Here the Chief Archivist (Cmdr PhoenixDfire) has a look at the new Beta and looks at three areas where both people with 1.6 and 2.1 will see significant changes;-
Station Commander : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr Thane Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Chief Archivist : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire Chief Barsteward: Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow
Elite Dangerous: Horizons for Xbox One will launch in quarter two of 2016, featuring both 2.0: Planetary Landings and the forthcoming 2.1: The Engineers expansions.
Engineers
Descriptions of Engineers
Where to find Engineers
Engineers each have their own surface bases. These are quite different from surface starports. Many began as secret bases, embedded deep in the rock, but as their bases grew they became bigger and bolder, in some cases smelting their own ore – something very hard to hide from space!
How to ‘use’ an engineer
Make them like you.
The ore the like you the more stuff they offer to make. (Called Blueprints)
Get the Reagents
Make it – Actual attributes are random within a range.
Accept or Reject it and try again (assuming you have the resources)
What else?
As well as crafting upgrades, some have their own stock of specialist equipment, such as Professor Palin and his recent development of the corrosion resistant cargo racks that can safely carry the elusive alien artefact
More Engineer Mods
Phasing Sequence
Modulating Burst Fire System designed to defeat shielding. A small amount of thermal damage is able to bleed through shields and attack the target’s hull directly.
Emissive Munitions
Modified Warheads capable of enveloping a target with energetic particles. Successful strikes to shield or hull dramatically increase the target vessels signature. Example Video
Attention CMDRs: you are to cram as many ships as possible into a station’s mailslot, in any way you can, be it NPC or CMDR ships. The highest total number of ships achieved wins.
Station Commander Stroud takes us through a busy weeks worth of updates and even more exciting reveals, we also have answers from Zac Antonaci from last weeks show to go through.. a real bumper episode.
Characters are persistent and interact with you differently depending on your status with them (I.E. Pilots Fed Ranking, Ranking within the local authority etc)
Failing a mission can decrease ranking (so be warned Fozza!)
As well as credits we can get hidden data caches, commodities, and materials.
Improved showing you the impact of your mission
Community Goals
Can now have lists of items to get
Marker visible in the galaxy map
Missiles get an overall improvement
Now do area effect damage to external modules
Ice Mining
New commodities like methanol monohydrate crystals and low temperature diamonds can be found and mined within the ice rings.
Better navigation, layout just quality of life goodness
Questions
Q: CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned The newsletter said: “human-created POIs will also not be encountered as far out from human space as they are at the moment” I think that’s pretty welcome but are there going to be no POI’s when far away from the bubble or are we going to be getting different POI’s if out exploring? If different do you have any hints on what non human-created POI’s will contain?
A: Finding ‘tea’ is maybe excessive whilst out in the black and shouldn’t find human rubbish so far out.
Lost diamondback is part of “the missing”
Natural POIs
‘Other stuff’ that MB isn’t allowed to talk about!
Q: Imeraxes Any news about POI in space like Antares wreckship, whith may be, CQC asset ? Cheers, CMDR Iméraxes
A: Still looking at using CQC structures in the main game but NOT part of 2.1
Q: Alec Turner “Scanning a nav beacon will give Commanders the exploration data for the system (if you don’t already have it).” – does that mean we no longer need to carry a discovery scanner in order to get data for systems with nav beacons?
A: Yes
FD Always wanted to do more with Nav Beacons
Doesn’t supplant Exploration Data
Only within populated space
MB Always has a scanner because you never know…
Ed too
If you’re on a mission the nav beacon can point you in the right direction. You can find the body the mission can be fulfilled at then need to search that planet / moon.
Q: Barking_Mad As well as the graphical improvements to the ring systems, has any further work been done on planetary surfaces?
A: Rings improved distance as well as up close
Updated surface terrain system (higher res AND better performance)
Lessons learned from the past
Q: sensai25 Are enemy ships limited around bases to attack ?
A: No but you’re more likely to encounter them around existing ‘stuff’
Got ways to deal with ‘rocket spam’
Can encounter ships flying from one base to another
Looking to increase security response where appropriate
Q: M4rt1n In the beta before the release of ED there were cool weapon variants, like overcharged, low-heat, focused, high-impact etc. which somehow disappeared upon release. Will the engineers’ crafting options somehow re-introduce these variants, or will there be totally different?
