Elite: Dangerous

[Pinback]

Only interested in the single player game myself.

[Cody]

I'm only a standard Beta - I'm also a lone wolf player, and much like Pinback, I will probably go the solo online route.

[Straker]

Awfully quiet in here. I take it everyone's playing Premium Beta?

[Cody]

It's quiet everywhere - as is my wont, I'm quietly playing Oolite.

[Guest]

guilty

[Pinback]

According to the latest newsletter Frontier will be at E3 Next week were are attending the E3 conference in Los Angeles.David Braben, Adam Woods, Producer on Elite: Dangerous and the team will be there to demo all the features of Premium Beta to games journalists from all around the world. We will have the game set up on a number of PCs and a couple of them will be set up to show Elite: Dangerous with Oculus Rift headsets. Feel free to drop in if you're at E3.Our meeting room is in the West Hall - 501B and we will be tweeting and posting updates and pictures throughout the show so follow us on Twitter, #MR501B, Instagram, Facebook - it will feel like you are there with us!Following our competition on the forums, we are also very pleased to have Elite Ambassadors, Robin Barnard aka. Dr. Wookie on the forums, Gwen Beale and Jon Virgo, aka. Kerrash joining us. Who better to demo the game than backers who have been playing it avidly since the Alpha started. Alpha backer Gwen Beale, who made the amazing Cobra Mk III model we featured in Newsletter 21 will actually be bringing her model to the show to be featured in our demo area.David will also be interviewed live on stage by Gamespot who will be streaming the interview on their site and through Twitch – You will be able to tune in at 11am LA time which is 7pm in the UK on Thurs 12th June and follow the stream. About time they got out their and started banging the drum a bit more.

[Cody]

Gwenydd's 1/44 scale model of the Cobra MK III is now proudly on display at E3 - the lady can sure cut and shape metal! 

[Pinback]

News letter out and some nice pics of a new station.  An Orbis Station taken at different times of day in 4K.Orbis starports are much more complex structures, and hence more expensive to construct, than Coriolis starports. The large wheel has a diameter of about 8km, and provides a full Earth-like standard gravity environment. The smaller wheel further back offers a very pleasant half a ‘gee’ – suited to manufacturing, but mainly used as a luxurious retirement home for the wealthy, as the lower gravity can be more comfortable, and puts much less strain on the bodies of the more frail. Orbis stations also have a very large storage capacity for tradable commodities, which can be seen beyond the half gee wheel. Big news in the letter is that anyone in the standard beta can now upgrade to the premium beta for £15 so two questions.1 how big is the download.2 and what happens if you lose the download link when downloading do you have to start again?.

[Geraldine]

Wish I could accurately answer that Pinback but I would only be guessing. The best bet is to ask the Elite store itself, here is a link.

[Pinback]

Wish I could accurately answer that Pinback but I would only be guessing. The best bet is to ask the Elite store itself, here is a link. Sent off, now just a wait to to see what answer I get back although I am expecting the download to be a few GB. Guess I am going to have to sort out my broadband connection.

[Stormprooter]

News letter out and some nice pics of a new station. Big news in the letter is that anyone in the standard beta can now upgrade to the premium beta for £15 so two questions.1 how big is the download.2 and what happens if you lose the download link when downloading do you have to start again?. The download is approx 1.5GBI'm not sure what happens to an interrupted download, but best to assume you have to download the lot again.

[Pinback]

The download is approx 1.5GBI'm not sure what happens to an interrupted download, but best to assume you have to download the lot again. Thought it would have been bigger.

[Geraldine]

I know its not a massive download, not like another certain space sim I could mention but wont! :girlcrazy:

[Stormprooter]

Thought it would have been bigger. Well, there are no 'maps' in the game - along with models for ships, stations, planets etc etc, game maps are a huge load on disk space. Because the galaxy is generated procedurally, this cuts down the amount of stuff required in the game client.

[Stormprooter]

I know its not a massive download, not like another certain space sim I could mention but wont! :girlcrazy: It's OK, you can't call it a space sim at the moment anyway - because it isn't, yet

[Pinback]

Got an answer back from Frontier, they say the installer 13 meg and the game about 2GB. Did not get answer to what would happen if you lose the download half way through.

[Pinback]

Re phased the question and the answer back was a yes that if your internet is interrupted during download it will pick up from the break. Might give it a go at the weekend and see what happens. :gamer:

[Cody]

Cool promo vid (and I still can't embed the damn things).

[Pinback]

 Strange how you can't post videos Cody I just copied your link and it work fine.

[Guest]

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