I hope Frontier Developments won't mind this suggestion.
One of the great advantages FD has is their location in University towns.
I think having fortnightly or monthly Brown Bag lunches, each time with a different speaker invited from the local academic community would be a good way of introducing stimulating new ideas to Frontier staff working on Elite: Dangerous, and possibly assisting the academics with their own research.
For those unfamiliar with a Brown Bag lunch, it is an informal, short presentation held during a lunch hour. The "Brown Bag" refers to the packed lunch one brings, instead of going out to the pub.
How could this help E: D and the speakers?
It is stimulating in its own right, but a brief presentation, from a professor of epidemiology for example, might generate interesting ideas for a plague story line or find out about the latest tools being developed. In turn, the speaker might find a new means of modelling transmission of infection by receiving feedback from one of Frontier's programmers. The speaker might even gain a fresh insight from looking at their subject from a very new angle, that of a computer game.
One of the great advantages FD has is their location in University towns.
I think having fortnightly or monthly Brown Bag lunches, each time with a different speaker invited from the local academic community would be a good way of introducing stimulating new ideas to Frontier staff working on Elite: Dangerous, and possibly assisting the academics with their own research.
For those unfamiliar with a Brown Bag lunch, it is an informal, short presentation held during a lunch hour. The "Brown Bag" refers to the packed lunch one brings, instead of going out to the pub.
How could this help E: D and the speakers?
It is stimulating in its own right, but a brief presentation, from a professor of epidemiology for example, might generate interesting ideas for a plague story line or find out about the latest tools being developed. In turn, the speaker might find a new means of modelling transmission of infection by receiving feedback from one of Frontier's programmers. The speaker might even gain a fresh insight from looking at their subject from a very new angle, that of a computer game.
