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.
Station Commander : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr Thane Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Chief Archivist : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire Chief Barsteward: Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow
Elite Dangerous: Horizons for Xbox One will launch in quarter two of 2016, featuring both 2.0: Planetary Landings and the forthcoming 2.1: The Engineers expansions.
Engineers
Descriptions of Engineers
Where to find Engineers
Engineers each have their own surface bases. These are quite different from surface starports. Many began as secret bases, embedded deep in the rock, but as their bases grew they became bigger and bolder, in some cases smelting their own ore – something very hard to hide from space!
How to ‘use’ an engineer
Make them like you.
The ore the like you the more stuff they offer to make. (Called Blueprints)
Get the Reagents
Make it – Actual attributes are random within a range.
Accept or Reject it and try again (assuming you have the resources)
What else?
As well as crafting upgrades, some have their own stock of specialist equipment, such as Professor Palin and his recent development of the corrosion resistant cargo racks that can safely carry the elusive alien artefact
More Engineer Mods
Phasing Sequence
Modulating Burst Fire System designed to defeat shielding. A small amount of thermal damage is able to bleed through shields and attack the target’s hull directly.
Emissive Munitions
Modified Warheads capable of enveloping a target with energetic particles. Successful strikes to shield or hull dramatically increase the target vessels signature. Example Video
Attention CMDRs: you are to cram as many ships as possible into a station’s mailslot, in any way you can, be it NPC or CMDR ships. The highest total number of ships achieved wins.
Station Commander Stroud takes us through a busy weeks worth of updates and even more exciting reveals, we also have answers from Zac Antonaci from last weeks show to go through.. a real bumper episode.
Characters are persistent and interact with you differently depending on your status with them (I.E. Pilots Fed Ranking, Ranking within the local authority etc)
Failing a mission can decrease ranking (so be warned Fozza!)
As well as credits we can get hidden data caches, commodities, and materials.
Improved showing you the impact of your mission
Community Goals
Can now have lists of items to get
Marker visible in the galaxy map
Missiles get an overall improvement
Now do area effect damage to external modules
Ice Mining
New commodities like methanol monohydrate crystals and low temperature diamonds can be found and mined within the ice rings.
Better navigation, layout just quality of life goodness
Questions
Q: CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned The newsletter said: “human-created POIs will also not be encountered as far out from human space as they are at the moment” I think that’s pretty welcome but are there going to be no POI’s when far away from the bubble or are we going to be getting different POI’s if out exploring? If different do you have any hints on what non human-created POI’s will contain?
A: Finding ‘tea’ is maybe excessive whilst out in the black and shouldn’t find human rubbish so far out.
Lost diamondback is part of “the missing”
Natural POIs
‘Other stuff’ that MB isn’t allowed to talk about!
Q: Imeraxes Any news about POI in space like Antares wreckship, whith may be, CQC asset ? Cheers, CMDR Iméraxes
A: Still looking at using CQC structures in the main game but NOT part of 2.1
Q: Alec Turner “Scanning a nav beacon will give Commanders the exploration data for the system (if you don’t already have it).” – does that mean we no longer need to carry a discovery scanner in order to get data for systems with nav beacons?
A: Yes
FD Always wanted to do more with Nav Beacons
Doesn’t supplant Exploration Data
Only within populated space
MB Always has a scanner because you never know…
Ed too
If you’re on a mission the nav beacon can point you in the right direction. You can find the body the mission can be fulfilled at then need to search that planet / moon.
Q: Barking_Mad As well as the graphical improvements to the ring systems, has any further work been done on planetary surfaces?
A: Rings improved distance as well as up close
Updated surface terrain system (higher res AND better performance)
Lessons learned from the past
Q: sensai25 Are enemy ships limited around bases to attack ?
A: No but you’re more likely to encounter them around existing ‘stuff’
Got ways to deal with ‘rocket spam’
Can encounter ships flying from one base to another
Looking to increase security response where appropriate
Q: M4rt1n In the beta before the release of ED there were cool weapon variants, like overcharged, low-heat, focused, high-impact etc. which somehow disappeared upon release. Will the engineers’ crafting options somehow re-introduce these variants, or will there be totally different?
