>>2168586
>DW3 starts in three weeks
are you coming CMDRs?

ALL OF YOU COLONIZERS IN THE THREAD, POST THE POPULATION OF YOUR MOST POPULOUS SYSTEM RIGHT NOW

My most populous is 46 million, I'm working on a lot of systems right now.

Gotta travel 5000 ly from start to unlock Palin, is there anything worth going to that's that far out or should I just hitch a ride on the Colonia bus?
I still need to get the Guardian unlocks but idk how far out the Guardian sites are
>>2168591
Probably not, it sounds like a fun idea but I like being able to do bubble activities and being away for weeks sounds boring.

>>2168591
yes
i wish fleetcomm's discord server wasn't such a fucking mess, it's cool that they want to do a bunch of side things but christ it's hard to even find the place to sign up for launch day instances

>>2168591
I genuinely don't care about exploration in Elite Dangerous. That has come and gone, and all I see with regard to exploration as gameplay is people desperately clutching at the shadow of a long dead idea. There is nothing out there in the game, and all it amounts to is going out there to get your account name graffiti'd across a false eternity where it will only last until the servers go offline. The servers could be taken offline tomorrow.

>>2169235
In fact, all this shit really just makes the game itself less mysterious, and the mystery of space is the only reason I gave a rats ass. Letting players put their names on systems was a mistake.

There really should be some rare shit to discover

>got blown up twice in a row doing haz res bounties
fuck it, i'm going salvaging, this is getting too expensive

>>2168586
>https://cmdrs-toolbox.com/billionaires-boulevard
ATTENTION WHOEVER MAKES A NEW THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The old website has shut down for Billionaires Boulevard

NEW LINK!!!!!!!!!!

https://wanderer-toolbox.com/routes/billionaire-boulevard/

It is still a very easy way to get money as a new player. Odessey does go one sale sometimes and all you need is a hauler, surface scanner, and Artemis Suit. Risk free except if you crash.

>>2168723
>nobody in this thread does colonizing
lol

Can I go in photo mode while on foot ? The normal prompts don't work

>>2169748
Yeah its a different set of keybinds though. I can't remember where in the menus that shit is unfortunately and I rebound mine ages ago, so dig around.

>>2169774
Thanks, I'll look around next time I play

Is there a way to tell which powers are involved in a Conflict Zone before entering it? The only contested system for my power has like 8 other powers in it

>>2168591
I always like the idea of Distant Worlds but when it comes to actually committing to it I become completely unmotivated so I guess I'll just skip it.

Finally got my fleet carrier, time to do narco terrorism in favor of SIRA

>>2171282
Where is SIRA located? Once I'm done colonizing for the Feds I might consider expanding one or two new SIRA controlled systems.

I want to set up a colony just to have a place to call home, but I'm having a damn hard time deciding where to put it. None of the third party tools make it easy to find a candidate, spansh has nearly every filter you need but it isn't easy to find systems that contain at least one ring

>>2171315
All over the place:
https://inara.cz/elite/minorfaction/38108/

I'm currently trying to take over the systems in the Scutum Dark region

>>2171457
If it were easy to find this way someone else will have gotten it already unless its really far away from any bridges/the bubble.

>>2171468
Fair enough. Found a landable world with a ring ~230 Ly from Sol within colonization range, only downside is the primary port is around a gas giant, which the guides I've seen seem to think is bad?

>>2171497
The primary port is such a useless eyesore that it's best to ignore it and build everything else as if it weren't there. Register to FDev forums and add to the whining every time the topic of them letting us decommission it comes up.

>>2171568
If it doesn't matter that much I'll go ahead and put my 25 mil down.

>>2171468
>write code for a living
>how hard could it be to write a comprehensive colonization tool?
>slap together some a json parser
>the spansh dump is 100 GB compressed
oh my god

she python'd my anaconda until i became elite
also
>found a system with a bunch of unscanned biosigns just 500 LY from the bubble
love to see it

Thought about getting involved in that Powerplay thing, but I am bored to tears of conflict zones and don't see a point given the statistical realities.

>>2168723
mine is at 100m last time I checked but I got burned out and stopped after building a t3 planetary
i did that solely to see how bad it could possibly be to do that alone and yep it fucking sucks ass

>>2173142
>built a t3 planetary
Tell me you at least had a t1 planetary refinery economy on the same body when you did it.

>>2173436
i built it to be an infinity CMM composite factory, yeah

>>2173448
No, I mean did you build a refinery planetary outpost on the same body you built a t3 planetary port in order to make supplying your t3 with refinery commodities while constructing it not complete cancer.

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>>2171497
>>2171622
>gas giant has icy rings with tritium spots
Does this mean I'll get tritium on the market if I spec it for extraction?

>>2173702
as far as I can tell all (orbital?) refinery economies export Tritium, regardless of whether its present in-system

>>2173554
oh oops I misunderstood you, I had one on an adjacent moon for CMM/ceramics and I got all the other refinery crap from my coriolis
I just did 1 carrier load per day until it was done

does anyone knows where i can get ship models to tinker in blender? i know there are stl models for printing but they lack textures

>>2173910
>1 carrier load per day
Did that take you like, two weeks straight?

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From reading the guides I know I want both a surface and an orbital refinery to source materials
I kind of want to build the orbital as an Asteroid Base (they're cool), but if I have it right I'll miss out on the 140% base refinery strength (and 140% industrial) from orbiting a Rocky Ice World.
My question is, how bad is this hit going to be? I'm only going to use it to build up the rest of the system, not make a mini-bubble, and I'm willing to take a small hit for the asteroid aesthetic
Pic related, Coriolis on top, Asteroid on bottom

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>Finally regain enough skill to consistently kill Basilisks
>Only about 55 ARX versus 45 average for Cyclops despite way tougher fight

>>2174670
As long as you keep extraction from surpassing industrial or refinery in the top two slots, you should be good. How many slots are on the planet? If it's just one, you're screwed. Two you can at least build a refinery hub to keep refinery as the #1 slot, three you could also build an industrial settlement to make sure extraction stays in third.

