava (110LY from Sol).
I'd been jumping systems without realising I was back in the bubble, but my memory of the game is returning now.
I've picked up some materials which don't show up in my cargo. I'm assuming these are related to Engineers, of which, I have two invites (both over 400LY away).

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alexzk

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dysonl said:
Hi Cmmdr Dragsham,
I'm playing on a PC with Keyboard and Mouse.
Currently, I'm in Harermid about 100LY from Sol. When my ship exploded, I was about 1600LY out and ended up back at Lembava (110LY from Sol).
I'd been jumping systems without realising I was back in the bubble, but my memory of the game is returning now.
I've picked up some materials which don't show up in my cargo. I'm assuming these are related to Engineers, of which, I have two invites (both over 400LY away).

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Yeh, engee mats has "special" cargo like bank account. In fact it is another currency. There are 3 of them - scan data/raw mats/manufactured mats. Raw mats u pick on planets and other 2 - by scanning/destroying another ships. Guardian & targs have own subset of those.
 

Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
Thank you Cmmdr Kreiger,
I've been using EDDB and EDSM for info about my local space and the forum was a good place to refresh and renew my memory of the game.

Would I be right to assume that the Frame Shift Assist drops you out of Hyperspace at 30mKm/s or is it only for in-system Frame Shift jumps?

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alexzk

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dysonl said:
Thank you Cmmdr Kreiger,
I've been using EDDB and EDSM for info about my local space and the forum was a good place to refresh and renew my memory of the game.

Would I be right to assume that the Frame Shift Assist drops you out of Hyperspace at 30mKm/s or is it only for in-system Frame Shift jumps?

o7
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If you have installed "super cruise assist" module it will auto-stop on star-drop.
Also now u can press "stop" button right on exit to star, no need to do it before jump. You have like 1s to react after exit jump.
 

Dragsham

Dragsham
See here is where a hotas shines. Whilst in witchspace jumping you simply push throttle into neutral centre area and bam your zero throttle upon exit.
Beware! Zeroing the throttle is important hehe...forgetting not to is even more important lol.
Well now your out and about just fly around with no real idea or plan get a feel.
Or!
Goto that engineer invite see what hoops you gotta jump thru to have his cake! By that I mean all engineers are worth unlocking if you wanna build a ship for any given task and excel at it.
What ship are you flying?
 

Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
I'm in a Diamondback Explorer with about 35LY range. It was longer, but I've kitted it out with a Scarab.
I also had a Type-6, which I've swapped for a Keelback.
 

Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
Thanks Cmdr Kain and all other Cmdr's for the welcome.
I checked out the tutorials on basic flight etc from the game launch menu after I wrecked my ship. Are the ones in the in-game right hand panel different? I'll check those too.
Today, I tried landing at a high security faciliity and got shot at. Had to boost my way out of danger. Trying to find a way to get a permit or increase my rep with that faction.
Decided to do some mining this afternoon, kitted out my DBX, did a not very informative tutorial (no info on where to find resources).
Thinking maybe I should transfer the mining equipment to the Keelback, as I soon realised limpets take up space in a cargo hold.
Question: Do I need a Detailed Surface Scanner onboard for mining?

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Krieger

Krieger
Yes, you need a Detailed Surface Scanner (DSS) to shoot probes into planet/moon rings (while in supercruise) so you can see the mining hotspots in the rings.

Many surface installations have a tresspass zone at 2 to 4 km. When you enter that zone you get a warning. Did you see it? You have one minute to clear the tresspass zone and then they start shooting.
 
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Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
Thanks
I'd already scanned all the planets in the sytem before I re-purposed my ship, but the info wasn't showing once I'd swapped out the DSS, so it made me wonder.
Defo need to kit out the Keelback for mining rather than the DBX. I only got 24T cargo space in the DBX.
The High Security Installation was radio silent when I got down to 7.5km, no option for docking request, so I went a bit closer. I won't do that again.
 

Krieger

Krieger
Those surface installations have no landing pads. They contain targets for several mission types and you can scan their datalink antennae for engineering materials (if present). In an SRV you can enter the low security sites without getting shot at but the medium and high security sites do shoot at you and require a lot of driving/shooting skill to scan from the SRV.
 
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