o7 Commanders!

[weslocke]

👋 Welcome to ED Outrider Discussions!

ED Outrider is an exploration companion for Elite Dangerous: nearby unvisited systems and what their data is worth,
exobiology predictions and sample tracking, spoken alerts, an in-game overlay, route plotting, boxel exploration and
more. This is the place to talk about it.

Use Discussions to:

• 💬 Ask questions: setup, Docker, the tablet app, Piper voices, settings, "how do I…?"
• 💡 Share ideas: features you'd like, things that would fit how you explore
• 🛰️ Show what you've found: discoveries, first footfalls, a boxel you finished, your setup or overlay layout
• 🗣️ Share voice lines and personalities: lines you've written, voices and speakers you like

Found a bug? Please open an Issue instead, with what you did, what happened, and the version (Settings shows
it). The terminal output or Settings → Spoken lines helps a lot.

A few ground rules: be kind, be patient, and welcome new commanders. Most of us are out in the black with patchy
time, so answers may take a while.

To get started, reply below and introduce yourself: your commander name if you like, how you explore, and how you use
Outrider (or what brought you here).

Fly safe, Commander. o7

[Hiner399]

I guess I never introduced myself properly so I figured I might do that here now:

In-game commander: Erratic Spawn (though I have some Alts as well), about 6000 hours or so with the game since January 2019
Platform: Nobara 44 (based on Fedora) with an nVidia GPU, I do have a test system which is almost identical except with an AMD GPU (previous rig, about 5 years old)
Desktop: KDE / Wayland

I'm retired, but used to work many years in IT before that. All PCs in our household run Linux Mint for the last 15 years or so, only my gaming rig used to be Windows (10 & 11) until about 3 months ago when I decided to switch that machine finally to Linux as well. ED runs fine, of course, but third party tools mostly not so much which brought me here.

I really enjoy ED Outrider so far, I'll try to do more exploration again (colonisation and BGS being my other topics) to further test the tool and give feedback accordingly (thanks again for the features added already because of that).

Cheers, Hiner

[weslocke]

I actually seem to be on the same trajectory, though probably a bit behind you. Have 5 or 6 more years before I retire from IT, and all I can say is consider yourself lucky that you're not still in the job force with the craziness going on from the AI explosion. Wow...

A few months ago I realized that out of all of the systems in my house my main gaming system was the only Windows installation in the place... so figured I'd make the jump over to Ubuntu. (Sure, it's the "Apple" of *nix, but you know what, it's easy and it works)

Then when I tried to use my normal Elite stack (EDDiscovery, EDCopilot, Exploration Buddy, Etc)... wow, that was painful. So I started this up just as a way to get a notification when I targeted an undiscovered system, and it's obviously grown a bit from there. 🤣

Oh, and my commander is Briadin (which you can see from all of the screenshots). I have about 3700 hours in the game since launch 10 years ago, since I play for six months, stop for six months... wash, rinse and repeat

[Kurbo26]

I'll share. I'm also a member of the Gen X IT worker club, approaching retirement, but not in any hurry to do so.

Tried gaming on Linux multiple times over the past few years (first Ubuntu, then CachyOS), but I think this time it is going to stick (Fedora). Part of that is due to having a good tool for E:D, so thank you for this. Everyone plays a little different but it really ticks all the boxes for me.

I only started playing E:D last year. (I had Elite for my C64 in 1985, but that doesn't count.) I do a bit of everything in the game. CMDR name is also Kurbo26.

[docfallingapart]

Hi I'm commander Docfallingapart. Only been playing for the last two years, so after the war was over. Have a little 1100 hours in game.

Question I have is why are we all current or retired IT? I started patching computers for Y2k (watch me lose it if someone says Y2k was no big deal). Worked my way up to Sr. System Admin before I had to early retire do to heath probs. Got out just before Crypto blockchain was invented and consider myself be extremely lucky. I'm also an former C64 user.

So I'm really liking ED Outrider. Just installed the Android client on my tablet and think it's very cool. Same for me on moving full time to Linux about 6 months ago. Was dual booting just for EDCoPilot before. After a lot of pain got EDCoPilot working with GE-Proton 10-34, but it's still not great. With all the trouble shooting I ran into the new wave of third party apps, with Outrider being the standout. I decided just today that I can live without EDCoPilot. So thanks for making Outrider.

I wonder if there is a Gen X / IT squadron out there?

I do have a couple of requests. One is having a call out for High Grade Emissions on jumping into a system ("Military Grade Alloys are available in this system"). I don't have a Rhino yet, but Rhino Surface Mapper looks like it would be nice to use. Having something like that build into Outrider would be nice.

o7

[weslocke]

What? Y2K was a cake walk! (...ducking...) I do remember being at my house with my (then) wife at midnight doing the yearly countdown and flinching as it turned over. The "Y2K Patrol" around the world were heroes.

I'm glad this thing is covering you... started out small and ended up growing to where it's the only thing I need. Plus having fun with it. 🤣

As for the Emissions, I can add that. This thing is pretty exclusively focused on Exploration/ExoBio, but I can see that being worthwhile. As for the surface mapper, that thing looks pretty cool. What I have is a lot more simplistic, but it will keep track of your rigs and direct you to them in the overlay. But it doesn't do the "mapping of the node"... could probably add that though. 🤔

[Kurbo26]

I was a mainframe systems programmer during Y2K. Since I supported the operating system and installed software products, I just needed to make sure patches were installed and support test environments for our customers to test their applications. I remember planning to stay at the office all night, but we were watching other countries hit midnight, starting with Australia. Once UTC flipped and there were still no major problems, I left the office for a party and just stayed on call for the rest of the night. I don't remember any calls. But there was about 2 years of prep involved.

And I feel like a mini Y2K is happening locally tonight. Where I live, we are no longer changing back to standard time. The government gave about 6 weeks notice for this. I have a feeling a lot of scheduled things (appointments, flights, sports games) might be an hour off from when people expect.

[weslocke]

You in Canada? I'm so jealous, they keep putting legislation forward to stop it and it keeps dying on the vine. I don't care if they choose DST or ST, just pick one and leave the thing!