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>>2174844
There's 4 slots, the pic I posted was with a planned 1 civilian outpost, 1 refinery, 1 industrial settlement
>As long as you keep extraction from surpassing industrial
How bad is Ext / Ref / Ind (in that order)? The surface outpost is going to be Ref / Ind / Ext, but it's going to be almost impossible to get an orbital Asteroid base to have Refinery or Industrial higher than Extraction. I still don't understand how the "cannibalizing" works, is it fine to have a Ref/Ind ground outpost linked to a Ext/Ref orbital port?

>>2174953
Extraction being in the lead has a good chance of cannibalizing the third place industry materials needed for colonization. You might have to ditch the asteroid base idea if you REALLY want to be sure you produce all the materials needed for colonizing.

>>2174974
>Extraction being in the lead has a good chance of cannibalizing the third place industry materials needed for colonization
Gotcha, so this means my asteroid will most likely not export industrial goods, but will it also "eat" the industrial goods coming out of the surface port? I don't mind making the extra trip down to the planet, since I only want to build a few stations rather than a whole mini-bubble
The primary port >>2173702 will also supply a few industrial goods, I think.

>>2174670
>tfw spent the last two months straight bridging to and building my own little mini-bubble
I hate myself

>>2175079
Throw me a system, I'll make your mini bubble a little bigger

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>>2174013
something like that
although I didn't play every day at all, according to raven it took me about 2 months in real time

>>2175304
>two months to build a single in-game structure via mind numbing back and forth hauling
Amazing and fun content, for sure. Very cool fdev.

>servers died while i was jumping around looking for rocks for the CG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kguaGI7aZg

i need a PvP build for the python MK.2

Colonisation is awful. How do you people tolerate this?

>>2177013
Painfully

>>2177013
Had a few irl friends who played but quit after the Odyssey dumpster fire
"Bought a system, who wants to haul tens of thousands of tons until we have our own base?" got a surprising number of them back

>>2177157
>tfw no friends and do all the hauling myself

>>2177783
post your system and I'll haul you some steel

>dw3 mass jump signup was buried in a discord pinned message instead of being visibly available on the website
i hate this retarded application

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>>2180410
honestly will probably be way less chaotic to just do a rando instance on launch day, I dunno why they are trying to be so autistic about it this time around. DW2 iirc they just told us to go to a nav beacon, keep doing it until you get an instance, have someone do the countdown in the in-game chat
like fucking christ wtf is this shit

>>2180463
i long for the day people stop trying to force a group chat IM program that doesnt even have a working search index to be used as a forum and information repository

>>2180410
based on the spreadsheet they posted the vast majority of people won't be doing the """official""" ones anyway, not really sure why they made some poor sod type that all up
discord is complete cancer tho, I just looked and they made like 20 voice channels for people to organize their own instances, I'm sure that won't be a complete mess of people screeching for wing invites for an hour!

Anyone have RES show up in their colony? I've got some rocky rings but so far no RES

Yeah I have a bunch in multiple different systems. Pretty sure I've had them appear right after finishing the primary port, but if not the Thursday tick might gen them.

>>2182006
I see them in other players colonies all the time.

>>2182006
they showed up in mine right after I finished my primary

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Did the CG for like 2 hours while listening to podcasts on youtube.

Comfy but I think I'll shelf this game for now.

So how badly did colonization fuck up the immersion? Hundreds of dead systems around the bubble, I assume

Is there/will there ever be an alternative to this game? And No, Fag's Sky is not alternative.

>>2183328
>hundreds
Try thousands. Thousands of systems with a single outpost and nothing else.

i'm still asking for >>2176726 also i could use a guide on how to PvP, how to build, what ships to use, movement techniques, and what else is there

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Fuck these cracker ass cunts.
Was searching a good 30m for this.

>spent several hours yesterday doing bgs influence shit for a minor faction
>check back today and nothing changed or updated
Cool

>>2185435
kek how badly did you fuck up

>>2185435
BGS only ticks once per day at completely random times, could be it just hasn't happened yet

>>2185454
I thought the daily tick was around 7am every day, or is that just the Thursday maintenance time?

>>2185474
bgs ticks at it's own time
back when i was doing bgs autism it was usually between midnight-3am in game time but it can be whenever the hell it feels like

If Elite Dangerous is going to go forward and Frontier is serious about utilizing it, it needs to be fixed so it's far more user-friendly.
May genuinely be time to sunset it and make a new game.

>>2187037
>Elite: Too Dangerous

>>2187037
There is never going to be another Elite. This is the final one.

>>2187086
Says who

>building up one of the systems I colonized
>dogshit docking ai gets stuck on their dogshit orbital construction platform so badly I have to quit and log back in just to fix it and get respawned 20km out
Cool game fdev.

>>2187290
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Man, the rank progression is just fucked.

My chief activity is chilling around the Pleiades killing Interceptors to earn the weekly ARX quota and yet I haven't advanced more than 20% towards Combat Elite I. Meanwhile, I only do some token participation in shipping CGs and yet, voilá.

Is this the best space game ever or what.

>>2187502
Depends who you ask. It certainly scratches an itch but it's not very deep. For me it's autistic scanning with exploration. Ship building is also fun

>>2187502
It's only the "best" because there's nothing else like it.

>>2187502
I don't know if I'd say that. I do like Elite a lot though. Its probably the best exploration sim, though. And a very (the best/most) relaxing space-trucking game.

X4 has it beat for overall space sandbox, even Star Citizen in its state, Eve online and NMS are better in some regards.

