Top 15 Best 3rd Party Elite Dangerous Tools You Should Be Using Now (Inara, EDDB, EDSM, Spansh, etc)

In this tutorial from EDTutorials by Exigeous we look at the top 15 best 3rd party Elite Dangerous tools that you should be using. Tools such as Inara, EDDB, EDSM, Spansh and many others are among the top 15 best 3rd party tools you should be using when playing Elite Dangerous.
A HUGE thanks to all the wonderful creators who make these tools for our community!
00:00 Intro
00:27 Frontier Forums
00:44 Elite Dangerous Subreddit
01:02 KZbin Channels
01:26 Wavescanner.net
01:40 EDProfiler by Dr Kaii
01:54 EDDiscovery
02:11 Spansh.co.uk
02:30 RES and Mining Overlapping Hotspot Finder
02:47 EDStarMap (EDSM.net)
03:05 EDMarket Connector and EDDI
03:31 Coriolis and EDShipYard
04:08 EDEngineer
04:24 Voice Attack
04:54 EDDB.io
05:17 Inara.cz
Tools in the list
Inara - inara.cz/
EDDB.io - eddb.io/
Voice Attack - voiceattack.com/
EDEngineer - github.com/msarilar/EDEngineer
Coriolis - coriolis.edcd.io/
EDShipyard - www.edshipyard.com/
EDDI - github.com/EDCD/EDDI
EDMarket Connector -
github.com/Marginal/EDMarketC...
RES Finder - edtools.ddns.net/res.php
Spansh - www.spansh.co.uk/plotter
EDDiscovery - github.com/EDDiscovery/EDDisc...
EDProfiler - www.drkaii.com/tools/edprofiler/
Wavescanner.net - wavescanner.net/
Elite Subreddit / elitedangerous
Elite Forums forums.frontier.co.uk/
KZbin Channels
CMDR Plater - / @cmdrplater
CMDR Josh Hawkins - / @cmdrjoshhawkinselite
Chaoswulf - / @commanderchaoswulff
Blind Pew - / @blind-pew
Elite Dangerous - / @elitedangerous
Dr. Kaii - / @drkaii
Down to Earth Astronomy - / @downtoearthastronomy
Isokix - / @isokix
TheYamiks - / @theyamiks
Vindicator Jones - / @vindicatorjones
CaptainSkoomer - / @captainskoomer
CMDR Tikas - / tikas2
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[@jack_k2136]

I tend to catch videos on my lunch hour and just want to say how much I appreciate your QUALITY, to-the-point videos; there are quite a few 'well-meaning' posters out there but they tend to ramble and their feeds are less than stellar. I don't wish to watch CMDRs floundering around while trying to make a point. You are right up there with Obsidian and Yamiks. Will definitely be checking out 'Ghost Giraffe.'

[@TheFrankyboy1985]

you're making some excellent elite content, thanks mate keep it up!

[@gamersthumbs4673]

Your videos is everything I needed. Thanks for putting the hard work to bring us some of the most informative videos. And straight to the point.

[@spacial2]

Nice list. I wouldn't have known about many. EDSM sounds especially interesting. Sharing information would seem to be one of the essentials.

[@onebadg8]

been out of ED for a long long time and this was helpful to get back back into the swing of things. ED probably has 1 of the best communities in gaming esp considering its not some 10 million userbase community like WoW and such.

[@falco566]

Brilliant and very useful, big thanks. I didnt know several of them. Excellent selection and presentation. Definitely a fav'd video.

[@dotvision5111]

EDEngineer was just what I was searching for! Thank you so much!!

[@SonOfAsgard]

@EDTutorials by Exigeous Thank you . I started this game last week and came across this video . it has helped me sooo much once again thank you for all your effort in this video

[@ninjaiq9273]

Really good videos. Seriously. Highly appreciated.

[@roseco581]

Really like how short and concise these are.

