Can't believe it's taken four pages and nobody posted it yet...
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Elite Dangerous - Community Goal FSD Reward and Modification/Application of Experimentals
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Something something pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.
I wonder if it was Frontiers intent all along to allow those who wanted a participation medal to buy the modules after the fact.
Mind you with the way this community acts when they miss things it probably was their intent to add the modules to the broker.
Hmmm I wanted to do it but like wasn't able to. I have no problem with that and don't feel penalised and besides they have already said that the modules will be made available again. which is also fine with me
They did? Where? When? The double engineered rails I got are nowhere to be found, and I did the CG about a year ago...
Honest question, I have been looking for them, but for the life of me cant find them.
I am actually genuinely shocked they didn't know this.. Mind you if I worked on it all day I sure wouldn't play it when I got home! It is understandable..but someone on the team should've spotted it. One person not knowing can be understandable but an entire team not knowing is sort of telling isn't it.
Oops my bad, I assumed you were talking about the recent CG FSD's
One thing to say that FDev doesn't play their own game - but people have been giving advice on applying experimental effects on v1 FSD on these forums for a year and no one at Frontier saw fit to check up on it?
No, CG rewards in general
Not sure what you are saying, because they didn't, or at least not all. Some were added, some not.
The overall feeling I'm getting from this thread is that FDev forgot to add the ability to add Experimentals along with any error handling for attempts at adding them, and then when pushed decided it was easier to say it was by design. Please tell me this isn't the case because it sure looks like it from where I'm standing.
Well, there have been some interesting historical examples. I could tell you more if you are interested, but going into detail would be quite off-topic in this thread.
Then there's also what I mentioned before, that nerfing jump ranges retroactively also runs the risk of stranding some Commanders. Suppose you had a maximum jump range of 52 ly, and you made a 101 ly jump (via the synthesized boost) to a system in a clump where you couldn't get out of other than the way you came... and then your maximum jump range was suddenly decreased to 50 ly. In that case, you'd have no way back and you'd be stranded on a tiny "island" of stars, through no fault of your own.
The only two options to get back safely then would be to file a support ticket asking to be moved, or arranging for a carrier to come pick you up - a rather expensive option.
Of course, so few people are out exploring the fringes of the galaxy that in practice, any retroactive lowering of jump ranges might only strand maybe one or two players. So this is mostly theoretical, but even if it only happens to one person, that Commander is definitely not going to be happy about it.
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Or self destruct. Not an ideal option, but neither are the two you suggested.
I'm misremembering, apologies.
There is an alternative method ... FSD Injection
They didn't know it could be done in the first place, got confused and are now having a huddle to work out what to do.
fdev are currently discussing
Being able to add an experimental to the double-engineered modules has been known and talked about for quite some time. Here's a post from February
forums.frontier.co.uk
The Double Engineered FSD is Insane
I just got my double engineered (grade 5 long range + fast boot) FSD and I was stunned by how better it is than my already grade 5 long range engineered one. The optimal mass value is way higher so my jump range immediately increased significantly. I went and put Mass Manager experimental effect...
True, I should have written a 101 ly jump instead, to demonstrate that there are situations where an FSD injection would not save you either. (When you used an injection to get there in the first place.) Thanks for pointing that out, I've edited my post. My point that retroactively lowering jump ranges can strand some players still stands.There is an alternative method ... FSD Injection
It's also true that self-destruct would be an option, even if a poor one: thanks to @Diwrnach for pointing that out, I edited the post to reflect that I was talking about getting back safely, not losing any exploration data in the process.
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