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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous

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drew wrote:
Selezen wrote:
which accurises the cargo capacity.
Accurises! Accurises?

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My guess is that it is the name of a 10th level spell from the Elite RPG:

Accurisation (10th level, 20 spell points, lasts until broken): By casting this spell the caster is able to fit 5%/level more cargo into the cargo bay of a ship.
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Spells??? SPELLS??? This is Elite, not some poor Shadowrun copy! Hard. Science.

It's psionics.

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Accurise (or accurize) is a firearms term.
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It's a general term for "making things accurate". Whether that be ranged weaponry or (in my experience), making a model look more like the real thing. "Accurising kits" are available for most commercially available plastic model kits on the market.

That's where I grabbed the term from.
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous

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Newsletter #9 just hit my inbox. Here's the online version.

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And VERY good it is too... Nom.
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*Laughing at the Comms shown on that system map*
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous

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That does look lovely, am I right in thinking you'll be able to fast forward/rewind time whilst using this screen so you can see all the stuff orbit about?
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous

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Those new screen shots in the latest update , um, the guns on the sidewinder in that first pic make me think of this...
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..but I imagine this probably says more about me than it does the art direction of EliteD :D
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And there was me thinking this was a family friendly forum :roll:



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I do hope that you guys know that that is part of the poster for Machete 2, aka Machete Kills? :?
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Wolfwood wrote:
I do hope that you guys know that that is part of the poster for Machete 2, aka Machete Kills? :?
Yes, but had to TinEye it.
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Re: David Braben's Elite: Dangerous

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Passenger ships/luxury yachts - there's something I don't like about them, which I can't quite put my finger on.
Something almost Jobsian about them, perhaps - or maybe I'm just grumpy today!
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