A: These variants are no longer compatible with Engineers and will no longer be in game at all BUT you can do much better cool cool stuff with Engineers
Q: Bliss Will the new Ship AI be able to handle canyon flight on a planet’s surface?
A: Yes, I’ve seen them do just that, but sometimes they’re better than we are!
Q: Arubeto Newsletter 120: “For Commanders who prefer to roam the galaxy looking for wars, the Pilots Federation has upgraded the GalNet system, so Commanders using 2.1 AND 1.6 will have a ‘state’ filter in the galaxy map which will highlight if a system is at war, or suffering a famine, or some other situation Commanders want information about.” I think this has lead to some misunderstandings. Can you confirm that the exploration data acquired this way can’t be sold, but only gives you the information about the system (therefore imitating the process of buying exploration data about a system from Universal Cartographics instead of imitating exploring as system manually?
A: Yes it does, it can not be sold.
Q: ape808 About the new Galaxy map filters: Since we will be able to filter for system states (boom/famine/war etc), will these be having more effect on gameplay? I think it may have been mentioned during the Trading livestream that the devs were considering giving states more of an impact on markets and the missions available. Is this the case for 2.1 and can you give a bit more detail if so?
A: Yes, we’re pushing the effects that states will have. Will drive missions, affect traffic, affect commodity prices (this is exaggerated)
Q: DarkMatterGenerator “Scanning a nav beacon will give Commanders the exploration data for the system (if you don’t already have it).” How did this decision arise- what is the gameplay and design thought behind it since it really changes a basic function in game from 1.5 years of play?
A: Always been a need to do something with nav beacons, it’s just ‘filling in those blanks’
Q: CMDR Dana Jessica Booth Which ships exactly will be getting the ‘drives’ upgrade. Does this mean FSD or Thrusters? Just the sidewinder? All ships that equip class 1-3 thrusters? If its thrusters will any of these changes come over into the cqc flight model? Also regarding 2.1 will someone take another pass at the Cobra mk4 and give it the massive speed buff it needs? (it’s currently slower than a T-7…)
A: Sizes 2 and 3 (MB thinks!) very much enhanced performance – still needs some tweaking
Makes smaller ships a lot of fun to play in
Racing with more speed is more fun!
Prices will be not tremendously expensive but gotta rem this is the ultimate upgrade for that slot, so…
Q: ape808 (again) Will the AI ships near the surface apply to the full range of low to high-G bodies? If so, were there any special considerations the AI devs had to take to get the ships to behave well in high-G conditions?
A: they are very wary and won’t even attempt some of the high g worlds. Some ships can handle High G worlds better than others
Q: Dave G Within the new mission system, will there also be changes to support “Navy” missions for the players who are focussed on naval progression? Also, will mission successes result in the introduction to other missions or mission givers?
A: Will go into more detail in the news letter. MB REALLY wants to see a career in the military but will live with this for now. You develop a relationship with mission givers who give you better and better missions. Also your Pilots Fed Ranking counts on how they talk to you.
Twitch Questions
AI Improvements – Yes they can fly in atmosphere – be careful!
SRV types not for 2.1
Hopefully better performance on lower end machines
NPC WILL use these modified weapons
Ctrl options screen gets a good revamp too
X-Box players hugely extended options (as covered last week)
Cmdr Spike wants to know if he can have pink lasers come 2.1.
No nothing in pink but mining laser is close. No rainbows!
Will there be improved In game Player Group support? (basically guilds!!!)
No specific functionality in 2.1. Longer term things they’d like to do.
Will there be ‘wing missions’?
Not in 2.1 but nothing to talk about just now
Will player actions lead to procedurally generated missions? I.E. player A discovers something ‘interesting’ and reports that to Station B. Station B and radiating out starts generating missions related to said found thing.
Not in the way that this covers but see the comments from Thursday 21st + see this Thursday’s stream
PLEASE can we have a reason to go to Ice Rings?
Yes
Conflict zones at interesting locations!
Not in 2.1. On going process maybe in the future
Can we fly through asteroids? Also REALLY big Asteroids 🙂
See the wish list!
More life in the universe! I.E. Ships preparing at stations etc?