>>2187037
I mean what is there more too add? I think they need to keep updating current ED, it runs well, it still looks good, there isn't much to improve on at a fundamental level, my current Wishlist would be that
>Ship interior
>ability to create a squad with AI commander that follow you around
>same as above but for planetary pve or exploration
>slowly try to shift away from the core bubble by making some kind of 'gate' that would link us a new bubble growing elsewhere
>more weapon variety instead of new ships

>>2187601
I want atmospheric planets with an actual atmosphere. Volumetric clouds from orbit to surface would be awesome. Imagine procgen storm systems.

>>2187977
That would be very nice, I can imagine some atmospheric planet with esoteric meteorology, which also happen to have very valuable relics, the more dangerous the planet is, the more valuable the relics on the ground are. And you have event like stalker emission but ranging from many different type of climate, and forces you to always be careful

>>2188256
Death stranding in space, in that the environment is the main threat, sounds very appealing. I also want to fly in the upper layers of gas giants. But all that is so much work it may as well be a distant dream

>>2188265
Well Frontier isn't going to make a new Elite game I believe, space sims aren't as followed as they were back in 2015-2016. A sequel to Elite: Dangerous would be too much of a gamble, they could try to create another content expansion instead, I wouldn't mind paying for that again, but after odyssey they clearly have no idea what to do despite the community asking for the same thing ad nauseam, so we'll see.

>>2187977
This game definitely needs meteorology
Maybe some actual pop dynamics to add depth to faction play too
Actually there is just so much that can be done to further flesh out the gameplay. It's a fucking shame devs are squandering all this potential

It gets increasingly cringe and irritating how a group of people LARPing on Discord are treated as though they're the official game-influencing word when it comes to things being official within Elite.

>>2188421
For instance, "Grom is actually on the Imperial side in the enclave and not on the Independent side he was sided with in the actual CG by FDev." and "The war is paused due to Distant Worlds 3. Everyone should stop trying so my specific power can bulldoze."
And then you have the cringey fanfiction-laden DW3 shit where they demand people don't use elements of the game under threat they'll remove them from any participation award list if FDev opts to give them an emblem.

>>2188424
I am once more vindicated by staying away from other people and just doing my own thing.

>>2188424
>The war is paused due to Distant Worlds 3.
the fuck?

>>2188954
GalNet Digest put out a video claiming that the war over the Radicoida is on pause due to DW3. No, it fucking isn't.
Some people in the community really piss me off.

I paid 0 attention to the stupid powerplay war because I knew my power was gonna get raped

>>2189646
Same, don't care at all. Would rather build up my own little area of space and selected factions.

the mandalay looks ugleh

>>2190104
But the jump range is so juicy.

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>finally got around on buying an anaconda
>got 500 mil balance: 300 from grinding the CG, 200 from exobio during a brief expedition to the seagull nebula
>bought the ship from an LYR station for that 30 million discount
>SCO 6A FSD: 6M
>8A distributor 23M
>mfw seeing the price for the 8A Power plant

>>2190720
hmmm no, it's still ugly, not liking the cockpit windows because it feels like the distance between the seat to the windows is a kilometer away which makes it hard to do exobiology. switching back to my Diamondback explorer until i get the FSD booster

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>>2190795
>hmmm no, it's still ugly
The body kits really help it.

>>2171011
Was reading the sign-up of Distant Worlds 3.
You basically agree to do nothing aside from casually journey on the fleet carrier for months and be a good little boy, playing along with the fanfiction thought up by the organizers.
The entire expedition and the PG have been infiltrated by gankers who plan on burning the entire fucking thing down.
Good.

I have 1000 hours in this game and never bought an anaconda.
Medium ships are better for exploration and have more fun in combat.

The corvette Blasts everything way better.

>>2192568
kek
guess they got a little too authoritarian and gay for people to take

>>2192581
i had one for exploration back in the day when it had by far the best range in the game but I hated it so much I went back to an ASP

>>2192491
>hides the ugly main thruster
if only it improves the crappy looking underside
>>2192582
got tempted into joining it. if it becomes a bit too unbearable or unprofitable, it would be a fun trek back to the bubble at least

>browsing through DW3 server
>see a few dads rightfully complaining about discord being complete shit

audibly keked

>>2192568
idiots are already getting themselves mass kicked from the pg right now
fuggin morons, you're supposed to wait until the middle of the expedition so you can murder people with exploration data and send them back to the bubble

is head tracking worth it with one monitor?

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>spent a month doing bgs shit on my own architect systems so I can finally start building for my chosen minor factions
>checking to make sure all my systems have the correct influence
>find out someone has been undermining one of my systems in the middle of fucking nowhere, for a faction that already controls 99% of nearby space
I am going to fucking murder this cunt.

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Basilisks now eating shit on the regular. Slowly building up enough mistaken self-confidence to think I can take on a Medusa. Gotta polish up my decidedly suboptimal shielded-joust technique first though.

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Colonia is annoyingly dense as fuck and the space is way too bright. i want to go back to the bubble already

>>2197798
I need Anarchy to take over some of my settlements for my completionist autism, and I'm gonna blow my top if some dad messes up my bgs

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>>2198829
it doesnt get better from here, anon

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>>2198829
>Colonia is annoyingly dense as fuck and the space is way too bright.
Wait til you see the Empyrean Straits.

>>2200017
nta but I wish fdev would fix this somehow, even if it means adding new systems or selectively reducing the brightness around the 'box' Colonia sits in.

Same for that line of dense stars, I know they come from real life data but the rest of the procedural galaxy clashes hard with it.

>>2200017
It's beautiful

>>2200017
>>2200081
Imagine living on an Earth-like world in these places and looking at the stars every night.

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>>2200149
>night as bright as a sunset
>all year
circadian rhythm? what's that?

>>2200098
Those IRL surveyed regions of stars in this game are a good visual indicator that our original estimate of 400 billion is way off. Procgen based on that 400B number + estimated mass of the galaxy gives us what we see in most of the game, but everywhere we've actually looked IRL the star density is at least 10x higher.

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This game has amazing atmosphere sometimes.
I just wish it wasn't a grindfest.

