Thanks Granite, that is nice to know.
Has Jaques Station been abandoned by the Devs? - Does anyone care?
- Thread starter Limoncello Lizard
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According to the game credits, Jaques Station has its own unique station announcer. I was there recently and didn't hear it. Didn't hear an announcer at all, actually, which was kind of eerie, sitting on the pad with nobody at all babbling at you about how not to get blown up.
For those who haven't been there, Jaques is an independent station, currently parked just outside inhabited space. Jaque owns it 100% and tolerates no rivals or takeover attempts; this he achieves by not having a bulletin board, so don't go there hoping to pick up some long-range cargo missions. Besides the Rare Good, there's not much else to buy there, except for the usual biowaste and hydrogen and a very small supply of robotics and computer components.
For those who haven't been there, Jaques is an independent station, currently parked just outside inhabited space. Jaque owns it 100% and tolerates no rivals or takeover attempts; this he achieves by not having a bulletin board, so don't go there hoping to pick up some long-range cargo missions. Besides the Rare Good, there's not much else to buy there, except for the usual biowaste and hydrogen and a very small supply of robotics and computer components.
Maybe someone should try to give a push? Maybe its stuck on an asteroid.
Someone call the Fuel Rats. BIG job coming their way..
100%, I didn't even know it was a thing. Is it a station you can dock at? Is there any more info about it?
I know after the new OH cg I'm going to grab my stocks of that, and every other rare I can get my hands on and make a trek out to restock him... maybe some extra hydrogen fuel too just in case.
i know, FD has plans. i love them plans. but i still would love to see jaques moving once a week. i went there the night before 1.4 went on, because i wanted to jump with him. nothing happened. and i want this station to have a shipyard, so i can store my explorer vessels there. i mean, jaques and me, we are friendly after a lot of rare runs and selling of exploration data. and i can't store a ship under his eyes? this i would love to see being changed through a cg.
Micheal Brookes mentioned Jacques station to both me and Lave Radio at EGX. Frontier haven't forgotten about it, and they do have plans for it.
That's good. It would be disappointing for them to introduce a station with a unique ability to move and then stop moving it.... Otherwise there's not really any point for it existing.
I found this
Much of the "info" there is to know about it is already posted: it's currently situated in the Gliese 1269 system, which is out just beyond the boundary of colonized space; search for that star name or simply type "jaque" or "jaques" into the navigation search box, and you'll find it. Yes, you can dock there, though see my previous post about caveats for some station services that are unavailable. Yes, it moves, or used to move, from system to system; when they updated the galactic map during server downtime and update loading, they moved him, in 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 I believe; I wasn't playing the game back then so I'm not sure which systems he used to be in. The "moving" was therefore an invisible teleportation thing, rather than being able to sit there and watch as the engines fired up and the station sailed away.
The website LL linked to above also recounts the lore reason why this particular space station has engines attached and is bound for unexplored space.
I haven't voted in the poll, either; I think he should move regularly, but once a week seems a bit much. Once or twice a month would probably be enough. Though moving him outside of an update would probably add too many extra untested things into the game for it to be a simple or glitch-free addition to the game.
Fair point. I hadn't thought about it that way. From what I have read, he was originally intended to move weekly, so that is why I made that option.
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My preferred solution would be to have a CG to get him going again and rais his profile in the community, and then automaticall moved occasionally. Weekly, monthly, or even randomly.
Random could be fun, you plan a route to get there and find that he has moved on while you were on the way.
Whatever they do, moving him now and then is better than leaving Jaques stationary.
It could just be he found one of those "pure ethanol gas clouds the size of 5 solar systems" to... tap.
http://www.designntrend.com/articles/5568/20130702/space-booze-researchers-find-alcohol-cosmic-clouds.htm
.. and found no reason to move on.
http://www.designntrend.com/articles/5568/20130702/space-booze-researchers-find-alcohol-cosmic-clouds.htm
.. and found no reason to move on.
If Jaques wants to take a break I think we should respect his wishes. He was treated abysmally by the Empire, so I doubt he'd take kindly to us lot ordering him around.
I think they should blow it up, it's the poster boy for a dead galaxy, the station so dead it wont even move when they poke it with a stick once a week
I think until the game can support such dynamic content its better they don't continue to expose themselves in public
I think until the game can support such dynamic content its better they don't continue to expose themselves in public