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Alec Turner

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Trending: appreciation thread for FD's bigggg sandbox (and some "glass mostly empty" whiners)

Also: just wanted to remind people about Factabulous' excellent Thargoid FAQ in the "Science and mystery" section which is going from strength to strength and now includes a timeline in post #2.

Also also: having just watched the William Baines talk I'm definitely going to link the page Alex suggested with the videos of all the expo talks in it.

Also3: terrific "Crematoria" video by Cmdr Phoebia (been meaning to showcase this one for a while)
 
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Alec Turner

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Trending: Five years since David Walsh made the following announcement on these very forums ...


Originally Posted by David Walsh
Everyone: thank you for your patience.

We should have some exciting news for you within the next couple of hours..


David Walsh said:
Here it is - hope you like:

Frontier Developments has launched a Kickstarter UK project “Elite: Dangerous”.

A High-end, Multi-player Sequel to the Classic Open-world Space Trading / Combat Game Featuring Multi-Player and More to be Released Early 2014.

"This is the game I have wanted Frontier to make for a very long time. The next game in the Elite series - an amazing space epic with stunning visuals, incredible gameplay and breath-taking scope, and also fully multi-player." said Frontier founder and CEO David Braben. "Frontier has been working on this project, in the background, for several years now, building a foundation of technology and tools. Imagine what is now possible, squeezing the last drop of performance from modern computers in the way the previous games did in their days? It is not only a question of raw performance, though of course this will make it a gorgeous and incredibly rich experience, but we are pushing the multi-player networking implementation too."

"Kickstarter is great because as long as we hit the threshold, it commits us to making the game." added Braben. "From where we are now, £1.25M/$2M will get us the minimum game based on our tech and artist-directed procedural generation techniques, but I am of course hoping we can get more than that as it will allow us to be even more ambitious and potentially cover other platforms - the community of contributors will be part of the discussion about the specifics of any such decisions."

We’re absolutely committed to working with you on this development. Please, please contribute in any way you can, and help us spread the word – this is a game we’d LOVE to make!! Here’s the link to Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...lite-dangerous
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Alec Turner

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Trending: new video series on the Physics of Elite: Dangerous

Also - added a cool new reddit post on optimising your materials and data storage (in "Useful reference lists") and added a link to a really interesting new dynamic voice controlled music system from Game Music Packs (in "Controller accessories, add-ons and other tools to improve the ED experience").
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Added Cmdr Arithon's new collection of vector graphic icons for all of the ED vehicles into the "Misc' other useful and/or interesting links" section.

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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Trending: Things in the game you've always wondered about, some of them rhetorical! (e.g. why don't air trafiic controllers ever sleep, how come the pilot of a T9 is asked to "make way for bigger vessels") and some of them not (what does "SLOW DOWN" mean, what are the concentric circles around a planet).
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Trending: Elite Dangerous writing context, more INRA bases found & how to land like a boss.

Also, given MadRaptor's awesome collection of 360° panoramic screenshots a permanent home in the screenshots section.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Trending: "Discovery Scanner" a huge success + new Buckyball Race to celebrate the Winged Hussars 2nd birthday

Also given the "gameplay videos" thread a permanent home in the "Screenshots and videos" section.

Edit: "Laser Cops" by Ghost Giraffe ... 'nuff said!
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Trending: new AX Taipan Fighter

Also added "Eduardo" (a nice, easy to use, engineer/crafting assistant) to the "3rd party sites and tools" section.
 
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