I learned something today (lozenge shape)

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
So when Elite D was in beta, (beta 2 or was it beta 3) the map was expanded to apparently a lozenge shape.

I never questioned it, the shape was like a werthers original sweet shape , however it was bought to my attention today that that is not a lozenge shape at all...... a lozenge is actually a diamond shape

so there you go, my pointless thought for the day....

along with FD not knowing what shape a Dodecahedron is (I put a support ticket in about that many years ago about that error on their front page... the Dodo station is not in Elite D yet ;) )

it turns out they do not know the shape of a lozenge - and neither did I.
 

Nick Sticks

Nick Sticks
A post showing the early game pill shaped area:

How big is the bubble?

How many inhabited systems are there in the ED universe? I looked at the galaxy map using view by economy type and tried to work it out: The bubble is sphere of radius about 150 l.y. around Sol. Inside the bubble most star systems have an economy type and are thus populated. Outside the bubble...
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RolloTreadway

RolloTreadway
Lozenge as a shape is, as you say, diamondy.

But the OED specifically states that a medicinal lozenge was originally that shape, but there is no stated requirement for it to be that way now.

A small medicinal tablet, originally in the shape of a lozenge, taken for sore throats and dissolved in the mouth.
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A medicinal lozenge can be any shape, really. I would say that Strepsils are lozenges and they're circular (or, more accurately, cylindrical).
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
Surely a lozenge, if it's a pill, can be any shape, as lozenge is also the word for a medicinal tablet. :)

(And to come clean - that was the only definition I actually knew before this thread, so thanks for that! I didn't know it could refer to a shape at all)
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Stealthie said:
This.

It was always "the pill" AFAIK.
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obviously it was just a light hearted post however just to prove i dont always talk crap, tho i did hear it more than just that i think. back then i never missed an interview, dev post or what ever, i was pretty obsessed - even more than now ;)

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“Every star in the night sky exists in Elite: Dangerous” — Braben on recreating a galaxy all over again

Last week Elite: Dangerous reached a milestone update, boosting the number of star systems by about a factor of ten, introducing new weapons, stations and planetary rings made of massive chunks of floating ice. With the ever expanding galaxy map comes the option to explore and scan distant frontier
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DB: It’s to do with the shape of the area we’re expanding into. So we’re extending it from a sphere of systems to a sort of lozenge that expands towards unexplored space, because we want to slice through space but we don’t yet want to get into many of the central systems. There’s a lot more to come on those systems that we haven’t really done yet, the obvious one being Earth.
 
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