The Blood is in the air tonight as we play host to both the Mobius Group and The Smiling Dog Crew. We try to get the facts about the recent storm in a teacup between the two groups and hear about if you’re going to be the bad guy, then BE the bad guy.

Aired 23rd February 2016
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Show Notes:

• Dev Update 18th February
  • More Missions at neutral rep
  • Higher rep means more missions and better money
  • Remove the rank requirement, Rank now implies the difficulty of the mission
  • State of the minor faction
  • Type(s) of market for that port
  • Government
• Better feedback for what that mission will do to the BGS
• Galactic Academy
  “It’s a frontier thing, but not possible without the incredible community. We have a group of mentors that have signed up (volunteers) and they are on Teamspeak and Discord and we will be emailing all our players with low play time and then all new players every week with details about the academy. It’s a landing page with user guides, videos and most importantly ways to connect straight up with our volunteer mentors. They consist of ambassadors, mods, group representatives and other specialists. It’s about teaching players and hand holding them where needs into basic things like the galaxy map, making a credit or two, etc”
• Reduce the barrier for entry for ‘alternative mission flows’ I.E. you won’t have to drop out of supercruise to get an alternative.
• USS for missions will generally be at a specific body in a system rather than random
• Nav Beacons can be scanned to give system information!
• Systems will now have traffic lanes and hubs and these affect the creation of USS. Also USS are created spatially not temporally, so you can’t just sit there and wait for them,
• USS can be scanned to reveal information about them.
  • “This week’s dev update is the penultimate update “ Hmmm so 25/2 for last 2.1 update. Can we speculate Alpha early March?
  • Improving Variety
  • 3 stage hierarchy for generating missions
• Capitol in Achenar to get some actual Land!
• New Sets of Anaconda skins. The empire people are very happy with the white one. 😉
• Announcement via Zac:
  • Galactic Academy
    “It’s a frontier thing, but not possible without the incredible community. We have a group of mentors that have signed up (volunteers) and they are on Teamspeak and Discord and we will be emailing all our players with low play time and then all new players every week with details about the academy. It’s a landing page with user guides, videos and most importantly ways to connect straight up with our volunteer mentors. They consist of ambassadors, mods, group representatives and other specialists. It’s about teaching players and hand holding them where needs into basic things like the galaxy map, making a credit or two, etc”
• Newsletter 112
• Not Only Here wins FD’s Horizons Video competition
• Distant Worlds Set some records at Sag A
  • Most recorded CMDRs ever at Sagittarius A* (53)
  • Most recorded CMDRs ever in a formation (48)
  • Most recorded CMDRs ever in an instance (53)
  • Most recorded CMDRs ever in a synchronised jump (50)
  • Blow the 50 Cmdrs away later with > 100! and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfa6ktnuEdo&feature=youtu.be
• CQC Mayhem – LOADS of streaming
  • If you see FDEV Rhino, FDEV Jet or FDEV Wolf in CQC, then take a screenshot of you playing against them and email it to community@frontier.co.uk with the subject line ‘CQC Gladiators’
• Educating Ed Episode 13 – UGC Thursday 25th 19:00 (GMT)
• Community Corner
  • Escape Velocity goes over $1000 and gets Verity!
  • HCS working with Brent Spiner!
  • and possibly ‘The Shat’ himself. https://twitter.com/voicepacks/status/701882958655782912
• Questions
  • We are a small player faction, known as NULL,  here to help others with donations for lost ships due to lack of insurance as well as new players getting their footing, and an escort service for traders and returning explorers.  And we are now under threat of being steam rollered by Winters PP faction.  We need help, as our currently limited resources are running low.
    Any Alliance commanders listening in please ship prep agreements to DR Crucis.
    Any NON-Winters aligned players, please undermine them to assist us staying independent, and here to help others.
    NULL needs your help, to ensure our BANK deposits here for others remains available and open for business.
    Thank you CMDR NULL
• Shoutouts
  • Massive thank you to those people that have already sent us message of congratulations to play out on next week’s 100th episode. If you would like to send us a message to play out on the show please record a short mp3 and send it to info@laveradio.com with the subject 100th.
    Everybody that does gets a little thank you in the post from the crew.Hi guys, any chance of a shoutout on tomorrow nights show for the Wasat Cup, a
    50km, point-to-point SRV race from Elwood Camp to Ferguson Prospect on Wasat A2
    E organised by the Buckyball Racing Club. You can run it any time you like (and
    as many times as you like) from 23rd-25th February using screenshots to capture
    your start and end times.Takes around 30mins … if you’re fast. Well? Are you fast?? Come along and
    prove it then!

    Search the forums for “The Wasat Cup – Buggyball”

    https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=234304

    There’s a free pint in it for you at Lavecon 2016 🙂