Miner Update

Aired 16 October 2018
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Crew Members
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
(In)Human Resources Director : Shan – Cmdr Shanaeri
Alliance Office of Statistics : Cmdr J Trinity

Show Notes

• Development News
  • Beyond 3.3  or Beyond Chapter 4 beta has been announced for the 30th of October. The Beta will roll out with new functionality being released every week through the month of November. The Beta is open to all PC Players who have either the base game or Horizons.
    • https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/451045-Beyond-Chapter-Four-Beta-Announcement
    • Teaser Trailer
      
  • Frontier have been recognised as one of the best game development companies to work for at the GIGBIZ awards :- https://twitter.com/frontierdev/status/1050764476738363393
  • PS4 Security Warning – Please set your messages to Private because of https://www.vg247.com/2018/10/15/ps4-message-exploit-bricking-consoles/
• In Game Events
  • Thargoid attacks – THREE systems are now under attack, Dulerce, Li Tzicnii and Kareco.The Anti-Xeno-Initiative are defending Dulerce and Li Tzicnii and the Hive are defending Kareco (that’s where Phoenix_Dfire is if you want to say hello).
  • Operation IDA – Cavalieri in Electra has been successfully repaired. Their next target is Kipling Orbital in Pleiades Sector KC-V c2-11 – In other news they’ve set up their own private group to help with repair operations. Look for group Operation IDA on the Xbox, PS4 and PC. Word of Warning, there have been reports of Bugs where some items don’t appear to be counted. These bugs have been reported but Frontier have made no response. (might need 3.3 to fix). Thanks to Factabulos for compiling these figures and putting them on the forums.
• Newsletter 248
  • Krait Mk II – recreating a classic – Interview with Art Director Chris Gregory.
  • Bug Hunt 4
    • This week, Ed and Will continue their ongoing mission to take down a Thargoid. In this episode of “The Big Bug Hunt”, the duo are working on acquiring cash, materials, AX weapons, ships as well as engineering their ships to fund the war effort against this intergalactic menace.
• Main Discussion
  • Botting in Elite Dangerous?
    • Bot attack in Eranin
    • Scripting and Automation – An investigation into further abuses of BGS and Powerplay
    • AOS video on botting (Twitch)
    • Autopilot for Elite Dangerous using OpenCV and thoughts on CV enabled bots in visual-to-keyboard loop
      
• Community Corner
  • Beetlejude makes an Elite Dangerous Colouring book
  • Do you want an ASP explorer Lego Model? There is only 19 days left to get an extra 651 people to say they like it on the official Lego Website :- ASP LEGO MODEL
  • CMDR Dane511 of the AXI has decided to set up a Hydra hunting event in the system the Hydras are currently in. The event will take place on October 20th, at 1pm EST.
  • ED-RPG – The Patent Troll issues continue which are causing issues with the distributions of the last Kickstarter awards The Troll is beginning to Bite
• Shoutouts
  • Lavecon 2019 is 4th – 7th July.
  • Our sister station Hutton Orbital Radio Broadcasts on Thursdays from 20:30 at http://tv.forthemug.com/ or http://radio.forthemug.com/ for just the audio
  • CQC Discord – For the Discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action
  • DJTruthsayer is back on twitter.
  • https://www.edwtrb.com – Tools to help with finding wings, finding rpg groups, trading Rare commodities and set Bounties on other pilots.