Since much discussion is generated on the topic of DB said this, or MB said that, etc I posted my compilation of FDev source references on the Quest for Raxxla thread for others to use. It was suggested that it should be in its own thread for everyone to access & I’m happy to oblige. Please feel free to add your own source references as and when. Perhaps we’ll eventually figure out who uttered that important little nugget of information that clarifies life, Stella (intentional codex-related pun) Forge, and Raxxla! (I was going to say “life, the universe and everything” but it’s already been done; the answer was 42 
).
Edit: my intention is for this thread to act solely as a repository of source references, with no discussion-I would ask people to start their own threads for that.
Edit2: When I started this thread by pasting in my list of FDev reference source vids (plus my notes) the forum software expanded the urls to show the start of the video, which then seems to really slow down the page update and makes it a little buggy. Having taken advice (I’m an Internet antiquated luddite ) the only way to stop that expansion happening seems to be to remove the ”https://” from the start of each url, so have done so. The remaining part of each link still seems to work if pasted into my ios Safari browser “paste & search” so guess it will be the same for others.
Woohoo! The forum software inserts these shortened urls in brown text and automatically expands them when clicked. I’ve learnt something new!
CAUTION!
These references are for historical interest and lore research only. Clearly the game design and implementation may well have changed since some of these statements were made!
ED-relevant quotes/videos
2014 EGX appearance and presentation by DB between Beta 1 release & Beta 2 due a few days after.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOUQN_qaHI&t=1240s
talks about hunting animals on distant worlds but most interesting for us here talks about Ocellus Stations being designed to have engines fitted and 'driven' to the System for various reasons such as a gold-rush mining location....could explain the DW Station and may even suggest its moving within / between Systems, like some of the Gen Ships did before being discovered.
03 Nov 2014 The Making of Elite: Dangerous
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v7jP2drkUXE
DB “With Elite Dangerous we’ve not been hung up on being true to the original Elite, or to Frontier. The priority has been to make a great game”
2014 LaveRadio broadcasts, bit of background lore
First is Inside Games Showcase
laveradio.com/outside-broadcast-pt1-elite-dangerous-development-talk/
Second is LR interview with DB afterwards
laveradio.com/outside-broadcast-pt2-david-braben-interview/
Michael Brookes forum post Jun11 2014. All things Frontier Developments at E3 2014!:
Not all stars have planets, but then again not all planets have suns either
forums.frontier.co.uk
Confirms possibility of Rogue Planets in-game?
MB “The game has always had some stations orbiting comets”
forums.frontier.co.uk
MB livestream Join the Elite - Everything You Need to Know About Exploration
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaoem7l1Qwg&list=PL7glm5rbPHKzvx5VahoQOb_7kz9aHU0sk&index=69
There are some comments by Michael Brookes at the following times.
13:45 MB comment about infinite range of ADS making things too easy
29:11 MB mention of extragalactic clusters
40:57 MB mentions highly-inclined 'rare stuff'
Grinning_Crow interviews Arthur Tomlie: www.twitch.tv/videos/994802546
starts around 8m in, questions start at 24:50
(16:00) Arthur leads the ED grand narrative/Galnet team
(26:00) where’s Raxxla? It’s out there, the payoff would have to be great
(29:20) FD do look at what players have done & it affects the storylines. But Arthur prefers slow storyline build ups.
(39:00) Hesperus is just the start of the story. DB is the lore guru & has the last word.
(1:14:20) start of aliens discussion. One race is historic (“treading very carefully here...their story is not over”)-implies some ongoing involvement e.g. via descendants &/or AI??). They were super advanced technologically so have to be careful how this is handled.
The other race- “there are a lot of preconceived ideas about Thargoids”
(1:24:00) “Survivorman” -there are a lot of human crash sites where logs show bad decisions were made; one mentions a weird gravitational anomaly...”Odyssey will open up new storyline possibilities”
(1:39:40) Arthur is keen on player decisions/actions having consequences.There will be hidden switches in game.
