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
• Lave Radio AMA on Reddit
• Lavecon Sponsors
  • ED Tracker
    “EDTracker is proud to be sponsoring Lavecon this year; Lavecon and the Elite Dangerous community have been a pivotal part in EDTracker’s success so it seems all the more fitting that we can put something back in for the people who’ve helped get the project off the ground. Toggle that headlook and fly dangerous, commanders!” – http://edtracker.org.uk/
  • Old One Productions by Michael Brookes
    Quality art prints, t-shirts, and chess sets for horror and sci-fi fans https://oldonesproductions.com