After a long absence, just in time for Lavecon 2017, Dataslate, the podcast on books and writing, returns!
Book news from Allen Stroud with special guest, Elite gamer and Science Fiction writer, Kevin Elliott, who discusses his experience of the convention circuit in 2017 and the writing process of his new novel, which you can find out more about on his blog, Where’s My Flipping Tea?.
Kevin will be reading from his book at Lavecon 2017.
Crew Members Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester – Cmdr Fozza Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane
shout out to CMDR Zenoic who has found a good reason to listen to Lave Radio while taking morphine! Ahead of the curve! He is currently in hospital with kidney stones, so all our best wishes. He says he’ll “be tuning in to today’s show if I can to take my mind off things. See you at lavecon. O7”
After a long absence, just in time for Lavecon 2017, Dataslate, the podcast on books and writing, returns!
Book news from Allen Stroud with special guest, Darren Grey who discusses the subject of writing for games, and introduces us to his new project, Jupiter Hell.
Crew Members Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester – Cmdr Fozza Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
Pre-orders in the EU are available now with US pre-orders later this month
Elite Dangerous will start at [£19.99/€24.99/$29.99] (does not incl horizons)
Elite Dangerous: Commander Deluxe Edition will be [£39.99/€49.99/$59.99] (Incl Horizons)
Physical Disk Legendary Edition contains Elite Dangerous and the Horizons Pass, as well as 1,000 Frontier points to spend on in-game items!
Remote play via PlayStation®Vita (more details closer to launch)
Touchpad use
Touch Navigation. Explore Elite Dangerous’ map of the Milky Way with a swipe using touch pad that make navigation fast and easy.
Extra Control. Customize four additional touch pad button ‘hotkeys’ to suit your own play style.
Fast Headlook. Quickly track your enemies in the heat of combat with optional motion-based headlook controls powered by the DUALSHOCK®4 wireless controller.
Sandro has commented that some kind of bounty hunter tracker has been on ‘The Big List’ for some time. More Discussion on a karma system.and hiding the cmdr indicator on the scanner
Cannon’s Community Goal for a Megaship (as we mentioned last week) was a resounding success being completed despite extended to T10 by lunchtime on Sunday! The Bounty Hunting CG remains
Cannon’s Community Goal for a Megaship (as we mentioned last week) was a resounding success being completed despite extended to T10 by lunchtime on Sunday! The Bounty Hunting CG remains
Crew Members Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
Cmdr Plater is running a 24 hour stream will on june 3rd at 12:00pm running for 24 hours. It’s called “Combat for Cancer” and all proceeds will be going to the British Thyroid Foundation. I will be joined by various different Youtubers and Streamers with; ObsidianAnt, VindicatorJones, Ghost Giraffe , Josh Hawkins, Mini, Shabooka, Down to Earth Astronomy, Paroxsym and DJTruthsayer all confirmed. Ed Lewis from Frontier will also be putting an appearance. I will also be doing some give aways for viewers.. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/CMDRPLATER
Shout out to Cmdr Tannik Seldon who managed to destroy his ship during the Buckyball’s Aquarian Job Race by accepting their 1% hull challenge and then trusting the ship’s computer to land the ship! BUT he is still in the race, he just needs to travel ½ way round a planet to the base and get a ship back!!!
Crew Members Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester – Cmdr Fozza Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
A 3rd party tool that can track your Elite Dangerous travels, combat, trading, rank etc. Before Elite Dangerous 2.2 it could only track travel, now with 2.2, EDDiscovery tracks much more! It can now log other data such as rank, commodities, materials, scans and all host of other data.EDDiscovery also gives you a 3D map and 2D maps of the galaxy, showing travel history and data from EDSM and EDDB to aid your journey through the Elite Dangerous galaxy.
EDMC is a 3rd party app that will make a note of System and station data and then allow you to upload that data to other sites such as EDDB or Elite Trading Tool.
Please note that this app uses the original ios API which requires your ED Log in details. It’s not doing anything nefarious with those details (it’s open source so go check for yourself!) However it’s something to be aware of.
Makes a note of your materials and then will help you showing what upgrades you can get or what commodities you need. It DOES need a little setting up since it makes a guess about your commodities but it’s just a best guess so you need to check and fix it.
Configuration websites
Coriolis.io
EDDB.io
Inara.cz
EDSM.net
Takes the navigation data apps like ED Discovery uploads and uses it to log your travels
Wishlist of places to visit (uses Elite Galactic Wiki “A database of real places inside Elite Dangerous)
Links to radio players
Pilot’s “Licence”
Really great looking 3D MAP of systems you have explored.