(1:45:40) Don’t accept anything on face value, evidence should be investigated.
(1:49:44) GC mentioned the long standing rumour that an FD representative had said the Raxxla system had been entered & honked but Raxxla was not discovered (Arthur-it was rumoured to have been Michael Brookes saying this in a closed Q&A session! See m.twitch.tv/cmdrascorbius/clip/SnappyScaryMousePupper. Last year MB declined to comment on this rumour
) Arthur was not aware of that rumour, he doesn’t know the answer. Raxxla is a big secret to uncover.
(1:56:38) WRT the Hesperus & Adamastor story the names were chosen for a specific reason but not necessarily related to shipwrecks.
Interview concluded at 2:02:38 (with a short disconnect before that).
MB Mostly Harmless Questions! thread - Raxxla
What is the founder's world name?...Shinrarta Dezhra... I'm a tiny little bit disappointed they didn't call it Raxxla
MB: “Raxxla is something different”
MB Raxxla should be played out in game July 2015
forums.frontier.co.uk
Legacy was billed in the Kickstarter campaign as a sequel to The Dark Wheel, however, I was expecting more of a direct follow up ...There was a throwaway reference to Raxxla near the beginning the story but...
MB “It was more of a spiritual successor than a direct sequel. We did look at a story involving Raxxla, but felt that was a story that should be played out in game rather than as a novel.”
MB on Raxxla: these came up on Discord but cant find the original source for these images, presumably from the old designer forum
(Edit, ah here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/gamma-2-secret-added.71798/page-4#post-1189803 , so could have been about Voyager or Raxxla-MB didn't clarify but both were apparently inserted during the Gamma)
Edifying Will - EXO 21/03/2019 Will Flanagan with Sally Morgan Moore in Void Opal mining wing with EXO in an icy planetary ring. At 31:40 EXO said they’re really looking for Raxxla, Will zipped his mouth then said you are looking in the right place, you’re looking in an asteroid... No reaction at all from Sally, may have been a joke?
Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=46QzuI83v0c
Beyond - Chapter Four - Exploration Reveal18Oct2018 Will Flanagan (CM) with Adam Woods (Exec Producer) & Adam Bourke-Waite (Senior Designer). @1:29:58 AB-W said “that thing we haven’t shown” (Raxxla codex entry) “there’s elements of that that are probably my favourite parts of this”.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmmmP_waf4&list=PL7glm5rbPHKw5-Bx_eQuz3SX7-dyAiyJh&index=9&pp=iAQB
Elite: Dangerous Fiction Diary #1 @7mins30 MB said “When you’re travelling in Alliance space make sure you’re not accidentally smuggling something illegal” with big grin and fixed look for several seconds.
David Braben: My other car’s a Cobra MkIII Nordic Game 2014
m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=7m15s&v=rOYhoFYIWmw
He was talking of a test for the Elite Federation of Pilots from a combat focus, so it may well be there is a test which Combateers can be offered to join EPF, but I don’t think that is the Real Dark Wheel for the Raxxla Quest.
DB:Elite rank as originally intended
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/599rwj/ask_him_anything_david_braben_obe_fdev_ceo/d96upy3/?utm_term=28853876955&context=3&utm_medium=comment_embed&utm_source=embed&utm_name=fff92f54-9c66-11ec-9de9-967afa5f73f5
DB: AMA on PowerPlay
forums.frontier.co.uk
DB: Beyond - Chapter Two - Launch Livestream
m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=13m43s&v=-f7Zx7WUwF0
13:45, does Raxxla exist? There’s an interesting one. What a silly question, of course....You don’t know what it is though!
