Lave Radio Episode 243: Sick Burns are groovy!

Position	Crew Member	CMDR Name
Head of Health and Safety	Ben Moss-Woodward	CMDR Eid LeWeise
Chief Archivist	Colin Ford	CMDR Phoenix_Dfire
(in)Human Resources Director	Shan	CMDR Shan
Deputy Trade Attaché	Souv	Cmdr Souvarine
Mr Plow	Cmdr Raytracer
Ms PS4 Crow	Cmdr AllCrowsAreBlack

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Development News

• April Update – Patch 1
• The 9th is when the ingame assets for the Bridging the Gap event appears. We’re getting the following to play with ;-
  • Two outposts so we can have up to medium ships.
    • The Prospect – System – Synuefe EN-H d11-96​
    • Seeker’s Rest – System – Wregoe XQ-L C21-29​
  • one installation to defend against or join in with a pirate attack  (really enjoying those scenarios BTW).
    • Aion Span – System – Synuefe EN-H d11-96​
  • Two new ways to harvest guardian stuff. That last thing sounds interesting.
    • Commanders will be able to pirate ships and convoys for Guardian Commodities,
    • Scavengers will be able to salvage wrecks for Guardian Materials without firing a shot!
  • The next part of the event happens on the 16th along with the first Megaship (do we need Sara O’brien on the back of the Megabus?)
  • Griefing in the New Starter Systems
    • https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/interesting-discovery-about-the-starter-district-pvp-screenshots.510295/
    • There have been reports of Anacondas in the starter zone too
    • Frontier have stated that your ACCOUNT will get forcibly ejected after a small number of PvP kills.

In Game Events

• “I found Raxxla” – hoax
  • CMDR FLAVIUS AQUILI comes clean and admits he’s a troll
• Pilot’s Federation rescue stranded Cmdr Liandrei from the edge of the Galaxy
  • TLDR – CMDR Liandrei CMDR Liandrei of the ‘Garingo Maru’ DCD-DW got stranded without enough Jumponium on route to Semotus Beacon.
  • After scouting by both the Fuel Rats and DW2 Mechanics/Hull Seals, he was found to be stuck, good and well 🙁 No landable planets with Germanium…
  • Some nice RP and visits by people dropping Weetabix and Relics that emit a nice blue glow in the dark whilst Cmdr Liandrei was circumnavigating the planets in the system he was in, in a desperate search for Jumponium
    
  • On Saturday 4th May 3305 the Pilots Federation dispatched an experimental, modified space tug boat from their support wing and hauled my vessel to the system just out of reach.

Main Discussion

• DW2 Epilogue
• DW2 Beagle Point Arrival Mug
• Thank you to Crow
• DW2 ‘Final’ Newsletter
• What it’s like to map a galaxy in Elite: Dangerous

Community Corner

• The ECM 2019 Financial Results

Shoutouts

• Next week (Episode 244) We’ll be joined by Dr Kaii from DW2
• Lavecon 2019 is 4th – 7th July at the Sedgebrook Hall Hotel, and is sponsored by Spidermind Games!
• Our sister station Hutton Orbital Radio Broadcasts on Thursdays from 20:30 at http://tv.forthemug.com/ or http://radio.forthemug.com/ for just the audio
• CQC Discord – For the Discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action