| 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 Monkey | Norman MacArthur | Ventura_ |
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Development News – what have the devs said this week?
- Elite Dangerous Livestreams – 28.04.2022
- Bruce: Greetings Commanders
The official Elite Dangerous livestream will not take place this week. We’ll post in the future to confirm when they will resume.
- Bruce: Greetings Commanders
- Alec Turner
- Bruce replying to Obsidian Ant’s suspicions that this is not just one stream
No apologies needed!
The post was worded carefully and precisely. We don’t know when the streams will continue. When we do, we’ll post to let everyone know. - Obsidian Ant
Fortunately for us as a community, I can tell you that the current Elite CM team care about Elite very, very much. Way more so than most of us realise.
The issue isn’t about the CM (they are great), it’s not about the devs (they are also good), it’s about the policy set by Frontier as a company. That policy is to “not talk” about development.
Now I’m 100% certain Frontier will release news at some point – maybe soon, maybe not so soon. But even if they do release news and updates, that doesn’t fully address the problem. It all comes down to whether or not Frontier can consistently release information and engage with the community over a period of years at a time without going radio silent on a regular basis.
Bottom line: The CM do care (a lot), news will come. Those two things aren’t even in question. The question is how long will it be until Frontier go radio silent again, and stop engaging with the community. It’s this last part which is doing a lot of harm to the Elite community. - And then the next day… Frameshift Live 4/5/2022: Console Account Transfers & Elite Dangerous 2022
In-Game Events – what’s happened this week?
- 27th Apr 3308 – Marlinist Refugees Migrate from the Alliance.
- 28th Apr 3308 – Sirius Initiative Plans Aid for Alliance
- 28th Apr 3308 – Superpowers employ Pilots to Hunt Thargoids
- 29th Apr 3308 – Sanderlyn Interviews the Imperial Admiral dealing with the thargoids
- 30th Apr 3308 – Sanderlyn Interviews the Federal Admiral dealing with the thargoids
- 01st May 3308 – Sanderlyn interviews the Alliance Admiral dealing with the thargoids
- 02nd May 3308 – Empire warns that the thargoids might attack the Marlinist’s next and they should have become a protectorate.
- 03rd May 3308 – TBA
- AXI have the current three system on their defend list :-
- HIP-38225 – Almost clear.
- Paucuman – Moderate Presence.
- Didio – Massive presence and part of the CG.
- Operation IDA does not have any current targets but that will change by next week.
Main discussion
- What are we hoping for in tomorrow’s livestream? https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/so-what-are-you-hoping-for-on-wednesdays-stream.602986/#post-9828684
Community Corner
- LCU No Fool Like One 99 Systems
- The Buur Pit jump a carrier with 38 commanders… which is interesting because they can only seat 20…
- Asamur on the forums has some proposals for character changes with some examples by Cmdr Fosdyke
- Cmdr Noobdelux is hosting an event on the 7th of May from 18:00 – https://discord.gg/xdcyP8RNyG?event=968813488011087902
- 7th May Saturday 1800 gmt
– Noobs Yearly Eagle Event!
– Location: Cleve Hub Eravate
Don’t use Engineering/powerplay or Guardian tech every other modules/weapon is allowed. (no you cant use the imperial Eagle : P)
This is an free for all event, no teams - Cmdr Britpacked reached out to let us know about an on foot PvP Tournament
- Welcome to our PvP Conflict Zone Tournament!
Come try your combat skills against other Commanders in a competitive and fun atmosphere.
In order to accommodate everyone’s availability, we’ll spread the tournament across several weeks and schedule each match individually, to suit all participants.
Join our Discord to register and learn more!
Elite On Foot Combat Community (EOFCC) https://discord.gg/AcECzxwms
Register in the next message below and go to #deleted-channel for more info!
— Tournament start date —
14 May 2022
— Three different CZ Leagues! —
1v1 Grade 1 (fixed grades) – Low Intensity CZ
1v1 Grade 5 (fixed grades) – High Intensity CZ
3v3 All Grades – High Intensity CZ
Each team can have 1 substitute player. When registering in this League, a team’s composition must be final. You can use Grades from 1 up to 5.
Notes:
– Commanders can register in multiple Leagues.
– Commanders can be part of only one team within a League.
– No requirements about gears ‘Modifications’.
— First Prizes —
100 Millions CR per player who wins a League, except substitute player.
(Total prize pool of 500 Millions CR)
— Tournament Rules —
The best of 3 rounds wins. Except for each League’s final match, best of 5 rounds.
All players will depart together from a Frontline Solutions desk.
For each match, an EOFCC staff member will be present as referee. We’ll use live screencasts.
- Welcome to our PvP Conflict Zone Tournament!
- https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-on-the-rocks-7th-15th-may-3307-magic-8-ball-championship-race-4.602955/#post-9827600
- Flight Assist have put out a call for Commander screen shots, which will be used with credit for an upcoming project that they are working on. If you would like them to be included you can tag them on twitter @FlightAssist_ED or submit them via discord.
- End of the Galactic Mapping Project :- https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-galactic-mapping-project-historical-archive-of-exploration.116450/post-9818166
Shoutouts
- I feel I need to set the record straight concerning the claim that I single-handedly defeated the Thargoids in the Lembass system.
Whilst it SEEMED that I was fighting them alone, it is entirely conceivable that I had help in the half-hour of daily shut-eye I succumb-to between shifts; something for which I evidently castigate myself.
I should also confess that whilst I always answer the call to arms, sometimes that answer is “No” when the call is “Defeat the Hydra threat”! I have found this particular spikey beast is just beyond the limit of my Scarab combat skills.
I know this is unacceptable, and vow to improve the only way I know how: by pulling more petals and stealing more hearts.
Your humble and dutiful AX pilot, Cmdr Ned McReady. - 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
- Squeaking Fuel
- System Chat
- 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, Jn Tracks and Allen Stroud who created the music used on the Show.