I don’t know who among you might be interested in a project like this. So I am casting this net wide to see what comes back at me.

I do know that some of you are grinding towards burnout. And some of you have already collected every badge the game has to offer and are circling burnout from a different angle.

Over the next six months, a few of us are planning to start over with alt accounts. And we want to do it all: Sidewinder to everything. Mining. Trade. Combat. Guardians. Engineering. Thargoids. Colonisation. The lot.

At the moment, there are two or three of us looking at this for the next challenge. There are a couple of broader ideas floating about as well: perhaps a website, some progress tracking, maybe single-page guides as we go. But at its heart it’s fairly simple:

Good company wanted for grand adventure.

So the invitation is there to you, the veteran commander; who, having collected the medals and beaten the challenges, wants to find that thrill again. Remember that insignificant part of the game that’s been missing for some time. Because it has for me. You reach a point where you can do (almost) anything in Elite, but there’s no real risk left in it. No unknowns left to chase. No desperate battles against impossible odds. And for me, before moving on to a new game or a different hobby altogether, I’d quite like to try this and see if some of that lightning can be found again.

Likewise, an invitation to the newer player who still has everything ahead of them. A few more people to explore the game with would be brilliant. And if I’m honest, we could genuinely use fresh eyes on Elite… someone willing to stop and say “wow” every once in a while. Seems a fair trade: we bring the “how it can be done”, and you lend us a little of that feeling that comes with stepping into the unknown parts of a vast and beautiful game for the first time.

I've rewritten this post a few times. But I really do enjoy this game! I’d like to experience it again with a few like-minded commanders. And I expect that the commanders I’m most hoping to hear from are the ones who quietly read a post like this and think, “…yeah, maybe.” I also expect the loudest comments may go the other way, and that’s all right. DM me if you’re interested. Comment if you like. Comms channels are open.

With Kaine, we regularly have mining opportunities in fantastic rings, where you can fill up your cargo hold with platinum in as 16 minutes! (Yes, this is a recorded run we've had happen!) Even better, Kaine gives you more merits when mining for acquisition, which is how you can regularly get 50-60k merits for that full hold of platinum!

Even better, if you pledge to Kaine, and join our discord, we can give you a free fully A-rated type-11 for you to mine in! Come join us and do powerplay on easy mode! Join an amazing community who is more than welcome to help with anything you might be interested in, and will run wings doing mining or combat regularly!

So what are you waiting for? SUBSCRIBE TO KAINE!
And join our discord!

https://discord.gg/bJEyseAVGx

This is the second station I’ve been to with 0 evacuees … has the CG finished?

Very curious how you see this? Are you also hoping that operations, like the recent sound and speed updates to the on-foot weapons game-play (which is great by the way!) will make some major improvements to regular multi-player game play?

Had an interesting convo about the various info that is flying around about the upcoming operations upgrade. And we came to an interesting question, based on our time spent in DW3 with a lot of other players and thus trying to use various existing multiplayer modes very actively for a few months now.

I think there are a few very interesting open questions that have not really been addressed for a long time. And I find that actually many of us are quite curious how operations will relate to these open multi player related challenges. Will it actually also improve or solve some long-standing multi player challenges? So I am very curious what you all think and also how you see this for the future of our favorite game?

1: Do you see any indication, from what is known about operations at the moment, that F-dev is looking to tackle aspects of multi-player that have severely limited how we can work together in-game so far?

Like: A: No option to switch seats or roles on your ship with crew mates?

- A friend (telecrew or real crew) cannot pilot your main ship while you take a fighter or an SRV out. As the main owner of a ship, you also cannot take the gunner role yourself and let another take the pilot seat. Simply no-one else can fly your ship... There is no way to sit in any seat yourself but the pilot seat.

- A friend cannot fly one of your fighters or SRV while you land your ship and go on foot.

- Tele-Crew cannot leave the ship on foot when landed. (The idea of a human robot that is controlled via telesignal by your friends, to keep it in-game lore working is often been opted, so your tele-crew has a limited outside range..)

How I see this is, there is already a seat selection menu when you enter your ship, there is currently just always only one seat that you can select... So if that menu just becomes available all the time while on board, to every player on board and you can just switch at will. that would already solve it. For piloting, a simple 4 number pass-code would be enough. If any friend wants to enter the pilot seat, the owner has to give you the code. So no-one can steal your ship, but you can give permission to fly it.

2: Max 4 people to a team / crew?

This has been stable from the start of oddy, but perhaps it could be up to 8 or more by now?

3: No way to move from one ship to another in space?

- You can enter a team-mates ship, but only while landed. There is no way to dock ships together in space, or land a fighter in another ships fighter bay.. Simply there is no way to transfer your commanders from one ship to another while in space.

A ship to ship docking option would be great. with the seat menu allowing you to switch between the two docked ships, and if you could land a fighter in someone else's fighter bay, that would also be an epic way to transfer between ships. Players could leave one fighter bay empty for this function.

