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They are totally different. EDDiscovery reads all your journals and puts them into readable, searchable form. That alone makes it worth using. But it's not a targetted app like EliteObservatory. It has tons of features, maybe too many. I mostly use the History and Ledger tabs, and also the Ship Loadout list (it keeps track of all your ships and their current loadouts, and can auto dump them into Coriolis or EDSY). I can also check back on any system I've been to and see what's there.

I also use it to auto-save my screenshots in .jpg format so I can upload them without problems (and it names them according to where and when they were taken).

It's quite useful, but more broad. The 2 don't intersect much, although there is some overlap.
Yeah exactly, it's main purpose is to parse yor logs. Which, given the fact that Elite does make logs, makes from ED Discovery a required tool in my opinion - because if logs are present, then i'd want to have a good way to read through them, and find out what is my favourite ship (at least which of them travelled most lys), when did i buy my Clipper, when and where i've discovered my first ELW and when and where i upgraded my Dom suit to G4. One might not care about the answer just at this point, but once another question may rise, so the tool is nice to have at hand.

All that at a cost of some GBs on your SSD (databases are big, so only SSD, around 3 GBs for Galaxy data if you care to dl it + 0.5 GB journals data per 1k hours of play or so roughly) and 2 or so GBs of RAM when you have it running. So it's a little heavy, but it's built in blocks and you can enable only the modules you wish to have.

The time I went, I hitched a ride on a squad mates fleet carrier. The next time I go, I'll be jumping my own fleet carrier...I'm out in the black filling up at a metallic ring to fund my next tritium purchase, which, BTW, I found out the other day that I can get someone else to do the carting for me.

The "Tritium Monkeys" charge an additional 25k (so Gal Ave +50%) per ton to load your carrier with Tritium as a way to help the loaders be able to afford their own carrier one day...

Here's a link, which will expire in 7 days, to their Discord, https://discord.gg/hUfDQ3Ys

Gomez, are you still out in Elysian Shore? My Carrier is still nearby if you want a safe place, closer than the bubble, to drop off some carto data. Let me know...

That's a lot of stuff... I usually get fed up with mining soon after crossing a 4-digits line and wander elsewhere. 3,5k Platinum is nearly a billion, if you sell at 280k, that alone makes 20k tons of Tritium if you load it yourself.

I can confirm that +50% Gal Avg price works - i'm not affiliated with any group, but since a while already i sometimes set 77k orders and they're often fullfilled in a couple of days. Not sure if i helped anyone with their road to a carrier with my modest 2k or 5k amounts, but 30k profit per ton is a nice thing in any case.
 
That's a lot of stuff... I usually get fed up with mining soon after crossing a 4-digits line and wander elsewhere. 3,5k Platinum is nearly a billion, if you sell at 280k, that alone makes 20k tons of Tritium if you load it yourself.
I'm out in the black exploring and mining since I'm combat deficient at the moment due to issues and I'm playing left handed (not my dominant hand) with mouse and keyboard instead of right handed with a joystick. So I'll have Elite in Exploration soon and a crap ton of cash and some bartering goods on hand...

I can confirm that +50% Gal Avg price works - i'm not affiliated with any group, but since a while already i sometimes set 77k orders and they're often fullfilled in a couple of days. Not sure if i helped anyone with their road to a carrier with my modest 2k or 5k amounts, but 30k profit per ton is a nice thing in any case.

I've done similar for certain players (offering to let them earn a bunch of cash to fill my carrier, 5000 tons or so). With the Tritium Monkeys, you put in an order on their discord and go to their current fueling depot and set the buy order and they fill you up...I haven't used their service yet but will give it a try in a few weeks...
 
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Hmm, I used to start the launcher from steam using the "/EDH /CQC" parameter.
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Seems it only start with EDH3.8 now. Wondering there's any new param for EDH4.0
 
Hmm, I used to start the launcher from steam using the "/EDH /CQC" parameter.
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Seems it only start with EDH3.8 now. Wondering there's any new param for EDH4.0
Maybe this, I have not tried.

 
I intend to go on a material collection run next. Still have to figure some things out.
Like how that wake scanner exactly works and what I have to do to find those places on planets that have stuff like sulfur or iron. (I read something about the latter in this forum, but I can't find it anymore...😒🤔🙄😅)

Other than that, I've found that you should alway check the other ships in your vicinity while in supercruise. You might pick up some data material.
 
Like how that wake scanner exactly works and what I have to do to find those places on planets that have stuff like sulfur or iron.
I think you're talking about the wavescanner in the SRV?



Here ya go:

Also, this site will help you identify the signals you see. The video above sort of simplifies that, but this is more accurate:

 
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I think you're talking about the wavescanner in the SRV?



