The ships graveyard

Aired 17 Oct 2017
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Crew Members
Director of Pest Control : Ashley Devine – DrToxic
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
(In)Human Resources Director : Shan – Cmdr Shanaeri

Show Notes

• Development News
  • Frontier are looking for Ambassadors for the Paris Game Week
    • October 31st – November 5th
    • Paris
    • Email community@frontier.co.uk
  • Frontier 2017 Annual accounts and financial report out. https://frontier-drupal.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/development/frontier-corp/s3fs-public/press-releases/financial/FrontierAR17-FullReport.pdf
    • AIm for one major launch per year
    • Operating Profit up 550% (£7.8m)
    • Revenue up 75% (£37.4m)
    • Positive cash flow(up 610%) to £3.4m
    • Sale to tencent raised £17.7m and was to “improve and accelerate Frontier’s growth into the key Chinese market and help drive scale-up of the business.”
    • Elite had in excess of 2.7m cumulative sales from Dec 2014
    • Monetisation of both PC and Elite will NOT include pay to win features.
• Newsletter 198
• Main Discussion
• Community Corner
  • 2.4 Ship scale video — with Thargoids!
  • INRA Base Mega Thread – Stay away from the file dipping controversy. Also players have found what looks like the remains of a Thargoid scout at the base where maybe the Mycoid virus was used to test . base is Klatt Enterprises at Alnath A2 AA 4.0167 133.54
  • EDDI 2.4 RC 1 is now available
  • Issue 2 of Sagittarius eye released
  • Obsidian Ant hits 100K subs
  • Dave Hughes RPG – Elite Encounters Has been APPROVED. It will be released soon (It also means that a version of Colin’s Miniatures Has been Approved!!)
  • Overlay ANYTHING onto elite? Ok, Done! (Windows only, win 95 up to win 10)
    • DeskPins is an open source application that allows you to “pin” a window so that it remains “on top” of your Elite any full-screen borderless window (does not work with true-full screen)… Perfect for that trip to Hutton Orbital!
• In Game Events
  • Distant worlds 2. Coming Winter 2018 (Director of Pest Control is going exploring again!) Erimus and Dr Kali Arranging a new expedition
  • Thargoids are evolving again. – Seems they’re getting more maneuverable and now have a shut down attack, rendering you immobile while it beats a hasty retreat. (They are learning!!!)
  • New Weapons – Remote Flak Launcher, Anti Shutdown device coming (See previous point).
    • Last set of AX upgrades for now.
• Shoutouts
  • Lavecon 2018 – weekend of the 5th June. – Tickets will soon be available.
  • CQC Discord – For the Discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action
  • Game Music Packs .com have teamed up with Obsidian Ant to bring you a very unique music system for Voice Attack providing voice controlled music content for Elite Dangerous.