MB: DJTruthsayer [TIQ] Michael Brookes Lore interview 14May2016
player.twitch.tv/?volume=0.8&video=v66487974&time=1h40m30s
01:40:45 DJT: We put the first question in as a joke, I’m astounded you’re going to answer. MB: Well, you're assuming you’ll get a sensible answer...DJT: Where is Raxxla? MB: Where is Raxxla? ”Well, It's in the Milky Way, but I can't tell you where at this stage, it's a journey that everyone has to travel for themselves". DJT: You have always said there will be no clues. MB: "that is true, but I think you have to make some of it a tiny little bit obvious just so that people know what they are doing, there is nothing to be revealed at this stage"
“tiny little bit obvious” suggests there are some clues, the Codex being an obvious example, but I suspect there are others.
Drew Wagar: Dark Wheel
m.twitch.tv/drewwagar/clip/BombasticHyperScorpionWow
Drew Wagar: DB stated Raxxla definitely exists in ED.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AsfgQqbRKM
(47 min) I talked with David Braben at bar after an award ceremony. I asked him "Is Raxxla in the game?"
He answered with "Yes. And we know where it is." (I assumed the "we" meant Frontier Developments).
It was Tuesday the 8th July 2014 at about 7pm (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9349883). David Braben was giving his presentation which was called "My other car's a Cobra Mk3." at the Bafta Games Showcase (building was near Piccadilly in London)
Drew Wagar on David Braben saying::
Raxxla...? Well - "It exists, we know where it is and we know why people haven't been able to find it..."
forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-day-i-met-david-braben.25158/post-536632
DJTruthsayer interview with Drew Wagar
m.twitch.tv/videos/85666548
17:00: Drew says that DB said Raxxla in-game during a pre-release party, so very early on.
Cmdr Ascorbius Twitch stream: MB (alleged to have said, but unfortunately not corroborated by anyone else) “the system where Raxxla is located has been visited and honked but Raxxla was not detected” during the last Q&A Michael Brookes attended, so Lavecon 2017.
Cmdr Plater charity stream (24 Hour Stream Part 5/12 - Drew Wagar), 2 hours simulating TDW invitation. ~7mins will get a friend request from Alessia Verde - DW’s account from Salomé storyline, he was controlling this character. At 11:25 Alessia Verde character says “my father was Luko Prestigio Giovanni” ( i.e. Prester John from the codex Raxxla entry!!??)
youtu.be/-cISgR8OBPU
DB video “ED has a story that "embraces all the players"
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gDh9G1gDgMU
he talks about invitation to join a secret organisation as being an event that happens at a certain point in a player’s progression/journey through the game.
At 7:35 he said “now we’ve got the beta, we’ve got the house & now we’re adding the story, the furniture that makes it a really rich game. At 8:20 it does have a story, but it’s not a single-player threaded “rescue the princess” style story, it’s a story of your progression through the game, we will have things that happen to you at certain stages through the game, you’ll get invited to join things, if you get invited to join a secret organisation that’s a thing that can happen to lots of players, if you don’t get that invitation you’ll think to yourself why? I did kill that policeman the other day maybe I need to get my reputation higher”.
David Braben interview - blurring the line between console and PC
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-avA1kOQ4Y
ED narrative
Federation Space Port Numbers (FSP)
forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/stations-labelled-with-fsp.140306/post-2149575
Simon Brewer: “The number on Federation stations is an ID code, which is generated from the co-ordinates/name of the star system that the station is located in. The idea is that the Federation is more impersonal than Alliance or Empire, and that an ID code is more important to them, being larger and more visible than the actual name of the station. If you look at Alliance or Empire stations, you'll see that the name is more prominent, giving a more personal feel.”
PCGamer Elite: Dangerous — Interview with David Braben
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2BWY872M8
Hires & Rift/Vive support. Single underlying “story/state” for everyone hence no offline mode.
Elite Dangerous: David Braben tells all
m.youtube.com/watch?v=foOgFcSWRLc
CQC came in 2015.
GameReactor at GDC London 20 Mar 2015
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JLpX1G5I5tQ
ED Development plan
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EM0Gcl7iUM8
6:36 will reserve areas of the galaxy for future expansion with new things to explore.