>>2200739
And to think, none of us will be alive to visit a single one. More stars than grains of sand, more planets than motes of dust, and we can't even get to Alpha Centauri.

>>2200739
They could just fix it by adding globular clusters around some of the problem points.

>>2201107
"Where is everybody?" -Fermi
Perhaps no one will ever be. There seem to be good reasons why intelligent species will wipe themselves out before leaving their home systems.

>>2201651
The Fermi Paradox always seemed very pseud to me. There's no reason to assume other intelligent species ever existed in the past. If there were evidence of it we would've picked up on it by now, since the light of every star in the sky is old. Intelligent life could exist right now and we won't see it until the light reaches Earth.

>>2202105
Intelligent life could exist right now and have actively broadcasted a signal to us, and we would probably never know, because there is just so much to look out for, and if they're anything like our own attempts to send communications, they've all been drop-in-the-bucket broadcasts where the targets were selected for proximity or local significance rather than habitability, and were broadcasted for so short a time it'd be entirely possible to just miss it from the radio telescope being at the wrong spot in its sweep pattern. Entire broadcasts could have been sent to us for thousands of years and we would never know because we didn't have dick for communication until the past hundred years

i hate the way the distant worlds fags organize things but that first waypoint they picked is cool as fuck

>>2202105
In the right conditions intelligent life should be quite likely to form.
Like >>2202170 says, it's very difficult to detect intelligent life attempting to communicate, if they are some pre-interstellar civilization.
Interstellar civilizations should spread pretty quickly, in cosmological time scales.
So why haven't we seen any large interstellar empires, which ought to be fairly obvious?
There are a number of possibilities, but it sure looks like the sort of competitive species required to develop advanced technology also tends to wipe itself out before attaining interstellar travel. Eventually someone gets the brilliant idea to "cleanse" the species and they nuke/plague/etc. themselves out of existence.
Maybe the purple-antlers even manage to successfully wipe out the orange-antlers without killing themselves. Then the bent-purple-antlers wipe out the straight-purple-antlers, and so on. And then one day they all die from inbreeding as their genetic diversity drops below critical levels.
An intelligent species is likely to possess the power to wipe themselves out LONG before they gain the wisdom to prevent it.

The best we can do is dream of space, because I'm not too sure any of our descendants will actually get to explore it.

>>2203420
Yes but if this had happened in the past we would have detected it by now if the filter marker is any kind of technology.

Best that can be expected is other life forms exist right now, but we wouldn't be able to detect it due to time dilation.

There is no filter, there is no fermi paradox, its only the fact that the stars and signals we see are too old due to the distances involved. As a result you get pseud theories that seem blind to this fact instead concluding "they must all have wiped out!"

>>2203773
>time dilation
Meant to say light lag.

>>2203773
>blind to this fact
I think the idea is that, best guess, the conditions for life-supporting worlds would have been possible in our universe around ~6 billion years ago. Our own planet is ~4 billion years old, so there's no reason to believe there wouldn't be a space empire with a couple billion years head start on us. That gives us a theoretical spacefaring-civilization-detection-radius 2 billion light-years across, which is pretty damn big. We ought to see something.
So "light lag" would account for hiding civilizations outside our 2bly bubble, with the other proposed solutions to the Fermi paradox covering the space within.

>>2203773
The galaxy is only tens of thousands of light years across. That's nothing on evolutionary time scales. You don't even need to think billions of years like >>2204009 says.
It would be very implausible if a species that had the competitive drive to develop a space-faring civilization then failed to expand across the galaxy despite surviving millions of years. If a galaxy-spanning civilization were still around, it should be fairly obvious.
On the other hand, if there are a hundred intelligent species that reached interplanetary travel before murdering each other with nukes or other wmds within the last 100m years alone, and in this galaxy alone, the chance that we'd even have any signals to detect is well under 0.1%. Heck, a hundred civilizations could have risen and fallen every million years and we'd probably not have any signal to detect for thousands of years.

It is probably very difficult for a species to build the sort of species wide cooperative behavior needed to survive. We certainly aren't doing a good job of it.
It's not even entirely our fault, because we (and every other technologically advancing species) are necessarily playing a multi-round game of chicken where we can choose to cooperate or take advantage of the other faction, with the stakes growing higher and higher each round. When there are many players (and the penalties are small), the ones that cooperate can outperform and survive. But when there are few factions (coalescing with the progress of technology), the logic of this game isn't easily survivable, unless you can force every faction to cooperate, somehow.

>>2203773
>>2206163
>>2204009
Its likely that sapience and higher ability to reason is the actual rare trait for life. There's probably thousands (millions?) of alien life forms across the galaxy but all of them are just basic animals.

>doing transportation missions to increase faction influence
>decide to kill two birds with one stone and take "deliver commodities" missions on the return to my carrier
>dock with carrier and go to transfer cargo to its storage
>not allowed
>destination station is 450k light seconds away from arrival star
This fucking game... everything it does inconveniences you in some way, literally everything always has to be a fucking grind.

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>>2207427
>he didn't read mission specifics before accepting it

Remember guys, you aren't allowed to engage in Powerplay because some people on a private Discord channel who call themselves the leaders of Powerplay decided Powerplay is on hold until Distant Worlds is done.

It's very much on hold, yes.
DISREGARD MY JUICY MERIT GAINS

>>2207493
The mission specifics weren't a problem, that's what the fucking fleet carrier was there for. The problem was after taking the cargo it quite literally blocks you from transferring it anywhere accept the destination.

>>2207772
joke's on you I already wasn't engaging with it!

>>2207772

Fuck everyone involved in this shit

>Discord user
>retarded
Pick two

>>2207772
What's stopping you from just ignoring them?

Is Elite even being worked on?

I swear we got Trailblazer update and then fucking nothing.

