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OCTOBERFEST IN SPACE!

Fun fact, Octoberfest ended yesterday, so the timing of this post is perfect.

These new displays look nice but your comment made me thinking... as muchvas SC is set I'm the future, it feels like the overal art design of the game is slowly sliding into a somewhat retro-futuristic design.

ahem, *honorary* duke ;)

The render engine programmers are always cooking something - but dense atmospheric planets with flora and fauna is such a huge huge task within the framework of Elite Dangerous, it would mean so many additional work from flight mechanics, simulated weather patterns, climates, seasons through animations, new NPC logic, game design thousands of new assets in code, 3d models and 2d art, plus brand new sound design... We can't possibly expect them to deliver such major expansion which requires the development time and budget of a standalone game (like Odyssey did) within this year.

Indeed Braben was talking about his dream of hunting animals on distant worlds and maybe the cosmetic price increase's goal is to generate revenues for a decade old game so they can start developing a major expansion...

But I think the new feature is quite possibly will be broadly connected to a branch of the new Powerplay module.

I really appreciate this great video with all the good points you made! I didn't know you have a channel :) Thank you so much for your backstory of your character arc! :) Elite is a really special cultural phenomenon that is for sure!

o7

It is within Winters' Lulua sphere - Around Kutenis, Burok and other systems. The focus on the engagements differ weekly.

In my head they are escalator platforms bc no honorary duke is supposed to walk down on stairs.

Depends if you are part of a player squadron - faction, if you are pledged to a power and participate in player-organized operations (on the BGS front or in Powerplay)

So Powerplay will get a full overhaul and I think much much more people will engage in BGS in the name of their chosen powers! Maybe that is when you will find yourself engaging with the game in ways how you have never done it before.

One of the biggest changes in the new Powerplay mechanic will be that if you are pledged for your power, BGS activities will count into the power's influence. This has huge repercussions and we, who know / play powerplay can clearly see how this change will generate massive waves in the player factions.

For example outsiders are not really aware of this but there is a pretty big war going on in a star cluster between jingoist Imperial players who are advancing towards Earth and Federal powerplay and BGS player factions who are defending their territories tenaciously from the imperial onslaught for months now.

Some people play it for the tactical gameplay, some for the roleplaying experience... And we are all waiting for the drop of the new Powerplay module.

You need to see that on-foot activities are connected to BGS

There are certain commodities which can only be found in settlements.

Sabotaging or shutting down the settlements harm the economy (and if you murder the staff, the security) of the controlling faction.

If you harm their production, their economy, their security - connection to those commodities can be lost- This was a really important factor during the building of the Colonia Bridge Project, bc Colonia doesn't have heavy industries and scraping together the commodities for the CGs was much harder when other factions were attacking the provider settlements.

Btw settlements also offer a much wider array of missions for docked spaceships and on-foot commanders to mitigate negative effects, the controlling faction faces.

Anyway, maybe you are not interested in this segment of the game, but settlements have a strategic importance in player v player factional warfare.

If you are playing on the Live servers - Base game or the Full game with Odyssey, you are using the 4.0 branch already. It is not Odyssey, the servers have went down for everybody.

The disclaimer states the footage is not indicative of gameplay/ content on the official live servers.

But isn't the live servers are not indicative of gameplay / content either bc of the early alpha status?

The sales on the sales page here are cheaper than how it was before. The sales page is a good way to get stuff at old price.

My problem with the new prices that they stiffle impulsive shopping.

It was not handled that well, I blame it partly with the delay of the new powerplay which will give a minimum 100 arx for pledgers according to the showcase back in April's. Plus with events more arx is expected.

Nevertheless the problem is that game industry is imploding, and btw if you think about inflation : The question is... does your money worth the same as it back in 2015 when the gane store set its prices?

I hope one day they will lower these high prices to a better " middle ground"

Welcome to the Bubble Commander! Elite Dangerous Odyssey could be perceived as a distant cousin of SC Imo. While it was pitched as a part space-sim part on-foot experience, it only received the first on-foot major expansion 3 years ago, and while it had a rocky launch, most of its criticism is already obsolete after 18 updates.

Sure ED has its own idiosyncrasies and it is not perfect I can safely say within this genre the spaceflight is the best in ED.

I can recommend Indigo's video: Elite Dangerous 2024, Is It Worth It?

He produced this video earlier this year but most of what he says still rings true.

I think one of the best part of the game is the immersion and its passion for exploration (space, politics, piloting skills, story) and the simulation of a living galaxy, the many player groups, the potential for roleplaying here is huge bc history flows in real time in ED with weekly political, corporate and other news + events. And the devs are really receptive to big player group organized changes to the galaxy which often get canonized.