Procedural generation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBvpd3_Vqk
PAX East 2017
m.youtube.com/watch?v=XTtiGxJIFyM
Guardians went extinct 1 to 2 million years ago. ED has millions of players operating in the “same story”.
Elite Dangerous Premiere
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxJbOMaXa0
David Braben: a life in pixels
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlxHeUZ_bQ
David Braben Gamescon 2016
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQaK-j1n8co
3:30 Scientific accuracy is really important to me
Frontier Expo 2017 Q&A with David Braben
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KuYp4siSmck
Knew I remembered the quote about Thargoids, beyond the FRift,Octagonal ships blocking out the stars...
elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Dynasty:
“John Harper, author of And Here The Wheel, wrote in a Kickstarter comment:
"You don't know what I've seen. I've sailed beyond the Formidine Rift, seen the fleets of Octagonal ships blocking out the stars. I've stood on lost worlds, sterilised clean by the Thargoids and erased from humanity's maps. I've seen the graves from the Thargoid wars, countless headstones stretching beyond the curvature of the horizon, little spots of reflected light dottering the abandoned continent ..."
Mission/Superpower reputation/ranking
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...-provide-rank-progression.336994/post-5277153
"All missions which provide reputation provide rank progression. Rank progression is directly derived as a function of the reputation earned with a superpower-aligned faction during a mission.
...Even if the top end of allied is the cap for an individual faction, you can still earn reputation, you just don't get a change in reputation. When a mission ends, if it wants to give a reputation award it will tell the webserver that. At the same time, it calculates the superpower "skill" that corresponds to that reputation award and tells the webserver to apply that, too. If the webserver comes back and says "Sorry, nope, the commander is already the most beloved, the apple of this faction's eye; I'm not gonna increase their rep", this doesn't block the superpower skill from increasing."
Mission system
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/is-the-game-rigged-or-is-it-just-me.516285/post-7876292
FD (Dom Corner): The mission system is not and has never been aware of your ship or cargo while generating missions. All it knows about any particular player before the mission list hits the client is their ranks, reputations, and unlocked engineers." Economy, state, and government type are the primary factors on availability and prevalence of mission types at a given market.
David Braben:
“There are missions out there I know almost no players have seen,”....I wasn’t making friends with the minor factions. I was missing out on missions. And most players do that,” he says. “It’s a shame, because the missions actually drive you around the galaxy. But if you keep going back to the same place, you won’t venture very far.
www.pcgamer.com
Dom Corner:
Accessing Elite missions as a noob -is not possible as missions only scale to a few ranks ahead or behind your current rank https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/should-missions-now-be-rank-locked-again.559813/post-8825388
A few missions have a minimum rank of Elite
forums.frontier.co.uk
Missing Elite/Founder missions (Raxxla/TDW-related)
Adam B-W: I will try to look into this, they should still be available. Obviously this doesn't seem to be the case.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mission-changes-feedback.314067/post-4879648
Will: Nothing to talk about on this right now. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/livestreams-questions-and-answers-thread.375883/post-5898193
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-5869706
They were removed, definitively! https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9584643
Whispers in Witchspace: “Improved mix on hyperspace tunnel whispers and flybys." 1.3 Update change list- https://community.elitedangerous.com/fr/node/190
Killer Asteroids, 22MYr periodicity of Extinction Level Events, Dark Objects (~6:00 & 12:30)-large number of Brown Dwarves in ED & potentially vast number of orphaned planetary-sized (Jupiter) objects IRL too cold to detect.
Scott Manley An interview with David Braben - part 1
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T28ZWKyadUc&t=85s
Scott Manley An interview with David Braben - part 2, Terraforming, Rise of the Corporations, Preservation of possible alien interest in the Solar System for billions of years (@13 mins) & possibly buried in Martian dust
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WZez6K2Eoyg
).Edit: my intention is for this thread to act solely as a repository of source references, with no discussion-I would ask people to start their own threads for that.
