Elite: Game talk

Rayman.
today, 6:42am
Kasumi Goto
Rayman.nah, not enough real axi cmdrs and too many lazy donkeys refuusing to do vents bombing. Otherwise Raijin would die now.


If you’ll read this thread, the consensus seems to be shifting more toward “Frontier doing Frontier things keeping the Titan alive”.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/did-you-guys-increase-the-health-of-raijin-or.628786/

And if Frontier actually cared more about the whole Titan arc it would not have devolved into a stale, boring cleanup job to keep some of the players occupied while they work on the Power Pissing Play contest. Like supporting the narrative and making there be reasons to feel invested in it instead of “Well, this is the main thing to do right now”, because (<---) this, alone, gets boring. I’ve seen more chatter about things in the two days we’ve had these GalNet articles about something happening than in some time regarding anything lore relevant.

Not counting Powerplay 2 talk because Frontier is making publicity about it so of course attention will be directed at that.


ah ofc classic frontier but atleast free arx for mandalay
Meowers
today, 7:05am
Emily Valeforhopefully keep the lights on for frontier
I'd say, if you visit their website, Elite is the last of those big 'showcase' tiles of the games they're working on. You can click for ages on the button below to load more articles and press releases to find anything Elite-related. Watch the video they keep running under the 'Welcome to Frontier' text, it's like 15s long looped thing and it features an entire second (or even less lol) of Pee Mk2 footage. Maybe it's a coincidence, and I'm simply overthinking, maybe not. Yet I'm convinced that Frontier should do fine with their dinocoasters-manager games, in case lights go out here. Maybe sunk cost fallacy effect is what really helping Elite.

Last edit: 22 Oct 2024, 7:13am
Kasumi Goto
today, 7:11am
The best thing I can say there is that apparently Elite is covering its development costs when people smarter than me quote those financial reports Frontier makes.

... which doesn't mean much given the current pace of the game, but I guess it is better than not having it.
Thinder
today, 11:33am
Meowersin case lights go out here. Maybe sunk cost fallacy effect is what really helping Elite.

I don't think they will let this happen, we tend to forget the effort put into developing new ships and change of policies with selling the premiums.

They have plans for ED, but not a revolution, rather an evolution with the development team they have now, now let's hope they look at the on foot game including VR because at the moment it's just a turn off for VR players...

Ascendancy & Mandalay release date update
AH
today, 2:58pm
Check the scanned bodies layer on edastro.com/galmap before you get too exited about the centre. It has been scanned to shreds.
Sakashiro
today, 3:07pm
AH
DanteUniversal
AH5D Frame Shift Drive (SCO)
Increased range (5)
Stripped Down




why?
"A" module is better
Increased range (5) is ok
don't use Stripped Down but mass manager



A5 would have been better but mass manager hits the integrity and for what? 0.5 ly? It's not worth it. FSD would be toast in 20 or so neutron star jumps.
I should have used Double braced. Integrity to 127 from 93. Probably have given me few more jumps before the FSD is toast and stewardess starts screaming "Hull breach! FSD failure! We are going down! Eject, EJECT!...Oops, never mind, FSD is back online".

The reason why you get only 0.5 Ly out of Mass Manager is because your ship doesn't jump very far in the first place. Unlike the Guardian FSD Booster which adds a flat amount of Ly to your jump range, Mass Manager adds a percentage. And using a neutron star quadruples your range, including the part added by Mass Manager.

Keep in mind, even if a star is only 0.5 Ly out of reach, the next best one may be much closer, so you lose much more than just 0.5 Ly. In regions with low star density, a few missing Ly may be the difference between flying a straight course and taking a huge detour.

Always take Mass Manager. It's a no-brainer really.

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