[@ashroskell]

Really helpful. Thanks for all the hard work of compiling the information and links below. As a newbie I have no clue what I’m doing. I nearly ran out of fuel on my second mission, because I got lost in the star system and hadn’t figured out how to use the star system map. I actually thought I could just fly to the space station at sub-light speed! Boy was I wrong about that . . . and several other things, like trying to land on a moon at faster than light speed. I narrowly survived a mission that would be as easy as breathing to you guys. Steep learning curve indeed . . . 😳

[@stevenboughner7255]

Thanks, this is a great resource for Elite Dangerous. I have looked for apps like these. Thanks again CMDR.

[@nabbsone]

Great voice for tutorials mang!

[@CravenTHC85]

Videos like this are a perfect example of why I don't wonder about the relatively small size of the ED community. The game alone is daunting in the amount of information to take in as a new player, but when you consider the absolutely endless amount of things left unexplained by the game it's truly intimidating. I've played over 400 hours of E:D and I intend to continue playing, but a ton of this stuff gives the impression that playing this game is a full time job rather than a relaxing hobby.

[@Exigeous]

"is a full time job rather than a relaxing hobby." - yeah, at this point for me it's sorta both ;-)

[@klarkolofsson]

CravenTHC It’s been more of a simulator than a game from the beginning but updates have made it ten times better, information wise.

[@jimcole5359]

CravenTHC: As with most online multi-player games, if you want to advance to the top tiers it pretty much is a full time job. This is not saying that you can't play casually, however you will not have the ships/resources/money that the top players have without a lot longer time played as in days/weeks/months. When ED first went gold, they reset everyone back to the beginning and held a contest to see who could get "Elite" in all 3 categories. The winner did this by taking a vacation from his job for a month and spent 10 hours a day playing as well as completely wearing out his X52 pro HOTAS just so he could win the $10k prize. In this case, it really was a full time job for him.

[@DavidVanmeterDutch]

I play casually, about 6 or so hours a week. I have played for 3 weeks and just bought an Asp explorer with upgrades. Just saying that for me I use these tools to make things easier so i can play casually and get a lot out of my time. Also, that i don’t want to ever have billions of credits and end up getting bored with the game. I want new things to look forward to and work for. These tools help me a lot in maximizing my time.

[@Femboi_Hilda]

@@jimcole5359 I made 45 Mill in 2 days and I just bought the game a week ago I do mining but I got lucky by finding guids on KZbin that show you exactly how to get started from nothing to owning a capital ship in a matter of a few days

[@baitclicker9414]

Cheers dude this is really helpful especially for someone like me who just started playing recently and doesn't know their way around too well yet...

[@abrotherinchrist]

GREAT stuff CMDR. Appreciate.

[@DrFakerYuGiOh]

Been playing on and off for years and never knew EDProfiler was a thing. Thanks mate.

[@DrKaii]

Woo! Just saw this. It just had a nice update btw

[@BinaryNinjasPOV]

I love your videos are short and to the point, super useful

[@TheOctaneblood]

Great job commander! Thank you!

[@simonchoi817]

You even recommend other people’s channel, you are really amazing!

[@Scalpaxos]

Very well done. Thanks

[@keenviewer]

Just found this video. I have never heard of Road to Riches, sounds great. Really interested in your other videos!

[@austinm5630]

Just one tiny little side note: EDDiscovery can be configured to automatically sync with Inara, and also with EDDB, including a bidirectional sync with EDDB. This bith allows you to easily link your current ships to friends on Inara, and also get corrent price data from EDDB without as much input as EDDiscovery will already know where you are and also what your ship can hold. Of everything on this list, I personally find EDDiscovery the most valuable just because of how well it works alongside both EEDB and Inara. I would've ranked it at least #3 myself, but I can still respect this list anyway :)

[@Beer_Dad1975]

Inara is awesome - just being able to locate interstellar factors nearby which you can't do accurately from EDDB or in-game at the moment has saved me oodles of time.

[@diego-vw2in]

OMG this is a VERY VERY usufull info video about ED. You're a legend, thank you!!!

