Talk:Elite Dangerous
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editShould we add more information about gameplay and community?
editI was thinking of adding more information about the gameplay and the community, heres what I'm planning on adding:
- Information on player groups such as fuel rats, hull seals, and the DSSA.
- More in-depth information about credit-earning activities.
- Some basic lore and such.
I think we should include some more information, but not super in-depth, as there is already an Elite Dangerous wiki with more information.
I also think that we should keep any player activities in this page as opposed to other pages. Data-Chan (talk) 01:12, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
Details out of date / some gameplay info out of date too - general update needed.
editDescriptions about thargoids are out of date, i.e. still future-tense rather than present/past-tense.
Also a few lists of activities could be more fully fleshed out too - mining is not mentioned, anti-piracy, trade barely is at all, nor reacting-to &/or causing factional-states or whole-solar-system-states, such as famine, civil disorder, war, or infrastructure failure, and of course PvP.
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Also, wings are not mentioned in terms of SMALLER than >3.5 million? players' play,.. (how does a reader get any idea HOW players interact from reading the article as is? ) ...in terms of what-to-expect when playing small groups ;
the HUD visual indicators of your wingmates / positions on radar, making finding each other / protecting each other in combat for instance, making teamplay rewarding inamongst the immensity of the game universe, compared to solo explorer play.
or also, protecting-each-other in wings, when taking it easy, in trade-wing or mission groups, making for a more, while-ALREADY-at-your-desktop kind of play, especially since the introduction of cruise-control, which has REDUCED THE BORDEOM aspect of long distance travel somewhat.
Several of the early reviewers might've have changed their minds about how boring the interstellar travel now does not HAVE to be, with supercruise and switching to something else on your desktop/console (if also possible on console).
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Similarly, some HISTORIC community-events could be mentioned as-could community events in-general, neither of which are mentioned ATM,
such as of historical ones, the very large trip to the center of the Galaxy, by i think it was, 90? several hundred? pilots simultaneously, requiring a lot of planning and synchronisation of players all around the world, UNCOMMON if not unique amonst MMOs, and perhaps a first in sci-fi spaceflight sims, etc
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The page could also have some links to 3rd party sites, such as INARA, the now shutdown EDDB, and generally describe how there is a lot of SUPPORT for learning and thriving in-game. 101.119.141.17 (talk) 14:43, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
This article needs major updating.
editI need help. This article is being heavily neglected, and it is one of my favorite games. I do not have the attention span to do all of this myself, but I have begun doing something. If you see this, PLEASE put a notice that this is majorly outdated and in need of some love somehow. PhoenixTheEnsign (talk) 00:47, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
Colonisation Spelling
editThis article calls the colonisation feature colonization. However, on Frontier's website and in-game it is spelled colonisation. Should this be reflected in the article, or should it be kept as it is? Bellls-worth (talk) 06:52, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
This article needs work
editHey, I'm fairly inexpierenced with Wikipedia, so I don't know really how to improve this article, but it is just generally inconsistent and weird. The talk page points out a lot of specific issues, like with details and spellings, but the issues also go deeper than this. The tone of the article shifts multiple times, and formatting is... odd. Some things have abbreviations in parentheses that are never mentioned again, and some things that are mentioned multiple times and that have an abbreviation don't use it. Sometimes things are italicized or put in quotes, even being inconsistent with the same terms. The one screenshot on this page is blurry and unclear. There are many more things systemically wrong with this article, and I honestly don't know where to even begin. The clear conclusion is, ultimately, some talented editors need to sit down with this article and extensively edit it to achieve a quality state. There's a lot of interesting and encyclopedic content that you can write about Elite, this article just doesn't have it in an acceptable format or quality. KVGWOfficialEditor (talk) 06:06, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
- The most glaring issue I can see with the article is the sudden shifts in perspective between real world commentary about the work and its in-game fictional content. There is a large amount of fictional content interspersed throughout the development section, such as these paragraphs with Thargoid information, which would be hard for me to keep intact in a move to the "Synopsis" section without major rewrites. I recommend anyone reading this who has a strong footing in this game's development history and an understanding of the fictional setting to start article cleanup by targeting that section. If the original author's work and citations could be salvaged that would be nicer than just wiping the slate clean. Bakutosz (talk) 14:37, 11 June 2026 (UTC)