The show dives into virtual reality and the health and safety of LOOOOOOOOOONGGGG streams

Aired 15th March 2016
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Crew Members

Head of Entertainments : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr thane
Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr EidLeWeiss
Head of station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PhoniexDFire
VR Expert and all round ‘nice guy’ : Cmdr Snuffler

Show Notes:

• Development News
  • Join the Elite: Everything You Need to Know About Community Goals with Steve Kirby
    • Summary by Cmdr Zorrito on reddit
    • https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=237773&p=3668633 – Sandro talks about mechanics and possible changes to Powerplay
  • Zac — Support update – Reiteration of player harassment rules
  • Planet Coaster has a date of Tuesday 22nd March for Alpha backers
  • PowerPlay : Sandro on Collusion Piracy and More
    • Doesn’t Like it BUT Recognises it’s a useful tool
    • Wants to introduce effects to degrade Collusion Piracy (current options)
      • Creating a voting system to allow Commanders, by the act of majority will, to withdraw from poor control systems, ensuring mechanisms are in place to prevent profitable systems from being voted out.
      • Utilising an UP / DOWN vote feature, which would exist primarily to be a channel of communication within the game for pledged Commanders) to also provide veto functionality at the preparation stage, allowing, by the act of majority will, poor control system candidates from being purchased as expansion targets.
      • Introducing a combo mechanism for fortification allotments, limiting the purchase of rushed allotments based on successful deliveries – the more you deliver the more you can pay to rush – whilst adding temporary fortification disbarring for losing fortification commodities.
  • Power Play : Sandro on ‘open bonus’
    • Sandro – “And since I’m in the mood for pulling hand grenades , here’s another thing to chew on: I’m currently rather taken by the concept of a success multiplier for Commanders in Open Play. this modifier would not improve personal gains from power play activities, but it would magnify the effectiveness of a power’s actions (expand, oppose, fortify, undermine). And the effect would probably be significant.
    • Power Play by design encourages player interaction and FD want to encourage that. “Powerplay will always be at its best when opposing Commanders interact directly”
• Newsletter 115
  • Data recorders – basically like data points on outposts.
  • Shout out to Joe Hogan’s Lego SRV model which needs votes on the lego site to be an official kit
    • http://tinyurl.com/legosrv
  • Fuzion DcA’s video has planetary assaults, sweeping vistas, SRV convoys, an inspiring voiceover at the beginning and much more.
  • We can find and scan data recorders.
• Main Discussion
  • VR News 
    • FD’s announcement
    • Oculus Announcement
    • David Braben talks to Ars Technica about it
    • Currys PC World to open HTC Vive demo rooms ‘this week’
      • consumers will be able to test out the HTC Vive within the next week at Currys PC World flagship stores in Leeds, Tottenham Court Road, and Reading.
  • Ian Honcharenko — “Question for the team: With the rise in popularity of 24hr charity streams and the advertising in the newsletter last week of a race requiring approximately 38 hours commuted flight time in a 2 day period, I put the question to you should frontier be promoting such events despite the inherent health risks and chance of negative press (such as the numerous game addiction articles in both professional medical journals and less professional tabloid newspapers).I’d just add that last year’s Voyager winner did it in 40 hours with a 2 hr nap.”
    • From the newsletter— Probably one of the craziest endurance challenges in the galaxy, the 2nd Annual Voyager Challenge kicks off on March 24, 2016. Head over to the original forum post to find out how you can get involved.
      
      Can you make 60,000 light years in under 40 hours? According to event organisers, last year’s record was an incredible 38 hours, 44 minutes!
      
      It’ll take some doing, but we know that there must be some Commanders out there with the tenacity to get this done!
      
      Remember, fly safe Commanders! Make sure you take regular breaks, look after yourselves and be sensible with any long play sessions.
    • Also worth working in the Hutton Orbital Gimp run with the race to Sag A
    • Also arguably FD’s original race to Elite and what the guy to get the Triple did to win that
    • 24 hour streams – a good/bad thing to encourage?
• Community Corner
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/48h9qz/flipping_wolfberg/
  • From: https://news.xbox.com/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-idxbox-updates-gdc/
    • First, in addition to natively supporting cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 games that use Xbox Live, we’re enabling developers to support cross-network play as well. This means players on Xbox One and Windows 10 using Xbox Live will be able to play with players on different online multiplayer networks – including other console and PC networks.
      Of course, it’s up to game developers to support this feature, and Xbox Live players will always have the option of choosing to play only with other Xbox Live players.
  • You can also join us on INARA The Council of Trid signed the following declaration: http://imgur.com/jRzAKVr That’s right, we use old timey paper.
  • Join us and be a part of real change in our systems! The Tridicate Collective is a group of factions, CMDRS, and more people just like you! Striving for a higher order in the galaxy. To achieve prosperity we must have order. Order will set us free in the chaos of the black.
  • The Tridicate Collective shall be henceforth dedicated to the goal of establishing a coalition with the intent of bringing peace, prosperity, and order to the Milky Way.
  • https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=237599 – The Annual Voyager Challenge!
  • Wolfberg system flipped, the home of the SDC is taken.
  • XBox One & PC Cross Network
  • Elite : Dangerous – (No supercruise) Taking off from a moon and landing on its planet 15 hour flight compressed into 3 minutes. Includes some FA off to do the actual crossing and fall into the planet!
  • Request to FD: Make every single new weapon, item and variant available for purchase at every station so that people can try them all, and figure out if anything does not work as intended, before release, as this is what a beta is for.
  • Dave Hughes and the Elite: Encounters has confirmed that the RPG release is scheduled for July (Just in time for Lavecon!)
  • AMA with Allen Stroud this Friday on eliteOne and Elite Dangerous this Friday.
  • On the X-Box One :- The Tridicate Collective is now at war with the Church of the Space Cat. It’s time we rid these systems of this felinemenace which chooses to terrorize us.To those who wish to join the fight, please sign up at elite.tridicate.com
  • Still with the X-Box One :- AMA Spotlight 12th March 2016: The 109 Freelancers!
• Questions
  • MonkeyBones asks – Which is a more valuable asset, an A5+ fuel scoop or a REALLY BIG GAS TANK? (For the record, after a year or so with a RBGT I have finally switched to a B6 Fuel Scoop. It is SO fast, but it still makes me nervous that I will get stuck out of fuel in a brown dwarf desert.) Shameless Plug for the REALLY BIG GAS TANK Methinks
  • CMDR Smugallo – Id love to hear the cast each try an impression of someone not a discussion i know hahaj.
    • Ben failed and everyone else wimped out. 🙂