Not so great report for Fozza on his PvP Kill Ratio. 1 Kill and over 30 Deaths (The Kill was an accident on an Live Episode of LR! Sorry Cmd Ashley Wilkinson)
Cmdr Plater is running a 24 hour stream will on june 3rd at 12:00pm running for 24 hours. It’s called “Combat for Cancer” and all proceeds will be going to the British Thyroid Foundation. I will be joined by various different Youtubers and Streamers with; ObsidianAnt, VindicatorJones, Ghost Giraffe , Josh Hawkins, Mini, Shabooka, Down to Earth Astronomy, Paroxsym and DJTruthsayer all confirmed. Ed Lewis from Frontier will also be putting an appearance. I will also be doing some give aways for viewers.. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/CMDRPLATER
https://tinyurl.com/figpoint Phoenix Point funded! Still a few weeks to get in on the action and help with awesome stretch goals like vehicles and a mobile player base (which can be assaulted by monsters)
Exo One https://tinyurl.com/exo-one Spaceflight with planetary landings and momentum – think Spindizzy with a morphing spaceship
Galaxy Crash – modest kickstarter to get art assets by one of the Elite Dangerous community – Bubble. https://tinyurl.com/bubblecrash
Elite: Dangerous’ 3,000-player battle royaleElite: Dangerous’ 3,000-player battle royale
On Monday the intreped Commander Fozza invited Admiral of the Fleet, Commander Paroxsym from the Premonition Allied Coordination, along with Commanders Eisen and Baroness Galaxy to join him, Ben and Colin on the Orange Sidewinder to discus Saturday’s in game event. The Chase, the Kill, the Intrigue and the Politics along with the hope for us all…
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester – Cmdr Fozza Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
Special Guests Fleet Admiral : Paroxsym from Premonition Allied Coordination Raxxla’s Child : Eisen Raxxla’s Shield : Baroness Galaxy
‘It seems the fake news and rumors run amok before, during and after the event. Let me try to clear this up a bit. Believe it, or leave it. The people fighting for Salomé did not consist of a single group. PAC might have been the public face of it, but they were not directly responsible for Salomé’s flight. That was in the hands of CoR and a few of our trusted allies. PAC was tasked to organise defense fleets for Raan and Tsu and somewhat help with Salomé too independently from this more private defense force. PAC may or may not have considered SDC an ally, but they were certainly not considered an ally by Salomé’s personal guards. SDC was never tasked in defending Salomé, nor were they allowed to get close to her. Harry Potter and other Commanders who interdicted Salomé simply played the game well, got lucky with instancing and did their part. Salomé was going to give a speech at the end of the event if she survived, but as far as we know, the listening posts at Teorge are the main answers that needed to be broadcasted. I think it’s important to understand that there is no ‘losing’ situation for this event. Whether Salomé delivered her speech or not is not relevant to the grand scheme of things. What matters is whether we have played out an interesting narrative using in-game means. With the current results, there may not be a speech, but there may be a funeral. The story still moves forward, just in a different direction.’
PAC’s behaviour in the run up to the event was horrendous, Complaint’s of (Irony Alert) PVP Eliteism, denying people access to the event, Kill on sight order (even on their own side, who didn’t follow the rules). Drew on a couple of occasions, asked for PAC to be more inclsive which the response was ‘Don’t go running to Drew, if you don’t like our Rules’.
Colin was a victim to those rules, even though the event hadn’t started. In addition, Innocent cmdrs who had nothing to do with the event were targeted (According to reddit). Group I was associated with [Forge] did a sterling job.
Crew Members Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow Wing Commander : Paroxsym
Galaxy map UI tag not pointing to selected target body (Genuinely a show Stopper)
Packhounds having infinite ammunition (High Priority)
Multicrew bug fixes
Increased crew payments: voucher scaling now tops out at 80% of helm earnings (previously 50%)
Increased insurance rebuy discount for Helm to 30% reduction per crew member (previously 25%)
Various Stability improvements across the board
Missing Galnet articles will be fixed
XBOX main menu softlock will be fixed
Large frame rate drop when friends log in to the game
Patch 2.3.1 – Aimed for a couple of Weeks, will include a weapon’s free/lock command to allow the Helm to lock down the gunner and fighter pilots. This aims to reduce ‘Crew Trolling’ where some nefarious Cmdrs were joining ships, opening fire on police / the station leading to the host ship’s destruction.
In Game News
New Generation Ship Found – With Additional Voice Logs and use of the data scanner.Generation Ship
Federation Vs Empire Community Goal in Maia (The Empire appears to be winning at the moment).