[@Exigeous]

I try :D

[@ohnoitisnt666]

great help. many thanks!

[@Glowhyena]

Great video, thank you!

[@villykimlauridsen1110]

Great video keep up the good work

[@commandericeman8588]

Bro I just started playing the game 3 days ago and the stuff you're talking about is WAY over my head.

[@Nites2k]

Seriously, feel like I need to take a course in this before playing

[@antwan1357]

This is quite literally everything you need. You know what for years I thought this guy was a developer talking about his own game. Only to figure out he's a blogger like everyone else.

[@dreyone6156]

It's missing EDR which is actually pretty useful when playing in open (and even in solo, gives you useful info on mat spawns) but other than that yeah

[@mVran]

Nice video :) Most helpfull :) keep up the god work :)

[@brianaldred8751]

I use or have used just about all 15 so definitely a good list. My current setup revolves around Voice Attack (always) and ED Discovery and ED Engineer. I really like ED Discovery for it's regular updates/fixes/discord interaction with developer and the fact it keeps EDSM and now Inara.cz profiles up to date all the time. Just to add - my absolute favourite tool in ED Discovery is the Ground Compass overlay which will tell you exactly what heading to fly/drive to get to a precise long/lat. To my knowledge it's the only tool like it which gives the feedback instantaneously (or as near as possible).

[@shotgun3628]

16: fuel rats

[@lonicera2257]

No man that's number 1 without the fuel rats I think most of us would still be stranded

[@reaverman]

16 Should be Google ;)

[@DAGATHire]

@@lonicera2257 ermmm no, you would have exploded and re-spawned your ship at a minuscule re buy cost and then you would have carried on playing the game, only this time not making the mistake of not having a fuel scoop. no problem.

[@jone6135]

DAGATHire you’re forgetting about cargo and exploration data

[@god_pharaoh6111]

having hard time of figuring out how to download and properly set up EDDI. and there's barely any recent, reliable guides. but i did enjoy this list

[@blackie999uk]

One I use is Captain Log by Scarygliders. Great for exploration and logs systems and planets that are scanned and also shows the probable price for the data. And all at the top of the screen. It also allows lat and long bookmarks for finding items on planets.

[@Exigeous]

Thanks for the tip, I'll add that to my "10 more tools" video I'm already working on.

[@duanedinsdale2412]

EDR is a good tool, still tryinmg to master it, its a plugin for EDMC, allowing you to look for players with bounties.

[@Derkiboi]

darn Exigeous is good at this and the new mic is helping o7 Derk

[@Exigeous]

Thanks buddy, yeah amazing what a great mic and some sound mixing will do isn't it?

[@Derkiboi]

maybe whatever you are doing it is going well

[@simonwillis1529]

Helpful and I do use some of these but I still love immersion I love building ships for different roles Plus also slowly into more the game has

[@Exigeous]

I think you're doing good on all accounts. Immersion = good Purpose built ships = good Slow progression, learning = good So many do a grind for rank or credits and jump straight to the biggest ships. Mistake in my book.

[@badblackdaddy]

Had it not been for 3rd party content creators and Cmdrs like you, I probably would have been done with Elite a year ago. You guys are what give me hope that this game could one day be what it should and that those who have stuck with it, get the game we deserve!

[@adrian3482]

Best Elite KZbinr by far is that one guy Exig-something or other.

[@Exigeous]

Oh no, not that fucking douchebag - he's the worst!!

[@HEX314]

Downloads at the bottom of the page on the link. Thank you, for the run down on the elite tools nice work.

[@Astronut128]

Last month I was exploring Codex entries, and the only tool I found that could sort them by proximity was 2:47, EDSM. On the home page, under "Search a system in EDSM database:" click "Advanced search", and down near the bottom of the search parameters is "Codex entry:", and below that is "Sort by:"

[@sphinx2k210]

E.D.I.S.O.N - Elite Dangerous Improved Surface and Orbital Navigator - uses overlays and TTS directions to help find exact locations of surface targets like crashed anacondas, thargoid stuff, lost bases etc if you already know the coordinates. Works really well.