Edit2: When I started this thread by pasting in my list of FDev reference source vids (plus my notes) the forum software expanded the urls to show the start of the video, which then seems to really slow down the page update and makes it a little buggy. Having taken advice (I’m an Internet antiquated luddite ) the only way to stop that expansion happening seems to be to remove the ”https://” from the start of each url, so have done so. The remaining part of each link still seems to work if pasted into my ios Safari browser “paste & search” so guess it will be the same for others.
Woohoo! The forum software inserts these shortened urls in brown text and automatically expands them when clicked. I’ve learnt something new!
CAUTION!
These references are for historical interest and lore research only. Clearly the game design and implementation may well have changed since some of these statements were made!
ED-relevant quotes/videos
2014 EGX appearance and presentation by DB between Beta 1 release & Beta 2 due a few days after.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOUQN_qaHI&t=1240s
talks about hunting animals on distant worlds but most interesting for us here talks about Ocellus Stations being designed to have engines fitted and 'driven' to the System for various reasons such as a gold-rush mining location....could explain the DW Station and may even suggest its moving within / between Systems, like some of the Gen Ships did before being discovered.
03 Nov 2014 The Making of Elite: Dangerous
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v7jP2drkUXE
DB “With Elite Dangerous we’ve not been hung up on being true to the original Elite, or to Frontier. The priority has been to make a great game”
2014 LaveRadio broadcasts, bit of background lore
First is Inside Games Showcase
laveradio.com/outside-broadcast-pt1-elite-dangerous-development-talk/
Second is LR interview with DB afterwards
laveradio.com/outside-broadcast-pt2-david-braben-interview/
Michael Brookes forum post Jun11 2014. All things Frontier Developments at E3 2014!:
Not all stars have planets, but then again not all planets have suns either
All things Frontier Developments at E3 2014!
Think it might be "Paradiso Outpost", then an illegible (to me) line and "Independent Jurisdiction" on the line below. Your guess is as good as mine re the build no. It is indeed Paradiso Outpost - it's a deep space exploration support station. Michael
Confirms possibility of Rogue Planets in-game?
MB “The game has always had some stations orbiting comets”
What is this??
Bingo - it's probably orbiting a comet. As for Mitterand's Hollow that was a manually added body with some incorrect overrides - we can't blame Stellar Forge for that one! Michael Sorry... What to the who now? Stations orbiting comets :D
MB livestream Join the Elite - Everything You Need to Know About Exploration
There are some comments by Michael Brookes at the following times.
13:45 MB comment about infinite range of ADS making things too easy
29:11 MB mention of extragalactic clusters
40:57 MB mentions highly-inclined 'rare stuff'
Grinning_Crow interviews Arthur Tomlie: www.twitch.tv/videos/994802546
starts around 8m in, questions start at 24:50
(16:00) Arthur leads the ED grand narrative/Galnet team
(26:00) where’s Raxxla? It’s out there, the payoff would have to be great
(29:20) FD do look at what players have done & it affects the storylines. But Arthur prefers slow storyline build ups.
(39:00) Hesperus is just the start of the story. DB is the lore guru & has the last word.
(1:14:20) start of aliens discussion. One race is historic (“treading very carefully here...their story is not over”)-implies some ongoing involvement e.g. via descendants &/or AI??). They were super advanced technologically so have to be careful how this is handled.
The other race- “there are a lot of preconceived ideas about Thargoids”
(1:24:00) “Survivorman” -there are a lot of human crash sites where logs show bad decisions were made; one mentions a weird gravitational anomaly...”Odyssey will open up new storyline possibilities”
(1:39:40) Arthur is keen on player decisions/actions having consequences.There will be hidden switches in game.
(1:45:40) Don’t accept anything on face value, evidence should be investigated.
