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BZSm1th

@BZSm1th

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Joined seven months ago

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Introduce your character!

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I had always had an interest in technology and from an early age tried to pursue this. When the opportunity arose , however, I decided to invest my money into a beat up Sidewinder and see what the Galaxy had for me.
It was at this point I stumbled across GreyBeard Delta, a group of likeminded Cmdrs. A group of Cmdrs that were interested in all aspects of Stellar life....from exploration and mining, to trading and combat, eventually this would lead to us aquiring systems and a large family of planets and like minded individuals.

So it stayed like this for a number of years, until news from home changed a few things. I had to return to Sol, and deal with some family issues (very difficult at the time, and only now is the "grey mist" starting to clear) I eventually made the decision to return to the Black... this time in my trusty Aspx, with Exo on my mind.

So now a new chapter has been started for Cmdr BZSm1th (formerly BazingaSmith), I stll contribute to the GBD efforts and will hopefully continue for many years to come.

Providing the results of my Exo Bio discoveries to hopefully aid in a better understanding of our vast galaxy, while simultaneously spreading the word of Formidline Greybeard Guild, is my gosh.

Fly Safe o7

Do as I say, not as I do! Teach us an Elite lesson you learned the hard way!

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Flying out to Beagle Point, scanning systems and racking up loads of credits.... only to get distracted whilst in the come of a Neutron star.

Everything started kicking off, I panicked, and ultimately met my maker.

I was only a few hundred light years from the hearest station.

Lost all my data and credits...gutted,

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

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"Show us your ED rigs!!!".

Lots of awesome cockpit setups at home, from those that have been setup by Cmdrs with limited space and resources, to those where the Cmdrs seem to have an endless amount of free time, and resources to create something quite spectacular (not jealous in the slightest)

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Recommend online resources and creators for new Elite players!

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Loads of resources out there. Here's some that I have used/ continue to use.

EDSM (Elite Dangers Star Map....must have)

INARA (The "go to" of companion sites....info on systems, cmdrs, markets, bluepints etc etc etc)

EDSY (useful for ship building )

Coriolis (similar to EDSY)

ED Tools (collection of tools very useful in Elite Dangerous)

ED CoPilot (installable app that offers up lots of info to aid you in navigation , combat etc)

GameGlass (software to allow use of touch screen tablets. You can also design your own screens) NOTE : There is a small fee to use the ED plugins)

Touch Portal (similar to Game Glass, if you want more than one tablet you have to pay a small fee. But you have the ability to custom design your own touch screen interface)

Image above is of my setup from a few months ago. Two old SONY XPERIA tablets (as thats all I had) running Touch Portal with two full functional touch screen interfaces designed and created by myself heavily inspired by the LCARs interface from Star Trek TNG

Voice Attack (Voice Recognition software)

HCS Voice packs (used in conjunction with Voice Attack, pre configured for use with Elite Dangerous). Why not have William Shatner as your #1, Holly from Red Dwarf as your navigation computer or my personal fave Brian Blessed)

Which video game character would you like to chat with, and what about?

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The massive chicken from.Chuckie Egg. Just want to know what their prblem is? 😁

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Wrong answers only: what's the best way to spend your first day in Elite?

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Start your epic journey to Beagle Point in an unengineered Sidey

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Tell us how to get started in Elite Dangerous!

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Get through the tutorials first....May seem like an obvious comment...but so many people will try and skip.

When you've completed.....you don't necessarily have to rush out into The Bubble. Hang around in the starter system first (especially in open) build up some credit by doing simple missions and trading. Then you can get look at getting your first ship.

Scanning of planets is always a good way to start earning credit...with certain types of planet being high earners (HMC= Hight Metal Content, ELW=Earth Like worlds, WW=Water Worlds, AW=Ammonia worlds) Be mindful though, that you will earn more if you are the first to scan...and for that you will need to go way out of The Bubble (The Bubble being the densely populated groups of systems that you start off in)

There are some great companion sites out there (Inara is the main one, as has been mentioned elsewhere) But another one for plotting "road to riches" is https://spansh.co.uk

This site you can plot a route, and it will tell you roughly how much you can make in cartographic data.

For personally, I focused on exploration first...then trade/mining....with combat at the end

You should also look at engineering your ship....start with Felicity Farseer..with the correct mats you can add a huge amount of range to your FSD....which will make travelling over great distances a lot less laborious.

Finally....check out the content creators...there are loads out there ...and they don't bite. Firey Toad (who has posted elsewhere) is a good one to follow....very knowledgeable and very chilled.

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Tell us how to get into mining in Elite Dangerous!

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Get a T10!!

Manoeuvres like a pig... but looks like a mining ship.

Decide what type of mining you want to do.

Scratch mining is easy and only requires mining lasers... however ' it will take longer to refine decent quantities

Core mining is great fun and can be very profitable... if you have the patience and of course Seismic launchers.

Oh and course don't forget a number of collector limpet controllers and a shed load of limpets !!