| Position | Crew Member | CMDR Name |
| SRV Banksy | Alec Turner | Alec Turner |
| Staff Liaison Officer | Clare Good | Psykit |
| Chief Archivist | Colin Ford | Phoenix_Dfire |
| Tech Primate in Training | Chris Mk V | LittleBigYin |
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Development News – what have the devs said this week?
- 18.05 was released last Thursday which fixed a few issues with the Python MK2.
- Fixed issues with Guardian Fighters hit check not behaving correctly.
- Fixed an issue where attempting to swap a core internal module with a stored module was being blocked for Pre-Built ships.
- Ensured new players correctly remain in Solo Play until performing an initial hyperspace jump which will then transition players into Open Play.
- Official Elite Dangerous account trolling King Charles?
Community news – what is the community up to??
- Is the PYTHON MK II a One-Trick Pony? | Elite Dangerous 2024 (Dituri’s Elite)
- CMDR Mechan’s Python Mk2 ratings (Mechan rates the Python Mk II)
- Elite Dangerous Animations Compilation: Catch Up 4 (High Wake compilation)
Stargoid’s Team (incl. Epaphus, Gill Roll, and OptionsNone) set new Hutton record (29 minutes 32 seconds).
Nope!
- It’s Buckyball time again. Race #2 in the Triple-Eight Championship – “Ring Tossers Rally”
(in collaboration with the Loose Screws podcast network) - Ricardo Gamings – Fleet Carrier Changes – Looks at ways that Fleet Carrier’s could be improved.
- ECM 2024
- Lovely Meet Up 2024
If you have a community event taking place soon and would like for us to shout about it across the airwaves tweet the crew @laveradio or email info@laveradio.com
In-Game Events – what’s happened this week?
- Galnet – Nothing
- Thargoid War.
- Controlled 603 – Down by 21.
- Invasions 10 – 5 have been repulsed.
- Alerts 36 – 8 have been defended.
- Recovery 20.
- This Thursday Hadad will be vulnerable, with a maximum of 2 controlled systems left. It’s the third week in a row that the number of control systems have fallen. Although when a Titan becomes vulnerable, weirdly the number of control systems goes up due to everyone hitting the Titan that week.
Mostly Clueless
Fireytoad gives a tutorial about setting up the bounding of the external Camera Controls and using them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgrJMyCvxL0
Questions
- QOTW – We all know that there is a never before seen feature coming to Elite after PP2.0. If time money and resource were no issue, what feature would you love to see implemented in #EliteDangerous.
- LCU No Fool Like One
Where to start! First of all I would like an addition to the store to allow us to pay ARX to name systems/bodies and/or purchase stations. Some thoughts in the link.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/selling-the-stars.624878/
If money no object then I would want thick atmosphere planets with water and caves and procgen flora and fauna. I think it would completely change the way we look for and record exobiology but would make finds unique.
Also. Lipsync for our holome when we talk so we can make machinema. And also a way of recording the gameplay as vectors so that you can replay from any angle and edit paths for creating the perfect in-game video. Its not like I’m asking for much. 🙂
Ship interiors and base building. CQB on fleet carriers and ships. UVA and derelict salvaging. - ElvisKremmen
Base building with plans on expanding the bubble. - Gaming Snips and Bits
Atmospheric ELW and Water Worlds along with high altitude gas giant flight.
Ship interiors would be nice too, but I suspect Fdev are sick of hearing about those 🤪 - CMDR Evoflash
Substantial planetary rework to provide massive variety.
Atmospherics with full landscaping, weather and widespread variable life. Seas one can explore with on board subs. Gas giants upper atmosphere.
Real danger of these environments, no immunity to off-scale temps/corrosives. - Miserichorde
Full scale galactic conquest with semi limited player faction claim system for expansion out of the bubble and a three way fight between Humans Goids and Guardians across the milky way with Ax/Px factions to allow for increased options for blazing ones own trail
That’s all. - Frank EightySeven
I want multiplayer ring racing
I want CQC to be a meaningful part of PP2
I have a dream that all Elite pilots could join together as one, for a massive free-for-all battle - Anthony Byrne
In no particular order.