>>2209568
My assessment is they're working on a couple small features that'll let you teleport to an explorable ship for on-foot pve combat regardless of your location in the galaxy and some stuff for guilds (squadrons). The rest of their resources are going towards shitting out cash shop ships and paying off all the youtubers to fellate them openly about how things are changing and improving for the game and company while little content actually appears.

Tell me something
If Frontier somehow dies, will someone realistically be able to run a server of their own and simulate whatever background data necessary

>>2209730
I think that would be impossible since no-one outside of frontier knows how stellar forge works.

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Are they adding more Exobiology or is this just fluff?
Says it's unique to a system sure but could new Exo be on the way?

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Pretty sure this is my first ring world with biology on it.

>>2211846
one of the updates on that stupid roadmap thing they did a while back was just "new exploration feature" so it's probably leading up to whatever that is

>>2211846
>>2212102
waow new vagina plant to scan huge update

>>2211846
Maybe they should publish an article like this only you can see ingame whenever you return from the black with millions of credits worth of exo scans.

You are put in charge of overhauling Exobiology and Exploration.

What do you do?

>>2212813
Simple.

1. Make the black hostile. Outside of the bubble the black should be dangerous. Talking stuff like random turbulence strength on Neutron stars, deep space radiation zones that slowly damage your ship, harsh atmospheres that interfere with your landing, meteor storms. The Blakc is just too safe with the only downside being you're away from civilization.
2. Overhal planet gen, more varied terrain and add caves and rivers, with new exobiology that only spawns in caves or next to or in rivers.
3. Some planets have weather systems now, Ranging from light rain to heavy thunderstorms that can damage your ship, dust storms.
4. Balance payouts completely between them. Exploring and DSS is completely worthless to Exobiology. Theres no reason an earth like world discovery should be max 4,000,000 when even less rare stratum tectonicas nets you 95,000,000 just like that. Earth likes, ammonia and water worlds should be just as valuable. As well as DSS scanning planets should also be valuable.
5. Fauna, pretty simple but not talking no mans sky of absurdity but grounded and realistic that you can scan. Some are hostile to you too so you have to take precautions out in the black.
6. Scarab MKII SRV which includes an exploration drone bay. You can use this to scan an area lets say 500m and it will count all biology as 1. Can be engineered to 1000m range and shorter scanning times.

>>2212996
2 and 3 sound like a dream. If only...

>>2212813
They should allow me to fuck anything I find.

>>2213269
concha labiata is there for you my friend

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why are all the crew members that u can hire really ugly brown mutts?

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>Elite getting on in years
>rumors of servers sunsetting getting more and more prevalent
>start getting galnet articles of oddities surrounding large amounts of permit locked space
>players report stranger noises than usual in witchspace
>suddenly one day Thargoids spring out of permit locked regions by the millions
>all colonies nearby getting swarmed and obliterated
>massive energy signatures reported approaching from all angles towards inhabited human space
>titans as large as moons closing in, every human system they pass being left ravaged in their wake
>weeks of desperate, nonstop fighting ensues as every other activity is drowned out by thargoid interceptors
>they slowly encroach on the core until nothing is left but Sol
>as the fighting burns out and players die off, accepting their fate
>everyone receives a global message
>"thanks for playing :)"
>servers shut down as a thargoid titan annihilates Earth
Imagine

>make a little refinery system with a coriolis to make supplying my own systems a little faster and easier
>next day I already have 16 other players taking supplies from it
What the fuck

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>Finally get a Type-11 and kit it out
>Spend 45 minutes mining rocks
>Circa 12 million credits
>15 ARX

Ok, nevermind, gonna stick to murdering Interceptors then.

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>Obsidian Ant has been glazing E:D so much for the past year I'm legit starting to believe frontier is paying him
Did Frontier actually fix things with the game and made things better for it this past year?

>>2217171
fdev has an agreement with various youtubers, this was verified by one of them who declined the partnership last year and it coincides with this aggressive "glazing" you see happening from various of them.

I wonder if its done any harm to their channels because I used to watch Obsidianant all the time and now I just skip over most of them since they feel more like filler.

>>2217171
elite gets exploration wrong though...

>>2218071
Yeah. Exploration in Elite is shit. There's nothing to find and all it does is let people vulnerable to addiction fall down a rabbit hole. I see some people doing exploration and all I see is an elderly person on the slot machines.

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Do any of you know what tools are good/available for Arch specifically CachyOS (like that matters) I'd prefer to install from the terminal as you do but I imagine there will be some workarounds if that's not possible. Was trying to see how ED-Discovery would work but Linux support was kill. Any tips or should I go back to microslop for elite only?

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>>2218071

I agree.
I've been re-playing Mass Effect 1. Even though most planets are big and empty, driving around feels fantastic and you always get something from a planet. Even if it is just lore.

>>2220024
ED market connector does the same thing as discovery without being bloated as shit, you can also fill it with as many or as little extra plugins as you want
I have no idea what the linux version is like tho

>8k ly from sol in a random direction, not towards colonia or sag a
>every other system is discovered

>>2224109
REKT

>>2224109
Elite, from inception, fucked itself out of ever becoming popular in that regard. The more players there are and the more time passes, the less chance you ever find anything to put your name on unless you venture into the depths of who-gives-a-damn.

I've spent the last 3+ months building up my own little mini bubble in space by myself about 700ly from the bubble, but I'm getting the urge to go out along the bridge and start colonizing near one of the nebula 5kly out. Help me, I'm losing control of my life.

>>2224109
Maybe 0.1% of the stars have been visited. I'd guess at most 10% of the stars in an 8kly radius has been visited, probably much less in the 5kly to 10kly range. You are probably inadvertently following in some other explorer's trail. Use a random number generator to pick a direction instead of picking based on intuition or whatever. You should start hitting virgin territory 2kly out at most. Last time I went exploring I started hitting unexplored stars less than 1klyr from the edge of the bubble, and it can't have changed that much in the last few years.

>>2224671
nta, I thought it was closer to 0.4%, they released some numbers at one point.