Would love to have more life in certain ways. Some stuff Zac can’t talk about. Also stuff in 2.1 i.e. traffic lanes etc. On going process
More tools to interact with the environment? I.E. with the Barnacles all we can really do is shoot them!!!
Watch this space for more things to do with Barnacles
Communicate with NPCs (I.E. demand them to stand down)
Definitely somewhere on the list and being considered
Will we ever get a ‘call for help’ implement feature?
The chat view and the auto responses from systems (and this will be updated in 2.1) A lot of thought a lot of balance
What does retreat mean for the BGS?
MB will be talking about this ‘quite shortly’
More specific examples of changes to crime and punishment. I.E. stations refusing to let you dock.
Something the dev team have looked at and engaged quite deeply with the community for. However this all takes time.
Will the AI ‘cheat’ less? I.E. No more firing 6 beam lasers at you from an Eagle whilst next to a sun!
The AI doesn’t cheat very much even now.Only a very few instances of ‘cheating’ all done for gameplay but for the most part the AI’s equipment functions the same as a player characters. AI Can overheat and does regulate itself.
Will there be improvements to the the High Level AI? I.E. make Reidquat SCARY
We’ll see some love in 2.1. The mistress has done a lot of work
Will we see more A or B CGs? I.E. Faction A wants to build a ship. Faction B wants to stop that.
Look at the Dangerous Games for good examples tug of war CGs 🙂
CMDR Daddy baddy – I have a discussion point for 106. How long do we think the horizons season will be? If say 2.1 and 1.6 are released after beta in June. And we assume that season 3 starts Xmas 2016 … That means 2.2, 2.3 and perhaps the unconfirmed 2.4 being squashed into 6 months!
Glenn Frank – when season three rolls out… will people get all that is in horizons too with purchase of season three? does not matter to me cause I bought the lifetime but… wondering”
Ben’s Ideas – Elite Dangerous: Walkies for 24.99 Elite Dangerous: Horizons for 9.99 Elite Dangerous: For 9.99 or maybe just Elite Dangerous: Walkies for 24.99 Elite Dangerous: Other Stuff for 19.99 Naturally we will also get Elite Dangerous Mongo Pack for 39.99 which has everything in it
Shoutouts
On the Horizon – Countdown to The Engineers Beta Livestream: Part 2
Stretch Goal! OK, so I have to be careful how I word this as I can’t give too much away without spoiling it… We want to do an extra segment in the film that will involve a part of a certain person’s history. (No prizes for guessing who.) The segment is about a part of his career that has been captured on film. And it’s a corker! But we need to buy the rights to the footage. This is going to cost us an extra £2,500 for commercial use, so if we reach £10,500 by Thursday night we can buy this and it will be truly awesome. Also, if we can raise the extra cash, we have secured a location to film in which is almost just as exciting (it involves somewhere Charlie Chaplin used to live). I know this seems a bit cloak and dagger but when you see the segment in the finished film you’ll immediately understand the reason for the secrecy – and know that you made it possible! If we can do this, it’s going to add extra footage to the film, which had previously been thought lost! It will also raise the film’s exposure even more, and push it out to an even wider audience – and that could be a really, really good thing. Once again I just want to say a massive thanks to everyone for your support! Still 2 days to go so let’s see where that can take us 🙂
TINYURL.COM/uncleartfilm pleasure
Shout out to Cmdr Yan and his mam (Allen for actual wording!)
Can we have a shout out to Cmd Sansemin for helping Fozza do a stealing mission for LRN 😀
Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of entertainment/strong> : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr Thane Chief Barsteward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow
Show Notes:
Development News
Frontier keeping mum’s the word…. Still in their 6 week ‘nothing to see here’ mode… (2.1 ETA ‘May’)
Engineers Concept Art – looks like outposts for planets – be nice too see more concrete info though
Lost Winds Bobbleheads £5 each, Toku, Deo and Notea
Orion HCS voice pack (featuring william shatner)
Winners in the Gladiator Challenge
The 2 x Premium Elite Dangerous goodie bags, including a cap, a beanie, three faction mugs, and signed artwork went to CMDR Mad Anthony Wayne and Gabriel Case.
