Elite: Dangerous Dev Tracker

Greetings Commanders!

It's that time of the week where we dive into the creative side of our community - and share some of their creations with the rest of the galaxy! Let's get straight into this week's Commander Creations:

Condor Art By Ian Baristan



Ian Baristan is always impressing us with his 3D Model work for Sagittarius Eye Magazine, and he has delivered once again with this atmospheric shot of a Condor entering the docking bay. Stunning!

The Cicada By Tiron

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Source: https://youtu.be/llkQHNf_wt4


Looking for a new ship to get you around the bubble? ... Read more

It's a fun conspiracy theory the "All negative feedback is being silenced" but like most conspiracy theories it can be dispelled with just a small amount of investigation. Looking around the forums it should be quite clear that having a negative opinion does not get you banned. Anyone is welcome to share negative feedback, so long as it is constructive.

The only people having action taken against them are those breaking the rules, either by being disruptive to others, toxic or choosing to harass staff/individuals/teams. If someone is worried whether their comment might cross a line perhaps they should read it back as if it was being directed to them personally. Does it still come across as constructive and not aggressive?

It might be cathartic to go "RAAGH! YOU DO A LIE!" but there is very little we can do with that kind of "feedback".

Greetings Commanders.

The Elite Dangerous servers for all platforms, Horizons and Odyssey will be offline imminently to accomodate for necessary, additional server maintenance.
We will keep you informed of progress.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

o7

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Casual 'Sally Edit':

A couple of you asked kindly whether you could have more info on the second hop into maintenance mode and do you know what? That's a very valid question and I'm more than happy to help. In all fairness I should have added this to the post to begin with, but the time was SO SHORT between the heads up and servers offline that I wanted to quickly let you know incase it ruined your session.

Anyway! More info!

For Interest: Light information on reason for slight extension of maintenance.
I like ... Read more

o7 Commanderinos,

I don't know about you, but I need a bit of a distraction from this monstrosity of heat in the UK right now, so let's talk some Elite!

What are your plans in-game for the week? What are you enjoying at the moment? What's not so great?

Got any feedback or suggestions for me? Any FA-OFF advice? Stream ideas?

I'm particularly interested in knowing the ship you recommend learning FA-OFF in, something cheap please!

I'm all ears for the next couple of hours!



Edit: I'm signing off for the day, folks! Thanks for the chat!

Greetings Commanders!

Monday's mean a brand new week and a new Community Schedule to go with it! Let's take a look at the week ahead in the world of Elite Dangerous:



Tuesday

Supercruise News #42: Zac & Sally are back for another instalment of Supercruise News where they'll be sharing all the highlights from the Elite community.

Wednesday

Stellar Screenshots: Last week's entries were one of the best in recent weeks, can you top them? Make sure you enter by Wednesday!

Thursday

Odyssey Open Play: Zac and Arthur will be heading into Open to take on some missions in Odyssey and see where the adventure takes us! Due to a special stream from our friends at Lemnis Gate, Thursday's Elite stream w... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

With the weekend ahead of us, there's no better time to get into your pilot's chair and head out into the galaxy, but before that, why not check out some of the brilliant Commander Creations this week?

Resin Printed Elite Fleet By CMDR Billy Gray



Usually we see one or two 3D / Resin printed ships make their way onto Commander Creations, but Commander Billy Gray has gone the extra mile and has printed a whole fleet of beautiful ships. Looks like they're all sporting the Midnight Black paintjob too...

Dolphin Mobile Wallpaper By SkelingtonKing



Looking for a new Elite wallpaper for your phone? Well, look no further,... Read more

"CMDR_Raikkonen, post: 9478202, member: 88221"

[USER=249391]@Bruce G[/USER] [USER=188830]@sallymorganmoore[/USER] [USER=266302]@Zac c*cken[/USER]

Do you have your finger on this pulse?

It breaks my heart that rolling guardian balls and bouncing sidewinders off a planet surface is upheld as creative ways of playing the game. Or you could see it as a cry for help that we just want to interact with each other more than shooty shooty combat.

Jumping in an SRV on top of your friends windshield was as close as we got to "interacting" in Horizons. Now we have Odyssey we need those interactions present.

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[*]Sitting down
[*]Buying a drink
[*]Buying someone else a drink
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It would make meeting up with someone in game more fun than just standing in front of them on the concourse staring at each other.

We've absolutley seen these funky ideas, for ... Read more

Greetings Commanders,

The latest part of the Azimuth Saga sees Commanders who have aided Salvation granted access to a permit locked system where Salvation’s Tech Broker offers unique modules. This part of the story has been added today (don’t worry if you haven’t been invited to the system yet, if you would like to be, you’ll have opportunities in the future).

