Since updating to the Win 10 Creators Update I can’t even start the game, the launcher just crashes. I’ve tried all the problem solving suggestions on the frontier development help page but to no avail. It’s a shame, I wanted to fire this up again after a year.
EDIT: Fixed. Turns out that I needed to update the Riva Tuner Statistics Server that comes with MSI Afterburner, the joys of PC computing!
Hmm I got some nameplates, but the ship name doesn’t show on them. All I get is the ship id again.
schurem
6184
One of the nameplate sets only does the serial number. sucks huh. Description in the store was very ambiguous too. But its like two bucks so eh.
Oh, of course. It says it right in the name - ‘Boundary Ship ID’, whereas the others all say ‘Name Plate’.
I see they’re selling the Raider suits individually, rather than as a pack like the others. Time to break out the CC again…
If I buy a nameplate do I have to dock to set it up? Curious. I am pretty far out so getting home will take a week or two.
Yeah you need to be in ship outfitting at a station to apply liveries.
Ars reports on the recent Salome event, which was to determine the outcome of the upcoming book:
I wouldn’t say the event was ‘sabotaged’, sounds like a pretty good outcome in terms of narrative for the book…
KevinC
6190
Does anyone have any experience with creating a player-run minor faction? Is there any interest in doing such a thing as a Qt3 community?
Kelan
6191
I am pretty sure @BrianRubin has one in game. Veloxi’s Vixens something? I believe that is the same thing as a minor faction.
Yup, The Imperial Labour Party of Veloxi’s Vixens, based out of Tombaugh Station in Orcus.
KevinC
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What was the process in setting it up? Do you need a minimum number of players in your group for Frontier to set one up?
It’s all part of the background simulation, I just had to apply with enough people (over 100 in our case). Then the organization is put in the game. You don’t run it directly, but you do missions and turn in bounties and such.
KevinC
6195
I want to know who the dipshits are that keep building space stations 230,000 light seconds away from the goddamned jump point. Fuck those people in the ear.
There are so many little things in Elite that just leave me baffled. Why does Frontier think that’s a good idea or fun in any way? At least have something cool out there, like hidden pirate bases or things like that.
It’s all about immersion, man.
KevinC
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It’s not immersive, though, because it makes no sense. No one is going to build a major trade hub in the middle of fucking nowhere, they’re going to build it near the jump-in point.
That’s what I meant about putting something cool out there, like a black market or pirate mothership or rare resources or something. Give some pretense for why the hell that exists… or just a way to make mini-jumps between stars in binary/trinary type systems.
Isn’t the jump-in point in the Elite universe always right next to the star? Wouldn’t it be too hot there? The people on that station would get fried. I always assumed that’s the reason the space stations and such were always much farther out, orbiting planets farther away from the star.
I mean, take your scenario to our own solar system. The space stations in our system would be built orbiting Earth, Mars, Jupiter’s Moons maybe, or Saturn’s moons. Maybe one near the asteroid belt. But one near the sun? Even if there’s a jump-in point there? I don’t know, makes no sense to me.
Yeah, you always jump near a star because of its gravity well or some such nonsense.
KevinC
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I’m not talking about building a space station on top of the sun. I’m talking about building stations around planets that are orbiting the star you jump in to. This is not always the case.
Typically, you’ll have a bunch of planets orbiting anywhere from 200 to 5,000 lightseconds away from the star. But there are cases where a system might be a binary or trinary, and those other stars are 200,000+ light seconds away from the jump point. Frontier’s galaxy generation code built a bunch of space stations orbiting those stars, not the primary star in the system.
What this means in-game is spending 10 minutes staring at your screen in supercruise with literally nothing happening, since there’s no way in the game to tell your ship which star to jump to.
Again, if you want to go the immersive route, give me a reason that those major space stations are built out there. Pirates, rare resources, research institutes… something. But it’s just a bad artifact of Frontier’s galaxy generation code.
Normally you just avoid those systems like the plague, but there are some cases you accidentally blunder in to it. I had to pick up a few random missions from a faction in order to get my rep up. A couple of those missions just happened to send me to binary systems (this isn’t scripted or by designed), which resulted in about 20-30 minutes of just staring at my screen in boredom.
