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[Codger]

Cool. I don't know how I wasn't aware of this during four years of playing and subbing to Elite channels.

What happens when you achieve orbit though? Do you just end up a corpse who died screaming in the vastness of space?

You can always slow down and fall again.

But a couple of intrepid CMDRs have managed to fly to another planet and land there.

And I saw one in an Orbital station, trying to get thru the slot.

The new FSD looks intriguing then...

As I said in the other thread, I hope it uses Tritium for fuel. Now that would be comical!

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

As I said in the other thread, I hope it uses Tritium for fuel. Now that would be comical!

I know that our FSDs are allegedly reverse engineered from Thargoid tech, but I somewhat doubt that the Thargoids do use ³H at all.

 

[Frankymole]

The new FSD looks intriguing then...

What new FSD?

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

What new FSD?

The one that showed up in the update notes for today's update 18.02.

 

[Untilting]

I know that our FSDs are allegedly reverse engineered from Thargoid tech, but I somewhat doubt that the Thargoids do use ³H at all.

Maybe it uses escape pods. Would explain a lot.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Maybe it uses escape pods. Would explain a lot.

I don't think they had collected enough of those pods to fuel the Titans before they were sent out to slap us on our wrist.
Those escape pod inhabitants the Thargoids have scooped up seemed to be of importance for their next step in the war. Which we haven't seen yet. I wonder if the other Titans are now scrambling to get that phase underway in their sphere of influence.

 

[0threeleven]

That update was tiny, 223MB for me, they took the servers down for four hours because of 223MB.

 

[Zieman]

Maybe most of the work was server side?

 

[aRJay]

That update was tiny, 223MB for me, they took the servers down for four hours because of 223MB.

I suspect most of the new stuff was in U18 with this just doing the fixes and switching the module on.

 

[0threeleven]

I noticed they changed some of the colors on the FSS scanner.

 

[Codger]

The new FSD looks mostly useless to me.

It can go faster in Supercruise, but uses a ton of fuel and heats up your ship like crazy? And has less jump range than normal FSDs? And can't be engineered?

Well I guess I won't be coming back to the bubble to get one.

Maybe there is some synergy with the new, as-yet-unreleased ships. If not, then it seems like a real dud to me.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

This one will be worth it when I'm done:

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I noticed they changed some of the colors on the FSS scanner.

They did? What are you seeing? I haven't noticed... yet...

The new FSD looks mostly useless to me.

It can go faster in Supercruise, but uses a ton of fuel and heats up your ship like crazy? And has less jump range than normal FSDs? And can't be engineered?

Well I guess I won't be coming back to the bubble to get one.

Maybe there is some synergy with the new, as-yet-unreleased ships. If not, then it seems like a real dud to me.

Hmm. Sounds not so good then.

 

[0threeleven]

They did? What are you seeing? I haven't noticed... yet...

The gas giants are now a yellow/gold color and the smaller rocky planets are a gray color, the distant stars within the system are red instead of blue. I'm not sure if it's a computer setting or maybe I'm finally getting dementia. The turquoise and white is still there for asteroids and some planets I haven't had a chance to see the others yet.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Interesting! I'll keep an eye out...

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

The gas giants are now a yellow/gold color and the smaller rocky planets are a gray color, the distant stars within the system are red instead of blue. I'm not sure if it's a computer setting or maybe I'm finally getting dementia. The turquoise and white is still there for asteroids and some planets I haven't had a chance to see the others yet.

Sounds like we get an update for EDHM with some new settings available...

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Well, that planet alone netted me:

(I had a couple of small items already so I'm estimating ~320mCR)

The osseus was a complete smee hee; that third sample took longer than the last ice age to find. I, therefore, gave it the respect it was due when I finally happened upon it and let it eat hot AR-50 ammunition. No picture provided in case the finat of heart are disturbed.

And this was new bio for me - clypeus speculumi

 

[Dormant account - pls delete]

Just arrived at a planet and found it suggested NINE probes. I really feel like I've only had 7 or below for terrestrial and 13 or above for GG.

And sure enough it's 9.2 Earth masses. I really don't think I saw one before!

Water geysers but sadly not landable...

 

[Zieman]

The gas giants are now a yellow/gold color and the smaller rocky planets are a gray color, the distant stars within the system are red instead of blue. I'm not sure if it's a computer setting or maybe I'm finally getting dementia. The turquoise and white is still there for asteroids and some planets I haven't had a chance to see the others yet.

Looks like they swapped the colours back like they were before, before they mucked them up with EDO.
Never understood red water worlds, great to see them back being blue.

 

[0threeleven]

Looks like they swapped the colours back like they were before, before they mucked them up with EDO.
Never understood red water worlds, great to see them back being blue.

That was before my time, hence the confusion. Thanks for the clarification.