A: These variants are no longer compatible with Engineers and will no longer be in game at all BUT you can do much better cool cool stuff with Engineers
Q: Bliss Will the new Ship AI be able to handle canyon flight on a planet’s surface?
A: Yes, I’ve seen them do just that, but sometimes they’re better than we are!
Q: Arubeto Newsletter 120: “For Commanders who prefer to roam the galaxy looking for wars, the Pilots Federation has upgraded the GalNet system, so Commanders using 2.1 AND 1.6 will have a ‘state’ filter in the galaxy map which will highlight if a system is at war, or suffering a famine, or some other situation Commanders want information about.” I think this has lead to some misunderstandings. Can you confirm that the exploration data acquired this way can’t be sold, but only gives you the information about the system (therefore imitating the process of buying exploration data about a system from Universal Cartographics instead of imitating exploring as system manually?
A: Yes it does, it can not be sold.
Q: ape808 About the new Galaxy map filters: Since we will be able to filter for system states (boom/famine/war etc), will these be having more effect on gameplay? I think it may have been mentioned during the Trading livestream that the devs were considering giving states more of an impact on markets and the missions available. Is this the case for 2.1 and can you give a bit more detail if so?
A: Yes, we’re pushing the effects that states will have. Will drive missions, affect traffic, affect commodity prices (this is exaggerated)
Q: DarkMatterGenerator “Scanning a nav beacon will give Commanders the exploration data for the system (if you don’t already have it).” How did this decision arise- what is the gameplay and design thought behind it since it really changes a basic function in game from 1.5 years of play?
A: Always been a need to do something with nav beacons, it’s just ‘filling in those blanks’
Q: CMDR Dana Jessica Booth Which ships exactly will be getting the ‘drives’ upgrade. Does this mean FSD or Thrusters? Just the sidewinder? All ships that equip class 1-3 thrusters? If its thrusters will any of these changes come over into the cqc flight model? Also regarding 2.1 will someone take another pass at the Cobra mk4 and give it the massive speed buff it needs? (it’s currently slower than a T-7…)
A: Sizes 2 and 3 (MB thinks!) very much enhanced performance – still needs some tweaking
Makes smaller ships a lot of fun to play in
Racing with more speed is more fun!
Prices will be not tremendously expensive but gotta rem this is the ultimate upgrade for that slot, so…
Q: ape808 (again) Will the AI ships near the surface apply to the full range of low to high-G bodies? If so, were there any special considerations the AI devs had to take to get the ships to behave well in high-G conditions?
A: they are very wary and won’t even attempt some of the high g worlds. Some ships can handle High G worlds better than others
Q: Dave G Within the new mission system, will there also be changes to support “Navy” missions for the players who are focussed on naval progression? Also, will mission successes result in the introduction to other missions or mission givers?
A: Will go into more detail in the news letter. MB REALLY wants to see a career in the military but will live with this for now. You develop a relationship with mission givers who give you better and better missions. Also your Pilots Fed Ranking counts on how they talk to you.
Twitch Questions
AI Improvements – Yes they can fly in atmosphere – be careful!
SRV types not for 2.1
Hopefully better performance on lower end machines
NPC WILL use these modified weapons
Ctrl options screen gets a good revamp too
X-Box players hugely extended options (as covered last week)
Cmdr Spike wants to know if he can have pink lasers come 2.1.
No nothing in pink but mining laser is close. No rainbows!
Will there be improved In game Player Group support? (basically guilds!!!)
No specific functionality in 2.1. Longer term things they’d like to do.
Will there be ‘wing missions’?
Not in 2.1 but nothing to talk about just now
Will player actions lead to procedurally generated missions? I.E. player A discovers something ‘interesting’ and reports that to Station B. Station B and radiating out starts generating missions related to said found thing.
Not in the way that this covers but see the comments from Thursday 21st + see this Thursday’s stream
PLEASE can we have a reason to go to Ice Rings?
Yes
Conflict zones at interesting locations!
Not in 2.1. On going process maybe in the future
Can we fly through asteroids? Also REALLY big Asteroids 🙂
See the wish list!
More life in the universe! I.E. Ships preparing at stations etc?
Would love to have more life in certain ways. Some stuff Zac can’t talk about. Also stuff in 2.1 i.e. traffic lanes etc. On going process
More tools to interact with the environment? I.E. with the Barnacles all we can really do is shoot them!!!