(1:49:44) GC mentioned the long standing rumour that an FD representative had said the Raxxla system had been entered & honked but Raxxla was not discovered (Arthur-it was rumoured to have been Michael Brookes saying this in a closed Q&A session! See m.twitch.tv/cmdrascorbius/clip/SnappyScaryMousePupper. Last year MB declined to comment on this rumour
) Arthur was not aware of that rumour, he doesn’t know the answer. Raxxla is a big secret to uncover.(1:56:38) WRT the Hesperus & Adamastor story the names were chosen for a specific reason but not necessarily related to shipwrecks.
Interview concluded at 2:02:38 (with a short disconnect before that).
MB Mostly Harmless Questions! thread - Raxxla
What is the founder's world name?...Shinrarta Dezhra... I'm a tiny little bit disappointed they didn't call it Raxxla
MB: “Raxxla is something different”
MB Raxxla should be played out in game July 2015
Fiction - Elite: Legacy
You spelt my name wrong? And after all we've been through? ;) Cheers, Drew. I could blame somebody else for this travesty - but that would be a lie. Michael
Legacy was billed in the Kickstarter campaign as a sequel to The Dark Wheel, however, I was expecting more of a direct follow up ...There was a throwaway reference to Raxxla near the beginning the story but...
MB “It was more of a spiritual successor than a direct sequel. We did look at a story involving Raxxla, but felt that was a story that should be played out in game rather than as a novel.”
MB on Raxxla: these came up on Discord but cant find the original source for these images, presumably from the old designer forum
(Edit, ah here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/gamma-2-secret-added.71798/page-4#post-1189803 , so could have been about Voyager or Raxxla-MB didn't clarify but both were apparently inserted during the Gamma)
Edifying Will - EXO 21/03/2019 Will Flanagan with Sally Morgan Moore in Void Opal mining wing with EXO in an icy planetary ring. At 31:40 EXO said they’re really looking for Raxxla, Will zipped his mouth then said you are looking in the right place, you’re looking in an asteroid... No reaction at all from Sally, may have been a joke?
Beyond - Chapter Four - Exploration Reveal18Oct2018 Will Flanagan (CM) with Adam Woods (Exec Producer) & Adam Bourke-Waite (Senior Designer). @1:29:58 AB-W said “that thing we haven’t shown” (Raxxla codex entry) “there’s elements of that that are probably my favourite parts of this”.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmmmP_waf4&list=PL7glm5rbPHKw5-Bx_eQuz3SX7-dyAiyJh&index=9&pp=iAQB
Elite: Dangerous Fiction Diary #1 @7mins30 MB said “When you’re travelling in Alliance space make sure you’re not accidentally smuggling something illegal” with big grin and fixed look for several seconds.
David Braben: My other car’s a Cobra MkIII Nordic Game 2014
m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=7m15s&v=rOYhoFYIWmw
He was talking of a test for the Elite Federation of Pilots from a combat focus, so it may well be there is a test which Combateers can be offered to join EPF, but I don’t think that is the Real Dark Wheel for the Raxxla Quest.
DB:Elite rank as originally intended
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/599rwj/ask_him_anything_david_braben_obe_fdev_ceo/d96upy3/?utm_term=28853876955&context=3&utm_medium=comment_embed&utm_source=embed&utm_name=fff92f54-9c66-11ec-9de9-967afa5f73f5
DB: AMA on PowerPlay
David Braben Powerplay AMA
What has the Emperor ever done for us? the aqueduct?
DB: Beyond - Chapter Two - Launch Livestream
m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=13m43s&v=-f7Zx7WUwF0
13:45, does Raxxla exist? There’s an interesting one. What a silly question, of course....You don’t know what it is though!
MB: DJTruthsayer [TIQ] Michael Brookes Lore interview 14May2016
player.twitch.tv/?volume=0.8&video=v66487974&time=1h40m30s
01:40:45 DJT: We put the first question in as a joke, I’m astounded you’re going to answer. MB: Well, you're assuming you’ll get a sensible answer...DJT: Where is Raxxla? MB: Where is Raxxla? ”Well, It's in the Milky Way, but I can't tell you where at this stage, it's a journey that everyone has to travel for themselves". DJT: You have always said there will be no clues. MB: "that is true, but I think you have to make some of it a tiny little bit obvious just so that people know what they are doing, there is nothing to be revealed at this stage"
“tiny little bit obvious” suggests there are some clues, the Codex being an obvious example, but I suspect there are others.
