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Lave Radio Episode 191

Goldblum by Proxy

Aired 20 March 2018
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Crew Members
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
(In)Human Resources Director : Shan – Cmdr Shanaeri
Knight Extruder Operator : Andy Barnes – Cmdr Kurgol
Alliance Office of Statistics : Cmdr Tom D
Alliance Office of Statistics’ Lead Bot Investigator : JTrinity – Jess
Patreus Planning Proletariat : Misaniovent

Show Notes

Development News
- - Frontier comments on taking action on accounts where the game client has been manipulated
  - Settlement data investigation findings
In Game Events
- More 3.0.3 information
- Thargoids are a “faction” Various commanders have received notification that after killing many Thargoids, the thargoids now view them as “Unfriendly”
  - It even mentions that if you complete missions your standing will go up!
- 3.0.3 released Monday
- 3.0.3 patch notes
Newsletter 218
Main Discussion
- Are there ‘bots’ manipulating the BGS and Powerplay in Elite?
  - Comment from Brett C (not much of a comment, more a request!) https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/415816-Automation-and-Scripting-An-investigation-into-further-abuses-of-BGS-and-Powerplay?p=6531278&viewfull=1#post6531278
Community Corner
- March edition of Sagittarius eye is out.
- EDRPG Supplement: Super Traders
- 10/10 Goldblums for Jurassic World Evolution game (video)
- It seems that relogging after a military rank up mission is sometimes required.
- Yamiks top 5 best looking ships.
- Report on the latest US Pizza Meet

Lave Radio Episode 190

Nerf Wars : The RPG

Aired 13 March 2018
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Crew Members
Director of Pest Control : Ashley Devine – DrToxic
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
(In)Human Resources Director : Shan – Cmdr Shanaeri
Knight Extruder Operator : Andy Barnes – Cmdr Kurgol
The Mind of the Spiders : Jon Lunn
The Spider’s Story : Oliver Hulme

Show Notes

Development News
Newsletter 217
Main Discussion
- ED:RPG
  - Military Supplement
  - Espionage Supplement
Community Corner
- Oculus Rift broke for everyone (fix needs manually applying)
- New Website to help commanders Wing up, Trade Commodities, Set up Roleplay Groups and Set Player Bounties…. I DID IT https://www.edwtrb.com/ IS ALIVE!!!!!!
- The Ghost Giraffe Crew have done another superb video about Top Tips nobody uses!
- Sagittarius Eye Issue 7 is coming out this Thursday (15th March) with a special on Pivotal Systems of the Old Worlds
- ECM – 20 seats left
Shoutouts
- Oculus Rift broke for everyone (fix needs manually applying)
- New Website to help commanders Wing up, Trade Commodities, Set up Roleplay Groups and Set Player Bounties…. I DID IT https://www.edwtrb.com/ IS ALIVE!!!!!!
- The Ghost Giraffe Crew have done another superb video about Top Tips nobody uses!
- Sagittarius Eye Issue 7 is coming out this Thursday (15th March) with a special on Pivotal Systems of the Old Worlds

Lave Radio Episode 179

Wombling Free

Aired 12 Dec 2017
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Crew Members
Director of Pest Control : Ashley Devine – DrToxic
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
(In)Human Resources Director : Shan – Cmdr Shanaeri

