Elite: Game talk

01 Apr 2023, 5:17am
Digital Cloning is legit one of the oldest concepts explored in science fiction not only in cyberpunk but in a large number of classic authors of the genre
its one of my favorite technological tropes

ill be real I knew the old buzzard was too stubborn to be dead
01 Apr 2023, 9:19am
Jarvis Jameson
Yuna Sakashiro
Sampi OgonekI am pretty sure the idea has been around in sci-fi long before Cyberpunk.



Yes, but not recently, except in that game. The timing is suspicious.

I'd love to see more Guardian involvement. There's still the unexplored story of the Guardian AI that might be hiding somewhere.



I wouldn't call it suspicious either.

Transferring one's consciousness really is one of the oldest tropes in the book, and it's been a little over two years since Cyberpunk released. I don't know about you, but I struggle to call that "recent".

Frontier introduced Salvation four months after the release of Cyberpunk 2077.

I'm just teasing here. But as a matter of fact, when Salvation "died," a lot of us, including myself, predicted a resurrection and speculated about ways it may come to pass. So we're not surprised that it's happening.
01 Apr 2023, 10:22am
Fair.

Still, I wouldn't make any connection to Cyberpunk. That's probably just coincidence.

True originality is very difficult these days, as chances are, any idea you come up with, has already been done dozens of times.
01 Apr 2023, 12:14pm
Jarvis JamesonFair.

Still, I wouldn't make any connection to Cyberpunk. That's probably just coincidence.

True originality is very difficult these days, as chances are, any idea you come up with, has already been done dozens of times.

That's true.

And don't get me wrong, I don't mind that Salvation will have a comeback. He's one of the more memorable protagonists in Elite's lore, a character with some depth and a clear goal. Not a hero, but not a villain either. Would have been a waste to get rid of him too soon.
01 Apr 2023, 12:20pm
Actually Salvation is closer to Captain Ahab than to Johnny Silverhand.
02 Apr 2023, 8:14am
EDDB.io is shutting down and deleting his webpage and data. He puts it like this:

"I will not publish the source code of the site, because the quality leaves a lot to be desired and does not meet my current standards. However, I am willing to sell the domain eddb.io to interested parties. Serious offers are welcome to be sent to themroc@eddb.io."

I know that EDtools the road to riches website uses the eddb.io database and will be impacted. Does Inara.cz use the eddb.io database also?

I hope this is just an April fools joke that I caught a day late.
02 Apr 2023, 10:11am
Rich AristarchusEDDB.io is shutting down and deleting his webpage and data. He puts it like this:

"I will not publish the source code of the site, because the quality leaves a lot to be desired and does not meet my current standards. However, I am willing to sell the domain eddb.io to interested parties. Serious offers are welcome to be sent to themroc@eddb.io."

I know that EDtools the road to riches website uses the eddb.io database and will be impacted. Does Inara.cz use the eddb.io database also?

I hope this is just an April fools joke that I caught a day late.

It's not an April fools joke, themroc has decided to cease his ED activities completely. It will have no effect on Inara at all, same as on any other major tool (EDSM, Spansh, etc.), not sure about the smaller tools though. EDDN network feeding the data to tools will keep running as usual (I've took over the domain and EDDN server and its running costs).
02 Apr 2023, 11:39am
Weird question but just had this happen:

Are bounties placed on you by the Pilots' Federation Local Branch (PFLB) minor faction handled differently to other minor factions?

I ask because this is the first time I have had a bounty that I cannot pay off at an Interstellar Factors. Yes my notoriety is zero and yes I have travelled quite some distance from where the bounty was incurred. Furthermore, I can and am about to pay it off by handing myself in at Beagle 2 Landing, a station under the control of the PFLB minor faction. It's no big deal to me and I just see it as free exploration data on the trip back.

I'm just wondering, might the unavailbility to pay it off at Interstellar Factors be down to the fact that PFLB is aligened with the Pilots' Federation superpower?

Edit: Also yes, I had relogged as well. In fact, I left it overnight and came back today to see if things had changed.
02 Apr 2023, 11:51am
Jarvis JamesonWeird question but just had this happen:

Are bounties placed on you by the Pilots' Federation Local Branch (PFLB) minor faction handled differently to other minor factions?

