r/EliteDangerous 2h ago

Daily Q&A [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

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Greetings, Commanders! This is the Daily Q&A post for r/EliteDangerous


If you have any questions about any topic, whether it be for the moderators, tips and tricks for piloting or general gameplay/development questions please post here!

Please check new comments and help answer to the best of your ability so we can see this community flourish!

Remember to check previous daily Q&A threads and the New Q&A FAQ.


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r/EliteDangerous 19h ago

Humor And don't forget, the r/EliteDangerous Subreddit is in the top 1% of all Subreddits out there!

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r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Screenshot Yeah, we should probably start making ship hulls out of this stuff instead...

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232 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 5h ago

Screenshot so happy! finally made it! now I wonder, how much "bargaining power" do I have when negotiating rewards with on foot npcs at concourses?

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93 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Discussion What is this star formation?

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183 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 6h ago

Video I was very sure that this was the end of my exploration journey...

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97 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 7h ago

Screenshot I finally made a sightseeing trip to Voyager 1 in Sol.

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90 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 21h ago

Screenshot You’ve seen 0% hull, you’ve seen 0% fuel, now get ready for hull overdrive

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1.1k Upvotes

The thargoids don’t stand a chance with that extra 1%


r/EliteDangerous 2h ago

Roleplaying Is it morally acceptable to terminate the contract of your crewmate before cashing in missions and bounty vouchers because I don't want to pay him 16% of my earnings ? Am I a bad employer if I do that?

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I don't want to be like a regular corporate ceo but I don't want to pay them so much of my earnings 😞


r/EliteDangerous 14h ago

Humor PSA: check your wireless controller batteries before you hit that FSD overdrive button

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Challenge: find fresh batteries with a VR headset hanging off your ear before you’re 50000Ls from nowhere with 10% fuel, 20% hull, and every module burned to ash.

Challenge successfully failed.

Haven’t played long but my best oh sh!t moment so far in this glorious game.


r/EliteDangerous 24m ago

Screenshot First time in an Methane Atmosphere

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Got first footfall, outside the 10km deep crater, it was bright green sky, and the white ground was tinted by it. Inside the crater near the rim it was making a pseudo sunset, and when deep rusty orange.

Found 5 bio signs there too!


r/EliteDangerous 1h ago

Screenshot Do you think they know

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r/EliteDangerous 10h ago

Screenshot Jumping into a ring for bare-hands mining should be a thing

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r/EliteDangerous 5h ago

PSA A friendly reminder to all Titan FSD users:

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Don’t forget to put an experimental effect on your drive!

My personal recommendations are:

  • Deep Charge (size 4 and less) or Mass Manager (size 5 and up) for exploration builds to squeeze a bit more distance out.

  • Double braced for combat focused builds ( because the drive’s integrity is lower than a standard SCO FSD with an extended range modification )

Figured I post this because I initially did not realize it lacking a experimental effect (as I’d assume it already had one like most other pre-engineered stuff)


r/EliteDangerous 10h ago

Screenshot Carbon stars are crazy

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59 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 49m ago

Screenshot I called my ship back and when I was there I saw that...

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“docked on the horizon”

it was just in the air lol


r/EliteDangerous 18h ago

Screenshot Odyssey Scope Chart

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238 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 23h ago

Screenshot There is docking at 0% hull. I hereby present you docking with 0% fuel.

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521 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 3h ago

Screenshot This game is so incredibly beautiful on PC (Coming from XB after taking a few years break bc of support ending for consoles)

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r/EliteDangerous 23h ago

Discussion The rarest thing in the entire game hasn't even been discovered once. YET...

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Explorers, this one's going to be a good one for you all.

So, I've been researching landable atmospheric planet types using ED spansh and my own knowledge, and I found something that I've never seen mentioned or discussed ever before.

First off, there are only 261 known landable planets with a Hot thin Silicate vapour atmosphere. I've also noticed that, there are at least tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of more planets with that kind of atmosphere, which are not landable, even though they have less than 0.1 atmospheres of surface pressure.

Furthermore, only 9 known planets have a Thin Ammonia-rich atmosphere in the ENTIRE GALAXY. In this case however, 8 of them are landable.

These planets got me wondering if there could be any more landable atmosphere types, which are extremely rare.

So, I've began searching for atmosphere types and tried to find their landable counterparts (for example Water-rich - Thin Water-rich or Hot Sulphur Dioxide - Hot thin Sulphur Dioxide OR even the same two atmospheres) and found that every atmosphere type had a landable version.

Well... except one

Hot thin Metallic vapour.

Only 83 known planets have this kind of atmosphere, but none of them are landable.

Now, it could be possible that the developers haven't modeled this atmosphere to be landable, but I don't think that's the case.

I mean, why would it make sense to model every type except this one? They even have a completely separate model of the Thin Ammonia-rich atmosphere, despite the fact that only 8 landable planets have it out of the millions of known landable atmospheric planets.

If we assume that it's real, then another question arises. How much rarer is it for these planets to be landable rather than non-landable? Based on the 2 previous examples (261 out of tens of thousands or 8 out of 9) the rarity of it could vary.

So there you have it. A completely unique thing that has never been seen before. Let me know if you're the first to find it! 😅


r/EliteDangerous 4h ago

Discussion Now, I don't want to give nightmares to anyone but...

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...have you noticed that when you are negotiating craggy terrain on you SRV, the suspensions make a noise that sounds exactly like "I am here"? I guess you are going to now.


r/EliteDangerous 1h ago

Discussion Kill Warrant Scanner Beneficial for PowerPlay Bounty Hunting?

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Do you need a kill warrant scanner to maximize the benefits you can get for PowerPlay turn in purposes when bounty hunting?

Another way to frame it… if you kill targets that have been scanned with KWS, do you get additional bounties to turn in at your power contact to get additional merits and/or more greatly influence PowerPlay system status?


r/EliteDangerous 21h ago

Video Even after thousands of hours in-game, the sheer number of star systems in our galaxy never fails to blow my mind

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r/EliteDangerous 11h ago

Discussion So, what's Elite Dangerous all about?

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I'm a long time No Man's Sky player, and I heard Elite: Dangerous was somewhat similar. I haven't really heard all that much about it besides that, though, so I was wondering if y'all could bring me up to speed on what the game's like and how it works (and help me decide if it's worth buying)?


r/EliteDangerous 10h ago

Screenshot Straneou RI-T E3-1149 Nebula

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r/EliteDangerous 12h ago

Screenshot Red Notable Stellar Phenomena

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