Show Notes

Development News
- Update 2.4.08
- Class 3 AX weapons(Multi-cannons and missiles) in game -pew pew
- Frontier’s Special Effect Live Stream
  - Raised > £53,000 for Special Effect
  - DB announced the old style Thargoid ship will be flying around the game next year!
  - Our Highlights
    - Ben – David teaching Ed to play Elite 84
    - AI Cobra firing a missile at DB. He wasn’t happy! 😉
    - Ben – the return of Mr Blobby and Ed Noelands
    - Ben – Audio Team trying to exit the station blindfolded.
    - Ben – Ed being pimped out for 50,000 cr on ED:RPG then bribing someone with a Kiss for more information!
    - Colin – I Came third out of 150 entries of the fiction competition. 🙂
    - Ben – The Lake band and Paige’s singing
    - Colin – I have to apologize to Sandy. I always thought he was responsible for the Han Solo dance in Star Wars Kinect, something he denied on the stream!
    - Shan.. Community Crew eating bugs https://www.twitch.tv/videos/208773033?t=04h01m30s
    - Ben – Grant winning yet another TWO copies of Planet Coaster!!!
    - Shan – Sandy’s Grade 1 – 5 Clarifications Sandy’s clip
      - Shan’s thread
Newsletter 203
In Game Events
- 1st Solo Basilisk Kill by Tainted Wanderer who’s in AXE
- Type 10 spotted in a ship yard.. Or is it ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAlLdeY_bM&feature=youtu.be
  - http://www.elite-dangerous-blog.co.uk/post/The-Type-10-Defender
- Galnet News Article about AEGIS’ research program
Shoutouts
- Hailing the crew of the orange sidewinder!I’m doing the London Marathon in 2018 for my charity running club (Coco) so I need to raise £2000. I’ve got various ideas to get there but I also thought I could do a separate joint set of fundraising with SpecialEffect after hearing all about them on LaveRadio.
  I tweeted the following which (by my very limited social media standards!) got loads of retweets and likes:
  @EliteDangerous I’ve won a place in the @LondonMarathon with @TeamCOCO_run , I’m raising money for them and @SpecialEffect at https://t.co/aUD50F4G1N Please can you help me raise £2000?The Virgin Money page splits 50/50 between special effect and Coco. Coco basically help teach or train children in africa so they can improve their situation. The running club is an online one and exists purely to raise money for the main charity. An example of their work: http://mailchi.mp/coco/become-a-coco-champion-this-christmas-1263801
  
  I’ve been a fan of the show since about episode 6 (I went back and listened to episodes 1-5!) and usually listen while running. So there is a sort of link there. I started playing Elite in about ’87 on a BBC B and have played many versions from then on. So yes, I’m now over 40 (just!) and a fully qualified forum dad!
  
  So, I was hoping I could get a shout out on the show? I’m up for doing something more involved if you’d like me to. Surely some other Elite players must be running it too? maybe you can help us get in touch with each other? Or if anyone has any fundraising ideas they’d like to share (I’m already thinking of a gin tasting party). Or maybe we can persuade Grant to take up running to fill his time now his bathroom traumas seem to be easing… (ok, maybe not that last one!)
  
  Cheers
  Dave / CMDR Hoopy / @hooperdave
- Elite Yuletube is coming from a group of wonderful Commanders. With three months in the making they are releasing a video everyday starting from December 13th, each following an overall story arch.
- Lavecon 2018 is 8th – 10th June
- CQC Discord – For the Discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action

Lave Radio Episode 176

Patch 2.4 : the cadence of a Cutter with spoilers!

Aired 14 Nov 2017
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Show Notes

Development News
- Galactic News: Taipan AX1 Announced
  - So far only available in Jameson in Shinrata and 3
  - Seems to be very effective vs Thargoids and disproportionately effective vs player ships(compared to condor).
  - And made live on Monday 13th November
- Listening Post Orbiting near Celeano 1points to HIP 17862
- Basilisk Thargoid Variant
  - Can be found in NHSS Threat level 6. Estimated 540m/s max speed(faster than cyclops), 5 hearts, swarm size of 64 rather than 32.. Needs at least a full wing.
  - First KIll Claimed by the Sovereignty -Took 12 of them to do it and it behaved “differently” to other Basilisks. They then found one with more usual behavior and got “hammered” The consensus is they are very hard, but also a great challenge and fun
- Discovery Scanner 1 – Creating a Galaxy with Dr Anthony Ross
  - Dr Anthony Ross also took time to answer some questions from last weeks live stream Additional Questions and Answers
- Sandro Samarco discusses feedback from the crime and punishment proposals on Thursday 16th at 7pm. Frontier’s youtube channel
- The discovery scanner episode the week after is scheduled to be about the inspiration behind Thargoid swarm, how came into being, how it works and the work behind creating it.
Newsletter 200
Main Discussion
- The Pace of 2.4’s content and the nature of how it’s delivered.
Community Corner
- A collection of useful infographics
- Laser Cops in “Crime City” by Ghost Giraffe
- Handy GALNET app for Android
Shoutouts
- Congratulations to Cmdr Peter Perfect (D8veh on the forums) for being mental enough to get Triple Elite in a Sidewinder
  - 432 hours from start, so not really a big deal, and I wasn’t too focused on it. I stopped to do the engineers for a bit, and when I wanted Imperial rank for one of them, I found a good spot, so I carried on to King. Also, I did a bit of griefer baiting in PvP when I wanted a break from the grind. I think, with what I know now, I could do it again in half the time. ~D8veh
- For a number of years Drew Wagar has been supporting (both with time and 10% of the proceeds from his books) an organisation called the March Wood Project, that provides an alternative for youngsters who fall outside of school, college and work and helping them deal with mental health issues and rebuild their lives. Last weekend it was the victim of a robbery and arson attack in which the charity lost everything. Drew is helping them rebuild so their work can continue. Please head to https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/andrew-wagar to support them.
- Lavecon 2018 is 8th – 10th June
- CQC Discord – For the Discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action

