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Lave Radio Episode 154

Peripherals Part 2: The hard stuff!

Aired 9 May 2017
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Crew Members
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow

Show Notes

Development News
- Sandro Sheds some light on a potential Karma system
In game events
- Salome’s Memorial Service (Held on a private server ) https://gaming.youtube.com/c/cmdrjoshhawkinselite/live
- Cannon’s Community Goal for a Megaship
Newsletter 173
Main Discussion
- Apps/Peripherals
  - Control Options
    - Joystick with Throttle/HOTAS
    - Joystick incorporating Pedals
    - Apparently pedals are great for SRV driving
    - Joypad
      - XBox users’ standard
    - Steering wheel (?)
      - Reported as great for SRV driving
    - Keyboard/Mouse (?)
      - Mention Orbweaver and other dedicated keypads
      - Gaming mice
    - Thrustmaster MFD – http://www.thrustmaster.com/products/mfd-cougar-pack
    - Found this: https://www.mcdee.net/elite/
      - Print out a reference sheet for your key bindings
    - Roccat Powergrid
      - Shout out to Adam Grebinsky for the ED grid on the Roccat site
      - Handy to do away with keyboard or if playing in dark. Immersive!
      - Great for building flight seat
      - Icons handily explain the difference between expanding scanner and shortening scanner
      - You can make your own. Simply provides keyboard shortcuts.
  - - Saitek SST software for flight macros
      - Program a single button to issue a chain of commands.
    - Head tracking
      - EdTracker
        
        £45 GBP pre-assembled
      - TrackIR
        
        $150 USD
      - FaceTrackNoIR?
      - I use this peripheral setup sometimes. It’s a free Android app combined with FacetrackNoIR. It works surprisingly well, though I don’t like the idea of wearing a cell phone.Here’s the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frozenbacon.headtracker
    - Tobii Eye tracker (Special Effect?)(Grant, have used but due to FAT EYES not great)
Community Corner
- Elite Dangerous Community Magazine Issue 1
  https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/6a02f4/elite_dangerous_community_magazine_issue_1/
Shoutouts
- Cmdr Plater is running a 24 hour stream will on june 3rd at 12:00pm running for 24 hours. It’s called “Combat for Cancer” and all proceeds will be going to the British Thyroid Foundation. I will be joined by various different Youtubers and Streamers with; ObsidianAnt, VindicatorJones, Ghost Giraffe , Josh Hawkins, Mini, Shabooka, Down to Earth Astronomy, Paroxsym and DJTruthsayer all confirmed. Ed Lewis from Frontier will also be putting an appearance. I will also be doing some give aways for viewers.. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/CMDRPLATER
- www.twitch.tv/holdmykidney 9pm BST Wednesday
- Shout out to Cmdr Tannik Seldon who managed to destroy his ship during the Buckyball’s Aquarian Job Race by accepting their 1% hull challenge and then trusting the ship’s computer to land the ship! BUT he is still in the race, he just needs to travel ½ way round a planet to the base and get a ship back!!!
- Lavecon 2017 is Sponsored by ED:RPG and ED Tracker!

Lave Radio Episode 153

Peripherals Part 1: What a load of tools!

Aired 2 May 2017
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Crew Members
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
2nd Technician : Chris Forrester – Cmdr Fozza
Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow

Show Notes

Development News
- #support3rdparty
  - Why a load of 3rd party sites were shut down
  - Captain’s Log, Coriolis EDCD Edition ED-Board,Elite: Dangerous, Codex,Elite: Dangerous Database (EDDB),E:D Shipyard,Elite: Dangerous Star Map (EDSM), INARA Were all shut down on 27th April for the May day weekend. This also included the Weekend when Drew is running his in game event.
  - Ed’s Response
    - Did they cave in? Ed says “No”
    - Was it extortion?
    - Will what FD do ever be enough?
  - Howard Chalkley’s response
In Game Events
Newsletter 172
Main Discussion
- Addon Websites
- External API Apps
  - Trucker Tracker
  - ED Discovery
    - A 3rd party tool that can track your Elite Dangerous travels, combat, trading, rank etc. Before Elite Dangerous 2.2 it could only track travel, now with 2.2, EDDiscovery tracks much more! It can now log other data such as rank, commodities, materials, scans and all host of other data.EDDiscovery also gives you a 3D map and 2D maps of the galaxy, showing travel history and data from EDSM and EDDB to aid your journey through the Elite Dangerous galaxy.
  - Elite Dangerous Market Connector
    - EDMC is a 3rd party app that will make a note of System and station data and then allow you to upload that data to other sites such as EDDB or Elite Trading Tool.
    - Please note that this app uses the original ios API which requires your ED Log in details. It’s not doing anything nefarious with those details (it’s open source so go check for yourself!) However it’s something to be aware of.
  - Elite Companion App
    - Originally an official iOS app, now discontinued
  - ED Engineer
    - Makes a note of your materials and then will help you showing what upgrades you can get or what commodities you need. It DOES need a little setting up since it makes a guess about your commodities but it’s just a best guess so you need to check and fix it.
- Configuration websites
  - Coriolis.io
  - EDDB.io
  - Inara.cz
  - EDSM.net
    - Takes the navigation data apps like ED Discovery uploads and uses it to log your travels
    - i.e. https://www.edsm.net/en/user/flight-logs/id/5386/cmdr/Eid+LeWeise
  - EliteTradingTool.co.uk
    - Used to be called Thrudds
    - Quickly and Easily find routes and commodities.
  - ED Board
    - Really interesting. Takes log uploads from your saved game folder and populates a series of great-looking reports.
    - Provides calculated distances from your current location to Pristine Metal Rings
    - Allows tracking of permits
    - Sorage for Coriolis and EdShipyard blueprints
    - Manual log/diary
    - Trade run diary
    - Timer to calculate credits earned per hour, if that’s your thing
    - Has its own set of Achievements! http://en.ed-board.net/?m=achievements
    - Links to recommended ship builds
    - Wishlist of places to visit (uses Elite Galactic Wiki “A database of real places inside Elite Dangerous)
    - Links to radio players
    - Pilot’s “Licence”
    - Really great looking 3D MAP of systems you have explored.
    - Not so great report for Fozza on his PvP Kill Ratio. 1 Kill and over 30 Deaths (The Kill was an accident on an Live Episode of LR! Sorry Cmd Ashley Wilkinson)
  - ED Toolbox
    - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/216543-ED-ToolBox-A-companion-app
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2yixjcuiFQ
    - Has voice companion like EDDI. Random quotes from famous people.
    - Features list: http://edtb.xyz/?q=features
  - https://ruins.canonn.technology/
    - Website for navigating around Alien sites
  - ED Codex
Community Corner
- Cmdr Plater is running a 24 hour stream will on june 3rd at 12:00pm running for 24 hours. It’s called “Combat for Cancer” and all proceeds will be going to the British Thyroid Foundation. I will be joined by various different Youtubers and Streamers with; ObsidianAnt, VindicatorJones, Ghost Giraffe , Josh Hawkins, Mini, Shabooka, Down to Earth Astronomy, Paroxsym and DJTruthsayer all confirmed. Ed Lewis from Frontier will also be putting an appearance. I will also be doing some give aways for viewers.. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/CMDRPLATER
- Chris is finally streaming Holy Potatoes! We’re In Space!? Tomorrow at 9pm UK http://twitch.tv/holdmykidney
- Three crowdfunds!
  - https://tinyurl.com/figpoint Phoenix Point funded! Still a few weeks to get in on the action and help with awesome stretch goals like vehicles and a mobile player base (which can be assaulted by monsters)
  - Exo One https://tinyurl.com/exo-one Spaceflight with planetary landings and momentum – think Spindizzy with a morphing spaceship
  - Galaxy Crash – modest kickstarter to get art assets by one of the Elite Dangerous community – Bubble. https://tinyurl.com/bubblecrash
Shoutouts
- Lavecon 2017 is Sponsored by ED:RPG and ED Tracker!