Watch this space for more things to do with Barnacles
Communicate with NPCs (I.E. demand them to stand down)
Definitely somewhere on the list and being considered
Will we ever get a ‘call for help’ implement feature?
The chat view and the auto responses from systems (and this will be updated in 2.1) A lot of thought a lot of balance
What does retreat mean for the BGS?
MB will be talking about this ‘quite shortly’
More specific examples of changes to crime and punishment. I.E. stations refusing to let you dock.
Something the dev team have looked at and engaged quite deeply with the community for. However this all takes time.
Will the AI ‘cheat’ less? I.E. No more firing 6 beam lasers at you from an Eagle whilst next to a sun!
The AI doesn’t cheat very much even now.Only a very few instances of ‘cheating’ all done for gameplay but for the most part the AI’s equipment functions the same as a player characters. AI Can overheat and does regulate itself.
Will there be improvements to the the High Level AI? I.E. make Reidquat SCARY
We’ll see some love in 2.1. The mistress has done a lot of work
Will we see more A or B CGs? I.E. Faction A wants to build a ship. Faction B wants to stop that.
Look at the Dangerous Games for good examples tug of war CGs 🙂
CMDR Daddy baddy – I have a discussion point for 106. How long do we think the horizons season will be? If say 2.1 and 1.6 are released after beta in June. And we assume that season 3 starts Xmas 2016 … That means 2.2, 2.3 and perhaps the unconfirmed 2.4 being squashed into 6 months!
Glenn Frank – when season three rolls out… will people get all that is in horizons too with purchase of season three? does not matter to me cause I bought the lifetime but… wondering”
Ben’s Ideas – Elite Dangerous: Walkies for 24.99 Elite Dangerous: Horizons for 9.99 Elite Dangerous: For 9.99 or maybe just Elite Dangerous: Walkies for 24.99 Elite Dangerous: Other Stuff for 19.99 Naturally we will also get Elite Dangerous Mongo Pack for 39.99 which has everything in it
Shoutouts
On the Horizon – Countdown to The Engineers Beta Livestream: Part 2
Stretch Goal! OK, so I have to be careful how I word this as I can’t give too much away without spoiling it… We want to do an extra segment in the film that will involve a part of a certain person’s history. (No prizes for guessing who.) The segment is about a part of his career that has been captured on film. And it’s a corker! But we need to buy the rights to the footage. This is going to cost us an extra £2,500 for commercial use, so if we reach £10,500 by Thursday night we can buy this and it will be truly awesome. Also, if we can raise the extra cash, we have secured a location to film in which is almost just as exciting (it involves somewhere Charlie Chaplin used to live). I know this seems a bit cloak and dagger but when you see the segment in the finished film you’ll immediately understand the reason for the secrecy – and know that you made it possible! If we can do this, it’s going to add extra footage to the film, which had previously been thought lost! It will also raise the film’s exposure even more, and push it out to an even wider audience – and that could be a really, really good thing. Once again I just want to say a massive thanks to everyone for your support! Still 2 days to go so let’s see where that can take us 🙂
TINYURL.COM/uncleartfilm pleasure
Shout out to Cmdr Yan and his mam (Allen for actual wording!)
Can we have a shout out to Cmd Sansemin for helping Fozza do a stealing mission for LRN 😀
2nd Technician : Chris Forrester : Cmdr Fozza Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of operations Lave Station: John Stabler : Cmd Glyndwrr Chief Barsteward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Station Guest: Zac Antonaci
Show Notes:
Development News
I am delighted to announce The Engineers (Elite Dangerous 2.1) will be available to players with beta access in the week ending 8th May.”
“I fully intend to continue researching the Unknown Artefacts and meta-alloys, albeit in a more inconspicuous fashion, at my personal research centre on Maia A 3 a. Those who wish to visit me there are very welcome to do so. There is nothing I enjoy more than spending time with those who share my interests!”
GR: “A great summary, but to be clear I said that XB1 planet textures have been improved for 1.6, and we have improved the PC quality as well. “
XB1 Dev. build shown had new ED logo on game start-up AND Horizons background on menu screen!
CQC Arena (standalone) is coming to Xbox
Major announcement on the Horizon(s) incoming for XB1 version.
