David Braben Powerplay AMA

[Daeron]

Where is the Imperial Courier compared to let us say a Cobra. Hehe...

 

[DonMiguel]

As an explorer, something that unbalances the role is the loss of data upon ship loss. Exploration, unlike any other role, can take up weeks or even months of time and all the invested time in the role can be lost in an instant through no fault of a pilot (coming out of hyperspace in the heat well of celestial objects or you get back to populated space and have someone blow you out of the sky just be a jerk).

With the galnet feed ability to transmit throughout the galaxy, is there no way for explorers to transmit their data back (maybe with penalities) in case of ship damage where they are faced with losing their time investment? Backup the data to a wingmate (promoting group play), or directly transmit to a pre-defined station, or maybe introduce a "comm relay" drone type that has to be placed every 1000ly or something so it's relayed back to the HQ or those wingmates. Nothing sucks more in this game than spending days and weeks only to have your data lost like that. It ruins the role for many.

 

[fuub]

Will there be group missions?

 

[ScienceWoona]

Is there a chance we could someday get faction alligned decals? I like that I can display my combat ranking on my ship but i'd like it even more if I could put an Imperial symbol or two on the sides.

 

[knowles2]

Will powers have elections and coup d'état, civil wars?

 

[David Braben]

Mr Braben,

Are there any plans for 1.3 to have any new/improved/balanced weapon modules? Many of us are curious at to the future of weaponry in Elite: Dangerous

For some of the Powers we are looking at Power-specific modules and weapons. More info to come. <<< Announcement. ;-)

 

[magillag]

Unlike community goals, Powerplay is a swinging balance - ie solo players are also balancing solo players.

Excellent!

I read this to mean that there will be separating story lines depending on whether you're play in to solo or Open! Correct?

 

[theEmohawk]

Are there any updates to news about the API? I know myself and many talented programmers engaging in Elite are super excited about it. I already have a 3D route visual program for exploration set up, all I need are those API calls for coordinates!

Thanks for the great game.

I look forward to you finishing the work on this when the API is released.

 

[dannysquid]

For some of the Powers we are looking at Power-specific modules and weapons. More info to come. <<< Announcement. ;-)

Ooh. Interesting.

 

[Adept]

When we have declared for a power, will that show to other players as they scan us? And actually, are there plans to let us do the same for minor factions in the future. I'd love to be able to have a home system.

 

[Sylo]

Where can I watch this, please? Or is it only here on the forum? (sorry, new member here)

Was a huge fan of Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, by the way Great to see a new gorgeous game in the series released!

 

[MikeSnos]

For some of the Powers we are looking at Power-specific modules and weapons. More info to come. <<< Announcement. ;-)

Cue MB rushing over to take the keyboard away!

 

[pippo]

Hello David,
Will new characters come into the game (i.e. new senators and politicians) and to what scale?

 

[MikeSnos]

Where can I watch this, please? Or is it only here on the forum? (sorry, new member here)

Was a huge fan of Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, by the way Great to see a new gorgeous game in the series released!

only here on the forum.... Join in

 

[David Braben]

Evening David

Me and my father have been wondering if you guys at FD where going to add in a system orrery for in game orbits and such?
The dance of planets and seeing the revolutions of a double binary system in motion or whatever the system contains would be an amazing thing to add depth to the game and to exploring for each individual system.

Anyway thankyou for your time
Off to the black i go
I would hope most of the data is there from generating the great old milky, so implementing it hopefully would be easier....

It is still on the list...

 

[Arubeto]

For some of the Powers we are looking at Power-specific modules and weapons. More info to come. <<< Announcement. ;-)

That's awesome! More personality to individual factions/powers is so much appreciated!

 

[GIF]

Good day, David. Thanks for the Elite.
It's a question from a russian players. Now Galnet News translate on russian language after few days. It's not so good to people, who don't speak English and they prefer play on russian. PowerPlay give us more content, more news and players will be more involved in galaxy. Can we hope that the news will be translated in a timely manner , by the date of their release ?

 

[fuub]

Will there be more viable things to do instead of just bounty hunting in RES, how it is currently?

 

[MikeSnos]

It is still on the list...

Yay... you've made many of us Alpha backers very happy!

 

[MrReynolds]

Multi-strand missions on the horizon?
At it's simplest: Do this, then that, dock here, then finally this.