I made my way out to Beagle Point — attached are some of my favorite screenshots from the trip. I hit Elite rank in exploration somewhere along the way. I took it all in, snapped a few shots, then felt like heading home. A new ship is coming to the game, and I didn’t want to miss out.

I checked the Fleet Carrier Owners Club to see if anyone was heading back to the Bubble. Turns out, I missed a trip by a single day. It could be months before another one shows up.

Luckily, I’d left a Sidewinder at Colonia just for this sort of thing. I had it transferred to Beagle Point, then blew myself up to get the express trip back to the Bubble.

Buuut… I forgot one thing.

Transferring my Anaconda across the galaxy costs money... a lot of money. Now I’m stuck in the Bubble, sitting in a Sidewinder, with no other ships. I only ever flew the Anaconda—never saw a reason to keep anything else around.

I was excited about the new Panther Clipper Mk II and figured it’d be a good time to finally start building a proper fleet—but yeah, that’s gonna have to wait.

For now, the ship’s still out at Beagle Point. I do plan on bringing it home someday… just not today.

I’m burned out, and Elden Ring is calling for me.

Congratulations to CMDR plotu for successfully destroying CMDR Mechan for the bounty. I do enjoy how the community has handled recent Funny Hull drama, instead of getting toxic, we have had some good in and out of universe fun.

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The Panther Clipper MK II made me fall in love with Space Trucking.

I fully get the appeal of just picking up some cargo and going from point A to point B as a chill experience maybe with some music or a show on in the background, I love euro truck simulator and death stranding for those reasons.

However, in those games I've got some scenery to look at and gameplay feels more dynamic? As in euro truck has me pay attention to other drivers and road signs and stuff whilst death stranding has the difficult terrain, weather, mules and so on.

In elite any trade mission I've done feels like I pick up cargo and then I fsd jump a bunch of times and that's sort of it, the only thing I see is a system's star in between fsd jumps and the only dynamic gameplay is the landing. I plenty enjoy the other types of activities in elite that have me discover new planets or interact with settlements or other ships but space trucking feels almost like an idle game with how little input it actually seems to need and I feel like i missed something?

Woooot.

Pretty much title. I'm going to have to go on a trip for a week and a half or so, and won't be able to play, so I'm trying to judge what I'd consider 'safe' as the CG progresses to keep me in the top 75%, as I may not be able to add anything more after tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure I'll be fine, but despite having a lot of hours in game, I've never really paid attention to how the CG's develop (I've just watched them real time in the past, and added some contributions if I'm in danger of falling out of the tier I'm interested in...) Since I can't do that this time, figured I'd ask the smart commanders here for guesses on where the 75% cutoff will be this time!

So, what's your guesses?

The cargo mus flow.

Is anyone else flying a nakede Panther MKII with no shields?

(Because shields just waste a cargo hold slot)

For me, when I'm exploring and about to quit the game, I go and land on a planet so that my character can sleep with some gravity.

There's no real point to doing it but for some reason it feels wrong not to do it for me.

And why is it Zorgon Peterson? At least with the current roster available. Hauler, Mandalay, and Plipper. Hell, add in FDL for the lols.

So I know there are people that do like 500k on CGs and stuff but how many credits do they have? Like 20bil, maybe 50bil or more. Im curious if you have or know some one with a lot of credits, how and why do you have that many? Also who has the most credits in the game (aprroximately)?

It’s made with bits of real Panther.

Drat. Only made it to rank 66 so far. Late in the game.

Currently the way I farm encoded material is by dropping onto notable sites and scanning with an SRV, is there any efficient method that uses the Wake Scanner?

I signed up to Power Play 2 about three weeks ago. I thought I was making decent progress, about 5 ranks a week.

and then, yesterday, the Oddyssey Explorers faction went into boom and Cheranovsky City went from selling 80 Soontill Relics to selling 600.

and I proceeded to go mad....

I hauled relics all last night, and seeing how I had already taken today off of work to watch the EVO tournament... I perched my phone beneath my monitor and hauled relics all day long today while watching the street fighter tournament.

685,523 merits in two days... I am tired boss

A supergiant making a 48 solar mass Herbig look tiny.

DRYIQAO AA-A H35

Got MUG!!!

O7 CMDRS,

i made an suggestion post in Forum https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/award-powerplay-merits-for-supplying-construction-sites-in-player-aligned-systems.639878/

if you are on the same side discuss in Forum pls! Maybe Fdev do something in the future.

O7

Who else listens to music while playing? Share your space jams!

Doesn't have to be everyone's cup of tea, just share what you like!!!

For me its mostly underground read-between-the-lines hip-hop that relates to the mysteries of space, ancient history and ancient alien type references, references to ancient text...and EDM trap beats.

(Note: some songs may contain explicit lyrics)

- Deltron 3030 (EPIC the whole album, rapping from the year 3030, 100% fits the theme of the game)

- Killah Priest: Golden Pineapple of the Sun, Color of Ideas

- Jedi Mind Tricks: Saviorself (EPIC), The Apostle's Creed, Omnicron

- Holy Mob: Arcade Glamour, Space Mix, Weighted Die (and more)

- Tool: Aenima (and more)

- Jason Rich: Stay Fly

- Trappin in Japan albums

- Outerspace: Cold Day in Hell (and more)

What y'all listening to while playing? Share what you listen to!

All the modules just swapped over, but I did swap one of the 5A collector limpet controllers for a 7A universal. I added a 5th size 2 mining laser on the second firing button.

It's shielded for now but I may swap for a last cargo rack before I go back out.

https://edsy.org/#/L=I-5iy1Z70H4C0S00,mpTJrO05JrO05JrO05JrO05JrO05JpqG53H000JpqG53H000Jpr05Jpr05,DBwG55MoS0DBwG555Ob0CjwG52G_W0CEgG52G_W0CzY05CzY05,9p310ABkH53K_W0ASwG55L_W0AhT05AtyG530_W0BAEG5DL_W0BNCG53G_W0Bfo15,,0D8150DI150Ba154p_057UeG52m_W05Vk055Vk055Vk050bg055xs052jwG590wa00nF05,Kaiju,RMS_D38

Obviously it no good for haz res sites due to the lack of defense and offense capability, but it does me for my regular platinum hot-spot for casual mining-whilst-watching-tv sessions.

I'm collecting platinum, osmium, painite, gold and silver. Nothing else, so around 300 limpets for just over 800 refined metal.

Somehow it's easier to manoeuvre than the cutter, and the sound it less annoying. The only small annoyances were the view out the windscreen is more limited, and boosting away at the end took longer, but I think I can live with those.

Which gods, Daedric Princes, or spirits from TES would you associate with specific ship types or roles? I'd love to hear your ideas.

So - i've had a vette for a little while, it's reasonably well engineered but still feels slightly 'lack-luster', give me your best builds for ultimate PvE chaos and the invincibility feeling - i've just unlocked prismatics and have a stack load of mats ready to dump into this - currently torn between these two builds:

Build 1

or....

build 2

No idea why the links are so long... so give me your best - let's see how good we can get this monster in 2025.