Elite: General talk
04 Dec 2024, 7:49pm
It did cross a (straight line) distance of 189 light years in just about a week, but the actual distance travelled is probably slightly higher than that as it passes by stars in its travel and so has to diverge to follow the path they offer. If you consider the actual distances of space involved, compared/relative to the mode of travel... yeah, it's pretty damn fast.
04 Dec 2024, 9:18pm
Who or whatever is behind this can take a walk into the nearest fire pit. This was not an issue until one of the recent compatibility patches, or maybe not even until today (and I definitely didn't run it through any updates - deliberately/myself - since Thursday). Maybe I'll just remove the thing and suffer the oranges until more is known...
... and if this is more suited to the off-topic section feel free to move it there. Just figured it's worth pointing out in case it isn't just some idiotic joke or false flag.
*Apparently it is just Windows programs being idiots. As usual.
We have confirmed on our end that this is a false positive from Windows Defender.
Yesterday Defender gave alerts then nothing until tonight and then nothing again.
We are investigating possible solutions on our end to resolve the issue as quickly as possible, but it may be necessary to wait for Defender to update on all systems, hoping that it will stop acting up.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-hud-mod-edhm.557033/post-10499382
Last edit: 04 Dec 2024, 9:27pm
05 Dec 2024, 7:02pm
05 Dec 2024, 7:27pm
1) Titan parked above Earth begins orbital bombardment by hurling asteroids at the Earth. Players have to intercept the asteroids around the titan, or in designated CZs where the asteroids are being staged. So, now do you not only need to defend against thargoid ships, but you need a few people with seismic launchers to break up the asteroids before they are launched and destroy large population centers.
2) Stations and settlements attacked by the thargys which do not reach a certain repair percentage in a given amount of time are permanently destroyed, or there are ongoing CGs to rebuild them.
3) Salvation reappears and says "Hold my beer."
05 Dec 2024, 7:51pm
I’d really just like some kind of more permanent consequences to an attack like this instead of everything merrily going through an automated repair cycle and then it’s as if nothing ever happened. Or for a Titan to actually do something more to avoid getting reduced to roasted chunks of machinery and organic… stuff. Like if this just runs on a week (maybe two if the invasion clearance is slow or does not get to the controlled systems, or the Titan holds another trump card) it would barely even be a disruption from the usual.
Other than “Sol”, which is less important than the Titan supposedly going on a major offensive into the core of human space, there isn’t really much going for this while the two [probably] specifically targeted locations appear to be unlikely to be captured (which I am fine with for Duamta but I’d have loved to see Sirius burn).
05 Dec 2024, 8:23pm
Vasil VasilescuI think there would be a better sense of urgency if the attack did not seem like every other Thargoid attack. A few ideas that might have made things more interesting, but which would have required major development work:
1)...but you need a few people with seismic launchers to break up the asteroids before they are launched and destroy large population centers.
Forget about such complex missions, they can't fix/create simplier things.
05 Dec 2024, 9:12pm