“Willow, I hope you did not go around sniffing the seats to get those pheromones. While I admire the effort to get the job done, that would be a bit... extreme.”

Vasil pushed the Umbrella into supercruise and started plotting a course out of the system.

“Bargaining with known criminals is also a bit extreme, but it seems to be the most direct path to the information we need. I’ll get Maul back to his ship and put the Umbrella in dry dock for repairs. What say we meet back at Willow’s shop and work out the best way to approach the Ophois?”

Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits... None will stop Duty on its triumphant march towards saving the planet!

The World fears The Zones expansion. Join Duty and save the innocent.

Stalker, protect the world from The Zone. Join Duty.

Aw, thank you. Completely forgot about its existence, it helped me a couple times a long ago, but now I have no real use for it. May try next time. But, yeah, in general, doing something together in a PG is full of Frontier Brand Suffering.

Tired of your Duty superiors pushing you around? Your Freedom fellows are perpetually stoned and can't do a thing? Old fart professor sends you to the same stale bog with a crappy gadget day by day and delays your payments? Army officers keep you on the most rickety and mossy guard tower every time you aren't cleaning toilets? Lost your last pair of good boots to the anomaly and everyone thinks you're hopeless?

Change your life now!

We have guns! Cool guns, not those garbage rods everyone uses! Forget your poop-stained old suit, here's your new and stylish one! Welcome to our badass place, so badass that nobody else has the balls to live here! Also you will get: purpose, unity, camaraderie, and our rave parties are absolutely unmatched. Join Monolith! Call +380-BRAIN-BURN!

I tended to gravitate towards Duty or to just be a Loner.

It seems it's no different than all the other updates: https://downdetector.com/status/elite-dangerous/

Well, NOW we can say we have server issues...

Hello, that's correct as they cannot be engineered. Or something has changed and they can be a subject of engineering now? I didn't check these lately...


Hello, thanks for the report. When you have left the power, did you changed it manually, imported the game data via button on your Commander page or the update was made via API through some app like EDMC? If the last option was the case, it looks like a problem on its end.

To be honest, I don't know why this blueprint would be there.
But it is in the general list of "Blueprints & upgrades"

Hello,

Bug: If you pledge to a power and later leave the power, the Power field on your profile in Inara is not set to "Independent".

I hexed it



Did you try to go through the main menu, using the "stuck recovery" option? That usually solves these problems and puts you in your ship into orbit. Not sure why that happened though. I never encountered it but heard from other people that sometimes, this occurs.

Why, just why... Why did you say that?

So, ran into exactly this kind of buggery tonight. Two players in a PG, and in a team. Two ships. Landed on a planet next to each other, disembarked, did fun stuff on foot. Then returned, only to see that we can't enter our own ships, as there was no Brabenportation circle on the ground for the ship owners. An attempt to enter each other's ships caused error screens on both sides. Dismissing and recalling didn't help either, so had to call Apex.

(I also managed to get stuck in an SRV in a roof, but that's another story... Lol)

Guardian Nanite Torpedo is resistant to anti-guardian field by default, is it not? Why would it list to have the blueprint for it?

There are no glitches, bugs or anything. Only anomalies that crashes your game. Such a life in the zone.

Which factions u liked or prefered to play with Anomaly/Gamma mod? Mercenaries/UNISG here.

Hello.
Report:
Engineer Ram Tah: the list of "Blueprints & upgrades" does not include guardian: modules and Nanite Torpedo Pylon

Probably, forgot to put it on the list for this engineer

Jumping to supercruise, Willow missed a little of what was said between Maul and Vasil, but she picked up the jist of it.

"Er, as long as the guy is like, the only human, and there are no human-like life forms where ever he is, the 3 of us can like, do a focused survey on even a large planet in a few days. Besides, I found enough of his genetic, and pheromone signature on his ship to make a scanner profile"

"So yeah, the GP scan only works at real close range, but its like, better than eyes and ears you know? But what ever, that only matters when we know where to look, right?"