[@Exigeous]

Thanks, on my list for my next top 10 list!

[@68thBC]

Can you make a vid like this for smartphone apps?

[@tennohack6704]

How did you get those additional IVONA voices?

[@jameswhitehead586]

EDDR is really good aswell

[@henrikd.7529]

Quite amazing that some people made it to squeeze a server farm of data into a website like inara. i mean... *everything*

[@Argosh]

People used to joke about the EvE Online learning curve. Little did we know it was only the beginning.

[@tomekc1113]

CMDR Exigeous you mention Ghost Giraffe at 1:11 but you didn't throw his channel down in the description :)

[@Kotsuto]

Same with Obsidian Ant. ^^

[@jell_pl]

obsidian ant is not needed on this list because simply his channel is the first thing what yt shows in subject of ED :)

[@PatrickVS101]

Hey Exigeous, Cheers for the vid, just signed up on Inara and had a quick question. When you upload your .log file do you have to keep doing that each time you want it to update, or is there a way to automate this?

[@Exigeous]

Absolute there is - ED Market Connector, that's exactly what it does. Just keep it running and it will continually update everything in Inara. Your location, ships, loadouts, engineering details, credit, etc.

[@PatrickVS101]

Another question, is it worth having both Market Connector and EDDI?

[@jimcole5359]

In case anyone is looking today, HCS is offering all of their voice packs at 50% off for a short time right now.

[@hcsvoicepacks]

Cool

[@TheAIKnowledgeHub]

What is the link to EDSM (ED Star Map)

[@Alric2000]

It would be nice if you could add just some kind of notation that indicates which of these are also useable on console.

[@Aristocrafied]

What is you opinion on roguey.co.uk? I am just used to it thats why I keep using it but am I missing out on some stuff?

[@Exigeous]

Great site, use away!

[@cmdrparasite]

just a heads up but while i was on the EDProfiler download page i was hit with multiple phishing attacks caught by my anti-virus. just thought i should give you a heads up

[@spacial2]

Starting at 15. Like may other, I suspect, I don't go there anymore because the mods continually move or delete any posts I made. There are so many sub forums and sub-sub forums, it is impossible to know where something should be posted. Abruptly moving it is deliberatly frustrating.

[@SuwinTzi]

Here's a small one but useful: etn.io it finds trade routes in as direct a line as possible from point A to point B. Or you can set a circular route ending at a specific station. I used it alot when delivering for Powerplay.

[@nooneeyeno]

Agreed. I earned my strips using it. To bad I cant find a overlay for VR. I play ED in VR exclusively now.

[@ronaldsmith7238]

Hey thanx. Im diggin that app

[@medo4945]

What is good for consoles (I am on ps4), I want to sell LTS and plat but idk where, any tip or tool?

[@Pbwv]

I transferred my 700 million credit net worth, and gave up my elite explorer rank on Xbox so that I could use third-party tools on PC. Great video, the third party tools add so much depth and content to ED that isn't there without it, and can't be there on console.

[@Exigeous]

So wait, are you saying you transferred your entire account from Xbox to PC or that you started over on PC? If you don't know you can do a 1 time transfer from PC-Console or Console-PC so there's no need to reset if that's what you did.

[@Pbwv]

They only transfer your credit net worth, it's not a true account transfer. You lose all engineering, reputation, and discipline unlocks you had on the platform you're transferring from.

[@Exigeous]

Uh, are you 100% sure about that - as in you contacted support? I know numerous players who have transferred their entire accounts between PCConsole so something doesn't sound right here?