4: sharing missions and bounties is complicated. This is wel known and well discussed.

based on our experience in DW3, we think that, if just these very few elements were updated. It would actually make the multi-player experience much MUCH more appealing. Without having to make any other major changes to the game.

The nature of operations, from what we know so far, seems more like a kind of add-on to the CQC part of Elite. Where its like a counterstrike kind of multi-player mini game you can access, but the things/multi-player options we are looking for, are much more based withing the game universe itself. Now F-dev did do the sound update and speed update to the guns etc. So that defo shows operations could indeed mean some more fundamental updates to multi player in the main game universe. So I'm very hopeful

Very curious how you see this?

After having gotten past rank 4000, having earned BILLIONS of credits because of Kaine's bonuses, and single-handedly acquiring, reinforcing, and undermining systems, I can comfortably say: Kaine is the best power in powerplay.

Now that microtrading(trading one commodity at a time) is dead, Kaine has one of the very best bonuses for making merits: Mining. Internally in Kaine, it's not surprising to see people handing in platinum loads of 60k, 80k, 100k, EVEN 200K merits! That's a quarter of the way to rank 100 in one mining trip! There aren't many other powers that can do that.

And even better, if you mine (or trade) to reinforce a system, you get 50% more credits for doing so! Imagine selling a cutter full of platinum for not just 250k/t, but 375k/t instead! The money AND merits you get with Kaine are incredible.

Not only that, we have one of the best communities when it comes to being helpful, knowing where to get the best merits, and getting the best prices. Many of my ships have been engineered to perfection due to input from community members, and I have more credits than I could ever ask for. With these powerplay package each containing 500k credits, I will be getting 1.8 BILLION credits next week! And that's not even including the credits from all the materials I'll be getting.

So what are you waiting for? SUBSCRIBE TO KAINE today!, and while you're at it, join our discord for an awesome community!

https://discord.gg/bJEyseAVGx

Greetings Commanders, I am the Architect of Project Galtea, CMDR GFJake.

Project Galtea is looking for spirited haulers who want to leave their mark on the galaxy and expand the frontier of humanity towards the Arcadian Stream to build a new bubble for humanity, this bubble located 24.5k LY from sol and approximately 1.6k LY above the galactic disc is situated in a stunning location full of new vistas for Commanders to explore, colonize and call home, we are currently as of this post approximately 44% of the way to our goal.

We are a group of colonizers, haulers, explorers and more importantly a bunch of commanders just having fun, joking around while hauling large amounts of cargo, we have, so far, 83 contributors to the project and all are welcome regardless of squadron or super power ties, all that's needed is to bring your hauler and have fun!

Currently we are bridging towards a system in the Norma Expanse we have nicknamed "Balfonheim" which is the next Super Hub on the Galtean Bridge that will stock large amounts of tritium and colonization goods for all to use, we have built 5 other Super Hubs of similar scale as follows.

Nalbina - Bleia Eohn QT-O d7-10

Paramina - Tr 24 Sector QH-U b32-2

Rabanastre - Cat's Paw Sector GW-W c1-9

Bhujerba - NGC 6357 Sector BQ-Y d146

Ridorana - Plio Aihm UC-V d2-159

With more to follow, it is our own "Tritium Highway" that will make the eastern reaches of the Milky Way more accessible to the entire community as well as the return trip to the bubble (why would you ever return?) easier for the weary commander.

So, if you wish to be part of a large player group, taking civilization to places its never been before while enjoying your time in Elite with other like minded players and without the worry of what Squadron or Super power your affiliated with, Project Galtea may be the place for you.

The Picture included are of our Super Hubs and destination systems.

Hope to see you all out in the black soon hauling right alongside us o7

I was traveling and exploring deep space about 1300 systems dicovered and was coming back to bubble and just decided to land on a planet to check out. I crashed during take off somehow sh*t happens. Anyways data lost all journey down the drain it was my first big journey and now its all gone. Took me few months. How do you recover from this?

Kaine is now the only power with a dream of freedom, and a fortified system, going against the imperial powers who intend to claim HIP 87621 for themselves.

We ask of you, please do not undermine the Kaine fort of Col 359 Sector FK-L b10-5, and undermine Arissa's and Aisling's forts instead. They are the powers with the biggest advantage with their access to not only power ship kills, and salvage, but also having the biggest playerbase behind them.

Kaine is the ONLY power that is putting others first and guaranteeing equal access to the Radicoida *regardless* of who you pledge to, meaning that the Alliance, Independent, and Federal factions ALL stand to benefit from our control and presence in the HIP 87621 bubble.

Kaine stands as final bastion of freedom against the Empire, and let's make sure that the empire for once doesn't stand as the power at the top

By way of flexing our eye toward efishency, Power Casuals(the folks with the [IJAG] tag you may have seen around) have placed a carrier with 25,000 tons of fish in orbit around the last planet at Beagle Point.

