Pilot Memorials have gone live

[Factabulous]

Elite Dangerous: In-Game Memorials

Greetings Commanders, We’d like to revisit our approach to player memorials in-game. In the past, we've accepted requests to add locations or change location names to give players a place to remember and celebrate their loved ones. Unfortunately, this gesture could not be scaled to meet the...

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(sadly they locked the discussion thread in News, so I'll post it here. Now someone will tell me they went live last week, if so, oops, I didn't see it mentioned )

 

[Jmanis]

<waits for the posts about getting ganked at these locations>

 

[dj_wylie]

Slightlly saddened to see they are basically just listening posts. At least adding a new art asset for them would have been a nice touch for the memorials.

 

[Jmanis]

Slightlly saddened to see they are basically just listening posts. At least adding a new art asset for them would have been a nice touch for the memorials.

In fairness, if you think about it, there's symbolism in them being Listening Posts... not that that was probably on anyone's mind when implemented.

 

[zimms]

I'm sure the pets and people who never heard of Elite won't mind it being a listening post.

 

[Phoenix_Dfire]

I was originally under the impression it was just for players of the game who we've lost over the last seven years but not that I've seen pet names and people who've had nothing to do with elite, I may have misunderstood the point.

 

[Factabulous]

I may have misunderstood the point.

I don't think so. But people aren't good at agreeing on meanings, and I don't think fdev want to be in a position of vetting submissions.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

<waits for the posts about getting ganked at these locations>

Or getting ganked TO these locations!

 

[Gwyther]

I was originally under the impression it was just for players of the game who we've lost over the last seven years but not that I've seen pet names and people who've had nothing to do with elite, I may have misunderstood the point.

I think it came down to some of us dying one day and nobody even knowing about it, therefore not being mentioned on the list.

Elite Dangerous: In-Game Memorial Name Requests

Greetings Commanders, For more information on in-game memorials, please see this post. If you have lost a loved one that you wish to have memorialised in-game, please reply to this post with their name. Every few months, we will gather the latest additions and add them to the in-game...

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It then progressed to having just any name on the list for someone we have lost.

 

[Alec Turner]

I was originally under the impression it was just for players of the game who we've lost over the last seven years but not that I've seen pet names and people who've had nothing to do with elite, I may have misunderstood the point.

I think roughly how it went down is that most of us assumed it would be for fallen commanders but Frontier (either deliberately or, more likely, carelessly) worded it so openly that people have started putting in family members, pets, ancestors, friends, pretty much anyone dear to them irrespective of whether they had any connection with the game or not. Too late to backtrack now so it is what it is. Interesting that it's in-game already ... I'll have to go and check it out. I wonder (sorry, but I do) how many months before the idea falls by the wayside like so many others and stops getting updated anymore.

P.S. sorry for the mildly grumpy tone of this ... no disrespect intended to anyone for whom these memorials are a comfort.

 

[Gwyther]

I wonder (sorry, but I do) how many months before the idea falls by the wayside like so many others and stops getting updated anymore.

Yeah I wondered about that too.
I did read somewhere that they were going to collect names on a monthly basis and then update the list, but like you say, how long will that last.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

In respect to fallen CMDRs, I think a Memorial place on a Planet Surface might be a very good idea.
A large wall (a basic asset) with the Names visible from close distance (SRV or on foot), updated every Server Maintenance Thursday.

Just CMDRs, noone else and a place to remember them.

I think that would be easily doable with minimal effort and a calm place on the ground resembling current memorial locations right here on earth being a more suitable and less abstract setting.
Adding this at some point would also avoid the mentioned issues of non-CMDRs (which can remain on the Listening Post).

 

[CMDR Yates]

I think roughly how it went down is that most of us assumed it would be for fallen commanders but Frontier (either deliberately or, more likely, carelessly) worded it so openly that people have started putting in family members, pets, ancestors, friends, pretty much anyone dear to them irrespective of whether they had any connection with the game or not. Too late to backtrack now so it is what it is. Interesting that it's in-game now ... I'll have to go and check it out. I wonder (sorry, but I do) how many months before the idea falls by the wayside like so many others and stops getting updated anymore.

P.S. sorry for the mildly grumpy tone of this ... no disrespect intended to anyone for whom these memorials are a comfort.

Look at how some of the community responds when a YouTuber doesn't get a free alpha pass, now imagine FDev saying "Sorry, we won't be memorialising Old Yeller, the cockpit dog mascot of the Twee Dads' Collective squadron" or "please provide proof of purchase showing that your late mother played Elite Dangerous".

I think it kinda has to be this way, tbh. It"s never a good diplomatic look to be in the position of judging what bereavements are "worthy" enough, and to avoid that, they either have to allow all, or none.

 

[Florenus]

Just CMDRs, noone else and a place to remember them.

There's absolutely no way for Frontier to verify if submitted cmdr is really dead, only if the name is in game and last time he logged in. What are they're suppose to do? send him an email, asking if that's true?

For me this memorial idea is really weird - it just brings too much of RL into fictional game universe.

 

[Jmanis]

I don't think so. But people aren't good at agreeing on meanings, and I don't think fdev want to be in a position of vetting submissions.

Yup.

Personally, I've always thought in-game memorials are a terrible idea, but apparently i love to burn kittens.

But hey, it's here now, so if we're going with that, i don't think anyone, players, FD, whoever, is really in a position to say "sorry, your loss isn't significant enough to add to the game".

 

[Alec Turner]

I think it kinda has to be this way, tbh. It"s never a good diplomatic look to be in the position of judging what bereavements are "worthy" enough, and to avoid that, they either have to allow all, or none.

It's a complete minefield so yeah, you're absolutely right.

 

[xzanfr]

Bad idea poorly executed.
If only there was a suitable place for a memorial to just fallen cmdr's, perhaps in an orbital graveyard that's been in the game lore for 30+ years
Once again oolite is a better custodian of the game lore than FD.

 

[Factabulous]

I'll ask for this to be closed now as they'd created an official thread https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/memorials-now-in-game.567828/

 

[Robert Maynard]

Closed at the request of the OP.