My internet is too bloody bad for this game.

I've been considering this game for years, but it always looked a little overwhelming. I saw it on sale for $6 the other day and decided to just take the plunge. What I was able to play was probably the closest I've ever come to my perfect sci-fi game.

Unfortunately, though, my internet is so bad that the game kept shunting me back to the main menu because it lost connection to the servers. It's a real shame because so much of what makes the game great requires internet, so the devs can't really make an offline mode.

Not really looking for advice or anything here. I just wanted to come on here and tell you guys what you already know: this game is amazing. I hope that someday I'll have better internet to play it. I'll just have to go back to NMS and daydream for now.

Engine speed focused VS stripped down jump range. Apparently if you sacrifice a lot more, you can get it just over 90 but I think I'm satisfied with 80ly. Engine speed focused is 5A rated power plant, distributor and thrusters with the same mods. Would you prefer engine speed or jump range?

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So now, since BGS minor faction alignment and political system isn't a factor in Power Play anymore, Aisling supporters have no excuse to support all those non-imperial factions anymore! I hope there will be cleansing of Aisling's ranks of all those commies and other hostile forces that tend to hang royal families on nerby trees if given a chance!

Free market, imperial slavery and feudalism - three pillars of healthy imperial society in the galaxy!

!Not to mention unhealthy alliance with bearded Totally_Not_Castro_Trust_Me_Bro dictator.!<

In the handbook I think it says its based off of "how developed a system is" but what does that mean? Healthy BGS? Population? Economy? States? All of the above? If anyone's figured out Id really appreciate it.

I’m a noobie returning back to the game. I have some credits left from ages ago. Enough to purchase the Mandalay. I cannot find them in the shipyards even if inara says the station I’m at has it. I dont know if I have to purchase the new Ascendency update to be able to buy the new ship. If that’s the case, where is the DLC in Steam? Or in frontier page? Apparently there is a new ship and an update advertised but there is no obvious way of getting to them. This game pissed me off back then, it still manages to do now. Or I’m just stupid and half blind. Can someone explain how to get the ship?

So i have a mk2 krait and i'm trying to build it as an exploration ship with a fighter hanger

currently sitting at 45.73|46.16|47.83 on ranges. EDSY

any advice you can give me on pumping it up probably up to 50 if able to, without losing the fighter bay?
what is the potential range of the mk2 with everything up to spec anyway so i'll have a target point?
swapping out some parts out to D or engineering or any advice you think?

Greeting fellow commanders o7

I used the tool "Expressway to Exoplanetary Mastery" to plot a route for my exobio run and only searched for a specific species/value. My question is: can I run the same route again if I want to after I turned everyhting in? Or will those planets (or at least the species) never pay anything again for me? And if so is there a way to check which planets I already turned in so I can adjust the route and not make an unnecessary landing?

Thank you for your answers in advance!

Hello everyone. New player here, just about 100hr i think. Now i have dilemma and no amount of googled things can't solve it. I have a 'conda which for me is a perfect ship for exploration and exobiology. I don't mind the landing space and i can always turn it upside down for looking if i want. Got pretty good at it actually. I like the range and everything about her fat ass. Now i want to know how well she can handle pve combat, as in can i kill few npc ships andy conda can live to tell the tale? Can she be tanky to whistand a few npc ship? I mean i know i must engineer her first and i know it's a skill issue too, but can she? I don't want multiple ships, i know some are better than others but i like conda i just want to use her for everything. No thargoids, that will come much later. I saw some builds and that's not a problem but share if you have, please. Thanks for reading fly dangerous o7

I spent the last 24 hours trying to log in with no success. Chalked it up to server load with the new update. Checked Steam stats; concurrency numbers didn't seem high enough to justify that explanation.

Updated video drivers just to eliminate one more variable. Still no success.

Checked official forum. Saw this post. Appears other players are experiencing a similar issue. Common denominator appears to be the Li Chong system (for whatever reason). Issue tracker has several open issues regarding this error:

• Unable to login - Error Code: Orange Sidewinder
• Orange Sidewinder error
• Error Code: Orange Sidewinder 2024

Game is dead in the water for me until this is resolved.

I've got through every option in the settings and only found one enter free cam binding and then I set a binding and it doesn't work.

If they shot me, they should automatically become "Wanted".

If the system is fast enough to give me a bounty and setting me as "wanted" for attacking a "clean" pilot, it should be fast enough to brand NPCs too.

Needing to "turn myself in to a detention centre" every couple fights is not fun.

I just got back into the game after over a year. Went through the tutorial to regain my controls over the x52.

Once I got into the game I couldn't contact any outpost in this system to land and refill etc.

Don't really know where to begin except doing some low level missions to relearn the game. Why aren't the stations showing up in the Contact?

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If I have a 2 person ship with a fighter bay can I have me and a friend in the ship and a 3rd in the fighter or can only me and 1 friend use the ship?

I was looking at what each power does and was wandering if 'trade bonds' were just the money you make from selling commodities or if they are something else?

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I love the on foot part of the game. I was guessing if others players can ser and interact with each other on stations, because I only see NPCs. I play on the open server and I see players starships.

I love this system. The system of PP2

As a Exobio nerd, when I arrive. If I'm not waiting for that place to land and dock at on a planets surface, I'm getting there while watching shows. If I set to arrive and orbit, once I pull away from the planet. Switch off auto orbit, would be cool. I've hit orbit, that's done. Pull away, should not be pulled back in. Hit orbit, can remain in orbit till a destination appears, or can pull away to do my surface scan thing.

I’ve been having connection issues and very long hyperspace jumps tonight. Anyone else or just me?

Edit: seems to not just be me. Fdev Pls Fix! I hope it’s just us hugging them to death because this update is so great.

I finally reached colonia the other day, and I was wondering if there is anything besides the obvious Federation and Empire navy rank stuff that you can’t do in Colonia. Like will I HAVE to go back to the bubble to do anything besides that?

Me and 2 of my friends are getting into the game, and we want to multicrew together. What ship would be best for us to do this. (we just started so poor)

So I'm looking to go from playing elite dangerous on xbox to PC, although my laptop might struggle. But my question is, do I have to buy the game again to be able to play it on PC?

I play on Xbox and I only have the old Horizons edition. I’m trying to easily farm raw materials and I seen in a video Brain Trees are the easiest and best way to farm them.

If you know any easy ways to farm the other stuff you can throw that info my way too 👍 Thanks in advance, Commanders!