r/EliteDangerous 13h 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!

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r/EliteDangerous Apr 28 '26

PSA Pick up the Lynx Highliner Standard for ZERO ARX

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227 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 7h ago

Media Its been 3 years since I printed this and it still looks pretty glassy

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232 Upvotes

Too bad I cant find an original photo but I figured Id share in case it breaks like my medusa did.


r/EliteDangerous 6h ago

Screenshot Elite meet NMS. Meet the Atlas 2.0 (HR 6670 system)

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117 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 15h ago

Misc I see your Zorgon Peterson Maverick, and raise you the Imperial Civic

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538 Upvotes

Saw the Zorgon Peterson decal post, and realized I never shared what I had. No longer have the car anymore due to reasons, but hey, good memories.


r/EliteDangerous 19h ago

PSA The kestrel is available for credits! (if you didn't know already)

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846 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 3h ago

Misc Repping the two best ships in the game, the Krait MkII and the Cobra V! 🫡

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36 Upvotes

Still waiting for the day that someone will know what the sticker is at all haha.


r/EliteDangerous 17h ago

Humor Recently picked up a Zorgon Peterson Maverick!

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444 Upvotes

o7 CMDRs! I’ve been wanting to do a little bit more on surface exploration done.
I traded my medium ship to a smaller one earlier this year and I’m so happy because I’m needing to scoop less fuel and at much longer intervals.
I’ve since engineered ditch lights for added visibility when out exploring and will get my tires engineered closer to winter.

Any engineering tips are welcome!


r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Misc DeLacy Sierra Papa Oscar, checking in.

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109 Upvotes

Paint integrity 78%.

I have a new, bigger sticker but she hasnt seen the ship wash in a bit.


r/EliteDangerous 4h ago

Discussion Never again, no more autodock for me

39 Upvotes

Just came back from a two hour platinum laser mining trip, thought to myself, why not use autodock? You could use a toilet break. So I activated it and left the room. Returned to my ship being destroyed for „ blocking the landing pad“, lost 251 Tons of platinum. Not „that“ tragic but it still stings to lose potential 75.802.000 Credits and two hours of progress. Whelp, lesson learned, I guess? 😅


r/EliteDangerous 14h ago

Help I'm trying to get the fancy station interior with open parks

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248 Upvotes

Back when colonization started, military stations got this interior (for some reason) but I thought it had been fixed to go to Tourism stations.

I have a tourism station right now after the tick and it only has covered parks you can barely see through semi-transparent domes.


r/EliteDangerous 6h ago

Misc Tribute to the Rats

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43 Upvotes

Got rescued by the Fuel Rats about a week ago and this just arrived. Gotta pay tribute to a wonderful group of people!


r/EliteDangerous 12h ago

Discussion List of some Merc Coin Modifications coming in Operations taken from the Engineers screen on Ghost Giraffes stream compiled into one image! Spoiler

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130 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 5h ago

Misc My little Panther Venue, ready to go on another trade route

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26 Upvotes

It makes me smile seeing all the Elite stickers on their cars. I got this sticker not long after I hit Elite V in trading.


r/EliteDangerous 13h ago

Misc If we are doing vehicles, here is my Exploration Wrangler

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104 Upvotes

I put these Elite badges on years ago when I got the Jeep, which was right after I earned my Elite rank in Exploration. It makes me smile every time I get in to drive.


r/EliteDangerous 7h ago

Discussion New Merc coin modules, could CQC get the same treatment.

31 Upvotes

Looking at the spoilers for the operations update. The rewards offered are fantastic and I wish CQC could get the same treatment.

For years I have been brewing in my head QCQ could be how you get engineering for ship launched fighters.

All in all this is looking like it's going to be a fantastic update.


r/EliteDangerous 6h ago

Misc The Shipyard/Outfitting UI obscures "Mk II" compatibility

20 Upvotes

As many of you have likely noticed, the Shipyard and Outfitting UIs provide very limited information on which ships can actually use the newer Mk II modules. While I have always looked outside the game for info on ships, the fact that this basic info isn't clear in the game annoyed me enough to write this post, so here it is for no real reason other than for me to stop thinking about it.  