Lave Radio Episode 174

An Elite Encounter with the Jock in a Sock

Aired 31 Oct 2017
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Crew Members
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
(In)Human Resources Director : Shan – Cmdr Shanaeri
Guest Jock : Dave “Selezen” Hughes

Show Notes

- Development News
  - No much in the way of news at the moment.
- In Game Events
  - AEGIS confirm that Capital Ships are vulnerable to thargoid attack due to the EMP effect. The new EMP counter does not scale to capital ship size. So it’s only us commanders in the smaller ships stand a chance in stopping the thargoids.
  - New Barnacle FIeld found :-
    - Pleiades Nebula Pleiades Sector PN-T b3-0 A 5
      - -4.4946
      - 145.6557
- Newsletter 198
  - Halloween Decals and jack o’lantern bobblehead.
  - New Cutter skins to Bask in.
- Main Discussion
  - The Elite Encounters RPG discussion with Dave Hughes.
  - Buy it NOW

Community Corner
- If you are wondering there the “How to Make A Galaxy” talk by Anthony Ross from frontier Expo is. According to ED on his lunchtime livestream , This will be redone and transmitted via live stream where it can also be more interactive and in better quality. No Eta, no guarantees etc. Ed Also mentions they are looking at doing more “TED” style streams in the future in the same vein.
- Hutton Truckers break in me trade record broken… 79,624,800 in one sale. #ForTheMug
  Obsidian Orbital get’s completely trucked! – By delivering many Thargoids Probes and managing to disable the station, then they jumped to it and restored Obsidian Orbital to full working capabilities. Sadly not the trade record for the game, that is held by Cmdr Eldrich with 784 UA’S NETTING 210,188,048
  - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/223667-record-for-largest-single-trade?p=5683676&viewfull=1#post5683676
- CMDR’s Ra’s Al Ghul, Ashelai and CMDR Porky McBacon created a great video on how they think carriers could work in game. It’s work looking at just to see the posibiltiies carriers could offer, even if their suggestions are not taken up https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/386942-Handling-Fleet-Carriers-in-2018-Fleet-Carrier-Concept

The Elite-Encounters RPG is on Sale.

Those of you who have been following Elite:Dangerous since the Kickstarter, will know of the original RPG project by Dave Hughes at Daftworks. Well, after five years of struggle, The Elite Encounters RPG has been approved for release and digital copies of the game are now available for sale at the Daftworks Store.

All of us at Lave Radio wish to send our congratulations to Dave as we know how much effort, blood, sweat, tears, coffee and late nights he’s put into this project (with a little bit of help from our own Colin Ford, among many others).

We have three episodes using the game and they can be found at:

Cheers Dave. o7 Commander

P.S. Colin (PhoenixDfire) says play the vehicle combat rules; they’re awesome.

Lave Radio Episode 172

The ships graveyard

Aired 17 Oct 2017
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Show Notes

