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Lave Radio Episode 114

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

Lave Radio Episode 103

New LR iTunes Cover

Allen Stroud conjures up a Re-animation spell to revive the DDF, but is it too late for this decrepit zombie to be of any use?

Aired 22nd March 2016
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Crew Members

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.

Newsletter 116

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!!!
New Utility slot type in Peek of the week?!
The Join the Elite Stream
- 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.

Lave Radio Episode 91

The Horizon has landed, and we cover the weekly news, and discuss our review of season 1 of Elite: Dangerous.

Aired 15th December 2015
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Show Notes:

Development News
- ED:H “Early Access” on the 15th December
  - Hi Everyone,
    Beta is going very well – the team have been working hard and have made great progress. Thanks to all those that have been helping us – a great many improvements have been included already, with another update (Beta 5) expected tomorrow, with more tweaks and changes.
    We have worked very hard to ensure forward & backward compatibility so that all players of both seasons can play in the same galaxy together.
    After every Elite Dangerous release we have taken care to listen and reacted to all feedback, and Elite Dangerous: Horizons will follow exactly the same process. Included with Horizons will be multiple expansions of which Planetary Landings will be the first.
    All going well, we plan to launch Horizons with Planetary Landings on Tuesday (15th December – you heard it here first!). This will initially be termed an ‘Early Access’ release to highlight our normal process to our broad audience, some of whom have been with us since the start, but many have joined our community very recently.
- And Trailer for the Expansion and this is the official one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKWIJ-H-WxI Also what is this??? (1:02)
- Beta 5 Patch Notes
- Beta 6 Patch Notes
- Horizons 2.0 & Ships 1.5 Patch Notes
- ED Blind Charity Auction for Special Effect
  - Auction Ends 17th December at 09:00 GMT
  - Name your own station
    An extremely exclusive item. Previously only available as a high-level Kickstarter reward, this item can now be bought in this charity auction. Please note: Frontier will decide on the station location and reserve the right to edit, adjust and veto names at their discretion.
  - Your Personal Unique Paint Job
    This prize is an exclusive one of a kind paint job only for you. You’ll get access to our designer, Tjaart, who will help develop the paint job and add it your account.
  - Every paint job in the Frontier Store
    This prize is for one of every single paint job, including paint packs, in the Frontier Store. This includes all Paint Jobs currently available but won’t include future paint jobs released.
  - Lifetime expansion pass
    Currently not available to purchase this item gives you every single expansion in Elite Dangerous starting with Horizons. It also includes access to every beta update that comes to Elite Dangerous…. forever.
  - Limited Edition Artwork
    Only roughly 100 of these were ever produced. We have one available in the closed auction and what’s more, ours will be signed by the artists. Please note that this does not come with a frame and will likely require a custom frame to fit.
  - VIP Community Golden Tickets (Pair)
    The Community Golden Tickets will grant you access to any and every community event for Elite Dangerous. This includes all live event meet ups, the CQC live final, front of queue for all public events and any other unannounced events happening in the future . What’s more it also includes standard admission into Lavecon and Fantasticon! Please note that only admission is granted to the events. Accommodation and expenses are not covered.
- Ed’s 24 Hour Live Stream for Special Effect
- Michael Brookes: “The military ranks is something we want to revisit at a later stage. I’d like to see them become more like a career.”
- DBOBE Reddit AMA Summary https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3wxv2y/summary_of_the_livestream_qa_reddit/
- Adam on Multicrew (as part of Ed’s live stream)
  - 1 person / ships seat I.E. Cobra up to 2 ppl
  - can hot swap roles
  - general interface is neural link (like the turret)
  - Helm
  - Fire Control (turret)
  - Tactical (Countermeasures, Shields, Sensors)
  - Engineering (power mgmt, repairs etc)
  - Pilot can give permissions
  - Deploy into SRV
  - Deploy into Fighter
  - No AI Crew yet
- Chris Gregory and Ed
  - slips and Christmassy Ship Skins coming
  - SRV Skins maybe coming (maybe colour schemes since there’s not so much ‘hull’
- Mike Evans and Ed Ship Launched Fighters
  - Gonna be able to have up to 4 Fighters ACTIVE at a time (in your ship etc)
  - Design Challenge – WHY would u go in to a fighter?
    - Probably be considered disposable
    - Glass Cannons
    - AI Controlled Fighter
    - Not all ships will be able to have them, maybe a Python Can’t but a T9 can
    - Are we neural linking or physically moving into the fighter? Still in debate but Mike is leaning towards Neural link since their considered disposable
    - Mark Allen is Mike’s favourite programmer 🙂
  - Ships of 1.5
    - Why is the cutter so bad? — Well that’s your opinion… No Ship can be the be all and end all though
    - Did they update the Cobra Mk 4 due to popular opinion? NO the Mk 4 has so much more going for it with it’s better power / weapons etc that boosting it’s speed and maneuverability would make it OP
    - Cutter maneuverability it’s very fast for its size but that speed comes at a cost (Best speed of 232 so it’s much faster than Conda and Corvette) It’s a very iterative design.
    - Doesn’t like his opinions on knee jerk reactions
    - Mike’s original favourite ship was the Eagle and likes the Viper Mk4. He likes the Corvette out of the bigger ships. He’s not a fan of the Empire’s curves more a Federal Man 😀
  - Sandy and Ed – Loot and Crafting
    - Personalise and Customise their ships. Makes them ‘Cooler’
    - Visit the ‘custom Mechanic’ (currently) to ‘pimp your ship’
      - Can upgrade Modules
      - He requests materials and resources
      - Upgrade FSD, Weapons, Shields
      - There’s a range of module upgrades
      - Could be some benefits – but ALSO a downside too
      - Some ‘awesome new effects’
      - Difficult to balance
      - More materials coming
    - The are considering ‘station based storage – but no time soon and no promises!
Newsletter 103
Main Discussion
- ED a year in Review – 1 Year Launch Anniversary is on the 16th
  - http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Version_history gives a good summary of the patches.
Community Corner
- Best Glitch Ever – Space station crashed on planet surface
  https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=209533&highlight=station+crash
Questions
Shoutouts
- In Game Cmdrs
  - Cmdr Highbyte
  - Cmdr We Ye
  - Cmdr Archimbaust
  - Cmdr E Pilot 007
  - Cmdr Levofski
  - Cmdr Nyres
  - Cmdr Slapshot
  - Cmdr Steven McCreery
  - Cmdr Paine
  - Cmdr Mindwipe
- IRC Chat
- Twitch Chat

