The Elite Dangerous Open - Trading Places - October 27th 2016

[Edward Lewis]

After last week's success, we thought we'd host another night of open play mayhem.

This week I'm pitting Lead Designer Sandy Sammarco against Lead Game Programmer Mark Allen in a trading show down in the Eranin system. They'll each have to see how much of one particular good they can trade within the allocated hour.

So turn up to Eranin at 7PM BST on Thursday October 27 to help or hinder Sandy or Mark!

There's also a little advert we ran for it here:

https://www.facebook.com/EliteDangerousOfficial/videos/10157634514470564/

https://www.youtube.com/user/FrontierDevelopments/live

 

[Brett C]

...open you say? [hotas]

 

[Galactic Midden]

...open you say? [hotas]

Don't worry, what could possibly go wrong?

 

[AytaL]

Good luck then, pray the instancing to be with you.

 

[Marshall...]

Will they be trading in salt?

Good luck gents!!

 

[Riverside]

An engineered Cobra will be your best friend,

On the bright side, you know what you are up against, and I'm looking forward to seeing how interdictions should be evaded

 

[Soon(TM)]

After last week's success,]

Lol, I think I watched a different stream to you ED?

I'll be there tho, my first foray into Open Play.

Just to come and watch you get owned by SDC and the rest.

Heck, if I'm in a rather drunken mood I might even ram Sandro in an Adder just to see how much damage I can do .

Or mines?

I wonder if can surround Sandro with mines?

Shock mines?

Ooh. Excellent.

 

[Eloy]

After last week's success ...

Haha, that british humor
Bring some 5000 MJ shields with you.
Tbh I wish them people again blow you out of the sky as they do with other cmdrs in open. Maybe gets the priority for a working punishment system higher.

 

[WillFrog]

[video=youtube;O9AuBsvkZRw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9AuBsvkZRw&feature=youtu.be&t=14s[/video]

 

[millstonebarn]

The one in Beta was great. And I, for one, was asking for it to be repeated after 2.2 went live. So I'm looking forward to it. Though bringing my Corvette along? Hmm, no so sure this time Surprisewinders perhaps!

 

[B1rdy]

After last week's success, we thought we'd host another night of open play mayhem.

I wonder what success was archived last week? To show the team what it is like to take part in a CG (if instancing works against your favor)?

 

[Rinzler o7o7o7]

*whistles innocently with hands in pockets*

 

[Alvatore]

I wonder if we'll see another round of weapon rebalances after this event.

 

[Lateralus]

SDC trying to get into their instance;

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I think this image sums up things quite well.

 

[Riverside]

- Fix an issue with station guns not causing damage in some network conditions

Hah! Excellent timing

Something good may come of this

 

[America Shaftoe]

WOW! This actually gets me thinking about logging into Open again...Hello Darkness my old friend...

 

[Philip Coutts]

Madness, this will end in a thousand explody deaths!

Good luck, I think you will need it...

 

[B0xCutter]

Would it be possible to get you guys to play in a wing together and attempt any kind of cooperative gameplay on live stream, in open play, so you can experience the frustration of the constant jump-disconnects or the Wing beacon station glitches that make it impossible to dock that have plagued Wings since the release of 2.1?

 

[c00ky1970]

I think the cooperative gameplay was other players ganking Sandy!

Had a lightbulb moment after Ed's 'rant/soapbox moment' on the stream, this isn't about demonstrating player activity, it's about getting devs shot to pieces, as many times as possible.

The Devs have unlimited funds, so having A-rated Pythons/Condas/Corvettes being rebought 4-5 or 50 times isn't an issue.

Yes, as a normal player, I don't want to see people 'punished' by being repeatedly ganked, but I have to take a moment and realise that the devs know they have a big target painted on their back and it will be an evening of rebuys for them.

I have a perverse eagerness for next weeks episode - mining maybe?