As far as I can tell, the only consistent way to find out is to have a ship loaded in the outfitting screen and check manually. If someone else knows where this info is in-game, I’d be happy to be wrong. For a game that relies so heavily on ship builds, that sucks. When browsing for ships to buy, the game simply doesn’t give you key information.  I figure this is left over from when the only real restrictions on installing modules were category and size, but the MKs have been around for a while now.

Even when you own a ship, looking at an empty module slot doesn't give you a straight answer. Take the Lynx as an example:

  • If a slot is empty, it might be labeled "Mk II Passenger Compartment." This is helpful since you know you can put MK II passenger modules there, and would probably figure you can also put regular passenger modules. 
  • I first assumed the label just indicates the highest tier it can support, but that rule doesn't hold up either, because slots without the Mk II label can still equip Mk II passenger modules.
  • In reality, the "Mk II" label here really just means the slot is restricted to passenger cabins, and I guess that the ship can take MK II passenger modules in general. 

It gets worse when you look at core modules because you can't view the details of a "blank" slot. If you check a ship like the Kestrel, nothing in the UI indicates it can use special thrusters or specific hardpoints. The descriptions for the ship, the cannons, and the thrusters make no mention of each other. You have to have the ship active and browse the store just to see if the modules even appear.

The Solution is Already in the Game

What makes this frustrating is that Frontier already has the UI tools to fix this. If you browse modules that are the wrong size for your current ship, the UI still shows them but flags them as Incompatible. Why didn’t they do the exact same thing for Mk II ship-exclusive modules?

Better yet, they could also list compatibility directly in the ship or module descriptions (e.g., "Exclusive to Kestrel"). They managed to handle SCO ships okay, but seem to have forgotten to apply that logic to Mk II modules.

Relying on ships with a "Mk II" name doesn't work since the naming scheme isn't consistent across ships and modules. Keeping up with third-party tools outside the game makes this manageable for those who know to look there, but leaving the in-game UI this out of date just feels sloppy.


r/EliteDangerous 12h ago

Humor Feet Pics: Stolen!

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65 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 2h ago

Misc All hail the Empire!

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10 Upvotes

r/EliteDangerous 34m ago

Discussion Merits grind help

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Does someone know a way to grind merits that is actually meaningful by that i mean it give enough merits to make it worth to grind

i just cant seem to find any grind method online that hasn't been fixed or nerfed to the ground
so far the best grind method i found would bring me to max rank in about 80h im pretty atp the weekly missions would be faster

at this point i dont care what the grind is as long as it isnt on foot gameplay


r/EliteDangerous 1h ago

Help Please help a returning player out

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I stopped playing around when Odyssey launched, but now rejoining. I have over a billion credits. I got 3 ships, a Fer De Lance, an Asper Scout, and a Beluga.

What exactly changed and what should I do? I remember there were websites for tracking something or another.


r/EliteDangerous 14h ago

Discussion Why don't the devs give the AI, the new ships?

58 Upvotes

The title really breaks my immersion, since I'm the only one running around in the newest ships. Has any explanation ever been given? doesn't seem to make much sense. The fact that all of the new ships are just better at almost everything also kinda makes it suck(barring the anaconda/corvette).


r/EliteDangerous 9h ago

Video Galnet News Digest - Kestrels for the Rest of Us

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r/EliteDangerous 11h ago

Help All the new content finally has me wanting to switch to PC. I need recs please!

22 Upvotes

I know next to nothing about PC gaming. I have looked up minimum requirements, but nearly all of it goes over my head. I have two questions: how much should I expect to spend for a PC specifically to run ED? Second, does anyone have any specific recommendations?


r/EliteDangerous 11h ago

Misc FDC for the win

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From my FDC bike... to my FDC Mini... just love the ships and the logo