Crew Members Director of Pest Control : Ashley Devine – DrToxic Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow (In)Human Resources Director : Shan – Cmdr Shanaeri Knight Extruder Operator : Andy Barnes – Cmdr Kurgol
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
Fluffybunesq – Stephen Ashley, the amazing Fluffy Bunny himself is running a special event at Smokey Joe’s in Cheltenham on Sun 25 February 2018 13:00 – 18:00 GMT, where his long luscious locks will be savagely torn from his head in a barbaric ritual of shame, sorry he’s getting his head shaved live, if you are nearby pop in to support him or throw some cash at his just giving page.
We are delighted to announce that the tickets for this year’s Elite Community Meet (ECM 2018) are LIVE. 14th April at the Hilton St Anne, Wokingham.We will be visiting Reading in the UK this year and as usual have a packed day of social gaming, a bit of VR, our Artemis competition and an ED:RPG session hosted by Spidermind games. Plus lots and lots of Elite Dangerous. We have added a wires internet connection this year and room for 20 computers.Raising money for SpecialEffect and Hearing Dogs by having fun.
PLUS Bonus event as in the Sunday we will be descending on the Pizza Express in Reading and being hosted by Rob Hooper as we are taught to throw pizzas like a proper Hutton Trucker in one of our now legendary Pizzameets.
Tickets are 12.50 and you can add lunch and dinner to your booking if you want…. rooms available directly from the hotel via special code if you are staying for the late bar.
Crew Members Station Commander : Allen Stroud 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
The Elite Playstation guys over at /r/ElitePS on reddit are asking cmdrs to fill in a small questionnaire to figure out the general composition of the ED community.
Crew Members 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
Hi All
A quick heads up on something cool and a little bit Elite-related.My dad is involved with the Institution of Structural Engineers Educational Charity which runs an annual International Young Engineers Design Competition. This year they decided on a space theme, so he foolishly asked me for some ideas. I sent him a bunch of ED screenshots of Ocellus and Coriolis space stations and said “What about one of these?”.
….long story short:https://www.istructe.org/about-us/funds-and-donations/educational-trust/the-young-structural-engineers-internationalThought I’d let you know as it would be cool to spread the word in case any Cmdrs out there are real life engineers and want to have a go…. and because it’s another of those cool “ED influences real world science and engineering” stories.
Great to meet some of you at Elitemeet, which was an awesome day.
Thanks for all your work on the podcast, great stuff – Keep doing what you do.
Crew Members 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
An announcement about the ongoing Lady Kahina storyline has been made. On the 29th of April an event will take place which will link into the final events if the upcoming ‘premonition’ book.
Crew Members Warrant Officer : Andre Marshall – Cmdr M.A.R.S.H.A.L.L. 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
Credits: Dave Gorman for the homage (with apologies!) Guss Griswold for Creative Commons version of Handel’s Sarabande
In Game Events
Formindine Rift – Now that all the bases have been discovered, there was a daring heist on Danelle’s Progress (The only market place to buy Alloys) by a Cobra using the call sign of Lima Uniform Charlie (Could it be the return of Commander Luciano Prestigio Giovanni?)
Crew Members Head of Health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward : Cmdr Eid LeWeise Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis : Cmdr Thane Head of Station Archives : Colin Ford : Cmdr PheonixDFire Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott : Cmdr Psykokow Test Pilot : Matthew Monson : Cmdr Paroxsym (Paladin Consortium)
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
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.
