Crew Members Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Wandering Mercenary: Gareth Cadamy : Cmdr MaxUrsa Palladin Consortium: Andre Marshall : Cmdr M.A.R.S.H.A.L.L
A new screenshot competition is being hosted by CMDR Infernal-Jawa of The Order of the Shadow, called The Grand System Hunt. The reason behind the competition is that apparently the religious leader of the order, ta Purdow, had a vision from God, whom the members and followers of The Order of the Shadow refer to as the void walker or the walker of the void, as he is sometimes referred to. The basic details of the vision has instructed ta Purdow to have CMDR Infernal-Jawa announce The Grand System Hunt and provide a bounty for three different systems, each system must contain an earthlike world, a water world, and a world with an icy ring. for future expansion and colonization, for the Order of the Shadow and two their allies, who the allies are has not been officially announced. for full details and rules, The Grand System Hunt can be found on the Frontier Forums.
Crew Members Station Commander : Allen Stroud Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Chief of Operations : John Stabler
“EDTracker is proud to be sponsoring Lavecon this year; Lavecon and the Elite Dangerous community have been a pivotal part in EDTracker’s success so it seems all the more fitting that we can put something back in for the people who’ve helped get the project off the ground. Toggle that headlook and fly dangerous, commanders!” – http://edtracker.org.uk/
Crew Members Station Commander: Allen Stroud Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Special Guest : Richard Price
From Ben to Cmdr Sticks @Frontier_Help for Fixing up my ship after a bug threw me in the air and hurt me 11kly from home.
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Crew Members 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester : Cmdr Fozza Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Cannon Rep/strong> : Mark Exton : Cmdr Delmonte
Counter Argument The logic of no defence being the stronger defence: Why myrmidon should NOT send in defenders if serious about friendly first contact. If a player wishes to harm alien they can do so at will in private group or solo. You cannot defend against it. You can only outrun it. Sending defenders into open play 1) wastes resources. 2) draws attention 3) encourages hostile activity to the area, some of which might resort to private or solo to bypass any defence. At no point does sending defenders to the area increase the security for the alien, it only puts them more at risk. Finding first. Finding quietly. That is how you protect alien life, first contact. To do otherwise is to contradict the stated aims of the group..
Sham Gaz & members of the Google+ Exploration Community were already arranging a Convoy to Jaques when the CG started up, so it’s kind of been moved forward.
A Route to Jaques following many pretty places such as Thor’s Eye (Black Hole), The Skaudai Nebula and The Kes-75 Magnetar which is a double neutron star system (a magnetar in real life) and sits on the very western tip of the Norma Expanse. The magnetar – a type of neutron star with a magnetic field so strong it could rip the iron out of your blood from many thousands of kilometers away,
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“EDTracker is proud to be sponsoring Lavecon this year; Lavecon and the Elite Dangerous community have been a pivotal part in EDTracker’s success so it seems all the more fitting that we can put something back in for the people who’ve helped get the project off the ground. Toggle that headlook and fly dangerous, commanders!” – http://edtracker.org.uk/
Crew Members Station Commander : Allen Stroud Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward : Cmdr Eid LeWeise 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester : Cmdr Fozza Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr Thane Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Chief of Operations : John Stabler Unwashed Masses : You (well some of you)
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“EDTracker is proud to be sponsoring Lavecon this year; Lavecon and the Elite Dangerous community have been a pivotal part in EDTracker’s success so it seems all the more fitting that we can put something back in for the people who’ve helped get the project off the ground. Toggle that headlook and fly dangerous, commanders!” – http://edtracker.org.uk/
Crew Members Station Commander : Allen Stroud Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire Head of Station Entertainment : Chris Jarvis: Cmdr Thane
Round 1 Smuggling Gilya Signature Weapons from Bell Orbital in Gilya to Gohar Station in Jaradharre which is 525K LS from the main star (About 25 mins flight time)
EG Pilots pulled an all nighter with the system in Boom (thereby giving them a higher than usual allowance of rares) allowing them to pip Galcop at the post to the #1 spot.
Message from Bomba Luigi who is the trapped Cmdr “Shoutout of course to everybody from the Thunderbirds Rescue Team, it was those guys who somehow mangaed to get me out of the Canyon despite the fact that it was pretty much impossible! I would have been doomed to die on my own. The Plan now is to write a big SOS Message on the Planet, to do so we climbed the big Wall to make the message as high up as possible on the Planet so its easier to see! Once I have a Pic of the SOS I finaly contact support to see what they can do.”Screenshots
Ghostgiraffe @aghostgiraffe @LaveRadio Mars asks “Which social events are you looking forward to at @Lavecon_ “
Spawrks asks “Any chance of an American Lavecon?”