Anyway the problem is that you can filter for desirable systems, even without going into how the cells and stellar codes work you can just filter by ignoring colder stars so the end result is all the obviously good systems that have high potential for valuable or interesting finds get explored but there's a shit ton of worthless frozen rock systems that account for the remaining 99% of unexplored space.

>>2224109
>Born too late to explore the (virtual) galaxy
>Born too early to explore the next (virtual) galaxy

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>>2224840

Is there a lore reason why Stratum Techtonicas is so expensive?

>>2232622
Considering that a 1-system shipping hop of <40ly pays better than murdering a Basilisk, which is supposed to be a feat of elite-level piloting from top of the line CMDRs (or at least a team effort of several lesser ones), I wouldn't think too hard about price justifications.

>find a surface colony under Empire control named "Epstein Island"
lol

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>>2233344

The player base of Elite looks like people the Smiling Friends failed to help.

What are the better ways to make money other than Exobiology?
I got 5bn and Im honestly getting a bit tired of scanning shit.

>>2233658
There are no better ways. You can find some busted trade routes to rake in cash, but exobio is still the best.

>>2233658
The next best thing by far is trading. A single-hop route in a Panther Clipper can yield from 20 to 40 million. Probably can't match a single extremely profitable exobio find, but it's a lot less hassle.

>>2233741
>>2233778
I really hate they nerfed mining but kept exo where it is.

Fuck the devs.

>>2234086
What are you grinding cash for? A carrier? A squad carrier?

Im hoping that with the ground/space combat overhaul thing they buff the rewards from it.
Maybe not to exo payouts but decent enough.

>>2235071
>tfw scanning alien vaginas makes more money than mercenary work

Star Citizen added the SRV called it the ROC and are charging people 55.dollars for it.

>>2235279
Scam Shitizen strikes again.

>>2235279
LFMAO

The combined colonization effort heading in the direction of the galactic center is now 500lys away from the NGC nebula. Does anyone here even do colonization or give a fuck? Or am I just talking to myself here.

>>2236364
They should colonize my dick

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what is this trash

>>2237251
A sweater. For space. You know, it can get cold out there.

>>2237251

That shit is roughly 10 dollars.
Fuck man they don't even give us a full colorset.

>>2236364
I'M ON MY WAY NOW, 7,100lys TO REACH.

>>2237449
And yet people will defend them by arguing that other devs are worse when, in reality, no, not really. FDev are fucking horrible at the live service shit. Instead of focusing on what they should be focused on, they're focused on squeezing whales.

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New ship announcement on Monday.

>>2239207
oh boy
more ships

>>2239207
I think it is a fighter with the centered cockpit

I hope we have a medium ship with 2 Class 4 hardpoints!

>>2239207
>federal ship cockpit

>>2239417
feds stay winning

anyone in DW3 still continuing the expedition? feels like i like it better doing expeditions solo

>>2239814
Better off asking in the forums, this thread is dead as fuck.

>>2239207
This is definitely giving me Core Dynamics vibes. Looks like a small ship this time, and the cockpit resembles the one on the eagle.

>>2239814
i am but I'm mostly keeping to myself as always
exception was the silly SRV event they are doing right now because it's always hilarious seeing how low you can get the FPS to go

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>>2239814
still here.
I tend to avoid players when doing proper exploration.
exploring these parts is supposed to be a lonely experience.

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Oh shit are we getting ship interiors???

>>2240952
lol

>>2240952
nah

>>2240952
yes

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I BEG YOUR FINEST PARDON?

>>2243921
It natively shoots from fuel, like the Railgun engineering mod.

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>Kestrel Mk.II released.

>It's better than most small ships. Has straight up better combat stats.

Nice to see this will be their business model going forward.

Goodbye balance patches.

>>2245849
This is the only new content we will ever get. Paid ship releases and purely combat focused content for said ship releases.

>>2245849
>Hardpoints: 3L + 2S
>on a lighter frame than a Vulture
Dafuq
>New Mk II thrusters enable boosting directly sideways because fuck conservation of momentum
DAFUQ

>>2246332
>81.2 pitch not even boosting
>520 shields with a stock prismo before any engi or boosters & over 2K with balanced resists
>can literally instant transmission so fuck your class 4 PA
RIP FDL

>less integrity than a courier
Don't skip hull day though holy shit

>>2244272
Not mentioned during the reveal: They also have autoloader.

>>2240952
maybe

>fdev forgot to lock the MkII thrusters to the Kestrel on the test servers
>Vulture & Chieftain become more agile than god, hard to NOT black out on boost turns
>T7 completes a 360 yaw in less than 2 seconds
>Vette changes direction and stops instantly even though 5A thrusters are super undersized

>keep trying to find untouched systems to scan but Mike Litoris got them all
Damn

i completely forgot how to fly. what's a good youtube guide to go over the basics? i remember a helpful one by a guy with an american accent, i would prefer not having to listen to a british accent, thanks

>>2249700
You do the in game tutorials and change the controls until you find something you like.

Reinstalled after long time, is goid hunting still a thing? Is it still big money? I found out that I have almost ready meta chieftain, so I wanna give it a try for the first time! Suggestions?

>>2249937
Head to the Pleiades, it's goid central.

>>2249978
Thanks, Ill check it out, once I engineer it tiny bit more

>>2249984
Pleaides has nonhuman signals you can drop in on to engage different goid encounters depending on threat level.
California nebula is a ways away but holds the last remaining proper AX combat zones. The AXI PG usually gathers there on Fridays to make credits.

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Why are there no community goals? Is the game dead?