Dealing with chancers, pirates and scavengers was a reality of the salvage work Willow and her family dealt with. Paying scavengers off was almost part of every large contract Thorn Reclamation took on. Pirates were business mem at the end of the day. Not working for credits was basically their thing.

"I think Vee has like, got the idea. So we used to drop off a few pods worth of high-tech goods, or valuable minerals when we had a work site we wanted the scavengers to stay away from. But the trick was always letting them know there was no more where that came from, and making sure they like, left us to it, you know?"

"And if that like, works. And we find out the dude IS way way over there" said willow pointing galactic west for no ones benefit "I am NOT neutron skipping Barb. That shit is scary AF, and it like, permanently damages the top end of a drives jump limit"

Just realized S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was released today. I'll probably wait a while for the initial bugs to get smoothed out, but I foresee myself going back into the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and trying to not be killed by the anomalies, mutants, and Monolith fanatics.

Brilliant thank you so much Kasumi Goto

I'm just not interested in Powerplay at all. Of course it's part of the Elite universe and whatnot but I've always found more of an interest in the Thargoid side of the story. Or human plot points which did not solely relate to who has the rights to dig chunks out of the big ball of ice floating at the furthest reaches of a star system.

... part of it is roleplay which I built pretty much entirely around this Thargoid stuff. And that my (main) character shares the trait of "has no interest in political scenes" [technically both don't]. And the Thargoid PvE interactions (combat or otherwise) also tend to be far more interesting than blowing up aimbotty human ships that also spam chaff every second (or two) and which generally revolves primarily around stacking shield hitpoints.

That was my reaction somewhat as well. Which is funny because I want a realistic simulation, but I also want a fun game.
I'd say that perhaps both is not possible because life isn't always a "fun game" and is often "boring".... but then I look around I realize I'd also prefer a bit more "boring" in RL machinations these days.

¯ \_(ツ)_/¯

"Powerplay November Recap ..." sounds of snoring in background

I'd rather have the next stage of the Thargoid conflict, not humans bickering over frozen balls of ice with no life or light on them, Frontier, thanks a lot.

“Hmph. My first thought was to simply ask them where they dumped Goodness. My second was wondering what we have that they might want in exchange. They’ll have the superior negotiating position if we bring nothing to the table, and I doubt an appeal to doing the right thing would get very far. They are the types to do nothing unless they see profit in it.”

Profit, Vasil knew, was a tremendous motivator. It had been the primary goal in his younger days, and to a large extent it still served as a driving force for many of his decisions. Only now he tended to look at the long-term benefits of a deal, fiscal and otherwise, rather than an immediate financial return.

He was reluctant to fall back on the simplest bartering commodity, money, or anything else that could be traced back to him. It was essentially paying a ransom to find Creamy. With ransoms being an anathema to the Vasilescus, Vasil also considered Creamy not worth the bruised reputation to the Vasilescu family or ERS if it was revealed he had dealings with known pirates.

There was also the Goodnesses to think about. Their reputation would suffer if it was revealed that the Vasilecus , not them, paid for the return of their son. Though, Octavia might have preferred having that political leverage against the Countess if it was ever needed.

“I don’t know. Maybe something like a few hundred tons of minerals might work,” said Vasil, thinking aloud. “Something they can move easy that is all profit.”

Sooo there might not be any invasion systems tomorrow? Or how should I interpret this? What a bummer if true...

Oh, I was watching. And now with a weapon raised, pointed at a spot in between both the device and whatever else I was dealing with.

Because I believed that action said more than words ever could about the uncertainty which I now faced, both due to doubts about the trust I was putting into this person in this pursuit of Azimuth's dirty works, to not stab me in the back, and what it was that stood in front of me. At this point, I could not even be sure I was actually dealing with another human.

There was no way she could deny this in my face now, not after that reaction. And even with the helmet completely obscuring my face, my general posture made it very clear that - with some of my suspicions now proven - I was only a short string off pulling the trigger and wiping both things off the face of reality with a hypersonic projectile.

Ahh.... sweet. Complete stacks of Antimony and all the other top level crap one can need.