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(Won't stop 'em though :D )
 
Just catching up on this thread - I may have misunderstood (or taken out of context) a few remarks but to be clear, the "new feature" (the one that's been discussed over here and which is widely rumoured to be base building) is not arriving with tomorrow's update. The Ascendancy update introduces PowerPlay 2.0 and the Mandalay (and possibly whatever Cocijo has up its sleeve) into the game, Wednesday's Frontier Unlimited livestream will tell us what the new feature is going to be.
 
Just catching up on this thread - I may have misunderstood (or taken out of context) a few remarks but to be clear, the "new feature" (the one that's been discussed over here and which is widely rumoured to be base building) is not arriving with tomorrow's update. The Ascendancy update introduces PowerPlay 2.0 and the Mandalay (and possibly whatever Cocijo has up its sleeve) into the game, Wednesday's Frontier Unlimited livestream will tell us what the new feature is going to be.
As far as I know, this is correct.
 
Any news on launch-time?
Nothing official that I would be aware of yet, but guessing from the last few updates in the last years:
  • servers down at 8:00 UTC
  • servers expected to be up at 12:00 UTC
  • server initialization delayed to 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:30 UTC
  • immediate crash of AWS (well, at least it's not Black Friday...), throttling download rate to 500 kb/s (except for CMDR Thrust from Bradford, who already has the downloaded the update)
  • followed by immediate crash of the forums as everyone comes here to complain about their download speed
 
Just catching up on this thread - I may have misunderstood (or taken out of context) a few remarks but to be clear, the "new feature" (the one that's been discussed over here and which is widely rumoured to be base building) is not arriving with tomorrow's update. The Ascendancy update introduces PowerPlay 2.0 and the Mandalay (and possibly whatever Cocijo has up its sleeve) into the game, Wednesday's Frontier Unlimited livestream will tell us what the new feature is going to be.
Maybe they will have something about the new PC2 Space Base ride and how you build it.

are we there yet
We are there but not when.
 
Nothing official that I would be aware of yet, but guessing from the last few updates in the last years:
  • servers down at 8:00 UTC
  • servers expected to be up at 12:00 UTC
  • server initialization delayed to 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:30 UTC
  • immediate crash of AWS (well, at least it's not Black Friday...), throttling download rate to 500 kb/s (except for CMDR Thrust from Bradford, who already has the downloaded the update)
  • followed by immediate crash of the forums as everyone comes here to complain about their download speed
And Fleet Carriers jumping in 75 minutes because, apparently, everyone will feel the need to jump there and then.
 

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More starter ships is also a possibility, though with the Type-8 taking the "freighter" role they've got most of the existing professions covered already.
There were no new prebuilts in the beta build - and there have been previously. Partners also got them to test. This time we only got Mandaley.

Unless fdev decided not to bother us with any new prebuilts to focus the preview on Manda and PP2, there probably won't be any new "old" prebuilts.

Nothing official that I would be aware of yet, but guessing from the last few updates in the last years:
  • servers down at 8:00 UTC
  • servers expected to be up at 12:00 UTC
  • server initialization delayed to 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:30 UTC
  • immediate crash of AWS (well, at least it's not Black Friday...), throttling download rate to 500 kb/s (except for CMDR Thrust from Bradford, who already has the downloaded the update)
  • followed by immediate crash of the forums as everyone comes here to complain about their download speed
This is potentially a more substantial update, I'd up the downtime a bit tbh 😀
 
There were no new prebuilts in the beta build - and there have been previously. Partners also got them to test. This time we only got Mandaley.

Unless fdev decided not to bother us with any new prebuilts to focus the preview on Manda and PP2, there probably won't be any new "old" prebuilts.


This is potentially a more substantial update, I'd up the downtime a bit tbh 😀
I would suggest they are overly optimistic about FC jump times as well, they might not be down to 75 minutes by Wednesday.
 
There were no new prebuilts in the beta build - and there have been previously. Partners also got them to test. This time we only got Mandaley.

Unless fdev decided not to bother us with any new prebuilts to focus the preview on Manda and PP2, there probably won't be any new "old" prebuilts.


This is potentially a more substantial update, I'd up the downtime a bit tbh 😀
I'd start a game where one forum question about when the game will be back up means one drink, but I'm pretty sure this update would end up killing me if I did that.

Personally I'm expecting one of those updates where there's going to be a bit of, shall we say, further optimisation before things are as they should be too. It's going to be big, it's going to impact a lot of different things and it's going to change existing gameplay.
 
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