Development News – what have the devs said this week?
Free tritium for all carriers.
Patch has been delayed until the 3rd of August. Does this mean another free tritium refill in the meantime?
Main discussion
Hello!
I’ve been playing Elite for 6 months now. I love the game, but after about 3 months I started getting bored with it. Then I started flying FAOFF, and fell in love with it all over again, having been reminded that Elite is, first and foremost, a piloting game. That said, I would like to hear you guys talk more about the ships you have and what you like about piloting them.
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Development News – what have the devs said this week?
Patch 3 Known Issues – Patch 3 was released. It has led to a huge amount of salt on both reddit and the forums. LTD values have been severely affected (apparently intended) but so has Tritium (apparently unintended).
Turning the Wheel – The Dark Wheel. managed at the last instant to save their expansion effort and arrive at the intended system HR 4979. They have also got our conflict for control in Anyanwu (this is pending at time of recording) The Dark Wheel’s influence levels have stabilised in LFT 926 and Shinrarta saw a small increase in influence.
Kai Zen would like to point out, that despite Cmdr Wotherspoon’s allegations, Elite Week is NOT using The Dark Wheel to take over Lave or Alpha Centauri
Should VR players have to pay for a VR upgrade to Odyssey?
With the amount of Salt regarding the LTD fix, do you think the community can take the changes which would be required to ‘Fix’ the economy?
Community Corner
Congrats to the Bur Pit for reaching 10,000 Subs on youtube.
Congratulation to Obsidian Ant for reaching 200,000 Subs on YouTube
If anyone wants to visit the Gnosis as it does it’s Autotour; Cmdr Darvin is offering a shuttle service on his fleet carrier. For details go to here on Inara.
Buckyballer Rejoice! The “Keys to the Carrier Race” is on at the moment and runs till the 26th of July. There is a new race planned in November. Speedball 4 is in the planning stage and the usual Ne’er-Do-Well Cmdr Alex Turner and PrimetimeCasual will supply the details closer to the time. However, we would recommend starting to strip down your ships and work out your racing builds now because these guys are fast.
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An issue which allowed launching a fighter to restore sub-surface deposits on asteroids was fixed.
A bug with material distribution in overlapping hotspots was fixed and hotspost themselves we rebalanced. Now, the effect that each hotspot has on the base rarity of a commodity has been doubled. To counter this, hotspots of the same type which overlap will be less effective. The aim of thsese changes is to reduce the massive impact of overlapping hotspots while still ensuring they provide a higher yield than non-overlapping hotspots.
Fix Bug about the demand not working properly if there is a BGS State.
In-Game Events – what’s happened this week?
Turning the wheel
The Dark Wheel won the invasion war in Anyanwu and organized a war of all the other factions in that system which enabled them to leapfrog right into 2nd place. They will be challenging for first (most likely an election this time) by the weekend and are shaping the second expansion (out of 926) now to make sure they end up aiming THAT one toward Lave for phase3. The project is continuing to grow at an almost scary rate (1400+ discord joiners and more in forum thread who are working it from outside the discord) and not slowing down. The forum thread is now on PAGE 51… this thing is a MONSTER.
Within 10 days the Dark Wheel is hoping to expand from Anyanwu and if they get the target system they are working towards that system should be just inside the maximum theoretical range of Sol. They plan to expand once more to get within 10 Ly of Sol and then trigger one more expansion to see if being within 10 Ly and expanding yet again will go INTO Sol. Kai Zen is not banking on it but after it is checked off the list they will be taking The Dark Wheel from Sol to LFT 509 and THAT is where Kai and others believe magic will happen!
12h update for Rennie Dock – HIP 2843
AXI – Art of War Update.
Main discussion
Normalising Incomes?
Community Corner
Mack takes over from Souv as Chief Ed of SagI – @souv and Mack to take it
Shoutouts
Our sister station, Hutton Orbital Radio, Broadcasts on Thursdays from 20:30. You can tune in at tv.forthemug.com/ or, for just the audio, at radio.forthemug.com/.
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Thanks to those who have chipped in on Twitch chat and in-game commanders
I was going to ask what your impressions are of the last year in elite and then the good but salt mountain ideas?
Questions
Comment from : CMDR SquirrellyPEZ
Greetings from Texas, USA.
Here’s my idea for the salt mine, credit problem and increase the danger. Have the pilots federation take a cut of income as insurance costs. For a triple elite pilot, say 50% for a fully engineered ship and 25% for an unmodified ship. 5% for a new pilot. Make the insurance policy adjustable only after ship destruction to avoid abuse, this will probably lead to credit laundering via a carrier. Not sure how to get around that. If you choose a less costly policy the pilots federation will pay for less of the rebuy, and engineered modules will only be replaced with full coverage. Or maybe require material cost to cover engineered modules. Hope I got a chuckle and some sodium.
CMDR SquirrellyPEZ
Shoutouts
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