Salomé Aftermath Special

Elite: Dangerous’ 3,000-player battle royaleElite: Dangerous’ 3,000-player battle royale
On Monday the intreped Commander Fozza invited Admiral of the Fleet, Commander Paroxsym from the Premonition Allied Coordination, along with Commanders Eisen and Baroness Galaxy to join him, Ben and Colin on the Orange Sidewinder to discus Saturday’s in game event. The Chase, the Kill, the Intrigue and the Politics along with the hope for us all…

Aired 1 May 2017
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Crew Members

Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
2nd Technician : Chris Forrester – Cmdr Fozza
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire

Special Guests
Fleet Admiral : Paroxsym from Premonition Allied Coordination
Raxxla’s Child : Eisen
Raxxla’s Shield : Baroness Galaxy

Show Notes

Harry Potter killed Salomé
- ‘She was confirmed killed at 20:49 gametime on 29th April, 3303, succumbing to hostile fire from Commander Harry Potter.’
Drew’s aftermath
Quote from Children of Raxxla
- ‘It seems the fake news and rumors run amok before, during and after the event. Let me try to clear this up a bit. Believe it, or leave it.
  
  The people fighting for Salomé did not consist of a single group. PAC might have been the public face of it, but they were not directly responsible for Salomé’s flight. That was in the hands of CoR and a few of our trusted allies. PAC was tasked to organise defense fleets for Raan and Tsu and somewhat help with Salomé too independently from this more private defense force. PAC may or may not have considered SDC an ally, but they were certainly not considered an ally by Salomé’s personal guards.
  
  SDC was never tasked in defending Salomé, nor were they allowed to get close to her. Harry Potter and other Commanders who interdicted Salomé simply played the game well, got lucky with instancing and did their part.
  
  Salomé was going to give a speech at the end of the event if she survived, but as far as we know, the listening posts at Teorge are the main answers that needed to be broadcasted.
  
  I think it’s important to understand that there is no ‘losing’ situation for this event. Whether Salomé delivered her speech or not is not relevant to the grand scheme of things. What matters is whether we have played out an interesting narrative using in-game means. With the current results, there may not be a speech, but there may be a funeral. The story still moves forward, just in a different direction.’
Media Coverage
- Ars Technica Article
- Polygon: 3000 Player Battle Royale
Issues
- PAC’s behaviour in the run up to the event was horrendous, Complaint’s of (Irony Alert) PVP Eliteism, denying people access to the event, Kill on sight order (even on their own side, who didn’t follow the rules). Drew on a couple of occasions, asked for PAC to be more inclsive which the response was ‘Don’t go running to Drew, if you don’t like our Rules’.
- Colin was a victim to those rules, even though the event hadn’t started. In addition, Innocent cmdrs who had nothing to do with the event were targeted (According to reddit). Group I was associated with [Forge] did a sterling job.
- SDC had spies
- Why did the SDC get invited?
- Why did Salome have Harry Potter (etc?) on her friends list? Was it to help with instancing and she was just accepting all?
In game aftermath
- Salomé’s grave
- Logs in the Teorge system
Shoutouts
- Lavecon 2017 is Sponsored by ED:RPG and ED Tracker!

