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Elite: Dangerous is an MMO space adventure. Pilot your own ship and trade, blast, explore, sneak, buy, barter, mission, co-op play, solo play your way to the top accolade in the galaxy: Elite! This is the latest installment of the seminal open-world, go-anywhere, do anything space game which, since its launch in 1984 has spawned and inspired a long tradition of open world and space games.

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What happens if I am caught bringing prohibited goods into a station?

One of the missions for naval progression wants me to bring combat stabilizers to them, except combat stabilizers are illegal in pretty much all jurisdictions. What happens if I get caught bringing th …
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Will higher grade thrusters have any effect if my ship is already below the optimal weight o...

I'm currently working out a loadout for my Vulture, which is a very light ship with high class (class 5) thrusters. It's a very light ship, weighing in at less than 500 tons at the absolute heaviest ( …
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Are powerplay points shared with wingmates?

For the expansion goals for Senator Laingvy-Duval, you have to destroy corrupt law enforcers. Each ship is worth one point. Normally, when bounty hunting in a wing, the bounty is split up among ships …
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Can I shoot down lawless ships?

In Elite: Dangerous 1.3, two new ship statuses were added in addition to "clean" and "wanted": "enemy" and "lawless". Obviously one has a green light to shoot down enemy ships, but what about lawless …
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Are agreements between different powers binding?

Currently, the Alliance and the Sirius Corporation are under an Inter-faction Mutual Benefit Agreement. The agreement states that members of both powers will support each other where mutual profit is …
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How can I identify asteroids for deep core mining?

Deep core mining is the current credit meta with Elite: Dangerous 3.3. How it works is you look around asteroid belts using a new utility module called a Pulse Wave Scanner, and the previously existin …
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How often can I boost with a perfect power distributor?

I'm researching a build for my Krait Phantom ratship right now, and the last piece of the puzzle is the power distributor. I know I need at least a certain size power distributor to be able to boost a …
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How can I speed up exploration?

I want to get into exploration (mainly because I want to do a bit of everything in this game), but it takes so long to scan every planet, moon, and asteroid belt segment of a system. Is there any way …
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Is there any way to improve the gross CC/cycle gained from exploited systems?

Right now, Arissa Lavigny Duval isn't doing so hot. We may have overextended a little bit, discovering that CC overheads don't increase on a linear scale. My theory is, that the best way to contribute …
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How can I get merit points?

I want to advance in the ranks of Senator Lavigny-Duval. How can I get merit points? I know I can participate in expansion goals, but is there a better way than that?
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How can I effectively approach stationary targets in supercruise?

A lot of the time, I find that I'm overshooting my targets in supercruise. I don't want to approach too slowly, because I still want to get there within an hour, but I also don't want to overshoot and …
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How can I reach a wingmate who is inside the exclusion zone of a star?

A wingmate of mine is out of fuel, and needs my help. I'm able to see his beacon, but the problem is I can't get to him; whenever I approach the beacon from supercruise, I am placed several thousand k …
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What does flight assist do? Is there any reason to disable it?

I noticed in the controls there's a button to disable flight assist, but when I press it, I have a harder time controlling my ship. Is there any real benefit to disabling flight assist? Or is it just …
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Do all players need to own Horizons to participate in multicrewing?

Elite: Dangerous 2.3 introduced the ability to invite friends to sit in seats on your ship and take on various extra roles (like auxiliary gunner and such). Do both of us need to own Horizons to do th …
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Does it matter how long you spend docked in a damaged station?

While performing rescue operations at a damaged station, do you continue to build up heat while docked? Flight control automatically brings you below deck and usually says something about "stabilizing …
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