Kerrash Landing @Kerrrash @LaveRadio can I farm Barnacles for meta alloys at LaveCon? Will there be free coffee? Can I have some? 😜Screenshots
Terry Hoar-Stevens @CarltonBrowneFO@LaveRadio when is next Ignatius Reilly commercial being released? Lots of scope shurley, what with Brexit & enhanced AI…
Lavecon 2016 – 16/17th July, Sedgebrook Hall Hotel, Northamptonshire, UK
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“EDTracker is proud to be sponsoring Lavecon this year; Lavecon and the Elite Dangerous community have been a pivotal part in EDTracker’s success so it seems all the more fitting that we can put something back in for the people who’ve helped get the project off the ground. Toggle that headlook and fly dangerous, commanders!” – http://edtracker.org.uk
Crew Members 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester : Cmdr Fozza Head of Entertainments : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr Thane Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodwood : Cmdr Eid LeWeiss Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire
And with Engineers patch X-Box One Players can get bobbleheads and skins too!
ED-H Came out on XB1
Also If you Buy ED-H on XB1 before June 30th you get access to the Cobra Mk IV.
Due to the Weapons bug FD are reimbursing insurance costs of getting killed…between 2.1 and the fix
“Due to the recent surge of unsanctioned and illegally modified weapons from the NPC AI over the recent days. The Pilots Federation have agreed to reimburse all insurance payouts made over that period”
Dangerous Games Wildcard Event has started – This week Mining…
Main Discussion
Combat Training with M.A.R.S.H.A.L.L.
Topics covered
Interdictions – Pips/targeting
High Waking
Mass lock
Benefits of 4 pips to shields
Pips to Eng and turning speed
Loadouts
Weapons kinetic vs thermal and Wep requirements
Shield Boosters
Shield Cell Banks + Heatsinks
Gimballed vs Fixed
Point defence
Combat techniques
Having an exit strategy
Situational awareness
Picking your targets and modules (powerplant crippling/thrusters)
For the next few weeks Cmdr PhoenixDfire will be doing a Top Shift Live stream from 11:00 pm on Fridays playing ED Horizons on the X-Box. Please come along if you are interested in Laughing at my Pathetic efforts with an X-Box Controller. www.twitch.tv\Phoenix_Dfire
Lavecon 2016 – 16/17th July, Sedgebrook Hall Hotel, Northamptonshire, UK
Lavecon Sponsors
ED Tracker
“EDTracker is proud to be sponsoring Lavecon this year; Lavecon and the Elite Dangerous community have been a pivotal part in EDTracker’s success so it seems all the more fitting that we can put something back in for the people who’ve helped get the project off the ground. Toggle that headlook and fly dangerous, commanders!” – http://edtracker.org.uk/
Head of Entertainments : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr thane Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodwood : Cmdr EidLeWeiss Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire
Soontill relics apparently provide this picture. and it matches to the Soontill system (might be a hoax) Though how any space faring civ could develop here is beyond me. 18 LS from the sun, means this High metal content worlds with silicate vapors is tidally locked. Not really a good place to develop live.
12.6 Earth masses 12170 km radius (twice that of earth) 3.4 G (Would explain their massive strength) 8256 K temp Silicate vapor geysers producing same atmo. 98.5% Silicates, 1.5% Iron Orbit 2.1 days tidally locked. NOT a vacation spot.
Shoutouts
Cmdr Bapsta got married on Saturday
Lavecon 2016 Sponsors
ED Tracker “EDTracker is proud to be sponsoring Lavecon this year; Lavecon and the Elite Dangerous community have been a pivotal part in EDTracker’s success so it seems all the more fitting that we can put something back in for the people who’ve helped get the project off the ground. Toggle that headlook and fly dangerous, commanders!” – http://edtracker.org.uk/
Beta 2.1 is Live and Cmdr Fozza Bangs his wrench against the new features. Thankfully our Special Guest Obsidian Ant is able to help him hit the appropriate things!
2nd Technician : Chris Forrester : Cmdr Fozza Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Chief Archivist : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire Special Guest: Obsidian Ant
Overhaul Feedback Cascade: Now rather than breaking the shields, will inhibit the shield cell to only heal 10% of what it otherwise would do, and will deal direct damage to the shield cell bank equal to half the weapon damage
Hyperspace is now much bigger to accommodate large ships —- WTF?!
What about moving to an already owned ship in the shipyard?
Need to look for this….
Makes scooping the stuff that drops ‘interesting’ since of course it’s falling to the ground!
New features in 2.1
Is loot the ‘materials’ that drop when you kill someone?
