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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Couple of cool things caught my eye/ear yesterday.

Primetime Casual is back with a promo for his Elite: Dangerous farewell expedition which promises to be a poignant but fascinating watch.

Source: https://youtu.be/hp45tB5fcsA


And Wotherspoon and Beetlejude's always excellent Galnet News Digest released an especially amusing extra episode entitled "Oolite Rewrite".

www.listennotes.com

The Oolite Rewrite - Galnet News Digest (podcast)

00:04:25 - In this extra episode, the scribbling senator rewrites history, and we round up the week’s other main stories.Information about Drew Wagar’s rewritt…
www.listennotes.com www.listennotes.com

Plus, since I just spotted it and I'm already here, Frontier just released detailed figures and explanations for the recent cuts in Anti-Xeno combat bond payouts that snuck in unannounced with update 14.02.

Information Regarding AX Combat Bond Reward Revisions

Greetings Commanders, Along with Update 14.02, as many of you are aware, there came some changes to AX combat bond reward values. We're aware that this information was not provided as either update notes, nor did it come with prior warning ahead of the release, for which we truly apologise...
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Warning: you will waste more time than you initially think you will playing this!


New personal best!
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Oh, and speaking of daft (but nevertheless pretty amusing) high scores, Cmdr Spatula breaks the ship heat record and hits 1,000,000% heat!
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Source: https://youtu.be/t3whevRYOKM
 
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I also seem to spend more time staring at the stars than at my feet... ;]
 

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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
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Many people might remember Cmdr Arithon's wonderful collection of ship blueprints. Sadly he's subsequently left and taken the blueprints with him. Luckily @Velko Vidich has been producing new ones and has just released a whole set of incredibly detailed Krait Phantom blueprints for our enjoyment.

Ships - Krait - My Blueprints and Deck plans for Krait Phantom

o7 Commanders I didn`t get the chanse to upload my Krait Panton blueprints till now, but here They are. There are two pages missing the cover page and general display. You can fiend hi resolution on my Reddit profile and PDF on my Patreon account.
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DBX blueprints now available!

Ships - My DBX blueprints and deck plans

O7 commanders here are my latest blueprints of Diamondback explorer.
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Following on from this week's Lave Radio discussion on flight control systems, there's a terrific forum thread going at the moment with some really informative posts on the subject (link takes you to a particularly excellent summation of one person's HOTAS journey).

Should I get a joystick?

Since I started with a PS5 and thus learned to play the game with a controller, and then moved to the PC, I'm using an Xbox One controller to play the game (with a few functions bound to keyboard keys). I have been semi-seriously considering the prospect of buying a joystick, as I read that...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Today's little thing I wanted to highlight is this fabulous detailed catalogue of all the different forms of exobiological flora from the Deep Space Network.



Exobiological Flora - Deep Space Network

This page references knowledge of biological species found on the surface of planets. Detailed species sheets by genus: Note: many of the images presented in this flora were provided by CMDRs who participated in the Artemis Biological Survey, an expedition organised by the DSN. Many thanks...
ed-dsn.net ed-dsn.net

Click on each species to get a detailed and beautifully illustrated list of all the different sub-species and colour variants along with full descriptions, conditions of occurence, value and minimum sampling distance. I remember the criticisms (myself included) when this feature first came out about how limited and hand crafted it all "seemed" considering what procedural generation ought to be capable of. I think I have to retract that ... as we've delved deeper and uncovered more and more species and varieties it's become apparent that the scope of what Frontier implemented here was actually pretty damn impressive!
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Nick's bloomin' marvellous lego station interiors now all available to view on the forum!

Lego Station Interiors!

I have been taking the time to re-create station interiors in Lego, or rather digital Lego. I'll be updating this thread with images as and when I render them out. This is the Social Space interior for Orbis, Coriolis and Ocellus Starports.
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Fantastic new video from @Rosefine documenting the Ram Tah Guardian mission stuff.

Source: https://youtu.be/ESjE1UCASvk


Also wanted to shout out this week's Guard Frequency podcast where they get a couple of professional QA testers on to talk about the QA process. Now this is in relation to the the recent Star Citizen 3.18 update but if you listen to it hearing "Odyssey launch" every time they say "3.18" then I think it's equally relevant and a genuinely fascinating insight into this oft maligned and misunderstood side of the software industry. As a little bit of context for one aspect of this discussion which is perhaps less relevant to Odyssey, a big issue with the SC 3.18 update was that CIG wanted beta testers to stress test the release but didn't get enough people to do it so went ahead and released the update live in order to get the data they needed (with somewhat disastrous consequences). Anyway, that's by the by really (and I don't want to get into a SC discussion), but it's a really good listen nevertheless.

guardfrequency.com

Guard Frequency Episode 436 | Lickable Fish

Cits and Civs, Captains and Commanders, you’re tuned to episode 436 of Guard Frequency — the best damn space sim podcast ever! This episode was recorded on Friday, March 17 and released…
guardfrequency.com guardfrequency.com
Fast forward to 4:46 for the start of the discussion.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Just a quick mention that @CapitanAceRimmer's excellent collection of Elite Dangerous utilities (ways to find interesting and/or useful stuff nearest to a given system) has moved from its old "hozbase" domain to a new "azurewebsites" domain but is otherwise still alive, well and most excellent.

Home - Elite Dangerous Utilities

A bunch of utilities to help find various Elite Dangerous in-game resources and things of interest/fun.
elitedangerousutilities.azurewebsites.net elitedangerousutilities.azurewebsites.net
 
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