David Braben has only one green box?! Sacrilege, surely he should have hundreds of them......
Brodie = Crafting
"Has any (more) thought been put into Crafting within Elite Dangerous?
I'd love to mine the required resources and then deposit it them into a rented factory along with a blueprint and make my own missiles etc"
There is already a sort of crafting loop in Premium Beta 1 - for example coltan is mined, then taken to be refined into tantalum, then turned into high-tech goods. Down the line mining machines (as featured in Frontier) and similar elements will be introduced, but that will most likely be after the first release.
Sure, I'm just trying the keep the questions separate, so the only questions in the thread are the ones that have been answered.I take it that we are allowed to congratulate David Braben and the development team on their excellent work so far. Can we say that on this thread?
Michael
From this I take it that the amount of tantalum being produced is related to the amount of coltan being sold to the station? Or is this just being mocked at the moment?
(various) "Can I be found in the Premium Beta, and what is my commander name?"
My commander name is Commander Braben, and yes - I am there from time to time.
Well then congratulations on your excellent work so far
(Hey! I remember the flood of messages on Kickstarter. This will be peanuts compared to that)
It seemed a good idea at the time, not working so well though.
Michael
David Braben said:Having said that, the galactic centre is not a very interesting place as there will be very few (if any) planets.
How very dare you sir !
That planet needs a location called 'Tannu Tuva'.In Frontier there were plenty of tributes too - for example to the wonderful late Richard Feynman - the planet "Feynman" as the nearest exoplanet to Earth.