Players who purchased ED on XB1 as part of the Game Preview Program will have free access to a free GPP Decal.
Paint jobs, Private Groups and Custom Controls coming in XB1 in 1.6
Paint jobs are purchased using Frontier points and purchased from the Frontier store (via Microsoft Edge browser in dev. build).
For private groups to work on XB1, you have to follow/be-friend someone (like Twitter).
FD monitor the custom controls thread on the ED XB1 forum and have already made enhancements based on suggestions in that thread.
From 1.6 onwards, the plan is that PC and XB1 code builds will be in-sync -easier for FD to build and deploy, and results in potentially quicker feature deployment for XB1 players.
Balancing huge weapons was straightforward.
All weapon balances were worked out months ago. ‘All’ that needed to be done was have the larger weapons implemented.
One of the reasons for the delay for 1.6 was that the game was restructured, in part due to bringing Horizons on XB1.
Changes to the bulletin board in 1.6 will make finding wide variety of missions easier.
Cross play – FD want everyone to play together in same galaxy, some of that is in the same now (CG goals, First Discovered).
XB1 Elite Controller – paddles will be partially re-mappable. Ditto chatpad buttons – but there are default MS binding restrictions to consider.
New achievements on the way for XB1.
Bulletin board avatars on the way for XB1/1.6, as per PC.
Debug Camera in super-cruise is one of the features on the to-do list.
Community factions might be able to become a power (look for Rise to Power threads on the ED Forums). This is open to XB1 players as well as PC.
FD wants players to think of ED as one game, not “PC version” and “XB1 version”.
Gary says that you guys are a nice bunch of people.
The top five factions based on a mix of factors such as their expansion and influence will be competing against each other for the incredible honour of becoming the first ever player-created power in game! We’ve taken the top five player factions as they currently stand and these groups have already qualified for the event.
The five factions who have qualified for this event are as follows (In no perticular order)
Border Coalition [BC] (qualified faction – Dukes of Mikunn)
Social Eleu Progressive Party [SEPP]
Interstellar Communist Union [ICU]
Alliance Elite Diplomatic Corp [AEDC]
GalCop (qualified faction – Diamond Frogs)
Also included a Wildcard entry – People’s Choice
this faction will have earned their place in The Dangerous Games through their ability to rally Commanders to their cause.
Wildcard games to take place before the main Dangerous Games
There will be a CG for each competing group and their task is to ensure that the CG is completed or at a high tier than their competitors. Groups will be ranked each week and given points based on where they were placed for each CG. At the end of the four weeks one group will emerge victorious.
Everyone can get involved by either supporting or competing against any individual group or CG they wish. This means that every faction should be looking to gain support and favour with other Elite Dangerous Commanders and forge alliances to support their Rise to Power.
The Rise to Power four-week-long event is due to start on the 30th June 2016
Retraction – Cmdr Salome actually made it to Beagle Point under her own steam with no ‘rifts’ or ‘wormholes’ assisting her. (though Drew’s kids might have done some of the flying :D)
Final RPG/Miniatures playtest being Broadcast on Wednesday 20th April. This will be the last one until the RPG is published in July.
Surface Racing overlay with checkpoints and navigation
Questions
Peter Wotherspoon asks I’d be interested to hear whether Sarah Jane Avory’s tweets about unleashing upgraded minions mean we’re going to need to treat solid squares on the radar with a bit more respect.
@SarahJaneAvory
@LaveRadio My advice: if you see an Elite AI… I’d run… and run fast…
@SarahJaneAvory @ericlundgren5 @LaveRadio The new combat AI is better at everything… at the high ranks. Low ranks are much easier.
Shoutouts
On the Horizon – Countdown to The Engineers Beta Livestream: Part 1
Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of entertainment/strong> : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr Thane Chief Barsteward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow
Show Notes:
Development News
Frontier keeping mum’s the word…. Still in their 6 week ‘nothing to see here’ mode… (2.1 ETA ‘May’)
Engineers Concept Art – looks like outposts for planets – be nice too see more concrete info though
Lost Winds Bobbleheads £5 each, Toku, Deo and Notea
Orion HCS voice pack (featuring william shatner)
Winners in the Gladiator Challenge
The 2 x Premium Elite Dangerous goodie bags, including a cap, a beanie, three faction mugs, and signed artwork went to CMDR Mad Anthony Wayne and Gabriel Case.
