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How did you install it? There is support available on discord: https://discord.gg/28Va8z8u

This is what I get using windows10:
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Otherwise look in you home directory, in my case it's C:\Users\Jack\AppData\Local\Elite Dangerous Odyssey Materials Helper Launcher

And if nothing of the above helps, then ask the author in discord what to do, I've never actually uninstalled it.
 
I've noticed small number at bottom left of display when I'm in the concourse. What is it's meaning ? Yesterday Evening it was 27 tonight it's 21 ?
 
Do you mean the Apex taxi?
Normally it's useful if you want to do on foot based content at a station or in a settlement, and you don't want to fly the ship (for example, if I am busy doing something else at home, I get a shuttle and get on with my business until I arrive, etc.).
A shuttle ride within the same system is 100Cr, very, very cheap.
If you go to another system, it can cost a few thousand credits, depending on distance, but generally on the cheap side anyway.
 
What is the idea of using Shuttles , why ? How much does it cost to travel on them ?
If you get stranded on a planet surface, e.g. if your ship is destroyed when you're not in it, you can take a taxi to a safe port (if you're more roleplaying than just using the "stuck" menu option). Sometimes I've used it to get back to the station when the conflict zone dropships are bugged.
 
What is the idea of using Shuttles , why ? How much does it cost to travel on them ?
It's pretty cheap to travel by shuttle but it depends on distance. Intra system travel is in the hundreds of credits. If you need to travel to other systems, the price goes up into thousands and tens of thousands.

Note that travel by drop ship to a ground cz costs nothing.
 
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Cloud someone explain to me how the inventory system works.
Is there a limit as to how much I can have in my inventory
Also where is any items I earn for missions or collected or buy stored ?
 
Depends. There are materials - data, manufactured, raw, guardian and I guess also a bunch of Odyssey, which may or may not fir into these categories. Those are massless and stored inside a limited bag of holding in your suit (apparently), as
  • you won't lose them when you die
  • your storage is limited for each individual material. Low grade stuff you can store lots, high grade stuff only a few (dozen).
Again, don't know how it works on foot, but while in the ship, you can view the on the right hand cockpit screen.

Then, there is cargo. This has mass and volume, and can only be stored in your ship's cargo rack or on your fleet carrier. Storage volume is limited by the cargo rack(s) of your ship, and you can't switch ships if the ship you want to switch to has fewer storage available than you have cargo stored in your current ship.

Mission items come (in Horizons) in both varieties, i.e. a (horizons) mission may reward you with materials (say, 5 encrypted data whatsits) or cargo (say, 40 tons of fertilizer) and/or cash.

Cargo can be bought and sold freely. Horizons materials cannot be bought or sold, but can be swapped at materials brokers at some stations. (Some?) Ody materials can (AFAIK) be bought and sold at bartenders (and fleet carriers?).
 
Cloud someone explain to me how the inventory system works.
It’s complicated.
Is there a limit as to how much I can have in my inventory
There are several limits, in fact each material has its own limit depending on its rarity/grade
G1 300 units, G2 250 units, G3 200 units, G4 150 units, and G5 100 units.*
Those are the Horizons materials I have not bothered with the Odyssey ones but I understand it is different.
Also where is any items I earn for missions or collected or buy stored ?
As was said in the TARDIS pocket in your Remlock suit.

*Note not all classes of materials have 5 grades.
 
Any idea how long it will take (real-time0 to travel from HIP 99750 to AVAN in my stock Sidewinder ?
Not in a position to check however you can estimate it based on a jump takes near enough one minute from pressing the button in one system to pressing it again in the next.
Scooping fuel might add a little to that, if you have to visit another station to refuel then you are into classic how long is a piece of string.

The other factor is how far your destination is from the star you arrive at, some are seconds away but there is one that used to take a minimum of nearly 90 minutes and a stock Sidewinder might not be able to reach it if not refuelled after arriving in the system.
 
I want to plot a course to a new system which is 21.86 Ly away and the actual station is 206 Ls distance.
But I've watched a number of videos telling me about Supercruise and Supercruise Assist which I have not used so far in the game, only had to use Frame Shift Drive.
From what I understand I need to use Supercruise and Assist to get to the eventual destination of what my plotted course will be.
I'm quite confused as to actual use Supercruise and Assist. I could use quite a bit of clarification on how to use it.
I'm using voice commands with HCS Voice Packs and Voice Attack. So I don't know if that will confuse things even more.
I would be obliged for any help in explaining how to use it.
 
Any idea how long it will take (real-time0 to travel from HIP 99750 to AVAN in my stock Sidewinder ?
EDTools says it's 1056 ly distance. Your stock sidewinder doesn't have a fuel scoop, so you probably won't make it.

If you add a fuel scoop, you might as well also add an A-rated FSD. That has roughly twice the single jump range (a bit more than that) of the stock E-rated FSD, the A-rated SCO FSD adds another couple of ly to that. But, assuming you use an A-rated FSD (multiply by two for the E-rated FSD, then add another surcharge for a less straight route), that's 62 jumps. Make it 80, to compensate for kinks in the route and less-than-maximum-range jumps.
You'll need at least 1 minute, more likely 1:10..1:15 for each jump. 80 times 1:15 makes this a round 100 minutes, or one hour fourty minutes. Excluding any scanning on the way, which would be a shame.

On the orther hand, if you can spend some more time on it, using the Road2Riches calculator will guide you through 203 jumps (again, assuming the A-rated FSD) and net you 30 MCr. just for scanning each system, 112 MCr. if you also install a surface scanner and map the indicated worlds.
 
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