Here ya go:

Also, this site will help you identify the signals you see. The video above sort of simplifies that, but this is more accurate:

The wake scanner is for FSD wakes if I get that right.

But this definitely was helpful, anyway, as it shed some light on the topic of my second "question". So thank you.
The other half would be: "Do I just drop down somewhere on a landable planet and drive around in my SRV or are there ways to narrow down areas that more likely have some of that stuff lying around?" I guess...
 
The wake scanner is for FSD wakes if I get that right.

But this definitely was helpful, anyway, as it shed some light on the topic of my second "question". So thank you.
The other half would be: "Do I just drop down somewhere on a landable planet and drive around in my SRV or are there ways to narrow down areas that more likely have some of that stuff lying around?" I guess...
Yes, the wake scanner will let you analyse the wake left behind after a ship engages the frame shift drive or jumps to hyperspace.

To use it, you first - obviously - need the module. Iirc it fits to your utilities section in your loadout. You then need to assign it to a fire group. When a ship jumps, you need to target its wake then activate the scanner.

A wake will show as a grey block on your main scanner *. However, I've always found it a little easier to sit outside a busy station and target ships leaving it - it's then easy to spot their wake when they jump and your COVAS alerts you when they engage.

It is also a good idea to engineer the module for greater range. Wakes expire after a while.

° unless you've modified your HUD colours
 
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I intend to go on a material collection run next. Still have to figure some things out.
Like how that wake scanner exactly works and what I have to do to find those places on planets that have stuff like sulfur or iron. (I read something about the latter in this forum, but I can't find it anymore...😒🤔🙄😅)

Other than that, I've found that you should alway check the other ships in your vicinity while in supercruise. You might pick up some data material.
I'll save you a world of pain in material collection and say watch this
Source: https://youtu.be/iHl-SsKQfe4


The wake scanner is totally useless for encoded material collection.. I had one on an Orca passenger ship scanning wakes as I visited stations. Collected 247 grade 1 materials and never got one Datamined Wake Exception. You have to park behind Jameson's Crashed Cobra or do Planetary Scan Missions (for hours) to collected encoded materials and trade them for the wake exceptions.
Raw materials - see that video for crystal shards sites to get grade 4 materials to trade. An initial stock to get started can be obtained from the crashed Anaconda site, especially for Telerium before you can get out to crystal shards, or by doing some platinum laser mining. Some raw materials are a by catch when laser mining.
 
Yes, the wake scanner will let you analyse the wake left behind after a ship engages the frame shift drive or jumps to hyperspace.

To use it, you first - obviously - need the module. Iirc it fits to your utilities section in your loadout. You then need to assign it to a fire group. When a ship jumps, you need to target its wake then activate the scanner.

A wake will show as a grey block on your main scanner *. However, I've always found it a little easier to sit outside a busy station and target ships leaving it - it's then easy to spot their wake when they jump and your COVAS alerts you when they engage.

It is also a good idea to engineer the module for greater range. Wakes expire after a while.

° unless you've modified your HUD colours
The part around stations I figured out during my last session - just came back from it.* Thanks, nevertheless.

It is a utility module, indeed, but a quite power hungry at that...

I am wondering if there is a way to use it in supercruise, as you can find some wakes there, too.

I think I don't have an engineer unlocked that could upgrade that thing...
That being said, as of now, there are only two active ones in my list... "The Blaster" and the lady in Khun (Long Sight Base).

Uh, modifying the HUD colours? How do you do that?
Reading the HUD in my SRV on that bright planet in the blaring sun was quite difficult.


*: It was a successful trip outside Long Sight Base. It also answered my question in quotation marks from an earlier post.
 
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I'll save you a world of pain in material collection and say watch this
Source: https://youtu.be/iHl-SsKQfe4


The wake scanner is totally useless for encoded material collection.. I had one on an Orca passenger ship scanning wakes as I visited stations. Collected 247 grade 1 materials and never got one Datamined Wake Exception. You have to park behind Jameson's Crashed Cobra or do Planetary Scan Missions (for hours) to collected encoded materials and trade them for the wake exceptions.
Raw materials - see that video for crystal shards sites to get grade 4 materials to trade. An initial stock to get started can be obtained from the crashed Anaconda site, especially for Telerium before you can get out to crystal shards, or by doing some platinum laser mining. Some raw materials are a by catch when laser mining.
You guys are so deep in the "endgame" that you don't realize that there still are some noobs out there... 😉

My material bins are empty.
At this point of time, I gladly take those grade one mats to unlock all the goodies I think I need. Then I'll worry about those higher grades.
Not that I would turn down some higher grade materials if they decide to show up, occasionally.
 
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