The 2 x Elite Dangerous: Horizons Season passes were snapped up by Wayne Youngblood and Bozakir
And the 1 x Every paint job in the Elite Dangerous store went to the extremely lucky CMDR Nollywood.
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Join the Elite on the Background Sim Thursday 14th April 19:00 BST
2 Team Name: Redliners Player Group: Elite: Racers (ERF) Team member 1: [CMDR Deftin] Team member 2: [CMDR BlackMaze] Team member 3: [CMDR FierceFalcon] Team member 4: [CMDR Terrorsidic] Team member 5: [CMDR AlexRusich] Team member 6: [CMDR Rafi Long]
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Episode 104 which we tried to record last night experienced technical melt down, however Chris Jarvis and Allen Stroud manage talk about their experiences with Elite Meet
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
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.
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”
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
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.
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
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.
The Blood is in the air tonight as we play host to both the Mobius Group and The Smiling Dog Crew. We try to get the facts about the recent storm in a teacup between the two groups and hear about if you’re going to be the bad guy, then BE the bad guy.
Remove the rank requirement, Rank now implies the difficulty of the mission
State of the minor faction
Type(s) of market for that port
Government
Better feedback for what that mission will do to the BGS
Galactic Academy “It’s a frontier thing, but not possible without the incredible community. We have a group of mentors that have signed up (volunteers) and they are on Teamspeak and Discord and we will be emailing all our players with low play time and then all new players every week with details about the academy. It’s a landing page with user guides, videos and most importantly ways to connect straight up with our volunteer mentors. They consist of ambassadors, mods, group representatives and other specialists. It’s about teaching players and hand holding them where needs into basic things like the galaxy map, making a credit or two, etc”
Reduce the barrier for entry for ‘alternative mission flows’ I.E. you won’t have to drop out of supercruise to get an alternative.
USS for missions will generally be at a specific body in a system rather than random
Nav Beacons can be scanned to give system information!
Systems will now have traffic lanes and hubs and these affect the creation of USS. Also USS are created spatially not temporally, so you can’t just sit there and wait for them,
USS can be scanned to reveal information about them.
“This week’s dev update is the penultimate update “ Hmmm so 25/2 for last 2.1 update. Can we speculate Alpha early March?
New Sets of Anaconda skins. The empire people are very happy with the white one. 😉
Announcement via Zac:
Galactic Academy
“It’s a frontier thing, but not possible without the incredible community. We have a group of mentors that have signed up (volunteers) and they are on Teamspeak and Discord and we will be emailing all our players with low play time and then all new players every week with details about the academy. It’s a landing page with user guides, videos and most importantly ways to connect straight up with our volunteer mentors. They consist of ambassadors, mods, group representatives and other specialists. It’s about teaching players and hand holding them where needs into basic things like the galaxy map, making a credit or two, etc”
If you see FDEV Rhino, FDEV Jet or FDEV Wolf in CQC, then take a screenshot of you playing against them and email it to community@frontier.co.uk with the subject line ‘CQC Gladiators’
Educating Ed Episode 13 – UGC Thursday 25th 19:00 (GMT)
We are a small player faction, known as NULL, here to help others with donations for lost ships due to lack of insurance as well as new players getting their footing, and an escort service for traders and returning explorers. And we are now under threat of being steam rollered by Winters PP faction. We need help, as our currently limited resources are running low. Any Alliance commanders listening in please ship prep agreements to DR Crucis. Any NON-Winters aligned players, please undermine them to assist us staying independent, and here to help others. NULL needs your help, to ensure our BANK deposits here for others remains available and open for business. Thank you CMDR NULL
Shoutouts
Massive thank you to those people that have already sent us message of congratulations to play out on next week’s 100th episode. If you would like to send us a message to play out on the show please record a short mp3 and send it to info@laveradio.com with the subject 100th.
Everybody that does gets a little thank you in the post from the crew.Hi guys, any chance of a shoutout on tomorrow nights show for the Wasat Cup, a
50km, point-to-point SRV race from Elwood Camp to Ferguson Prospect on Wasat A2
E organised by the Buckyball Racing Club. You can run it any time you like (and
as many times as you like) from 23rd-25th February using screenshots to capture
your start and end times.Takes around 30mins … if you’re fast. Well? Are you fast?? Come along and
prove it then!