The 2 x Elite Dangerous: Horizons Season passes were snapped up by Wayne Youngblood and Bozakir
And the 1 x Every paint job in the Elite Dangerous store went to the extremely lucky CMDR Nollywood.
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Next week, the newsletter will be hosted on the Elite Dangerous Community Site rather than sent directly into your email inboxes
Join the Elite on the Background Sim Thursday 14th April 19:00 BST
2 Team Name: Redliners Player Group: Elite: Racers (ERF) Team member 1: [CMDR Deftin] Team member 2: [CMDR BlackMaze] Team member 3: [CMDR FierceFalcon] Team member 4: [CMDR Terrorsidic] Team member 5: [CMDR AlexRusich] Team member 6: [CMDR Rafi Long]
3 Team Name: Cross Court Team member 1: Arsen Cross Team member 2: Jay See
4 Team name: The Buckyball Racing Club Team member 1: Alec Turner Team member 2: Seneh Team member 3: Kliggish Team member 4: Ozric Team member 5: Furrycat
Episode 104 which we tried to record last night experienced technical melt down, however Chris Jarvis and Allen Stroud manage talk about their experiences with Elite Meet
The Premier Episode of our new Ad Hoc show “Alt.Lave” The crew of the Orange Sidewinder love Elite Dangerous, but we love other things too! Alt.Lave (Play.Watch.Read.Hear) The show will cover Video games, Movies, TV Shows, Fiction and indeed anything else the crew deem to be worthy of an Episode. For…
Station Commander (Presenter): Allen Stroud : Cmdr Helaban Kel Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr EidLeWeiss Head of station Archives: Colin Ford : Cmdr PhoniexDFire Chief Barsteward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow
Show Notes:
Development News
Planet Coaster Alpha launches today – Released today
Advertise Lave Radio special stream for PC? – Alt Lave New Ad Hoc Show from the crew of the Orange Sidewinder that will focus on Movies, Video Games, Tv Shows, and Fiction. Indeed anything really that members of the crew feel is worthy of discussion outside the ED Universe. The first of these shows will focus around Planet Coast from Frontier Developments.
Community Goals will be available on the galaxy map.
Tracks on planets – Are they limited to your client, instance or are they permanent (probably not). How long until someone does a big tyre track penis and shares it on facebook? Grant Woolcott I am looking at you after last night!!!
Where Ed and Michael Brookes took people through how to do exploring, the necessary and helpful equipment required with hints and tips on how to explore showing there is more to exploring than HSJ (Honk, Scoop and Jump).
This thursdays’ stream is all about trading tips.
In game news
Poor Ishmael Palin (the prominent Barnicle expert) so far has been attacked by pirates, kidnapped and finally rescued. However his bad luck has continued as he’s now contracted the Cerberus Plague. You’d think someone has it in for him, he’s having so much bad luck. 😉
The campaign from the Canonn Interstellar Research Group to establish a new research outpost in the Col 285 Sector IX-T d3-43 system has been successful. A new outpost will be constructed ‘soon’ which will help with more research into the UA.
A rogue Farragut Battle Cruiser somewhere? There were reports last week of a Federal Battle Cruiser with Pirate markings in the LHS 3447.
Speaking of Farragut Battle Cruisers, the construction of the Latest Cruiser in the Beti Hydri system has the Empire worried. If more cruisers are constructed, sources close to Admiral Denton Patreus say that the empire might have to respond in kind.
In response to the New Battle Cruiser and rhetoric coming from the Empire; the Alliance has held a diplomatic summit at the Alliance Capital looking at possible responses.
Main Discussion – DDF Lazerus
Default In-game choices to be made by the DDF
“It’s been a long time, but we are finally able to move towards some of the things we discussed during the Kickstarter with respect to the DDF and the ability of members to decide together on significant actions within the game. There are some big events coming to the game later this year (in relation to an alien species – trying to minimise spoilers here!), and members will decide where these events first take place, and how the process moves on down the line. This will be by voting on the DDF forum with a choice of possible locations. As the events unfold, there will be further such choices going forwards.”
Community Corner
Allen’s Stroud AMA. – A lot of questions about a possible sequel to Lave Revolution.
Mobius AMA – Erm… started off ok but then became a slagging match between people of the opinion that solo or private groups ruin community goals, powerplay etc and those that don’t.
