Your Best Elite Dangerous Tips Wanted - Welcome the PS4 Players

[Rankaze]

I would like to formally protest Tip #5. Boosting out of the station immediately after undocking is one of the funnest things to do in Elite

Especially when you fly an 868 m/s Courier!

In fact, it occurs to me that I have a video to demonstrate this perfectly, though it's older and she wasn't quite so fast back then (only about 520). So for those who haven't had the experience, allow me to present the launch of Buckyball Run X Live, as viewed from the pilot's seat of my racing Courier Joyeuse!

And before anyone gets on me about nearly running over some poor innocent Hauler in the slot, they should know that said Hauler is the infamous Fireball, piloted by Buckyball legend CMDR Cookiehole, and not at all innocent.
[video=youtube;axniJNVZvx0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axniJNVZvx0[/video]

 

[Angus]

Oh gosh! All power to shields!

The more power you have diverted to them, the better protection the shields provide - so in the event of an imminent collision with the ground, or the station wall, or on finding yourself staring into the business end of an attacking Anaconda, whack those shields to full.

 

[Rakaposhi]

Land like an aeroplane, not a helicopter

Your vertical thrusters are very weak compared to your longitudinal ones. So you will have more resolution over ship control (and less drift issues in bigger ships) if you treat the landing pad as a short runway rather than a helipad.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I see from the top 10, Ed wasn't in the mood to read through the entire thread

 

[Old Duck]

For us DS4 pilots, ED sets the current orientation of your control as "straight ahead" every time you toggle on gyroscopic head-look. So if you want to look out the right side of your cockpit for the next five minutes (planet flyby, for example), tilt the DS4 to the left before toggling on head-look, and then when you return DS4 to the comfortable forward position, you'll be looking right!

This works for any orientation, so for example, when I'm landing my Keelback, I'll point the DS4 up before turning on head-look, which will result in looking down through my "glass floor" when holding DS4 normally.

 

[Craith]

Rare Trading pays

Especially in smaller ships, selling rare commodities can get you good profit. These commodities are only available in some stations and show up yellow in the commodities screen. They have only small quantities available and won't fill you above a certain (low) limit - limit depends on state of system and the specific rare. These have a bigger profit the further away from their source they are sold, maximum is reached at about 160 lys. (check http://zoy.updog.co)


Teabagging ain't what you think it is.

Teabagging in Elite is not what shooter players are doing in some other games ... if someone offers you teabagging, he's genuinely trying to help you, by filling your cargohold with expensive rares above the maximum allocation. Just don't google the other meanings, especially not on work computers.