Gutted - but congratulations to the winners!
Elite Dangerous: Tourist Beacon Competition Winners Announced!
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Thanks for the opportunity to create new beacons. Now I have new places to visit, including the ones that didn't make the cut!
sallymorganmoore
Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Let's make sure we do more of these kinds of things, because alllllll your efforts were amazing. Huge o7
@sallymorganmoore If I could ask, are the beacon names going to be chosen by the devs? Or are they going to have the name given in the submission? (if the winner had given one). Thanks!
sallymorganmoore
Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Heya!
I haveeeeee just been informed that there are indeed two winners that need adding to the table (this is...an exciting time), which I'll put in right now!
Unfortunately we couldn't include their images in the video because they weren't quite at the right resolution but worthy winners none the less. One secondddd...
Original post does say approximately 50, but 2 more I guess!
I WON!!!!
YAY!
I'M SO HAPPY!
My beacon is a earth like inside of a planetary nebula near the core of the galaxy! It's the most incredible find I have ever had in this game and I've found things like earth likes orbiting a ringed neutron star lol
YAY!
I'M SO HAPPY!
My beacon is a earth like inside of a planetary nebula near the core of the galaxy! It's the most incredible find I have ever had in this game and I've found things like earth likes orbiting a ringed neutron star lol
Yay!
Elite Dangerous: Tourist Beacon Competition Winners Announced! Update 1.4 incoming
sallymorganmoore
Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
LITERALLY HOW I FELT.
Even the competitions have patch notes \o/
sallymorganmoore
Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Never agreeing to do one of these again :')
Great submissions everyone! And cheers to the CMs for a fun contest and for combing through them all.
Sure did. When the call came out I knew exactly what system I wanted to submit, and when I looked at it in the orrery view I saw that I had about two days to get out there to get the shot I wanted! Fortunately mine is only 8 kylies out, some folks flew a lot farther.
sallymorganmoore
Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Hello! It'll be the same as previous times where the beacon is the site name from dev and the Commander's name will then be in the description, liiiiiiiiiike (just looking through some of the previous ones as an example):
Site name: Stars in A Line
Description: "The renowned explorer, Commander Ozric, suggests that within this system you get the most amazing view of virtually all the companion stars stretching out above you."
Like that
Hello! It'll be the same as previous times where the beacon is the site name from dev and the Commander's name will then be in the description, liiiiiiiiiike (just looking through some of the previous ones as an example):
Site name: Stars in A Line
Description: "The renowned explorer, Commander Ozric, suggests that within this system you get the most amazing view of virtually all the companion stars stretching out above you."
Like that
Just trying to clarify. Does FD do the short description or can we submit our own?
Sounds like FDev will write the description (good job too, I wouldn't care to have to translate my write-up into all five(?) languages ED supports) and, at their discretion, draw from what you wrote in your submission for the name or other text.
If you really want to get your own description out there, it might be worth submitting a POI to the Galactic Mapping Project (i.e. the EDSM folks). They don't normally accept stuff like ringed ELWs anymore (too many candidates) but having a visitor's beacon might put it over the line for being sufficiently notable.
Approximate map of the new beacons (some of the systems are not in EDSM!)
