Position | Crew Member | CMDR Name |
Head of Health and Safety | Ben Moss-Woodward | Eid LeWeise |
Staff Liaison Officer | Clare Good | Psykit |
Chief Archivist | Colin Ford | Phoenix_Dfire |
(in)Human Resources Director | Shan | Shan |
Tech Gibbon | Chris Mk IV | Newell Turner |
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Development News – what have the devs said this week?
- Last week supercruise news, Anti vehicle turrets, Rocket Launcher Troops (Marauders) and NPC ships coming to conflict zones in update 7.
- Update to Bookmarks and Stored Modules from 120 – ~200
- “Lick of paint” for station interiors (lights and colours)
- Took part in the CTF a couple of weeks ago.
- Turret Video :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73VaFZbqK9w
- Developer Update 3 – August :- https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/developer-update-3-august.589045/
- Tuesday Stream Development Update Breakdown Stream
- Update 7 will come within the next 2 weeks
- Apex changes – ok so by making taxi rides more enjoyable they meant being able to re-direct and NOT to play minigames en route 🙂
- Megeship Social spaces DOES NOT MEAN Fleet Carriers – Frontier say they are ‘very aware’ of the desire for Fleet Carrier Social Spaces.
In-Game Events – what’s happened this week?
- The big one this week has been the Hyford Crash Mystery, which has led to some interesting new plot and lore (Spoilers Warning for everyone else). https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-black-flight-mystery.588777/
- The Trail (after Colonia) HIP 26176 right now, where CMDR hyford’s cache said to go to
Store Alert!
- Chieftain Pirate Skin :- https://twitter.com/i/status/1431322670814138376
- For your inner Antman :-
- Manticore Pistol :- https://twitter.com/i/status/1431667197236162562
Mostly Clueless
From The manure Man. :- Remember Decontamination limpets also work as repair limpets! if there’s no caustic substance on your ship , they will start to repair , and to use them don’t select any target they will automatically repair our hulls!
Community News.
- Alec turner shows off how to get cannisters/ balls into the concourse (as originally discovered by Ghost Giraffe and Maas)
- I’ve got to A rate an adder because thanks to Rosencrantz JR https://youtu.be/wlpz5yzo3is
- Rootsrat Interviews Zac Cockrain as a part of his 24 hour charity stream
- Zac’s early intro to elite, he 1st started playing several years ago and got into ED because of the CGs
- Passion for Elite Community, i.e. mass jumps
- Loads of other things, nice frank, fun discussion
- Just Giving page Przemek Malacha is fundraising for SpecialEffect (justgiving.com)
Shoutouts
- Our sister station, Hutton Orbital Radio, Broadcasts on Thursdays from 20:30. You can tune in at twitch.tv/huttonorbitaltruckers or, for just the audio, at radio.forthemug.com/.
- For the discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action, check out the CQC Discord at “discord.me/elitedangerouscqc”.
- We’re also giving a shout outs to the following Elite Dangerous podcasts which have appeared over the last year or are standard regular contributors;-
- Algorab AM: An Elite Dangerous Podcast
- Black Sky Legion (who also do other space sims as well as ‘RL’ science and tech bits)
- Cannon Podcast
- For Spanish Speakers there is the Elite Cast
- Fatherhood Podcast
- Flight Assist
- The Guard Frequency (who do other space sims)
- Loose Screws – Special Shout out to the Hilbilly elite podcast(!) because they’ve just completed 2 years and over 100 shows. Stay Cheesy everyone and if it’s not kraft singles, then f**k you!
- Squeaking Fuel
- System Chat
- Zero Prep – a new show, that will be starting at 7 pm UTC on Sunday. Kai, Souv and Eid talk about all things geek culture over on the Black Sky Legion’s You Tube stream.
- For those who want a literary discussion about Sci-fi and fantasy books. Please subscribe to the Dataslate podcast created by station commander Allen Stroud.
- Following this we have the latest Galnet News Digest as provided by Cmdr Wotherspoon and Cmdr BeatleJude.
- Thanks to those who have chipped in on Twitch chat and in-game commanders
- Special Thanks to Cmdr ToCoSo who created the music for the Introduction of the Show