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