[@Pbwv]

Positive, and that's how it's always been. Anyone who has transferred an account accross platform, only took their credits with them and had to grind everything else. Here is how they warn you to make sure you really want to do go through with it. Directly from my support email "Hey Phillip, Thanks for getting in touch. You'll be happy to know we can indeed assist in moving between platforms and that some of your progress may be transferred. Do note that this process does come with some restrictions and we'll need you to read and agree to them before we can proceed: We can only transfer wealth (credits) from an account. This will be a Net Worth transfer and so include the value of ships and modules. DLC, Frontier Points, rank, merits, cargo and other in-game progress made cannot be transferred and will have to be re-earned or repurchased. Wealth transfer can only be done once and, once completed, cannot be reversed. After confirmation, your original CMDR will be removed and cannot be restored. After confirmation, your new CMDR will be granted the value of your previous CMDR's assets directly to their current balance. If you're happy to proceed after careful consideration of the limitations above, then please get back to us as soon as you can and we'll be happy to make this happen for you. Kind regards, CMDR Polyot Elite Dangerous Customer Support Wing" And the follow up email after I confirmed my decision "Hey there Phillip, Thank you for getting back to us and confirming your transfer! This has now been completed. Your Xbox Commander had a net worth of 738,962,135 credits which has now been transferred to your PC Commander. This has brought the balance of your PC Commander to 739,038,616 credits which you will see when you next access Elite Dangerous. As such, your Xbox Commander has now been permanently deleted from the system, however, you are welcome to create a new Commander at any time should you wish to do so! I hope this helps, however, if there is anything else we can do then please reach out to us. Best Regards,"

[@Exigeous]

Interesting - thanks for sharing - I will say I do still think that's new as I know, personally, several commanders who have converted over and they certainly didn't mention they lost all their rank. Regardless if you ask me that's bullshit - there's no reason at all they couldn't bring it all over and they should. Ugh.

[@kaizaki9148]

Include EDR on this list! Elite Dangerous Reconnaissance. Especially if you are a PvP player or law enforcer. Made by CMDR LeKeno

[@dreyone6156]

Second this. Don't understand why it wasn't included.

[@shawnasbury7375]

I'm thinking about getting the game soon however I can only get it on Xbox with a HOTAS. So my question is, will these tools still be just as useful even though I'll on Xbox? Might be a stupid question but I want to have as many tools as I may need at my disposal should the need arise.

[@darthronin2158]

Don't do it...this "game" will rob you of your life force

[@tommynazer1800]

Why is obsidianant, infamous?

[@420inportland]

I am a Noob commander here and was curious about all the ED companion apps out there. I personally find it throws off the immersion for me to constantly be having to get out of the game to go to all these websites, although they provide a wealth of great data, and I am getting ready to go full VR which makes the issue even more important to me. I read that Frontier banned any type of scraping, although I can't imagine why with a game this expansive for god's sake, but I have not been able to find any sort of recent ( 2019) guide as to which are the best and most useful, as well as which might run afoul of any policies about such things by Frontier. If anyone could point me to this type of info it would be much appreciated... Or if you wanted to make a top 10 video about such that would be even more awesome. ;)

[@drumpflestilskin8260]

Do all of these recommendations work with the VR version? I would think most would be useful, but thought it worth checking before spending lots of time on these utilities if they are not applicable

[@Exigeous]

Well yes, as these are all for the PC version so of course they work with VR - are they "VR friendly" and work inside the headset of course not.

[@drumpflestilskin8260]

CMDR Exigeous Thanks, I figured as much but you never know if some file structures etc might be different. Thanks for verifying.

[@kvitravn6354]

There's elite trade net as well very useful for traders...is it possible for you to make a video on trading?

[@Exigeous]

Sure, I'll put that on the list. I pretty much hate trading, by far my least favorite aspect of the game so I just don't engage in it much.

[@InASexyDimension]

Why is obsidianant infamous?

[@NoOneCares2k]

Take a look at VoiceMacro, it's free; only caveats are that there are only a few pre-made profiles, and of course, no HCS voice packs configured for it.

[@Exigeous]

Great, thanks for the tip!

[@eustacequinlank7418]

Is there any tool to track down other CMDRs across the galaxy? When I started the game someone had already chosen my name (a rather unique combination of words I might add) I was not too happy about that quite frankly. If you've ever seen the film The Duelists... that's how it's going down.

