Jaques station and his place in the Lore of Elite regarding passengers to beagle point.

popuptoaster

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I'm hoping a dev or two will see this and comment.

I'm one of the guys who was hoping to cadge a lift to beagle point with Jaques, I've got millions in the bank and plenty of LY under my belt having visited Sag A amongst other places and I am capable of flying out there myself.

The thing is, i don't want to go there just to say I've been.

I heard about Jacques jump and was excited to have a great RP reason to go, but the forum says it was confirmed in a live stream that no players would be allowed to travel out there with the station when it jumps.

Now this is of course FDs choice but I would like to remind them of newsletter #61 and specifically this part.

You Don't Know Jaques

Jaques is a barman, a property owner and a cyborg. Back in the year 3200, Jaques had been running the same bar in the same starport for an inhumanly long period of time. His tale was recounted in the “Stories of Life on the Frontier” booklet included with 1993’s Frontier: Elite II, wherein we learn Jaques owns half the starport and plans on taking it on a voyage across the galaxy just as soon as he buys the rest.

"I guess it will take me about another fifty years to buy up the rest of this place and another ten to fit it out with enough drive engines. I think I'll do what Augustus Brenquith did and fly off into the unknown and explore new systems. But I like people as well, so in sixty or so years time there will be an invitation going out: anyone who wants to come along can join me on a long trip.”

22 years after David Massey wrote the short story “All That Glisters...” in Stories of Life on the Frontier, Jaques is doing just that. It took a little longer than expected (the old Coriolis Station wasn’t robust enough to take the drives he wanted…) but he got there in the end. You’re welcome to join him for the ride next week.

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Jaques Station is a custom mobile Orbis starport you’ll find in Elite: Dangerous 1.1. Modified to support drives, Jaques Station will jump to a new system from time to time as Jaques sets off on his course away from human space. His roaming starport will make a useful base for explorers, but if you're docked when he jumps you'll be taken with him.

Jaques Station will also sell a special and rare trade good, so check the markets if you can catch him. GalNet will be updated with news of the starport’s route next week, and will continue to keep track of his movements as Jaques journeys across the galaxy.
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Becks

Becks
Normally Jaques' jumps aren't 65000 lightyears long. :)

It's not known if he will execute a row of smaller jumps or one big jump, in any case you can simply say: more mass equals more fuel consumption and more complicated calculations. His fuel tank isn't filled completely since the CG didn't reach the final tier, so maybe that's the reason why he's not taking anyone with him. :)
 

Xeknos

Xeknos
popuptoaster said:
Source please, lots or forum users saying that but no one provides any actual evidence while i managed to post something, written by an official source that suggests it should be possible.
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Before you get all passive aggressive, see Steve Kirby's post here.

By the way, I found that after a 2 minute Google search.

There may have been a time that Jaques took people with him when he jumped, but not this time.
 
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popuptoaster

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Xeknos said:
Before you get all passive aggressive, see Steve Kirby's post here.

By the way, I found that after a 2 minute Google search.

There may have been a time that Jaques took people with him when he jumped, but not this time.
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Look here mr hipster buzzword wannabe, I don't care about your poncey "passive aggressive" nonsense whatever the hell that even means and I also don't care how long your Google search took.

I asked a for a source as I'd posted one, it's pretty obvious I didn't find anything official or i wouldn't have made the thread in the first place so thanks for the source but keep your opinions and amateur psychology about me personally to yourself and try and comment on threads without insulting people.
 

Becks

Becks
popuptoaster said:
Look here mr hipster buzzword wannabe, I don't care about your poncey "passive aggressive" nonsense whatever the hell that even means and I also don't care how long your Google search took.

I asked a for a source as I'd posted one, it's pretty obvious I didn't find anything official or i wouldn't have made the thread in the first place so thanks for the source but keep your opinions and amateur psychology about me personally to yourself and try and comment on threads without insulting people.
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I think that counts now as 'active aggressive'. :D
 

Marra Morgan

Marra Morgan
popuptoaster said:
Look here mr hipster buzzword wannabe, I don't care about your poncey "passive aggressive" nonsense whatever the hell that even means and I also don't care how long your Google search took.

I asked a for a source as I'd posted one, it's pretty obvious I didn't find anything official or i wouldn't have made the thread in the first place so thanks for the source but keep your opinions and amateur psychology about me personally to yourself and try and comment on threads without insulting people.
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Where was the "amateur psychology" and the insult? I missed that.
 

Xeknos

Xeknos
popuptoaster said:
Look here mr hipster buzzword wannabe, I don't care about your poncey "passive aggressive" nonsense whatever the hell that even means and I also don't care how long your Google search took.

I asked a for a source as I'd posted one, it's pretty obvious I didn't find anything official or i wouldn't have made the thread in the first place so thanks for the source but keep your opinions and amateur psychology about me personally to yourself and try and comment on threads without insulting people.
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I don't recall insulting you. I gave you your source, and also took your somewhat nasty response to Argent Steel above as kind of passive aggressive. The point behind saying that the Google search was 2 minutes was because I simply Googled "Does Jacques take commanders with him when he jumps Elite Dangerous" into google and got that page - a response from the lead game designer - within a couple of minutes, so you must not have been looking very hard.

The irony in all of this is that you tell me not to insult people when responding to them, and yet you called me a "hipster buzzword wannabe" earlier in your post. I'm not entirely sure what you want here, man.
 

CMDR M. Lehman

CMDR M. Lehman
I, too, once tried to discern the core essence of human motivation. I suppose that makes me an "amateur psychologist" as well.


It was "sex", by the way. By my reckoning, the essence of human motivation is sex and reproduction.
 
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Divine Cerinian

Divine Cerinian
CMDR M. Lehman said:
I, too, once tried to discern the core essence of human motivation. I suppose that makes me an "amateur psychologist" as well.


It was "sex", by the way. By my reckoning, the essence of human motivation is sex and reproduction.
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I can agree with that assessment. It's logical at least, lol.
 
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