Drew Wagar: Dark Wheel
m.twitch.tv/drewwagar/clip/BombasticHyperScorpionWow
Drew Wagar: DB stated Raxxla definitely exists in ED.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AsfgQqbRKM
(47 min) I talked with David Braben at bar after an award ceremony. I asked him "Is Raxxla in the game?"
He answered with "Yes. And we know where it is." (I assumed the "we" meant Frontier Developments).
It was Tuesday the 8th July 2014 at about 7pm (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9349883). David Braben was giving his presentation which was called "My other car's a Cobra Mk3." at the Bafta Games Showcase (building was near Piccadilly in London)
Drew Wagar on David Braben saying::
Raxxla...? Well - "It exists, we know where it is and we know why people haven't been able to find it..."
forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-day-i-met-david-braben.25158/post-536632
DJTruthsayer interview with Drew Wagar
m.twitch.tv/videos/85666548
17:00: Drew says that DB said Raxxla in-game during a pre-release party, so very early on.
Cmdr Ascorbius Twitch stream: MB (alleged to have said, but unfortunately not corroborated by anyone else) “the system where Raxxla is located has been visited and honked but Raxxla was not detected” during the last Q&A Michael Brookes attended, so Lavecon 2017.
Cmdr Plater charity stream (24 Hour Stream Part 5/12 - Drew Wagar), 2 hours simulating TDW invitation. ~7mins will get a friend request from Alessia Verde - DW’s account from Salomé storyline, he was controlling this character. At 11:25 Alessia Verde character says “my father was Luko Prestigio Giovanni” ( i.e. Prester John from the codex Raxxla entry!!??)
youtu.be/-cISgR8OBPU
DB video “ED has a story that "embraces all the players"
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gDh9G1gDgMU
he talks about invitation to join a secret organisation as being an event that happens at a certain point in a player’s progression/journey through the game.
At 7:35 he said “now we’ve got the beta, we’ve got the house & now we’re adding the story, the furniture that makes it a really rich game. At 8:20 it does have a story, but it’s not a single-player threaded “rescue the princess” style story, it’s a story of your progression through the game, we will have things that happen to you at certain stages through the game, you’ll get invited to join things, if you get invited to join a secret organisation that’s a thing that can happen to lots of players, if you don’t get that invitation you’ll think to yourself why? I did kill that policeman the other day maybe I need to get my reputation higher”.
David Braben interview - blurring the line between console and PC
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-avA1kOQ4Y
ED narrative
Federation Space Port Numbers (FSP)
forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/stations-labelled-with-fsp.140306/post-2149575
Simon Brewer: “The number on Federation stations is an ID code, which is generated from the co-ordinates/name of the star system that the station is located in. The idea is that the Federation is more impersonal than Alliance or Empire, and that an ID code is more important to them, being larger and more visible than the actual name of the station. If you look at Alliance or Empire stations, you'll see that the name is more prominent, giving a more personal feel.”
PCGamer Elite: Dangerous — Interview with David Braben
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2BWY872M8
Hires & Rift/Vive support. Single underlying “story/state” for everyone hence no offline mode.
Elite Dangerous: David Braben tells all
m.youtube.com/watch?v=foOgFcSWRLc
CQC came in 2015.
GameReactor at GDC London 20 Mar 2015
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JLpX1G5I5tQ
ED Development plan
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EM0Gcl7iUM8
6:36 will reserve areas of the galaxy for future expansion with new things to explore.
Procedural generation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBvpd3_Vqk
PAX East 2017
m.youtube.com/watch?v=XTtiGxJIFyM
Guardians went extinct 1 to 2 million years ago. ED has millions of players operating in the “same story”.