[@Exigeous]

I suppose I should have mentioned that.... Oh, wait, I did! Check @2:56 - use the "Commanders Map" on EDSM and it'll show you. If you want to find a specific commander you can't do that, save for sending them a friend request and chatting with them in game.

[@eustacequinlank7418]

Fair enough! I missed that obviously. Although what you are saying iiiisssss, I should lure my nemesis into a safe place and assassinate them when their guard is down? "Hey, you have an interesting designation, wanna meet near Lave?!"

[@ForrestFox]

Is there any tool that reads in the destinations of a mission you're viewing (before accepting it), and that makes a plot between them (in order) when you open up the galaxy map?

[@Exigeous]

Well you can click on Open Galaxy Map to see where a mission goes as they only go to one place if they are delivery.

[@ForrestFox]

That only works for one mission, but what if you have 2 or more missions and want to plot the shortest route between all destinations?

[@teds2004]

You should try ED Route (ed-route.com). It’s a simple and elegant route planning tool that is especially useful for multiple passenger missions. You enter where everyone wants to go and it presents the best order to visit them. You can’t import the route directly into the game and the Galaxy Map often gives a slightly different route anyway, but ED Route tells you where to aim for next and accurately predicts the number of jumps. Particularly helpful when you pick up a new mission en-route and need to re-calculate.

[@novawop]

CmDr Exigeous: can you have a harder name? LOL can I just call you fred? but seriously, this vid, is going to help me out. thank you.

[@ShadowKick32]

Coriolis.io is still unable to do shield resistances properly

[@VerticalBlank]

Thanks for mentioning EDDI :) You might also take a look at EDRefCard edrefcard.info/ - it's the successor to jgm's other project, the mcdee.net reference card generator, which he handed over at the same time.

[@Sheppardsg1]

Eddbd has wrong infos for profits I starting to notices says profit on site but loss on station

[@comcastjohn]

Why is ObsidianAnt infamous? 👀

[@pentuplove6542]

For PS4?

[@jiahoaf2674]

Holy shit O.o i just started playing the game and i am lost as hell

[@abrotherinchrist]

I feel you there. I actually mothballed the game for almost a year after buying it! Now I've got a decked out Cobra MKIII and 100 million credits.

[@cypheir]

can anyone explain to me the difference between coriolis.io and coriolis.edcd.io? which one should I be using?

[@Exigeous]

coriolis.io - the other is a dead project.

[@Markinpuff]

Is there an online course to learn elite dangerous? Because it’s way to complicated.

[@CybermanKing]

How I import my progress on ED for Xbox on INARA?

[@Exigeous]

Sadly you don't - no way to do any of that on console.

[@ossianm9821]

I use gameglass instead of voice attack

[@alanhill3684]

Unfortunately EDDB web site is no longer active.. Or has it been moved maybe?

[@theeldestrelic]

Nope it's down for good. Dev moved on with real life :D, use inara. It's a more power user tool than EDDB was, but the best of what we got now. I adore it.

[@Amras81]

I would add EDbearing.

[@Exigeous]

Thanks, on the list for my "15 more tools you should use" video.

[@MegaTroubleII]

How many of these will work for PS4?

[@Exigeous]

Honestly not many - some you can use but they can be tough since you can't copy/paste from a browser. Any of the tools that read your logs (EDEngineer, etc) aren't - unless you manually type everything in (which you sorta have to do - Elite is just much better suited to PC)

[@midgarw6775]

I'm guessing most of this is only for PC? Like the commanders map.

[@Exigeous]

Yeah, sadly that's very true. Yet another reason to join the PC master race ;-)

[@jeffleach9023]

Wait, what's wrong with ObsidianAnt? Why's he infamous?

[@AlphaGamer1981]

I can't believe you forgot to add Roccat Powergrid to this video, a free program that connects to your phone and tablet and you can use custom made elite control panels that control your ships systems.

