Suggest your own reward idea (we might even run it!)

Posted by Alex Sinclair in Elite Dangerous

At Just About, we want to build your perfect online community alongside you. We regularly run these suggest-a-reward rewards to bring your voice into the reward-setting process; simply submit an idea for a reward that you want to see! We tend to run most community-suggested rewards, so there's a very good chance that your idea will become a rewarding reality. To maximise your chances, explain your concept clearly, including how entries would be verified and judged.

We love to see rewards that use different formats, not just the written word. So if you have any ideas for image rewards, video rewards, or even verifiable in-game challenges, your entry may get some suggest-a-reward bonus points! Feel free to suggest more than one idea, but we recommend a minimum of 30 words per idea to ensure its clear.

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Created at 1:41pm, 25th November, 2024. Page last updated at 10:44am, 19th February, 2025.
Deadline at 12:00am, 21st February, 2025.

Submissions (43)

Beetlejude11/27/2024

Won$2

Just About 100 words

I'm stealing this idea from the inimitable Cmdr Psykokow I believe, but "the Abraca-Drabble" was a really popular competition on the forums and on Hutton Orbital Radio for a good long while. It involves writing an Elite short story in 100 words. I don't know if it got better marks for being exactly 100 or if poetry was encouraged but some of the short stories were great. Some were atrocious! I think it might be fun.

I guess the criteria should be that it should be over 80? but under 100? and it should be based in Elite. There could be required themes - humour, horror, speculative future elite plotlines...

another one I just put up that bounced would be

Galactic Drawing

It's possible to feed your log files from Elite Dangerous into a 3rd party website such as

https://edastro.com/galmap/

EDSM - Elite Dangerous Star Map

The Galactic Positioning System of Elite: Dangerous at your service.

www.edsm.net

These websites have permission from Frontier to access the files and show the routes taken by commanders in their time in game. This has led lots of people to draw pictures using their ships on the galaxy: that EDSM link above (if it's viewable when not me) shows my personal map, and my somewhat wonky Babel fish.

Considerations would be - players teaming up to make the pictures and so allocating rewards fairly, peoples innate desire to put rude things on the galaxy, and the length of time to allow for the challenge to be completes - 3 months would be more sensible than a week.

LeeeroyJenkins2/19/2025

Won$2

What about listing your fleet carrier name with a photo and explaining why/how you decided on the name? There are some wild names out there so it would be simple and fun.

ENDERS2/15/2025

Won$2

I know this is something Vidoe Game fans and creators have enjoyed doing in the past and I'd love to see the right twitst put on it:

Share a Time-lapse or Ambient video (30 minutes minimum video length) of an awe inspiring, beautiful or interesting location in Elite: Dangerous.

Format, Rules, Guidance:
Video entries only.
Stationary camera.
No HUD.
I would say that these videos must be new to be eligible, and can not be existing content.

Reward details:
1st,2nd,3rd,4th and 5th place prizes.
Quantity to be determined.

I have seeen a lot of awesome Time-lapse videos and ambient/asmr style videos of so many video games, its becoming so popular that companies like CD Projekt Red are creating and posting videos like this to their offical YouTube Channels.

Given that this content is of a production value and quality that even game Developers respect and utilize, this could be a perfect contest for Elite: Dangerous publicity and exposure, beyond what it already gets organically.

Here are two notable examples of vidoes in this format and style:

Jimmy0916 / Cmdr Donald Duck2/10/2025

Won$2

ED Short Movie Contest

Produce an [8] to [15] minutes short movie, filmed in the universe of Elite: Dangerous, in whichever style you want - drama, thriller, romance, suspense, musical, art...

Might be quite an effort, so the prize should be accordingly.

GoJapan2/2/2025

an idea for new bounties could be this, create a new module for the ship, describe a new alien race, draw a terrestrial planet and new types of biological plants