*** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

[Zefan]

Which is why I got quickly quite bored, something that normally doesn't happen to me! I ended up racking up massive bounties just to encourage a little PvP

Wasn't quite enough to keep me hooked though

 

[atomic7431]

Engineers is looking very nice indeed

Newsletter 121

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

That new station looks fantastic. Very much looking forward to this.

 

[maun]

Changes to mining shock and horror! Looks a good update, might tempt me to log back in once beta is out.

 

[atomic7431]

If you notice the ice roids cast shadows which is also new, they said they have done a lot of work to ring systems.

 

[Dano]

That's shaping up to be a very nice update, quite eager to get beta testing on it

 

[doofer]

What are your thoughts on the RNG Crafting? It's looking like you'll grind Engineer rep, gather all the required mats and then use all your hard-earned skills and prowess to rely on RNGesus for the bestest pew-pews.

Personally I think Frontier have excelled themselves again with bad decision making.

Any Devs who think I want to 'work' for things playing their Game to just gamble on RNGesus being 'Kind' to me should only be paid by using RNG too. (Or not paid of course..depending on the RNG )

 

[Dano]

Personally I think it's fine and prefer it to everybody getting the exact same cookie cutter results.

 

[Devrij]

Should help prevent the meta builds appearing too quickly though. I'll be playing it to see how it goes once it's out

 

[PlacidCasual]

I used to use Slopey's, but it went through a period of no longer being developed and appeared to have been dropped by Slopey. Might no longer be the case?

I switched to EDDB - Elite: Dangerous Database

I remember when slopey used to right tracker software for Jumpgate.

 

[maun]

I remember when slopey used to right tracker software for Jumpgate.

I thought his name was familiar! Couldn't put my finger on it.

Ahh JG, miss them days, such a fantastic game. I went under the alias of Nerox back then.

 

[kration]

I remember when slopey used to right tracker software for Jumpgate.

I was pretty active in JumpGate too - on as 'kration'

I was in a group known as UKM - there's a few of us in ED too.

 

[maun]

I was pretty active in JumpGate too - on as 'kration'

I was in a group known as UKM - there's a few of us in E too.

UKM sound familiar too, I was in Red Dwarfers.

 

[atomic7431]

Engineers 2.1 beta starts this thursday

 

[melchy]

Had a very brief go of the 2.1 beta earlier. Some obvious graphical improvement in planets and suns as you approach from a distance. Being contacted by the station adds a nice bit of immersion. Haven't tried a planetary landing yet, visual quality of the terrain and performance is meant to be better. We should have had galaxy map bookmarks from the start.

Hard to tell at this point how much better the AI is, but I did have a run in with a Dangerous rated NPC Python who gave me a reasonable fight. Elite AIs I think are now meant to be more difficult to kill.

 

[maxzuk]

Installing Beta now nice to come back to this game, fingers crossed.....

 

[Cavallino]

Folks, does progress with beta get saved? Or does it revert back?

I would love to get back into Elite.

 

[Dano]

Beta is completely separate to live, any progress made in beta will not carry over.

 

[Cavallino]

Beta is completely separate to live, any progress made in beta will not carry over.

Ah cheers Dano.
So is beta effectively starting from scratch?
I.e. when you log into beta do you log into your account and the progress made so far or is it a kind of separate "beta" commander?

 

[Dano]

Ah cheers Dano.
So is beta effectively starting from scratch?
I.e. when you log into beta do you log into your account and the progress made so far or is it a kind of separate "beta" commander?

It's a snapshot from sometime in the last few weeks.