CMDR Dirk Hatch

The free Elite Dangerous: Vanguards update is coming in to land on Tuesday 19th August!

With a major overhaul of the Squadrons system, Vanguards gives you greater tools to join with like-minded Commanders, including a new Squadron Bank system, Squadron Carrier and more!

Learn More: fron.dev/b6b2

I will be taking the pictures I made for the "K" event along this weekend to ECM. K1, 3, 6 & 10 are taken, the rest are still up for grabs so unless I hear from the people that donated with a number I'll try and hawk the rest!
If anyone knows Cmdr R09u3 could you please ask them to get in touch? <3

My signed BBC Micro B+ running the BBC Master version of Elite

My signed BBC Micro B+

David Braben's signature on my BBC Micro B+

Look at this little beauty! It's my new BBC Micro B+, signed by David Braben himself, and it’s the inspiration for my latest project:

"BBC Master Elite, backported to run on the unexpanded B+, and with lots of extra features"

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#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #8bit #elite

RIGHT ON COMMANDER!

I support this message!

There a big difference between AI tools and "I" tools... as in the bespoke ones you build yourself...

Screengrab of a highlighted system in Elite Dangerous called "Quan Gurus"

Did someone misspell "kangaroos?"
#EliteDangerous

"Drill Into the Type 11" - I see what you did there...

Yes! Let's have new stuff! Perhaps an asteroid probe that let's you suck the good stuff out of a juicy rock!

What's "mining?"

Or you realise you're not wearing your headset... Never done that. Oh no...

But unless there's something to do it's just a minimaly interactive cutscene that people will just want to skip. I've heard people complaining about the walk across the hanger as it is!

The problem with ship interiors is the opportunity cost... What would we be asking the dev team to sacrifice while they work on ship interiors... and man, ship interiors would cost a lot of dev time.

I remember playing this a lot and enjoying it a lot more than I initially thought I would.

I'm rank 900+ and I've got so many care packages that I can't open... when I do... well... I'll be buying the drinks...

Yeah, we absolutely need some big credit sinks in the game... at this rate I'm going to run out of numbers!

Community Goals - Elite Dangerous Cooperate with Commanders en masse to reshape the galaxy

If you aren't already sick of hauling aluminium, CMM composites, steel or titanium then increased size 5 and 6 cargo rack capacity CG rewards might temp you to do more for the next 4 weeks.

www.elitedangerous.com/community/go...

The Time Traveller at the End of the World by Les Edwards (2020, oils on board)

Art by Peter Elson from Science Fiction Monthly, Nov 1975.

But what are you going to do now?

Lave in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite

The Constrictor mission in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite

A Dodo station in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite

A Thargoid in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite

It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron.

This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM.

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#retrocomputing #retrogaming

ECM 2025 Meet, play, eat. In the company of fellow gamers - in aid of charity

If you're thinking of attending Elite Community Meet in Coventry UK on the 16th August, now would be a good time to book, first to get the discounted hotel rate, and second to opt in to lunch and dinner. A few tickets are still available. www.elitecommunitymeet.info

Better. I knew you could do it.

No Caravans sign.

Yeah, I look at how much I've spent on ED and the number of hours of entertainment I've got out of it and it's the best investment I've ever made!

We'll just need to buy more ARX so they can do all this stuff!

I'd like some more on-foot content. Some different Conflict Zone scenarios, and Power Conflict Zones for on-foot too...

I'm sure they're working on other stuff too... and adjusting a system before it's "settled" isn't ideal. We'll have to wait and see what happens now...

Yeah, avoid the "grind" and just do a variety of this as you feel...

Anything to avoid the player induced stagnation of PP1 is good for me! I'd rather play the game in the game than in discord...