Oolite Bulletins

I know absolutely nothing about Odyssey. The latest version of Elite Dangerous ... in a long string of reminders that the "C" in "Frontier Developments" stands for competence and the "Q" for quality :( I bought in early, with the lifetime expansion pass - which probabl...

Will the PC version be next? "Next"? :) For 90% of owners, this news kills the PC version just as must as it kills the consoles'. "we will focus on new content updates on pc on the post odyssey code base" cuts out all ED PC basegame players except the handful that bought/buy Ody...

Someone wrote "I'm going to check Oresrati next - as that was a system in chart 8 that was dubbed 'the restaurant at the end of the universe' because you could galactic hyperspace into it, but you couldn't get out again because it was more than 7 light-years to the nearest star and the tech lev...

I would really have preferred if they continued to build on the mystery and let the story they started develop itself "Story develop itself" isn't possible in Elite Dangerous. The game isn't a server-based virtual world or MMO like e.g. EVE Online. It's client based with a small play area...

Cody wrote:

I'm told that after nigh on four years, I still cannot name my ship - is that true?

You can add a ship name visible to only you, provided you pay Frontier an additional 50% of the price of the game.

Will that do?

as you explore there are ships flying overhead, life pods and crashed ships. seems to me there is a lot of activity for an "undiscovered planet" . Looks set to become a core trope of the new Content-lacking Procedurally Generated Space Exploration Game genre. Credit for inventing it goes ...

RockDoctor, Steam is the world's largest web store for downloadable games. 20-40 players at a time is the figure for the Elite Dangerous Arena game, the cut-down version recently given away free, whereas 3000-4000 is the figure for the Elite Dangerous main game, paid-for.

if there are financials that require worrying about "share prices", then drumming up publicity is probably not accidental. Distinct audiences, I think. The drumming here is probably more to counter the publicity generated by Frontier's increasing misfortune with the product itself, e.g. F...

Bugbear wrote:

Yeah, that share price chart is not a pretty picture

Pity the guy who bought 1,600,000 shares just before the Elite Dangerous bad news went public... losing him more than £1m...

... and handing a nice profit of £4m to the uncannily prescient seller. One David Braben (link)...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160713000 ... 81582.html

Sales down, cash down, net loss hugely up.

OTOH, there's enough money to run the ED server for a while longer

And I guess that'll be from the same department that thought it fine last week to break the promise that everything in-game would be purchasable with in-game credits To which add the Frontier store is now _advertising Cobra, Viper and Anaconda 3D scale models for sale_ ... presumably hoping for tot...

passenger gameplay is coming as part of the next major content update to Elite Dangerous: Horizons. I guess that would be the passenger gameplay advertised as in the game due to backers over two years ago, but not delivered then or since. And I guess Frontier will have some explanation ready as to ...

>> badly received planetary landings and RNGineers > Depends who you ask, I suspect. The vast majority of players writing outside the censored FD forum. See the flood of complaints about bugs and broken gameplay on reddit, facebook, YouTube, Steam e.g. from ED's previously most supportive vlogger ht...

Just saw this. Hitler Discovers Elite:Dangerous Engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUh6qV7biB0 "200 TONS OF LAVIAN BRANDY? ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE? We'll probably be interdicted every five minutes before we can even deliver it..." "My Commander, perhaps if we convince another pl...