Development News
- Frontier are looking for Ambassadors for the Paris Game Week
  - October 31st – November 5th
  - Paris
  - Email community@frontier.co.uk
- Frontier 2017 Annual accounts and financial report out. https://frontier-drupal.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/development/frontier-corp/s3fs-public/press-releases/financial/FrontierAR17-FullReport.pdf
  - AIm for one major launch per year
  - Operating Profit up 550% (£7.8m)
  - Revenue up 75% (£37.4m)
  - Positive cash flow(up 610%) to £3.4m
  - Sale to tencent raised £17.7m and was to “improve and accelerate Frontier’s growth into the key Chinese market and help drive scale-up of the business.”
  - Elite had in excess of 2.7m cumulative sales from Dec 2014
  - Monetisation of both PC and Elite will NOT include pay to win features.
Newsletter 198
Main Discussion
Community Corner
- 2.4 Ship scale video — with Thargoids!
- INRA Base Mega Thread – Stay away from the file dipping controversy. Also players have found what looks like the remains of a Thargoid scout at the base where maybe the Mycoid virus was used to test . base is Klatt Enterprises at Alnath A2 AA 4.0167 133.54
- EDDI 2.4 RC 1 is now available
- Issue 2 of Sagittarius eye released
- Obsidian Ant hits 100K subs
- Dave Hughes RPG – Elite Encounters Has been APPROVED. It will be released soon (It also means that a version of Colin’s Miniatures Has been Approved!!)
- Overlay ANYTHING onto elite? Ok, Done! (Windows only, win 95 up to win 10)
  - DeskPins is an open source application that allows you to “pin” a window so that it remains “on top” of your Elite any full-screen borderless window (does not work with true-full screen)… Perfect for that trip to Hutton Orbital!
In Game Events
- Distant worlds 2. Coming Winter 2018 (Director of Pest Control is going exploring again!) Erimus and Dr Kali Arranging a new expedition
- Thargoids are evolving again. – Seems they’re getting more maneuverable and now have a shut down attack, rendering you immobile while it beats a hasty retreat. (They are learning!!!)
- New Weapons – Remote Flak Launcher, Anti Shutdown device coming (See previous point).
  - Last set of AX upgrades for now.
Shoutouts
- Lavecon 2018 – weekend of the 5th June. – Tickets will soon be available.
- CQC Discord – For the Discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action
- Game Music Packs .com have teamed up with Obsidian Ant to bring you a very unique music system for Voice Attack providing voice controlled music content for Elite Dangerous.

Lave Radio Episode 130

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If you’re not getting on, GET OFF!! And NO I’m not stopping for beer…..

Aired 1st November 2016
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Crew Members

Host & 2nd Technician : Chris Forrester : Cmdr Fozza
Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow

Lave Radio Episode 114

Two weeks of updates, more speculation on the future and WAR in Lave! To the War Machines..

Aired 28th June 2016
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Crew Members
2nd Technician : Chris Forrester : Cmdr Fozza
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow
Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodwood : Cmdr Eid LeWeiss
Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire

Show Notes:

Development News
- Elite: Dangerous Devs Frontier Developments Partner With Joystick Makers Thrustmaster
  - http://www.thrustmaster.com/en_US/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0/thrustmaster-teams-frontier-s-elite-dangerous-new-gameplay-experiences-announced-new-t16000m-
- Server side update
- Update 2.1.03 Incoming
  - Store relationship values on mission avatars so they don’t change into their cool pirate jackets anymore
  - Players can now spend favours (reputation levels) to control experimental effects on blueprints
  - When determining the rank of NPC ships for interdiction, use the player’s combat rank, rather than their highest PF rank, although add 1 rank if their trade or exploration rank is higher than their combat rank
  - alter the changes in allowed interdiction ranks based on security, so that the biggest rank disparities are reserved for very low security and anarchy systems
  - Reduced the percentage interdiction chance of power play ships by 10%, and altered the ship type chances and combat ranks to be more mid range, dropping a lot of the top range down
  - Adjust tracking rates for turreted weapons. Large+ are unchanged, medium are slightly faster, small are a lot faster
  - Improvements to turret tracking: When evaluating confusion the turret will now take into account the apparently linear acceleration of the target actually caused by angular acceleration of the firing vehicle. Overall this should make turrets confused less of the time, and emphasises the skill element a bit more – the better you match your target’s acceleration to keep them stationary in view, the better your turrets will track
  - All shields now regenerate at double rate when in supercruise
  - Added bullet fly by sounds
- ‘Elite Dangerous: Horizons’ Lead Designer Says Player Colonization ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’
- 33% off Elite Dangerous / Elite Dangerous :Horizons / Some Paint jobs until 4th July
In Game News
- The Federation has moved into Maia and are starting to lay claim to the Barnacles. https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/5763cb959657badf6e40e70a
- New Barnacles have been found in the Californian and Witch Head Nebula. Are they spreading? See the Cannon Research thread for details https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/227901-UAs-Barnacles-amp-More-Thread-6-The-Canonn
- Huge Debris Field found in Sothis – https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4p1f7d/theres_a_massive_debris_field_in_sothis_all_of_a/
- First UA found planetside…
  Not actually the 1st found, but still…
  “This crash site was found as a result of a mission tip-off. According to a Cannon source, this is the first reported UA sighting planet-side.
  The mission’s goal was to scan the wreckage, and when scanned, a data packet with what looks like a log entry was uncovered. The contents spoke of the survivors of the crash dying slowly, while one crew member “didn’t have to watch” it. I assume this means a crew member died during the incident.
  A POI nearby had 12 escape pods, organized into six groups of two, with each group’s pods stacked perfectly on top of each other. May be a bug, took screenshots for tin-foil.”
Newsletter 129
Community Corner
- Highly Recommended – a story of life on the frontier 5 mins long
- Winning the Space Race: The Future of Elite Dangerous
  “they have to choose one, and stop treading water in the middle, or games like Star Citizen and No Man’s Sky will turn Elite into an amusement park in Chernobyl: desolate, sad, and abandoned.
- Dear FDEV, One month ago I told you the grind was killing our fun. Now, it’s killing your game. (Has this been addressed in 2.1.03?)
  - Good Bye Post from Sole of the SDC
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Lavecon Sponsors
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Lave Radio Episode 110