Elite Racers who have their subreddit if you want to get along
Really impressed with the Imperial couriers’ canyon run. (Beggers Canyon anyone). Someone will have to do on in the fastest ship (Isn’t that a viper?) and see what’s that like.
Head of Entertainments : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr thane Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr EidLeWeiss Head of station Archives: Colin Ford : Cmdr PhoniexDFire VR Expert and all round ‘nice guy’ : Cmdr Snuffler
Wants to introduce effects to degrade Collusion Piracy (current options)
Creating a voting system to allow Commanders, by the act of majority will, to withdraw from poor control systems, ensuring mechanisms are in place to prevent profitable systems from being voted out.
Utilising an UP / DOWN vote feature, which would exist primarily to be a channel of communication within the game for pledged Commanders) to also provide veto functionality at the preparation stage, allowing, by the act of majority will, poor control system candidates from being purchased as expansion targets.
Introducing a combo mechanism for fortification allotments, limiting the purchase of rushed allotments based on successful deliveries – the more you deliver the more you can pay to rush – whilst adding temporary fortification disbarring for losing fortification commodities.
Sandro – “And since I’m in the mood for pulling hand grenades , here’s another thing to chew on: I’m currently rather taken by the concept of a success multiplier for Commanders in Open Play. this modifier would not improve personal gains from power play activities, but it would magnify the effectiveness of a power’s actions (expand, oppose, fortify, undermine). And the effect would probably be significant.
Power Play by design encourages player interaction and FD want to encourage that. “Powerplay will always be at its best when opposing Commanders interact directly”
consumers will be able to test out the HTC Vive within the next week at Currys PC World flagship stores in Leeds, Tottenham Court Road, and Reading.
Ian Honcharenko — “Question for the team: With the rise in popularity of 24hr charity streams and the advertising in the newsletter last week of a race requiring approximately 38 hours commuted flight time in a 2 day period, I put the question to you should frontier be promoting such events despite the inherent health risks and chance of negative press (such as the numerous game addiction articles in both professional medical journals and less professional tabloid newspapers).I’d just add that last year’s Voyager winner did it in 40 hours with a 2 hr nap.”
From the newsletter— Probably one of the craziest endurance challenges in the galaxy, the 2nd Annual Voyager Challenge kicks off on March 24, 2016. Head over to the original forum post to find out how you can get involved. Can you make 60,000 light years in under 40 hours? According to event organisers, last year’s record was an incredible 38 hours, 44 minutes! It’ll take some doing, but we know that there must be some Commanders out there with the tenacity to get this done! Remember, fly safe Commanders! Make sure you take regular breaks, look after yourselves and be sensible with any long play sessions.
Also worth working in the Hutton Orbital Gimp run with the race to Sag A
Also arguably FD’s original race to Elite and what the guy to get the Triple did to win that
First, in addition to natively supporting cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 games that use Xbox Live, we’re enabling developers to support cross-network play as well. This means players on Xbox One and Windows 10 using Xbox Live will be able to play with players on different online multiplayer networks – including other console and PC networks. Of course, it’s up to game developers to support this feature, and Xbox Live players will always have the option of choosing to play only with other Xbox Live players.
You can also join us on INARA The Council of Trid signed the following declaration: http://imgur.com/jRzAKVr That’s right, we use old timey paper.
Join us and be a part of real change in our systems! The Tridicate Collective is a group of factions, CMDRS, and more people just like you! Striving for a higher order in the galaxy. To achieve prosperity we must have order. Order will set us free in the chaos of the black.
The Tridicate Collective shall be henceforth dedicated to the goal of establishing a coalition with the intent of bringing peace, prosperity, and order to the Milky Way.
Dave Hughes and the Elite: Encounters has confirmed that the RPG release is scheduled for July (Just in time for Lavecon!)
AMA with Allen Stroud this Friday on eliteOne and Elite Dangerous this Friday.
On the X-Box One :- The Tridicate Collective is now at war with the Church of the Space Cat. It’s time we rid these systems of this felinemenace which chooses to terrorize us.To those who wish to join the fight, please sign up at elite.tridicate.com
MonkeyBones asks – Which is a more valuable asset, an A5+ fuel scoop or a REALLY BIG GAS TANK? (For the record, after a year or so with a RBGT I have finally switched to a B6 Fuel Scoop. It is SO fast, but it still makes me nervous that I will get stuck out of fuel in a brown dwarf desert.) Shameless Plug for the REALLY BIG GAS TANK Methinks
CMDR Smugallo – Id love to hear the cast each try an impression of someone not a discussion i know hahaj.