I ask because this is the first time I have had a bounty that I cannot pay off at an Interstellar Factors. Yes my notoriety is zero and yes I have travelled quite some distance from where the bounty was incurred. Furthermore, I can and am about to pay it off by handing myself in at Beagle 2 Landing, a station under the control of the PFLB minor faction. It's no big deal to me and I just see it as free exploration data on the trip back.

I'm just wondering, might the unavailbility to pay it off at Interstellar Factors be down to the fact that PFLB is aligened with the Pilots' Federation superpower?

Edit: Also yes, I had relogged as well. In fact, I left it overnight and came back today to see if things had changed.


So, the last time this happened to me, I had to spend two hours playing in-game before they would let me pay. Honestly, I don't get it either. I ran into / did everything you outlined in your message. You could just sit for two hours in dock and try again to pay before you hand yourself over.

Would be interesting to hear from others...I'm still a fairly new player.
02 Apr 2023, 11:57am
Talon Avex
Jarvis JamesonWeird question but just had this happen:

Are bounties placed on you by the Pilots' Federation Local Branch (PFLB) minor faction handled differently to other minor factions?

I ask because this is the first time I have had a bounty that I cannot pay off at an Interstellar Factors. Yes my notoriety is zero and yes I have travelled quite some distance from where the bounty was incurred. Furthermore, I can and am about to pay it off by handing myself in at Beagle 2 Landing, a station under the control of the PFLB minor faction. It's no big deal to me and I just see it as free exploration data on the trip back.

I'm just wondering, might the unavailbility to pay it off at Interstellar Factors be down to the fact that PFLB is aligened with the Pilots' Federation superpower?

Edit: Also yes, I had relogged as well. In fact, I left it overnight and came back today to see if things had changed.



So, the last time this happened to me, I had to spend two hours playing in-game before they would let me pay. Honestly, I don't get it either. I ran into / did everything you outlined in your message. You could just sit for two hours in dock and try again to pay before you hand yourself over.

Would be interesting to hear from others...I'm still a fairly new player.


With you describing having to wait two hours, that to me sounds like you had notoriety, which is incurred by commiting a murder. In that case, having to wait two hours is in fact intended gameplay. A bad attempt at reducing ganking that really only ended up being something of a badge of honour.

In my case, this was not what happened, as the bounty I had was simply from a tresspassing incident, which doesn't incur notoriety: It isn't murder.

I already knew I could just hand myself in: I landed back at Beagle 2 first before deciding to go to an Interstellar Factors.

Just for whatever reason, it would seem that bounties placed on one's head by this particular minor faction, PFLB, cannot be paid off at an Intersteallar Factors.

Like I say the minor faction in question is aligned to the Pilots' Federation superpower, which is not at all common. In fact, I think it's the only one outside the old starter district systems. Don't quote me on that.

Was your bounty placed by the Pilots' Federation Local Branch or another minor faction?
02 Apr 2023, 4:47pm
Meowers
Yuna SakashiroDid anything interesting happen while I was away?

A bunch of quite predictable plot 'twists'. Like... We knew Salivation won't go that easily.

Yes, he found a can of WHISKAS in the Escape-Pod and now lives forever..... MEOW......
05 Apr 2023, 8:07am
Suffer not the Alien to live!!
Join the fight for Humanity!
05 Apr 2023, 12:29pm
Got a question: Are all Thargoid Barnacle sites bugged or only some?

I just tried visiting one for my first time at HYADES SECTOR AQ-Y D81, Planet C 2, and the game crashed shortly after nearing around 40km of the site.

Promptly searched this up and found reports of crashes at such sites but indicated another location.

Have managed to escape via supercruise now, but yeah, little bothered by this lol.
05 Apr 2023, 9:39pm
Jarvis JamesonGot a question: Are all Thargoid Barnacle sites bugged or only some?


I'm farming Meta-Alloys from Barnacle sites on on Musca Dark Region PJ-P b6-1 3, done a few other planets with them, no problems.

So no not all.
05 Apr 2023, 9:55pm
Cheers, I'll try there.

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