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>>2249937
Sterope II is a newly colonized system in the Pleiades that has basically one big station orbiting the main star and virtually nothing but Thargoid signals to fight.

they ruined ground combat. it's way too hard now and you still have to deal with bullshit enemy movement. they need to redesign the retarded damage model from the start, health sponge enemies aren't compatible with whatever the fuck failure of design this is

>>2200988
Meh

>>2245849
>>2246332
>>2246349
>>2248294
Well, how is it? I almost exclusively fly small ships and this one sounds pretty busted, but if it isn't fun to engineer or fun to fly I'll probably skip it like the Cobra V

>>2252302
they typically only do them to coincide with their dumb story arcs now, or big events. DW3 got one right before it started in january

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>Have a urge to play Elite Dangerous
>Log In
>Nothing to do

>>2257536
I've just been wasting my life away colonizing shit.

Do I get full refund for carriers? Can I buy the personal carrier for 5B, earn 20B, then sell it and get squadron carrier for 25B?

>during all the Radicoida nonsense, I never saw anyone take note that the October Consortium is yet another instance of the number 8

>>2257947
Yes. You just don't get maintenance fees back.

>Release great combat ship for real money right next to a combat community goal.

I refuse to pay for ships with arx

>>2262051
It's even less subtle than that. The in-universe reason for the CG is that Core Dynamics wants to test out their new combat ship.
Fdev had to put a note at the bottom saying you can use any ship for it because the whole CG is kestrel testing

>participated exactly 0 in the enclave conflict
>don't even know where it is
>still got 2 High-Cap, Super Penetrator Hammers
Neat, I actually wanted a high cap Hammer

How the fuck do you grind fed rank?
I think powerplay and colonization have messed up donation missions. I am getting nothing.

I'm sometimes shocked by how little the community seems to know about how E:D works under the hood. Found out today that power plants explode when they drop to -50% of their max HP, when it's been "common knowledge" for years that they have a random chance to explode when hit at 0% integrity.
Anyone itt know if installations built in colonies will spawn the pirate attack scenario? And if so, whether installation type or system state effects this?

>>2263461
I inadvertently grinded to Admiral just doing missions to raise my chosen fed faction's influence in my colonized system.

INCOMING MESSAGE FROM POWERPLAY LIASON
https://youtu.be/_8_7Orhey-g

>>2263461
>>2263787

Nvm I found a youtube video of a spot to stock up on 20 courier missions.
Then do donation missions as you fly to each space station.
By the time you loop around the donation mission will reset for each station.

They did clarify to only donate to federal factions. I saved a lot of money / time, I forgot filtering was a thing.

Guys, I lost my colony because of Elite Dangerous shitty servers.
What to do? Outside of praying that there are some competent people left in ED dev team.

>>2264798
REKT

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>Elite has been hacked and is currently being controlled by a hacker
>all the player data was stored in plaintext
Sigh.

>>2264798
they'll just do a server rollback but still top kek

>>2264798
It wasn't Elites shitty servers. The servers were hacked by some retard who was pissed they were banned for hacking...Might want to investigate before you stary throwing poo!

>>2265157
the dude is claiming the servers were shitting themselves at the same time and all he did was fuck around as a thargoid and in syschat https://www.edsm.net/en/user/diary/id/205836/cmdr/BIG+CHUNGUS+40K#log-39498

take that with a grain of salt obviously but the part at the bottom where he says the pic getting spammed in AXI discord of carriers being renamed to BUY ARX NOW is indeed old as fuck

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Part of me hopes this game fucking dies.
I can finally be free.

>>2265046
So did the hacker find Raxxla or what?

>>2265317
he just teleported himself to HD 207340
kinda seems like the speculation of him having "admin access" or something was a crock of shit

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>person uses common cheats
>AXI tranny discord spergs out an makes up complete nonsense about him changing system names and deleting commanders
>mechan just rolls with it bc god forbid he isn't first to make a video about something

the colonization shit and carriers getting balances zeroed is just the transaction server shitting itself, it's not the first time that's happened

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>Haven't played in months
>Log in and grind CG + Federal rank for 5 hours.

If they rollback fuck them.
I hope the game dies for fucking good.
Fuck their P2W ships too.

I see, so this is why I can't log in right now. Guess I'm playing Rimworld instead.

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https://youtu.be/2rLxwqt5NgA?si=JuGx26ggiWahDrIA

XD

Colony enjoyers, what's worth building in your colonies?
I've got a refinery station going up first, and I'm planning to build an Asteroid Station in my asteroid belt. I'm not trying to supply a whole mini-bubble, so I don't feel a need to produce every single commodity for colonization.
Long term I want to build a T3 station, which afaik unlocks all services, so no need to build the hubs/installations that unlock outfitting and xenobiology, etc. Use the rest of the slots to pump Tech Level or Development?

>>2267049
>Use the rest of the slots to pump Tech Level or Development?
Depends on what you want. Development supposedly pumps up the number of commodities your stations produce, higher tech level unlocks more ships for purchase in your station shipyards.

>>2267100
>higher tech level unlocks more ships for purchase in your station shipyards
Thanks. I'm just using the system as a home base so the more stuff available the better.
Is there any info around about what tech level is necessary to unlock which ships / outfitting?

>>2267146
Check under "Technology Level" in this guide, should tell you all you need.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1toXyDQglwVACFKx8umXhP8QcMSAUYPcP6k3STIV2-hE/edit?tab=t.0

>>2267264
>"Technology Level also appears to affect shipyard stock and modules available in outfitting at ports."
Guess I'll pump it as high as I can get it to go and see what happens.

Can you put a bunch of plasma slug railguns on a corsair and have to shoot effectively?

I'm not sure if the hardpoints line up and I'm too lazy to log in and check.

>>2267669
go to siriuscorp.cc and find the Ship Anatomy tool. It shows you where the hardpoints are on the ship and the convergence / what your reticle will look like

>>2268095

I've never heard of that site in my life.

I want a railgun ship, most people use the conda but I'm going to see if the corsair can get away with it.

I honestly don't get this colonization stuff.
Like it's just busy work intentionally made shitty where the only real benefit is having a system with your name on it...in a small part of a small part of the ui.

Carriers are shitty permanent drains but at least they do function as mobile base of operations with large cargo holds.
Colonies give you...a million or so credits every week after 100s of hours of manual work? Bitch, you can get 40-50 million in a 10 minute trading run.

