Windows 10 Pushes the Crew Down a Mountain.

Aired 15 May 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
(In)Human Resources Director : Shan – Cmdr Shanaeri
Lavian Space Program Director : Andy Barnes – Cmdr Kurgol
Hick with a Big Stick : Karen Fishwick

Show Notes

• Development News
  • Fdev hires a new artist Ignatius Hango and their portfolio
  • Steve Kirby and Will discuss player submitted CG’s
  • Michael Brookes love in with Unknown Artifact of the plushie kind.
  • Spidermind Blog post – ED:RPG’s kickstarter rewards are now all out and Lave Station gets a shout out  in the GM Screen!
    
    • Also a tease that something else Elite related is on the cards for Spidermind Games
      “Well they say that there is no rest for the wicked and for us this is especially true. Keep an eye on this blog for news of an exciting new Elite Dangerous product for anyone who loves non-video Elite Dangerous gaming but can’t get the gang around for a session of EDRPG.”
  • Bonus Weekend: Trade & Engineering
    • May 24 to May 30
    • All profits from trading activities will be increased (the amount of profit will vary depending on what you are shipping and where you’re shipping it to. Rare commodities are excluded from this bonus.)
    • The materials requested for engineering recipes will be at one rank below the existing ones (cheapening the current cost of engineering your modules.)
• In Game Events
• • This weeks Eagle Eye Systems to defend are LTT 8648 and Lalande 4141 after another week of successful defence by the Anti Xeno Initiative. The AEGIS Ships in Aegis Mega-ships were dispatched to Coquim and LHS 1453 (neither of which were Eagle Eye targets) and wrecked Mega-ships were found in several systems nearby. Cannon’s Lab 69 AIX speculates that both Achenar and Sol are the intended destinations of current Thargoid Activity. (Possible biological attack to disable the governments? Payback for INRA?)
  • IDA is continuing to haul repair supplies to Titan’s Daughter.
  • As part of the Bucky Ball Base Jumping (where we are based tonight) at 19:00 game-time tomorrow (Wednesday) night quite a few people will be running the mountain (including folks from Fighter Club I believe). We have an idea to attempt a Gloucester Cheese run (not quite sure what, or who, the cheese will be yet). So even moar maddness bouncing down the hill!
• Newsletter 227
• Main Discussion
• • Karen on to talk about Lavecon
• Community Corner
• • Malic has released v3 of his free Voice Attack profile
  • Thatrandomguyyyyyyyyy docks backwards
  • Obsidian Ant’s take on Powerplay proposals
  • Colorized IR photograph of Pluto
  • The Self Proclaimed Galactic Overlord Zarek Null has posted two videos of the ‘Kiddnapping of Princess Aisling Durval. He runs these live events from time to time so watch the PvP forums. Part 1 Part 2
  • NASA invited Elite Dangerous Streamers Pumpkinberry and Ghost Giraffe to the Antares Launch 21st May ~ 09:30 BST
    • Live Stream had > 2000 viewers – made the Frontpage of Twitch
    • She nearly didn’t go because she didn’t get much notice
    • Teared up at the launch <3
  • CMDR Linoa06 of Mobius has made an Order of Mobius Factional Map
• Questions
• • Commander Caractacus_Potts via email (info@laveradio.com)TLDR Is Horizon’s not pay to win too Shan? Guardian and Engineering require Horizons, which is paid for DLC.I sure do love your show, keep up the great work.  You have such a great mix of people, with fascinating guests, and I enjoy every episode.  Ok, enough fluff, on to the meat of things.I have really been surprised that in your discussions of open only Powerplay that a comparison to Horizons has never come up.
    Statements were made that open only would introduce a pay to win element to the game, as those on consoles would have to pay to participate in Powerplay.  If a console person wanted the weapons and such that are available only thru pledging to a power, it would cost.

    But does not the same hold true with Guardian technology?  To get any of that, you have to land on a planet, and that requires Horizons, which costs money. When Frontier released Horizons, did they break the pledges that Shan had researched, or at the later date when the Guardian tech dropped in the game?  Or did they sidestep it by doing it in two phases? I don’t recall hearing of a similar upset about that. Since it sounds like Guardian tech is almost a prerequisite for serious Thargoid hunting, and if open only Powerplay is pay to win, then needing Horizons to get Guardian tech certainly makes all the Beyond chapters pay to win as well.

    But I don’t consider any of that “pay to win”.  There is no win or lose in this game, just participation and progression.  If you want to engage in certain aspects of the game, these are the modes of play and costs associated.  No big deal. If I want to do any missions that require landing on a planet, I need Horizons. I want to do that, so I pay.  Seems reasonable to me, and I don’t see any fundamental principles broken.

    Personally, open only is what will settle my decision to engage in Powerplay.  I don’t PvP, but all 200 hours or so of my time has been in the open. It is the fact that I am in the galaxy with other commanders that makes Elite so appealing.  Listening to your Battle for Lave podcasts really opened my eyes to the intricacies of it, which I find fascinating, but it is the ability to team up with other commanders to accomplish shared goals that really hooks me.  But not if I am playing against people that I can’t counter. I understand that instancing and other technical issues won’t make this a perfect system, there will likely always be some sort of exploit, but in my eyes, the idea of engaging with other commanders is fundamental principle of Powerplay, and that necessitates open only.  If Frontier chooses to keep solo as an option, then I won’t participate. It is not a big deal, I have plenty of other things to do in this galaxy. But it seems to me that with solo players and bots making the efforts of commanders playing in open seem so futile, that the number of commanders willing to fight that hard for nothing will dwindle, and the bots will end up running the galaxy.  I, for one, welcome our new Borg overlords!!!

    All the best, Commanders.
    Commander Caractacus_Potts
    O7

  • CXXXS on Reddit
    Sorry if it’s been asked before, but is there any chance your podcast may one day be available on Spotify? I’ve recently made a switch to it as my primary podcast app. Just curious.
    • Ben has filled out a form to hopefully get LR into Spotify and Google Play (possibly only in the US)
  • From Eric E Devo on Twitter :- I love this cast, and this community. Perhaps you can recruit an optimist or two for the upcoming content reviews – it seems like the podcast has become about 20 minutes of good content with an hour of whinging tacked on. There must be some optimism among you, surely
• Shoutouts
• • Lavecon 2018 is 8th – 10th June
  • CQC Discord – For the Discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action
  • EDWTRB for you’re looking for wing, looking for Role play Groups, Elite Ebay and Player Bounty boards needs. 😉