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More Engineers Chat, and announcement on Xbox Horizons release date!

Aired 24th May 2016
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Crew Members

Station Commander : Allen Stroud : Cmdr Heldaban Kel
Head of Entertainments : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr thane
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow
Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss Woodwood : Cmdr EidLeWeiss

Show Notes:

On June 3, Elite Dangerous: Horizons comes to Xbox One featuring both Planetary Landings and The Engineers at launch.
- £19.99 ($29.99, €24.99, 1,489 RUB) for the expansion
- £39.99 ($59.99, €49.99, 2,999 RUB). Deluxe edition
We’re very pleased to announce that we’re planning to release The Engineers 2.1 update on Thursday May 26th for all those who own the Elite Dangerous: Horizons expansion pass on PC.
- With the launch of The Engineers on Tuesday, we wanted to celebrate with a launch livestream. We’ll be inviting a number of Elite Dangerous developers to come and chat on the stream during the expected server down time on the day. Join us from 1PM BST on May 26 on our official YouTube channel.
Get specific mods by ‘Calling in Favours’ with Engineers – Quote from Sandy

“Hello Commanders!
For the clarity!
When you call in a favour – YOU GUARANTEE THE EXPERIMENTAL EFFECT YOU WANT *and* YOU GUARANTEE THAT THIS EFFECT IS GENERATED FOR THE UPGRADE . Nothing in this procedure is random .

This is regardless of what the crafting process initially resulted in.

For example, if you did not get an experimental effect – calling in a favour gives you the one you want.

On the other hand, if you generated an experimental effect that you did not want – calling in a favour gives you the one you want.

Also, this option is available AFTER you have generated an upgrade, so you can decide whether you want to call in a favour after you have seen what the primary and side effect results were.”

Main Discussion
- Rise To Power: Dangerous Games, WILDCARD CORRECTION
- From ZAC
  - Basically EG pilots aren’t through to the final. The top 5 from the votes will have a mini CG tournament and the winner will go through to the final.
  - – EG Pilots – 25.5
  - – Wolves of Jonai – 15.5%
  - – Adle’s Armada Coalition – 15.3%
  - – Black Birds Squadron – 10.7%
  - – United German Commanders Coalition – 9%
  - – The Imperial Inquisition – 8.5%
  - – Achenar Immortals Coalition – 7.3%
  - – Planet Express – 3.6%
  - – Black Omega – 2.3%
  - – Pileus Libertas – 1.6%
  - – Battle Vortex – 0.7%
- Truckers and Pirates beta CG Snafu
- Elite Dangerous due this week RPS Article
Community Corner
- Dear FDev, You’re making this game a massive grind, and it’s ruining the fun we should be having.
  - TLDR: Grouped missions are fun and should be encouraged.

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