| Position | Crew Member | CMDR Name |
| SRV Banksy | Alec Turner | Alec Turner |
| Head of Health and Safety | Ben Moss-Woodward | Eid LeWeise |
| Staff Liaison Officer | Clare Good | Psykit |
| Chief Archivist | Colin Ford | Phoenix_Dfire |
| Tech Primate in Training | Chris Mk V | LittleBigYin |
| Ex-Fdev God | Derin |
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Development News – what have the devs said this week?
- Frontier clarified some of the changes coming to Engineering, which will be appearing over the “coming months!”
- Reducing the number of materials required for Engineering.
- Increasing payout of engineering materials from missions.
- Increasing backpack capacity.
- They also showed off two of the ship packs which will be coming in May.
- Type 6 Mining Laser Jumpstart
- Alliance Chieftain AX Combat Jumpstart
- Both ships don’t have a rebuy, unless you start adding new modules, and even then it’s only the cost of the new modules.
- Any attempt to sell the ship or strip a pack for the module credits won’t work as the ship and its modules will sell for 0 Cr.
- The press reaction has been pretty extensive ;-
- Massively OP did a few articles ;-
- Stick and Rudder: So let’s talk about those Elite Dangerous pre-built ships
- Elite Dangerous plans to sell ship bundles – including its upcoming new ship – in the cash shop | Massively Overpowered
- Elite Dangerous shares additional details on engineering updates and pre-built ship bundles | Massively Overpowered
- Arcs Technica – Elite: Dangerous’s real-money ship sales spark “pay-to-win” outrage
- Games Radar reports Elite is being review bombed (apparently 54 bad reviews in the last week is considered a review bomb) – Elite Dangerous Is Being Review-Bombed
- IGN – Elite Dangerous Dev Frontier Announces Plans to Sell Ships for Real Money, Sparking Backlash
- Massively OP did a few articles ;-
- Frontier unlocked stream dived into PP 2.0 (see the main topic)
- Type 8 is the next variant ship
Community news – what is the community up to??
- The Elite Racers CCCXLVI Winter Olympics has finished!
- Buckyball has started!
The Triple Eight Championship
Race #1 – The Sidewinder Trophy- (Colin’s not doing that well at it).
- The High Wake has two videos this week. Both commenting on the current Store Changes and where might it end ;-
- Darplata94 has been maintaining a spreadsheet of ALL the ED cosmetic items.
If you wanted absolutely everything it would cost you about three and a half thousand pounds! - The Buur Pit’s excellent summation of the Frontier Unlocked PP2.0 info dump.
NEWS: Powerplay 2.0 Deep Dive, Pre-Build Ship Modules & Engineering Details - Hutton run race is still on with Stargoid beating HappyMoonMonkey by a whopping 6 seconds https://hot.forthemug.com/hutton_run (strats include having folks stationed at strategic points to refuel along the way – it’s the most social of races!)
- If you have a community event taking place soon and would like for us to shout about it across the airwaves tweet the crew @laveradio or email info@laveradio.com
In-Game Events – what’s happened this week?
- 24th April 3310 – OYA Successfully Attacked
Main discussion
- PP- the questions people have for Derin
- What you been up to since you left Frontier?
- The community was under the impression that adding new features in the old legacy build was incredibly difficult and time consuming. Was the Odyssey build a lot easier to work with and what could you do in Odyssey that you couldn’t do in legacy?
- Apart from PP was there any existing mechanics you wished you could have had a crack at?
- What is it, in your opinion, that makes Powerplay 2.0 more engaging and accessible than Powerplay 1.0?
- Is there a plan for current power specific modules in PP2.0 ie prismos/packhounds. (DJ Wylie, CMDR KronenBrg, CMDR Homburger. CMDR KAITIFF) Also completely understand if this isn’t something Derin is able to answer.
- Is there one (possibly crazy) idea that you wanted to put in Powerplay 2.0, but couldn’t? E.g. extra colonia powers (Niceygy)
- There’s a BGS question from chebswill and also LittleBigYin, but they both ask if Powerplay 2.0 will have a direct influence to the factions in the system ie would having a faction that is aligned with the superpower make gaining influence easier? Does the government type of the system still make a difference to the faction now? Is there a benefit to not being aligned to a powerplay faction?
- Do the stronghold carriers have some of the old Fleet Carrier assets? If so ElvisKremmen asks – When PP 2.0 was 1st discussed were the old FC assets a “we can get a use out of these now” thing or was something else new going to be used?
- What do you feel is your magnum opus in Elite? – LittleBigYin
- What was the most difficult bug the team faced over the years? – EliteDangereuse
- Can you answer perhaps the biggest question raised by the first PP2 livestream – where are the vending machines?
Any other business
- Members of the Elite Partner Program (Clare included) will be streaming/releasing videos an exclusive first look at the Python Mk II from tomorrow: Clare will be looking at it from 18:00.
Questions
- QOTW will be fully back on Sunday – I’ve used the questions in the main discussion.
Shoutouts
- Our sister station, Hutton Orbital Radio, Broadcasts on Thursdays from 20:30. You can tune in at twitch.tv/huttonorbitaltruckers or, for just the audio, at radio.forthemug.com/.
- For the discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action, check out the CQC Discord at “discord.me/elitedangerouscqc”.
- We’re also giving a shout outs to the following Elite Dangerous podcasts which have appeared over the last year or are standard regular contributors;-
- The Guard Frequency (who do other space games )
- Loose Screws
- Following this we have the latest Galnet News Digest as provided by Cmdr Wotherspoon and Cmdr BeetleJude.
- Thanks to those who have chipped in on Twitch chat and in-game commanders
- Special Thanks to Cmdr ToCoSo, Jn Tracks and Allen Stroud who created the music used on the Show.