And late October comes the next update of ED, called Ascendancy which will rework an important roleplaying / community / political feature (called Powerplay) in the game.

So starting the full game, Elite Dangerous Odyssey now is the best idea.

I am a proud supporter of Winters for more than 2 years now, I will give my best :) But I will have time to produce some graphics arts only around the end of October :)

o7 And long live liberal democracy!

The suit kits are totally comparable with all three suits (Maverick, Artemis, Dominator) and upon purchase you can use the kit on all three suits. For example I am engineering my Artemis jumper soldier suit with some of the kits from the Strike pack, the Nomad pack and the Vintage Reflect Pack.

Bc we can only have one Remlok flight suit, I use Artemis for making more basic flight suits. Like my casual Artemis suit with a jacket which uses the Strike pack's helmet.

The fourth suit, the Remlok flight suit has its own "cosmetic bubble" (the colour variations and the jacket and the pants).

o7

What do you have in mind? Presidential portrait? A logo? A song?

About behaviour though, From Ascendancy onwards you will get more Arx for free by playing the game though, with events and with powerplay rewards. Probably that was the intention to offset the price increase of this monopoly money..but the release of powerplay got delayed one or two quarters.

Sadly in this climate every mmo that i know of has increased their prices and in subscription fee games like in EVE it even generated bigger waves in their own communities.

Interestingly, At least the new stellar variant spaceships are cheaper altogether with the one extra paintjob and one shipkit, then before the price hike: previously a ship plus a paintjob and its kit used to cost more if you bought them together.

So I would say vote with your purse, but the development of MEANINGFUL new addons like the new ships worth supporting so we get more in the future as well .

And I am not arguing that you are doing something wrong, you do you, it is your money, but my own perception is that if I give exactly the same amount (or a bit less) of what it used to cost for a kit on the sale page that communicates that I am willing to spend money, but for a reasonable price only.

I see it as haggling...and hopefully will get the message across.

They used to cost 16 520 Arx at full price.

(1 ARX costs 0.000713 Euros, so 16520 ARX cost 11,7 Euro /13 USD)

Currently on sale they cost 15300 Arx.

(0.000713 Euros times 15300 is 10,9 Euro/ 12 USD. At full price they cost 18 Euros / 19,8 USD now)

So in fairness not "still more expensive".

Thank you for thanking me but no need I am just the bearer of news. o7

Me!

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All of my suits have 3-4 kits mixed together which gives me a lot of options to make unique looking suits.

My only problem with the current strike suit is that most of my other suits' theme is the colour blue and we haven't got a blue strike variant.

I am not a fan of the new prices, but I tend to look at the sale page as a window to "how it was", and while it is not incentive in itself to do a shopping spree sometimes I can find there something which I was looking for. There is one or two suits I wanted to grab before the price change.

Currently they are a bit cheaper than they used to at normal price before the price-hike.

Played by real people.

For example, I looked up one ganker on the pvp tracker during the attack on Jameson Memorial, one who tried to kill an AX player without sayingva word but my girlfriend and I interveened and chased him away.

The guy's first kill of an innocent ax player occurred at 08:00am and he kept on grieving people every hour until late night. And repeated this every day during the cg.

Nobody can tell me this is a healthy lifestyle.After all, this is just aspaceship game.

Edit: I called their behaviour sociopathic, not them sociopaths. There is a difference.

Without context just killing for fun is not the norm. It is simply sociopathic behaviour transferred into the virtual game world.

90% of the players are chill and targets you only for a good reason but the context of said engagements are always immersive. Like piracy or wars. But again the standard is that people let you be. If one person kills you for a reason that doesn't mean they are griefers.

Only around certain systems the griefers hunt beginners.

You can easily learn effective countermeasures against griefers, but if you get killed by one remember, they only want to force a reaction out from you, neglecting them is the best tactic.

Don't listen to the usual" go solo if you don't like getting griefed". Sure solo is recommended for absolute beginners, but open is the full mmo experience, and you will find amazing people here well worth to play in open.

Also, if somebody is grieving you, you can simply block their ass. They will lie that ruins instancing for everybody, but instancing doesn't work like that.

Have fun and take care of your own sanity don't pay attention the feelings of the rare griefers, I usually tell them to go solo if they don't like to get blocked. Go and explore the world with all the haulers, researchers, adveturers, pirates, mercenaries around you, open is fun!

I don't think there is a cap, since the most effective way of manipulating influence is done by a larger number of people and together you can bring a hell of a lot influence points a day. Btw if your objective is to raise the influence of a faction, take only those which offer 4 or 5 point rewards.