Lave Radio Episode 152

The Generation Game

Aired 25 April 2017
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Show Notes

Development News
- Patch 2.3.01
  - Galaxy map UI tag not pointing to selected target body (Genuinely a show Stopper)
  - Packhounds having infinite ammunition (High Priority)
  - Multicrew bug fixes
    - Increased crew payments: voucher scaling now tops out at 80% of helm earnings (previously 50%)
    - Increased insurance rebuy discount for Helm to 30% reduction per crew member (previously 25%)
  - Various Stability improvements across the board
  - Missing Galnet articles will be fixed
  - XBOX main menu softlock will be fixed
  - Large frame rate drop when friends log in to the game
- Patch 2.3.1 – Aimed for a couple of Weeks, will include a weapon’s free/lock command to allow the Helm to lock down the gunner and fighter pilots. This aims to reduce ‘Crew Trolling’ where some nefarious Cmdrs were joining ships, opening fire on police / the station leading to the host ship’s destruction.
In Game News
- New Generation Ship Found – With Additional Voice Logs and use of the data scanner.Generation Ship
- Federation Vs Empire Community Goal in Maia (The Empire appears to be winning at the moment).
- New Shipyard in HR1185 New Empire Shipyard near Maia
- Belmarsh Mega Prison Ship has been found. Belmarsh Class
- Tourist mega Ship has been found near the heart and soul. Heart and Soul
- 29th is approaching. Will Salome Survive?
Newsletter 171
Main Discussion
- Flying to the Generation Ship
Community Corner
- https://ruins.canonn.technology/ — a Tool to record ruins sites
- Canonn News teams will be on site during the 29th in designated ships that are NON COMBAT and want PRESS status !
Shoutouts
- Lavecon 2017 is Sponsored by ED:RPG and ED Tracker!

Remote Outpost Games Episode 2 – James Buckle (Engage Pixel)

Remote Outpost Games is a podcast celebrating the best video games in history, stranding industry figures on a remote getaway and asking them to justify which 5 games they would take with them to await rescue.

In this episode, hosts John Stabler and Christopher Jarvis talk to Industry Veteran and Indie Newcomer James Buckle of Engage Pixel about his latest game – Captain Kaon – and his decade-long history working on the Total War series.

Captain Kaon is a new gravity shooter inspired by Thrust and created in a homage style to the Amiga era. As part of this show we have THREE Steam keys to give away for Captain Kaon, so listen in for the rules and send us your entries!

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Lave Radio Episode 151

Salty Melons

Aired 18th April 2017
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Crew Members
Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow

Show Notes

Development News
- Major Bugs which have been reported.
  - Mouse going mental :- workaround is to go to options graphics menu and change the mouse settings to Panel.
  - Too Many Friends :- This is an issue for only the more popular members of the community, turns out if your friends list is too long, it takes too long to render and causes issues. This needs a patch but as long as you avoid the friends tab it should be fine. (?)
  - Servers seem to be ‘Flakey’ over the Easter Weekend.Response from Dav (Warning The posts in that thread a bit ‘salty’)
  - The Galaxy Map :- This is an issue with the UI for people not using the standard resolution and needs an urgent path
Game Events
- - Xbox’s Hardest Achivements
  - The Formidine Rift has been solved. –
    Although in response to saltiness over the “solution” being essentially a POI, Drew has asserted that they have not “solved” the rift mystery – only found a part of it.
  - New alien organisms. How do you like those melons?
News letter 170
Main Discussion – Has the goodwill for Frontier run out?
Community Corner
Questions
Shoutouts

Lave Radio Episode 150

Air Quoting Seasons it’s just a switch

Aired 11 April 2017
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Show Notes

Development News
- Patch 2.3
  - Launch Video
- David Braben AMA
  - David’s responses: https://www.reddit.com/user/DavidBraben
  - Subscription model changing
  - ‘Space legs’ being worked on
  - PS4 was playable at Pax East
  - New SRVs in later season
  - Mining improvements in later season
  - CQC take-up bad so not working on it (my paraphrase)
  - DBOBE would love to see mission which require use of smaller ships
  - DBOBE generally flies an AspX
In game events
- NPCs Pirate took a contract out on me!
Newsletter 169
Community Corner
- Update regarding the events of 29.04.3303
  - If Salomé is captured by hostile players, and they offer her a chance to surrender, she may be receptive to it. Her acceptance of surrender obviously depends on her captors being open to negotiating a bounty with those groups or individuals who have placed them. Her captors may simply decide to kill her there and then and be done with it. But at least there is now a middle-ground option on the table that gives roleplayers an avenue to make an impact in the end game narrative.
  - Nice article in ESO’s “paper”

