John Santina
Log Your Travels
One advantage of Elite Dangerous having such an incredible scale is we can explore any star system we wish. But, how do you keep track of such epic adventures? Enter Captain’s Log. This is an explorer’s dream.
There’s also EDDiscovery, which can track your Elite Dangerous travels, combat, trading, rank, commodities, materials, scans and all host of other data. It tells you which planets are high value and terraformable with little icons next to them, so you can be more efficient with your probing, streamlining some of the more tedious aspects of the game.
Map Out The Stars
The sheer number of star systems to explore in Elite Dangerous is simply staggering. Fortunately, there are a couple of resources that will help you to keep track of what’s out there.
Elite Dangerous Star Map has many routes, maps, expeditions and logs. It is also a good place to post your findings.
EDAstro is another great resource, with lots of galaxy maps and charts. All data is based on scanned bodies, and/or visited systems.
Keep on Top of Your Screenshots
For those who love taking screenshots while they explore the many different star systems on offer, the Screen Shot Changer mod adds the ability to save the current system name into the screenshot name when you hit F10.
It’s a simple improvement, but a significant one.
Engineer Materials, Data and Blueprints Tracker
EDEngineer tracks materials and data and also keeps track of blueprints, listing the current data/materials needed. This is a HUGE timesaver and allows Commanders to keep focused on the task at hand after the weary 2,000th jump in search of a part.
Monitor The Market
The Elite Dangerous Market Connector app can download your Commander’s details, along with system, faction, scan, and station data. It can then:
- Send station commodity market prices, other station data, system and faction information to the Elite Dangerous Data Network. This helps to keep many tools up to date, including eddb, Elite Trade Net, Inara, Thrudd’s Trading Tools, Roguey’s, and more.
- Save station commodity market prices to your computer. You can then load that you can load those prices into trading tools such as Trade Dangerous, Thrudd’s Trading Tools, Inara and mEDI’s Elite Tools.
- Save a record of your ship load-out to files on your computer that you can load into outfitting tools such as E:D Shipyard, Coriolis or Elite Trade Net. This allows you to share your current load-out and to experiment with any changes before you spend any cash.
- Send your Commander’s details, ship details, materials, and flight log to Elite Dangerous Star Map.
For Head Tracking you missed EDTracker. http://www.edtracker.co.uk/
It uses motion sensors, so no need for cameras or darkened rooms. There’s DIY instructions and tools for a microUSB version and a commercial Pro version that comes in wired and wireless variants. Very good indeed, and compatible with facetrackIR and Opentrack software. Cost $10 – $85 depending on what you want.
Thanks, I’ll look into it!
Yep EdTracker is a minimal spend wired and wireless very effective very responsive a must buy if you’re not going all in on VR
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While this was a nice list, your webpage layout sucks majorly, making me reaload the thing 10 times to see 7.5 mods, a hw reccommendation and a question???
I know you’re desparate for clicks but with this design I’m adding your entire domain to my blocker.
Hello ‘Fedup’,
Thank you for your feedback. I doubt you’ll be returning given your comment (and your second, offensive, deleted message) but just a heads up – I do listen to feedback, whether good or bad, and try to make improvements.
Following your feedback, I’ve reduced the pages from 10 down to 3, which will mean less clicking but will still separate out the links into an order. It’s really difficult to balance the visitor experience with the commercial side that is a necessary evil for sites like ours to survive. We got the balance wrong on this one and hopefully the improvement helps to balance that out better.
Thank you for taking the time to leave your comment.
Great article. Informative and to the point. Thanks!
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looking for auto docking, I just bought the Asp Explorer and sold the Diamondback scout. Went to travel to next destination and arrived , clicked on docking permission and found it dosen’t auto dock anymore.
Did you transfer your auto dock before selling? If not, it’s a manual effort. noobie mistake, done it my self on my first ship change.
What are the color matrixes for that first picture for HUD color?