Elite Dangerous Premiere
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxJbOMaXa0
David Braben: a life in pixels
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlxHeUZ_bQ
David Braben Gamescon 2016
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQaK-j1n8co
3:30 Scientific accuracy is really important to me
Frontier Expo 2017 Q&A with David Braben
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KuYp4siSmck
Knew I remembered the quote about Thargoids, beyond the FRift,Octagonal ships blocking out the stars...
elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Dynasty:
“John Harper, author of And Here The Wheel, wrote in a Kickstarter comment:
"You don't know what I've seen. I've sailed beyond the Formidine Rift, seen the fleets of Octagonal ships blocking out the stars. I've stood on lost worlds, sterilised clean by the Thargoids and erased from humanity's maps. I've seen the graves from the Thargoid wars, countless headstones stretching beyond the curvature of the horizon, little spots of reflected light dottering the abandoned continent ..."
Mission/Superpower reputation/ranking
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...-provide-rank-progression.336994/post-5277153
"All missions which provide reputation provide rank progression. Rank progression is directly derived as a function of the reputation earned with a superpower-aligned faction during a mission.
...Even if the top end of allied is the cap for an individual faction, you can still earn reputation, you just don't get a change in reputation. When a mission ends, if it wants to give a reputation award it will tell the webserver that. At the same time, it calculates the superpower "skill" that corresponds to that reputation award and tells the webserver to apply that, too. If the webserver comes back and says "Sorry, nope, the commander is already the most beloved, the apple of this faction's eye; I'm not gonna increase their rep", this doesn't block the superpower skill from increasing."
Mission system
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/is-the-game-rigged-or-is-it-just-me.516285/post-7876292
FD (Dom Corner): The mission system is not and has never been aware of your ship or cargo while generating missions. All it knows about any particular player before the mission list hits the client is their ranks, reputations, and unlocked engineers." Economy, state, and government type are the primary factors on availability and prevalence of mission types at a given market.
David Braben:
“There are missions out there I know almost no players have seen,”....I wasn’t making friends with the minor factions. I was missing out on missions. And most players do that,” he says. “It’s a shame, because the missions actually drive you around the galaxy. But if you keep going back to the same place, you won’t venture very far.
David Braben on Arena and the future of Elite Dangerous
Looting, crafting, and better missions are coming.
Dom Corner:
Accessing Elite missions as a noob -is not possible as missions only scale to a few ranks ahead or behind your current rank https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/should-missions-now-be-rank-locked-again.559813/post-8825388
A few missions have a minimum rank of Elite
Should Missions now be Rank locked again?
I'd like to see the ability to take lower-ranked combat missions (for example), even as a higher-ranked player. I'm trying to help a new player get some experience with these types of missions. Since this player has shied away from these missions, he has no good idea for which one to select on...
Missing Elite/Founder missions (Raxxla/TDW-related)
Adam B-W: I will try to look into this, they should still be available. Obviously this doesn't seem to be the case.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mission-changes-feedback.314067/post-4879648
Will: Nothing to talk about on this right now. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/livestreams-questions-and-answers-thread.375883/post-5898193
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-5869706
They were removed, definitively! https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9584643
Whispers in Witchspace: “Improved mix on hyperspace tunnel whispers and flybys." 1.3 Update change list- https://community.elitedangerous.com/fr/node/190
Killer Asteroids, 22MYr periodicity of Extinction Level Events, Dark Objects (~6:00 & 12:30)-large number of Brown Dwarves in ED & potentially vast number of orphaned planetary-sized (Jupiter) objects IRL too cold to detect.
Scott Manley An interview with David Braben - part 1
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T28ZWKyadUc&t=85s
Scott Manley An interview with David Braben - part 2, Terraforming, Rise of the Corporations, Preservation of possible alien interest in the Solar System for billions of years (@13 mins) & possibly buried in Martian dust
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WZez6K2Eoyg
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