Lave Radio Episode 149

The Ballad of Elite Meet

Aired 28 March 2017
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Crew Members
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire

Show Notes

Development News
- The Commanders 2.3 Update with the Commander Creator, Multicrew and more, will be released week ending 16 April!
- Frontier responds to Multicrew payout changes
Newsletter 168
Main Discussion
- Elite Meet Bristol
Community Corner
- The Ballad of Ed and Sandro
  - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/340481-The-Ballad-of-Ed-and-Sandro
  - Radio Skvortsov, which can be found at http://radio.entropy101.com
- Hi All
  A quick heads up on something cool and a little bit Elite-related.My dad is involved with the Institution of Structural Engineers Educational Charity which runs an annual International Young Engineers Design Competition. This year they decided on a space theme, so he foolishly asked me for some ideas. I sent him a bunch of ED screenshots of Ocellus and Coriolis space stations and said “What about one of these?”.
  ….long story short:https://www.istructe.org/about-us/funds-and-donations/educational-trust/the-young-structural-engineers-internationalThought I’d let you know as it would be cool to spread the word in case any Cmdrs out there are real life engineers and want to have a go…. and because it’s another of those cool “ED influences real world science and engineering” stories.
  
  Great to meet some of you at Elitemeet, which was an awesome day.
  
  Thanks for all your work on the podcast, great stuff – Keep doing what you do.
  
  Cheers
  
  Cmndr GhandiMcNabb – PBSF (Mmm beer)
Shoutouts
- Lavecon 2017 is Sponsored by ED:RPG and ED Tracker!

Lave Radio Episode 148

What’s in a name?

Aired 28 March 2017
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Crew Members
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane
Chief Archivist : Colin Ford – Cmdr phoenix_dfire

Show Notes

Development News
- Ship naming and Name Plates – how it will work
- 2.3 Beta 5 Change Log
  - Bounty Vouchers and Combat Bonds are now awarded to MultiCrew members based on their combat rank
  - Pro
  - Con
In game news
- An announcement about the ongoing Lady Kahina storyline has been made. On the 29th of April an event will take place which will link into the final events if the upcoming ‘premonition’ book.
Newsletter 168
Community Corner
- Elite Dangerous ‘Speed’
- Cmdr Starman XVII Shared with us a “Real” photo showing Lave in the Southern Hemisphere
  Real Lave
Shoutouts
- Lavecon 2017 is Sponsored by ED:RPG and ED Tracker!

Lave Radio Episode 147

Isn’t it just a simple switch?

Aired 21 March 2017
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Crew Members
Head of health and safety : Ben Moss-Woodward – Cmdr Eid LeWeise
2nd Technician : Chris Forrester – Cmdr Fozza
Head of Entertainment : Chris Jarvis – Cmdr Thane
Chief Bar Steward : Grant Woolcott – Cmdr Psykokow
Guest Commander : Cmdr Paine

Show Notes

Development News
- 2.3 Beta, Update 3
- 2.3 Beta Update 4
Newsletter 166
Main Discussion
- 2.3 Q&A Stream
  - 2.3 Questions Wanted (maintained by Alex Brentnall)
  - Notes
Shoutouts
- Lavecon 2017 is Sponsored by ED:RPG and ED Tracker!
- Starfighter Inc which is a first person mission-based multiplayer cockpit shooter with a focus on scientific realism and narrative are relaunching their kickstarter which they narrowly missed last year.
- Elite Cast the first Spanish ED podcast!

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