Even ignoring the "no unique benefit to colonies" stuff...why all the intentional busy work? Let us use our credits to hire NPC haulers. Perhaps have our power play faction be out support for colony building. Give carriers ability to dump their inventory to the colony.

The colony system is just so underbaked that it is making me angry.

>>2268290
yeah that's why I dropped it
carriers are super useful despite being money sinks. Excellent for bulk trade and I've also used mine for exploration to get to really hard to get to systems. Colonization just seems like the definition of time wasting

>>2268290
It's the only real way to affect the galaxy and it tickles my autistic empire building need. I agree, it's pretty shit, but it's the best we get so I put up with it.

>>2268290
I've wanted a system to call home but no system ever stood out to me.
Now I have a system that's uniquely mine, even if it's not particularly interesting. I chose mine for proximity to the bubble rather than ELW or something.

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Shouldn't the Corsair be way fucking bigger considering the modules it has?

>>2268692
All of the ARX ships are bigger on the inside (except maybe the Caspian, that's one fat fuck)

>>2268692
All the new ships are built using R'lyeh geometry and have way more shit in space than they should for their class.

>>2268692

Not just the core modules but that thing can hold a retarded amount of cargo.

>>2269046
I still don't know how clipper hold like 1200 tons cargo and all the other bullshit it has.

>enter atmospheric planet around a brown dwarf
>dwarf instantly flashes to a star
>all stars look exactly the same on atmospheric planets
why is the stellar lighting still broke?

i finally decided to get a "nice" stick and vkb's website decides to go down for chink new year. its almost like i should just quit the game. im sure once i get the new stick theyll just shut elites servers down anyway

how do I find a squadron that isn't already dead

>>2273064
Discord

>>2274730
Guess I'm a solo player forever

>>2274730
Fuck you.

I fucking HATE dodec stations. They're like the Coriolis only twice as fucking cancer to find and navigate to the entrance. Every asshole has to put the maximum amount of spokes on them too, so it's like flying a gay obstacle course.

>>2274776
>>2275015

This is legit the only answer this game is very big or popular.

You can always go to the main forums but most of the people there don't seem to actually play the game.

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>>2277038
>game is very big or popular.

I meant to say this game is NOT very popular.

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I had this sitting in my steam library since 2018. I couldn't get into it back then as it seemed like you needed rocket surgery PHD to play. Just installed it the other day and holy crap this game is comfy.

>>2278290
Yup.

>>2278290
It's really very simple once you see under the hood, it just has a habit of gating everything interesting behind fifteen layers of horseshit busywork. Hence why the most valuable expert advice is how to get around that.

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>>2278569
yes, if they tweaked the default settings in the game to the below it would make the game heaps more approachable. what i had to fiddle around to have a good experience:
> flight controls: keyboard & mouse yaw
> flight throttle increments: 25%
> bind K to supercruise
> bind C to chaff launcher (i mean, come on!)
> bind END to nightvision
> SRV drive assist off by default and make assist button toggle.

Once you learn to throttle down to 75% on 0:06 time left on approach and figure out the quirks of orbital cruise, drop then glide for planet landings the rest if all just trial and error figuring shit out. I love pic related by the way, gets me around in just a few jumps.

Before I had a carrier and a fully engineered fleet, I used to buy and strip down haulers to nothing but an FSD with a seat, as a cheap taxi.

>>2280304
The hauler is one of the best ships in the game.
Especially before ship transfers.

It can do all engineering right from the start if you know where to go. Exobiology is easy credits.

Eventually everyone moves on but the Hauler is still Elite.

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I decided to buy the Kestrel with the Arx I've had saved up for months.

This thing is fucking ridiculous. With 4 frag cannons and 1 rail gun for cascade it just rips everything apart. Big ships can't turn fast enough. It can chase down smaller ships with ease.

Even without engineering I can stay on the target forever. Shields can hit over 1000 easily.

The paint schemes for it are shit though.

>>2281002
Sad to see fdev power creeping the ships for easy cash until they life support the game.

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LOOK AT THIS SHIT!
THIS IS MY BOOST FA OFF TURN!
WHAT THE FUCK WHERE THEY THINKING?

I know other small ships get crazy but they also don't have 3 Large 2 small and 1000+ shield.

>>2281428
>pilot dead, turned to paste

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>>2281428

What the fuck is up with EDSM lately? Why has it been upwards of over 5,000% server usage and getting 502 bad gateways every other day?

>check log file folder
>3GB used
>recent log file is 80MB
>an 80MB text file
I haven't even been playing much this year. What the absolute hell?

>>2284096

>We are currently experiencing some heavy load on our server (2,083.58%). Some functions might be deactivated during that period.

If I had to guess a lot of distant worlds players are still exploring.

>>2284185
What is in the text file?

>>2284201
>What is in the text file?
Looks like 4069 lines of checks regarding what is going on. Just "this is this and this and this and this". 80MB worth of it. And that's a single file.

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About 20,000 people play this game?

Outside of community goals and engineering I almost NEVER see another player.

>>2284377
Dads fear the Open Play

>>2284377
Well especially not now, with how spread out everyone has gotten thanks to colonization.

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>>2263571
<--- according to the forum gurus

Is there any way to influence where a BGS faction expands to? I want to get up to 7 factions in my colony for more potential missions, but the local space is pretty crowded. If it's totally random and takes 2 weeks to see where they end up, this is going to take a while.

>>2284745
No, faction expansion is largely random. You personally can't influence expansion targets.

>>2285453
The expansion range is max 20ly unless that faction failed to find a valid target last time it expanded, right?
So I just need to find the system within 20ly of my colony, that has as few other systems within 20ly of it, preferably with a faction in control that has as few other systems as possible (so that this system is more likely to be the expansion "source").
Then pump that system to the expansion state over and over until it lands on my system?