Elite: Dangerous Dev Tracker

Greetings Commanders!

It's that time of the week again! Before we head into the weekend, let's take a moment to appreciate some of the fine creations from our Elite Dangerous community this week. Remember you can always get involved using the #CommanderCreations hashtag on Twitter.

Zorgon Peterson Ships In Spore By CBLiberty01



We love to see your interpretations of the Elite Dangerous ships, and that includes the efforts of CBLiberty01 who has gone to great lengths to recreate the Zorgon Peterson ships in Spore.

Elite Pumpkin By Neat_Development_748

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Greetings Commanders

Now that Update 8 for Odyssey is live, we'd like to reignite the series of balancing changes that started before Odyssey's release. Now, it's time to turn our attention to ship Engineering. We recognise there has been significant feedback for on-foot Engineering too, but we'd like to approach these one at a time due to the number of aspects involved. Specifically, we'd like to look at the balancing of the Engineering grind, which largely relates to...

Material Gathering
[HEADING=2]Availability and Time Required[/HEADING]
To obtain them as fast as possible, materials within Grades 1 to 3 are typically traded down from Grade 4 and 5s. To make them worthwhile to gather by themselves, should their availability and the rate at which they are obtained be increased?

Similarly, Grade 5 materials can be traded down into 3 Grade 4 materials within the same category. However, Grade 4 an... Read more

Greetings Commanders o7

It was reported yesterday that Thargoid Combat Bonds were capping at 20 million credits, despite values displaying otherwise .
The team are set to deploy a fix for this issue today, but in order to do so the Elite Dangerous: Horizons servers for all platforms will need to come offline for approximately 5 minutes. Elite Dangerous: Odyssey players will not be affected.
The fix will be applied to both PC and Console versions of the game.

Servers scheduled to go offline at approximately 16:00 BST (15:00 UTC)
Approximate Server Downtime: A matter of minutes (Let's say...2-5 minutes just in case)

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As usual following any major update to Elite Dangerous, thank you so, so much for the feedback and reports here in the Forums.

A few issues captured I will mention from the magic notebook (primarily for Odyssey at this mome... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

The year really has seemed to entirely slip away. Hope you've had a great week so far.

Today’s update for Elite Dangerous Horizons (PC and Console) is on the way!

Elite Dangerous: Horizons servers for both PC and Console Commanders will be offline from approximately 09:00 UTC
Servers are expected to come back online, with the update available at around 12:00 UTC.

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Updates of Note

Multi Limpet Controller Modules.
Multi-Limpet Controllers are now available from Outfitting.
Multi-Limpet Controllers can program a limpet to perform one of a given set of tasks and will be available in multiple types which will dictate what functions it is able to program.
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[*]Mining Multi Limpet Controller module (Available in Size 3)
[*]Operations Multi Limpet Controller module (Available in S... Read more

Hellooo...
Someone coughed...the team are taking a look now! Hopefully just a little jolt o7

Did anyone hear something?

Greetings Commanders,

Spooky season is here and with it the end of another month in our Earth-based calendar. As such, we are delighted to share with you the latest development progress from the team.

This week saw the release of Odyssey Update 8. This brought a number of new and exciting features into our galaxy, ranging from emotes and four-player multicrew to new social spaces in Megaships. We’ve been elated watching Commanders coming together to experience everything that Odyssey has to offer. If you would like to see some of the highlights from Update 8 yo... Read more

Greetings Commanders o7

Wow. A Friday. I guess we made it!

As part of this 'very real feeling Friday' we're releasing a client side point update* for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey this morning, to address a number of issues the team have been able to tackle, following the release of Update 8 this week.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey servers will be offline from approximately 11:00 BST (10:00 UCT)
Servers are expected to come back online, with the update available at around 11:15 BST (10:15 UTC - maybe even sooner. Not long anyway).

These are client side fixes, so an update to the game is required.

Horizons only players will not be affected by this downtime.


* As a reminder, "point updates" are updates which target specific issues in the immediate timeframe following a release (in this instance, Update 8). They do not include new ... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

It's been an especially busy week here at Frontier Towers but that doesn't mean we've forgotten Commander Creations! Let's take a look at some of this week's highlights:

Mining Limpet Art Video By BeetleJude

[MEDIA=reddit]EliteDangerous/comments/qeu0yk[/MEDIA]

Once again BeetleJude delivers with a fantastic art piece, whilst also providing some interesting information alongside the creation of the artwork!

The Call Of The Black By CMDR Buzz777

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Greetings Commanders!


We're right in the middle of spooky season, so this week brings with it our Halloween stream! Join us on Thursday 28th October at 18:00PM UTC for a fun show filled with the opportunity to win prizes!

As well as discussing the latest Development Update, we'd love to share some creativity from our wonderful Elite Dangerous community, and with that in mind, we've put together two competitions for you to enter.