[@Exigeous]

Yeah, it's on the list for my "10 more things" list as there were a few others I forgot too. I don't use Roccat as I play in VR so I can't see/feel a touchscreen for control but still a cool tool. You should also look at Stream Deck as well, just got one and love it.

[@Sambo726]

Roccat power grid was nice at one time but no longer supported. Finding the required pc installer is like pulling teeth. I could only find it on third party sites.

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

Fronteir: why are you looking at us?

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

“Edsm” I can only imagine how many B jokes are made about that one...

[@squirrellordsgaming2772]

Got an app on my I Phone: ED Finder. It's good for quick look up for just about anything. It doesn't plot routes, but it will find just about anything in the game, just enter the value for the item and the system you are in at the time. It costs about $3, but worth it.

[@Hlebuw3k]

you can do the same without entering your system and for free...

[@kaleun_scaramouch3843]

why Obsidian Ant is infamous?

[@Exigeous]

It was a (rather bad) attempt at humor

[@haiperbus]

wht is obsidian ant infamous?

[@Exigeous]

Poor attempt at humor??

[@empireempire3545]

I was wondering the same thing

[@Agelesslink]

Any way to apply mods to ps4?

[@Exigeous]

You'd have to bring that up with Sony as no, not really. You can still use many of these but without copy/paste support into the game some of the system names would be really tough.

[@ProjectFraz]

I wish we could just do that stuff in game.

[@Exigeous]

Well remember the community is always going to extend what a game can do, which is a good thing. So while I do wish some, maybe much of this was built in there is always going to be a place for 3rd parties.

[@TheNightshotBR]

fuelrats should have made the list as well.

[@Writers_End]

Don't forget Yamiks!

[@Exigeous]

Are you calling Yamiks a "tool"? Sounds like it to me!!!

[@Writers_End]

@@Exigeous haha you got me.

[@keraptisblackrazor2658]

why is obsidian ant infamous?

[@JedF2010]

I was just going to ask that too...what HAS he been up to?

[@AniGaAG]

Why is there no link to KZbin in the description? I don't know how to get there.

[@Exigeous]

Uh, I'm confused - you mean the KZbin you're on right now?

[@AniGaAG]

@@Exigeous It was a joke. Praise me... : ( ... okay, jokes aside! xD Really love your channel. It's been immensely helpful to me, especially due to the way you keep unnecessary fluff _out_ of your videos - concise, helpful, to the point. This platform could use way more guide content of the nature you're creating. Please keep it up!

[@Exigeous]

Oh no worries, I sorta thought you might be but I'm the type to throw shade back at someone when I think they are being cheeky. Glad you like the channel and got the whole point - I created it as I too was sick of all the "hey hey hey KZbin, let's see, uh, today we're gonna, uh, oh yeah, be sure to like comment and subscribe, that really helps out, uh okay today we'll, uh, let's see....." bullshit. I want what you want - to watch less and play more.

[@AniGaAG]

@@Exigeous Yup! I gotta say, your absolutely best and most helpful video, to me, was the one about quickly gathering materials. That video really changed everything - I went in a few days from being pretty clueless to, literally right this second, finishing the Frame Shift Drive engineering on the last of my seven ships! So big thanks for that one. (Though I do _one_ thing differently: Due to how highly effective the Material Traders are and how negligible the travel distance is, I get my Raw Materials at the Bug Killer crash site on HIP 16613 1 A.)

[@Exigeous]

@@AniGaAG Yeah, that one really is a game-changer isn't it? As for the bug killer site sure, no issues there - but if you do go try the Crystal Shard sites if you do that loop twice you likely won't need raw materials until you've engineered like 5+ ships, as in fully engineered every module.

[@reilynn7891]

Wait, why is obsidian ant infamous? Did he do something?

[@Exigeous]

Sorry, poor attempt at humor ;-)

[@reilynn7891]

CMDR Exigeous oh lol XD

[@danielchambers9334]

The only excellent resource not on the list is your videos!