We’re aware of a bug from Update 7 that has unintentionally increased the effectiveness of engineered modules, including those from Salvation's Tech Broker. We would like to let you know that a fix for PC players is expected soon and we expect to have a fix for console next week. Therefore, the power of these modules (while still a significant alternative to current ones), will be returned to i... Read more

Many, many greetings Commanders.

The time is now...time! Update 7 for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is welcomed in today with a plethora of tweaks, fixes and more as we journey onward with quality improvements, Galaxy wide.
Grab a coffee / tea / Lavian Brandy (Not too early, right? Sure! I'll join you. Don't tell Arf) and enjoy a moment reading through the update notes below.

Servers are now offline (or there abouts) and will (hopefully) begin spooling up again at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST)
Please remember that there's a chance not all platforms will be back online at the same time, but it'll be as near enough as possible.

We'll be on standby with our eyes peeled for the big moment with you.

Let's go! o7

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Updates Of Note
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[*]Anti-Air Turrets have now been added to conflict zones.
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[*]Remember…... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

It's time for our second Issue Report. Below is the updated Top 20 Issues Table, listing the highest voted issues on the Issue Tracker.

Note: the status and planned release of each issue is subject to change as various factors affect the ongoing development schedule.

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Top 20 Issues

1. Problems With Lighting And Illumination - this issue is due to be closed with Update 7 as general issues with lighting have been resolved. If you experience any further lighting related issues, please create new issues on the tracker for each specific instance.
2. Degraded Terrain Textures... Read more

"Babaa Yaga, post: 9521760, member: 163373"

Still no Mbooni System Permit...come on FDEV. Get on this.

There's still plenty of time in the day!

Greetings Commanders!

As we move through August, we'd like to give a big thank you for all your feedback that you continue to provide as we work towards Update 7! Whilst Update 7 is still a few weeks away, there are still things to look forward to in the world of Elite:




Tuesday
High-G Summer Slamdown Stream: We've been inspired by the ongoing SWS High-G Summer Slamdown event! After sharing the best bits from the community and this week's Stellar Screenshots, we're going to try our luck landing on at least one high gravity p... Read more

Greetings Commanders,

This is just a quick post to announce that Player Made Faction applications are not currently being reviewed while an internal error is being addressed. When the situation changes, we'll let you know!

O7

Greetings Commanders!

What a week, eh? It's time to sit back and relax as we roll into the weekend with the latest of your Commander Creations.

'But I Like This' By Brightened Gold



We don't usually post memes in Commander Creations but this one by Brightened Gold was simply too good to ignore. The references, the Scorpion, the tie ins to our Elite Sports show. Love it!

Alternate Scorpion Trailer By Galnet News Digest

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Galnet News Digest have released their own in-universe parody version of our brand new Scorpion trailer, and le... Read more

Greetings Commanders,

Explorers venture into the depths of space and discover beautiful systems that most will never see. We would like to offer you the opportunity to share your best discoveries and be immortalised in Elite Dangerous.

Our plan is to place approximately 50 additional Tourist Beacons throughout the Milky Way. Therefore, we’re running this competition in-line with this week’s exploration-based Community Goal.

To enter, reply to this post with an in-system (not System Map) screenshot of the most interesting unpopulated systems containing an Earth-like world you can find! When the Community Goal ends on 30 September, we’ll choose our favourites and add Tourist Beacons to those locations. Each beacon will feature the entrant’s Commander name in its text!

To qualify, submissions must:
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[*]Feature a screenshot of an unpopulated system in Elite Dangerous which contains an Earth... Read more

Greetings Commanders,

The galaxy servers will be rebooting at 14:00 UTC/15:00 BST for emergency maintenance.

Expected downtime will be 5-10 minutes. Thanks for your patience!

o7

Greetings Commanders!

It's time to take another look at your fantastic creations! If you'd like to get involved in the future, please use the hashtag #CommanderCreations on Twitter, or post your creation down below.

Lego Imperial Clipper By The Diamond Kiwi



We always love to see LEGO creations of Elite ships, and The Diamond Kiwi has delivered with this majestic Imperial Clipper!

Visit Sol Poster By CMDR M.AMADEO



Yet to visit Sol in Elite Dangerous? ... Read more

Hello!! Sorry I'm a little late to the party! Things should be stabilizing now! Dav dived in following those lovable Hamster squeakings once more o7

Ho ho ho7 Commanders!

Season's greetings to you all, and you know what season it is! It's that time of the year where the marvelously festive Elite Dangerous cosmetics make their reappearance in the Store! Not only can you wrap up your ship in a festive delight of a paintjob, you can also fill your proverbial stockings with in-c*ckpit customisation options from Santa Claus bobbleheads to festive lights!

Check out some examples below:



There are plenty of variations to the Festive paintjob (which comes in at 2220 ARX), including different colo... Read more

Looking into this :)