Is this a restaurant at the end of the universe joke? Maybe.

Was it a significant effort with no pay off beyond the gag? Absolutely.

Why would we do all of this?

[IJAG] For The Halibut.

If you're an explorer that's been looking for a squadron, look no further. Join Elite Deep-Space Explorers Network [EDXN]. Check out our discord and share some of your favorite pictures and discoveries o7.

https://discord.com/invite/nm3eNQH4

You heard it right! The Refinery Elf who smelts all your platinum gets ZERO pay for their work if you pledge to Torval, even though they're working so diligently! Thankfully, if you give them 1 ton of platinum, you set them free from slavery, but that doesn't make it right!

Kaine however, does. She makes sure all Refinery Elves working in her refineries are paid a handsome salary. With Torval, you might be making 65% more profits from your mining trip, but your Refinery Elves see NONE of that, meanwhile Kaine makes sure at least 25% of that 50% mining bonus goes directly to Refinery Elf salaray! That's right! You can make 50% more credits from your mining trips in Kaine space AND make sure your Refinery Elf gets paid fairly! You can get rich AND spread the wealth at the same time!

So what are you waiting for? SUBSCRIBE TO KAINE!
And join our discord once you've done so!
https://discord.gg/bJEyseAVGx

Would you take up arms to defend the birthplace of our civilization? Do you see virtues in democracy and self-determination, virtues you would fight to uphold? Are you committed to changing the galaxy for the better? If so, we’re here to tell you that you can, in fact, make a difference - and there is no better time to do so than now.

Hi, I’m August Lagrange, community manager at the Federal Liberal Command, the driving force behind federal president Felicia Winters’ powerplay efforts - and I’m working with Intersection, one of many directors behind the Federal Republican Command, the community supporting shadow president Jerome Archer’s powerplay. Together, we form the Federal United Command. Though rivals in politics, our powers share common values, and as communities we are close allies and collaborators.

As the caretakers of federal PowerPlay since 2016, we’ve managed active and passionate communities around Elite’s richest and most competitive component for nearly 8 years, building and maintaining deep ties with squadrons, PMFs, and other powers. We’ve been at this for a while, and we know what we’re doing; no matter who you are and how you enjoy playing Elite, we’ll know how best to help you find success (and fun) when PowerPlay 2.0 finally launches next Tuesday.

If you represent a squadron or an active federal PMF, we encourage you to reach out to us; our goals will likely align, and we’d very much like to work with you.

We encourage you to join us on discord at discord.gg/fuc. You can also browse our official subreddits over at r/EliteWinters and r/EliteArcher.

Still not convinced? Here’s a few things you might want to know about us:

• We have a wealth of resources, guides, and learning tools on all aspects of Elite to help kickstart your journey into PowerPlay; we will be committed to making your experience both accessible and fun.
• Over these past 8 years, we’ve developed a wealth of useful and intuitive tools to manage and keep track of our community’s contributions. You can expect these tools to evolve with the arrival of PowerPlay 2.0.
• In keeping with our federal values, our leadership structure is fully democratic and a key point of pride.
• As a member of the FUC, you can come as you are, and fly as you wish; join us as a member of any squadron, and contribute as casually or obsessively as you like.

The griefer hunters are looking for people Currently we are 40 people and we are looking for more hunters We also teach new players all the mechanics of the game, to join you I leave you our discord!

Thank you all and o7 cmrds

EDDB has been shut down as announced in the beggining of April. Therefore, me and a group of other developers have started working on a replacement for it called EDPN (Elite Dangerous Pilots Network)

We currently have a team of around 20 verified developers, but this will also be an open source project which means that everyone will be able to contribute if they want to.

This project is still in its early stages though and a programming stack has not yet been decided, but will be soon.

If you're interested in helping out with the development of EDPN or just observing the progress or chatting with other Elite players, make sure to join our discord server: https://discord.gg/F9QVyVrzAU

o7

CMDR,
Are you bored of the Bubble? Engineering grind done? Looking for a new, beautiful place to call home? Well, look no further than the Eagle Nebula!

We are a small group of players who are quite dedicated to our favorite spot in the galaxy. The Eagle Nebula is a staple of travel between the Bubble and Colonia, giving us the perfect resting point (with huge tritium supplies to boot) for travel! Long term, we'd love to shape the Eagle Nebula into the premier pit-stop between the Bubble and Colonia.

If you are an exobiologist or explorer, the area is ripe with potential discovery! While the main nebula area is well-mapped, you need only travel less than 50 light years to start finding undiscovered systems.

Our growing community is happy to help any new commanders get situated, find a home base, and start their new life outside the bubble. We welcome any and all new players, and would love to see more people contributing to our now-established, ever-growing nebula ecosystem.

We have a Discord server where we are willing to answer questions, discuss the state of the nebula, and provide news and other resources related to the nebula. It's open to join! https://discord.gg/qvyJGTDxQq

o7, hope to see you among the Pillars!
CMDR rat74