Let us walk around our ships. Rework FPS completley Atmospheric planets - Palmiro
1-Boat Interiors
2-Atmospheric planets
Third, perhaps procedurally created cities and use of AI to interact with NPCs - Cpt L. Harden
Yeah, collecting materials to build your own settlement or base….i’d build it on Titania with Uranus in the sky. And obviously i’d love to be able to walk around and live in my Asp Explorer. I’d be a big buyer if they sold decorations as they do bubble heads - Rapunzie Pie
Ship interiors - M.V. Coehoorn
A ‘living’ stellar forge that allows stars to die, be created, new exploration content to emerge naturally and actually motivate latecomers and new players to go out and explore the galaxy. As of now, there’s cmdr names on every single nebula, NSP lifeform, catalogue star etc. - Cylus Resi –
An outfitting planner, you can create preset builds and change your favourite Cobra MK IV from a mining skiff to anti-xeno in 1 click - Buxton
The ability to turn supercruise assist on and off using a button instead of needing to hunt around in the navigation panel to find wherever you want to go to. - CMDR RaingodZippo
Got to be land on any planet – like First Encounters but without the bugs. - Niceygy
Floating station on gas giants! Id love to shoot the gas balloons keeping the floating…. 😉
Oh and a Request Docking keybind! PLEASE! - FourSe7en
The ability to land a ship launched fighter on a planet surface for exobiology and odyssey surface content. - Cmdr Spike.k
Adaptive Frame Rate. - CMDR Schnails
At the risk of saying something that has been said before, I’ve got to go Base Building.
The ability to build a base, with a mining / agri / …. element. Something that lures trade or the like. It would be a great way of expanding the bubble to new worlds (or if there was a large enough group, maybe even create a new region in space).
It would be important to differentiate this from a static Fleet Carrier, but would be very doable I feel. The fundamental modules for the buildings are already there in the existing bases. So it could be achieved with existing building blocks and a funding system on top. - Bug80
The ability to land on any planet with forests, lakes, wildlife, weather, etc. Think No Man’s Sky, but with the beautiful graphics of Elite. - DJ Wylie
can i be boring and be the first to suggest the obvious option of ship interiors - Buxton
If this is a feature that’s never been seen before, how about if FDev combine two of their products.
Elite: Rollercoaster Tycoon!
I look forward to someone building a theme park on a high gravity world. It’ll have the fastest roller coasters in the galaxy! - Steak Typhoon
I want to see the contacts panel get a rework with the ability to sort/filter/search contacts within range. A “Cancel Target” or “Untarget” keybind and let the cursor stay where it is when a new contact is detected so it doesn’t jump to the top a dozen times when I’m just trying to find an escape pod so those handsome pirates will think I’m pretty - TheJinxEffect
Offline mode? J/K
A handful of “minor” features would be good to see:- station storage
- not just for modules and ships, but for materials (managing Odyssey materials is a chore!) and cargo.
- actively alert players to event at POIs in-system.
- rather than players going to POI and awaiting event, trigger at random intervals when players are in the system
- alternatively, if player in open or PG triggers event at POI, alert other players in the system (admittedly this depends on players then arriving at the correct instance when dropping from SC).
- bookmark blueprint and highlight/signpost materials
- outstanding materials from a blueprint could be highlighted with an icon next to the name
- CMDRs can be signposted to likely locations where materials can be found (maps, nav panel, HUD text)
- station storage
- LCU No Fool Like One
A bigger feature would be squadron HQ + satellite offices. HQ would be based on home station with range of perks unlocked by squadron. Offices would be based at stations in control of affiliated faction (slightly squeezing in an extra feature here) with smaller subset of perks dependent on influence, system state & resources.
Possible perks:
- squadron trader : trade engineered items with squadron mates and squadron specific cosmetics (give me a space cape with my squadron logo on it please)
- transport links between offices (too far for the little Adder? No problem. The squadron bus will get you there.)
- social hub (probably a given)
- workshop (slightly reducing material cost of engineering, associated engineer relationship tied to squadron rather than CMDR, upper cap on grade however and no remote access/pinnable blueprints).
- I’ve already forgotten my other ideas… 🤔
Any other business
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;-
- The Guard Frequency (who do other space games )
- Loose Screws
- Following this we have the latest Galnet News Digest as provided by Cmdr Wotherspoon and Cmdr BeetleJude.
- 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.