We’re on a mission from Chalker Landing to Lave to deliver blood crystals and help Lave Radio Network complete their Community goal… fancy coming along?
A Special Convoy episode to tickle your fancy with sprinklings of Dev News, newsletters and discussion on the announced Delay to Horizons 2.1
Host & 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester : Cmdr Fozza Head of Entertainments : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr thane Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr EidLeWeiss Head of station Archives: Colin Ford : Cmdr PhoniexDFire Chief Bar steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow
Galaxy Map Bookmarks We can rename them, plot routes to them
ED 2.1 Delayed (see main topic)
Elite Dangerous 3D Printed Models
Eucl3D have created full-colour, 3D-printed sandstone models of some of your favourite Elite Dangerous ships. Prices for the models start at $29.99 – head over to Eucl3D’s website to get a glimpse of the Viper, the Anaconda and the Cobra. Eucl3D are going to be taking part in an AMA on the Elite Dangerous subreddit on Friday 11 March at 7PM GMT. So get your 3D printing-related questions ready!
“With minor faction states we’re intending making their effects more noticeable on available missions, ship traffic and composition, and markets. At the moment these can be quite subtle, so beefing them up with add more drama to a star system.”
“authority response if they are attacked will be sharper.”
Wider range of rewards than just credits
Treasure Locations
Materials
Hard to find commodities / salvage items
Some may be mission rewards only and could tie into story events
Rewards will be more appropriate to the risk.
Rewards will also increase the more a faction likes you.
Cockpit gets a clock!
New paint job packs for the Imperial Courier and the Type 6
This week we want to share with you something we’ve been thinking about for some time, in response to the many requests we’ve had since the Kickstarter. Naming NPCs, renaming planets and even having a named surface marker to commemorate a special person, thing or event, are all things you’ve been asking for. We are considering adding these items and more to the Frontier Store, including star system naming and creation and naming of new surface starports. We would love to know your opinion on this, and gauge interest. In order to keep these items special we would limit the availability of each, and if it works well, we would have a batch in each future expansion too.
Arubeto – “Really? This is open to discussion? Guess we won’t be visiting “Sagittarius A*” anymore…”
Zac – “Allow me to clarify. Everyone is very conscious about making sure that the naming of things are done in a way that does not ruin existing names. What I mean to say is that we want your feedback here to make sure that we consider everything, so even if things seem obvious, let us know your thoughts on what you would like or wouldn’t like as part of this process. We’ve seen some really great feedback already”
Trailer Competition – The winner has been announced for the trailer competition. Commander NOTONLYHERE came up with a blinder including timed delay shots of cities, coordinated ship launches, SRV races etc. The trailer can be found at :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4qln6-qUw
Main story “The furor surrounding FD’s delay of 2.1 and recent stock exchange news”
Accounting-wise, Horizons will now “leave early access” and be considered “released” after 31st May.
Accounting-wise, revenue from the sales of Horizons will be deferred to FY2016-2017’s financials (starting June 1st), instead of being included in FY2015-2016’s financials (which ends May 31st).
FDev will pay less tax in FY2015-2016, choosing instead to pay more the following year.
Comment from DB “What it means is that 2.1 is pushed out by around 6 weeks. This is to push the quality up, which is a good thing for the game. It’s ready when it’s ready. It does mean you’ll have to wait a bit longer, but it will be worth the wait.”
Post by Zac Hey guys,
This morning we released a trading update that we wanted to share with you.
The update explains that our next instalment of the Horizons season of expansions (2.1 – The Engineers) which was previously planned for April will now move into the beginning of our next financial year. We’re aiming for to release the beta in May.
We’re sorry to keep you waiting, but the Engineers is a truly colossal update and this additional time is being used to ensure that the new content is of the highest quality possible. We take great pride in all of the content we produce and we firmly believe that giving this additional development time is the right thing to do for the game, the studio and the fantastic community of players.
You can read the update here: http://www.frontier.co.uk/investor_r…l=edit&blk=275 Thanks,
Zac