That’s it for another episode of Lave Radio. If you would like to get in touch with the show then you can email info@laveradio.com, facebook/laveradio, @laveradio on twitter, you can join the skype chat channel by adding Fozza101 to your skype contacts. Or you can join our TeamSpeak server where commanders come to hang out an chat: laveradio.teamspeak3.com Lave Radio is recorded live on a Tuesday evening at 20:30 and streamed out on https://laveradio.com/live/

Thanks to [whoever], thanks to those commanders that have joined us outside Lave Station.
Until next time fly safe, and if you can’t do that…fly dangerous!

Lave Radio Episode 84

Discuss more about SRV’s, the dev videos and streams, commander Hughmann’s amazing parodies and whether Early Access can spoil your enjoyment of a game…

Aired 27th October 2015
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Lave Radio Episode 83

Tonight Chris Jarvis reveals the awesome news about Escape Velocity, Chaos Reborn Audio dramas, and the round up of the last week in and around Elite Dangerous.

Aired 20th October 2015
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Lave Radio Episode 75

Slightly quiet news week, so we bust out the BIG ISSUEs, is the gameplay DEEP enough? How can we improve the social play of the game? that and the Dev Updates and Newsletters.

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Originally Broadcast 25/08/2015

Lave Radio Episode 74

A reduced Crew talk about the Skin design competition, Dev diary and Horizon and go through some of the Q&A from frontiers Live Stream, broadcast live on 18/8/2015

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