The Little Things

[shadragon]

I recently discovered the little arrows that point to where the entrance is on Coriolis-type stations. Very helpful when running the slightly less legal goods, and general orientation for approaching those types of starports.

2.3 Beta has orbital orientation on approach now in SC. So it gets better soon.

PS. Just saw the rest of the posts. Doh.

 

[Martian Successor]

The way the Federal Dropship, Federal Assault Ship and Federal Gunship all had slight differences in their cockpit designs which gave each of them a distinct personality. That was an awesome touch. That's no longer the case though as since 2.2 they're now copy/paste clones of each other with no acknowledgement from FD

 

[BL1P]

Was coming in for a landing last night at my home base, an Alliance orbital. As I descended towards the pad, I looked ahead and saw six narrow beam searchlights come together to form the Alliance logo.

This is why I play Elite. The attention to detail for the little things that really don't matter. The swirling black background behind messages and alerts on the hud to make them legible in bright light environments. The subtle differences in sounds my ship makes when damaged. The clouds of fine dust thrown up by my ship when landing on a moon. It shows the level of attention the devs put into everything they do and when encountered, well, it just makes me smile.

That's all. We now return to our regularly scheduled series of moaning, chest beating and baseless demands from the unwashed masses.

Try and figure out what tune the Advanced scanner plays when you press it fast over and over.
It changes pitch etc when its pressed over and over.

Good fun

I think its trying to do the Tune the scientist play to the ship in Close Encounters of the..... well you know the rest

 

[EdzUp]

No, I refuse to go back to moaning.

Instead I'll tell you about the strange little sound you can hear when you refuel.
Next time, with sound settings in nite-mode and you refuel at the nearest star.
Try to stay there around 80-90% heat - as you slowly head up & out, moving away from the star; Listen to the sound that sounds like a alien saucer when you fly away and you cool off.

Super-cool

you do know ya can zero throttle when scooping to not have to dance round the sun?

 

[Hellakitty]

Try and figure out what tune the Advanced scanner plays when you press it fast over and over.
It changes pitch etc when its pressed over and over.

Good fun

I think its trying to do the Tune the scientist play to the ship in Close Encounters of the..... well you know the rest

It also doubles up as spooky Hallowe'en music if you keep pressing at the right speed.