[HEADING=2]Stellar Screamshots[/HEADING]
The vastness of Space houses many haunting visuals, and we want you to capture them! Send in your spookiest Elite Dangerous screenshots by posting them in the thread below, or tweeting them with the hashtag #StellarScreamshots before 15:00PM UTC on Thursday 28th October and we'll pick the top 10 entries to share on stream. Commander names must also be... Read more

"LeoBartlet, post: 9577951, member: 136834"

Sally reading the forums at the beginning of every work day.

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THE GIN I AM SCREEEEAMING AT THIS THREAD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Greetings Commanders,

The hunt for Theta Seven is on! The Affiliated Counter-Terrorism unit (ACT) has acquired an encrypted message that may reveal the location of Theta Seven, the de-facto leader of the NMLA group responsible for attacks across the bubble.

Full details can be found in this recent GalNet article. In short, ACT are requesting that all newsfeeds publish the following encrypted message:

61-76-126-67-99-74-71-113-81-41-96-103-51-117-55-103-91-69-104-117-84-114-141-134-90-108-90-79-115-95-102-102-98-76-91-57-83-104-92-99-96-78... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

After an exciting weekend with the hunt for Theta Seven, let's look ahead to the week with the latest community schedule:




Tuesday
Supercruise News: Arthur & Sally will be discussing the latest Elite Dangerous Issue Report on this week's Supercruise News.

Wednesday
Stellar Screenshots: Get your Dutch angles (and all over photography terms) at the ready for another instalment of Stellar Screenshots!

Thursday
Horizons CQC Night: It's time to see if Bruce & Zac can regain their throne in the latest CQC Night, join us in Horizons on Thursday evening!

Community Goal: There'll be a brand new Community Goal for you to take part in this Thursday!

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"Kzak, post: 9603001, member: 56644"

[USER=188830]@sallymorganmoore[/USER] - is this something you could take a look at, please? Happens in both Horizons and Odyssey.

Got this now, so so so sorry for the delay on this - it's been an entire month rolled into a few days.
So sorry. Chasing.

"Sbirch123, post: 9609348, member: 248135"

[USER=188830]@sallymorganmoore[/USER] any update on this please

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/44922

"Sbirch123, post: 9609750, member: 248135"

CG Fsds ticket link
https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/44922

I'm here, I'm here, I'm chasing this.
Sorry, with Update 9 moivng ever faster toward us and all of the other bits that need doing back here I'd LOVE to be able to come runn... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

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It's here. It's happening.
Lots of interest from many a Commander this year regarding Black Friday, so just popping this post out to say the Elite Dangerous 'Black Friday Sale' is now live.

For our Black Friday event we have:
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[*]A 50% discount on Ship Kits.
[*]A 25% discount on Suit Customi... Read more

Greetings Commanders, hope you're doing well this fine Wednesday.

So first up, apologies that this may be coming in a little on the late side following your reports from the end of last week, but after catching up today and with further discussion held, I'm here with some clarity on the issue you've been facing with attempts to modify the newly rewarded FSD module as part of a recent Community Goal.

To recap the discussion:
Lots of discussion and confusion around since the release of the CG FSD last week, with many of you attempting to modify/apply experimentals once aquired, only to find you were hitting a 'server error'.

Some clarification:
I can confirm that it is by design that pre-engineered modules cannot be further modified.
As this FSD is a pre-engineered, this falls into the 'cannot further modify/add experimentals category of module.

The Issue ("Server Er... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

It's me, the 'unofficial Zac c*cken' aka Sally Morgan-Moore, coming to you live (depending on when you read this) with this week's Commander Creations thread, celebrating mass creativity from a special selection of top picks to catch the eye over this past week in Elite Dangerous social spaces!

Now listen, if you see anything in here which has been shared before or is really old - don't shout at me. I thought they were cool, this isn't my usual forte in here, but I've enjoyed it all the same.

Without further ado!

CMDR RealDanFitz: Commander Christmas Decs.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/realdanfitzy
These have been all over the Twitter timeline this past week and even though we are still in Nov... Read more

Greetings Commanders! Happy Tuesday.

It's time, once again, for the latest installment of our Issue Report fly-overs.

Below you'll find the latest Top 20 table, based on your most voted issues in the Issue Tracker. Below that you'll find a bit of a status summary on where we're at with each to set expectations as best possible.

Note: The status and planned release of each issue is subject to change as various factors affect the ongoing development schedule.

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Top 20 Issues
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[*]Tiling Planetary Features - Investigation remains ongoing. This is proving to be quite an undertaking to plan and aim toward solving, but the team are still keeping it in their sights... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

Regarding the latest post on addressing confusion around the inability to add further modification/experimentals to the latest CG FSD reward: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-community-goal-fsd-reward-and-modification-application-of-experimentals.593774/

I thought this information below would be better in a new post for you, just incase this statement got drowned out in the original post.

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