Data Materials and ‘Physical’ Materials
New Mission Board
“If there are no missions, give text which tells players what other things they could do to help”
New Outfitting Screen
Stuff to do in Ice Rings
Various Resource Zones
Bounty Hunting
Updates to the Galaxy Map
Bookmarks
(Known?) Engineer bases
Community Goals
Faction States
New Weapons
Huge Beam Laser
Huge Pulse Laser
Huge Multi Cannon
Large Mult Cannon
New art for our guns
Improved AI
So far Elite ships seem to want to run away when their shields go down, then come back in when they are back up. — Ben
Lots of complaints on the Forums that the AI has become too hard. I got a shock when my A rated FDL got owned by a Expert Python. Going to make the grind getting to Combat Elite a lot more difficult because only pilots above your rank and one below count towards your Pilot rating. – C.
XBox 1
Can now get skins from the store
Private Groups
Misc
“NPC encounters can occur near planet surfaces”
“Shipping lanes are created between the primary star, stations, and planets with settlements.”
Can scan nav beacons now – (Already done this – Very useful – C)
“Allow cargo to be transferred to a newly bought ship, if it has adequate cargo space”
Bug Fixes
What is “Fix Goliath crime component crash”?
“Change the default number of items per page in Exploration selling from 20 to 50 following from server-side optimisations that make this plausible”
“Added suspension travel prediction to SRV physics” — No idea what this means but it sounds awesome!
Needed because lots of experimental effects that do crazy stuff… FD just can’t test EVERY combination. Need us to game the system and try to break things 🙂
Questions
How Does this benefit exploration
Better armor, hull so less damage etc
Can we see the Stats of a crafted upgrade
It’s in the list
Should Pirates be so interested in Limpets
NO
Pin > 1 recipe / engineer
Not for now
Reputer (spelling!) Laser (Heat through shields laser)
It should be working now!
Seem some ships going to 8000% heat which is a ‘bit op’ 🙂 Adding in Diminishing Returns from heat by multiple weapons but they don’t want to instantly boil you up if you avoid heat / use heat syncs etc.
AI Running away
Been fixed but not in yet
Why no enhanced thrusters in space
Engineers for Horizons only – 😛
Bookmarks
Sorting? Better sorting and filtering in the future…
Are all mods 1-5
Not ALL modules have ALL grades
Will be added to
Get off the fence and make a decision to buy or not buy!
In general higher ranks better modules
What works to improve your rep with engineers?
FD are looking into it, maybe using combat / bounty vouchers etc….
What does major fac rep have?
It acts as a modifier to all associated factions
Why no class 4 lasers
Coming ‘soon’ – hopefully!!!
Can we get large / huge missile racks?
Not at the moment – FD don’t want to give missiles LOADS more ammo
Please test missiles
Point Defence vs ECM
Point defence is where they want it
ECM needs work but they’re working on it no eta etc…
Will we give cannons a look?
YES Cannons will be getting a buff
Increased speed
Increased damage at distance
Increase ‘hardness’ i.e better vs large ships
Increase penetration – i.e. more dps to modules
More info on planet scans and stuff
Really cool ideas will be revisited later but Sandy can’t say 🙂
Why does the System map take so long to open?
Because it’s having to work out all the stars and planets
It’s a bug bear of Sandy’s too
Increase the speeds of mission boards? (I.E. pre load when you land)
Sandy will try to find out
Please give Single Skin for all types rather than multiple skins / ship
Not Sandy’s remit but valid question
Bookmarks infinite plotting bug
Sandy isn’t sure but will look into
Why can we enter any hanger in our SRV and then teleport to OUR hanger?
Because finding the right hanger is hard and NOT fun.
Sandy is a cat person 🙂
Will materials be added to commodity markets?
Some are
You can also get them from missions
Why is it called Recipes?
They will be renamed with something more appropriate!
Has the heat gen from firing weapons made it into CQC too?
Yes – but FD are watching it
Less Heat Sync makes it harder to use SCBs
Yes that’s deliberate
There is some method as to where you can find materials.
FD will add the ability to ‘interrogate’ materials to HELP find out where you can find them.
FD will ‘munge’ some of the lower resources to there’s not so many of them makes lower recipes easier
SRV Mods?
Not at the moment
NPCs using SRVs
Big work but not at the moment
AI Changes
Hope ppl think it’s better
Lower should be about same as b4
Higher should be harder
Should stop running away so much
FD are adding alternative behaviour to make it more fun
Drop out distance is based on how far from a grav well you are
Can we get smart collector limpets to discard some stuff
NO but it’s a good idea
Engineers further out
No comment
More syntheses recipes
Yes – chaff, heat sync etc
Collapse Mechanic in PP?
Sandy doesn’t know but it’s being looked at.
Engineer Qualifications are retroactive so we’ll have a bunch to look at when 2.1 hits. But rem some engineers invite you to others.
