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... it is unlikely that the title could influence them to that point.

As you say, unlikely - but who knows. People were grabbing ideas from all over the place back then. Elite itself was almost certainly inspired by, among others, Traveller, although DB now denies this (apparently). There's a flavour of THHGTTG in Elite too, which in turn was probably partly inspired by a Kurt Vonnegut 'excerpt' attributed to Kilgore Trout (one of Vonnegut's characters), and expanded into a novel by Philip José Farmer (writing as Kilgore Trout).

FRIENDSHIP DRIVE ACTIVATED

Isinona is so damn cool. I'm aiming to get to Elite this year (triple Elite that is) and then I'm thinking about re-setting my save and flying FA off only on my next time around. I love that the videos have a story, it's all role played so beautifully. One of the best content makers out there for ED in my humble opinion.

I've said this before but he's the reason I got into playing E:D. :3

Philip, going FA-Off exclusively is A BLAST OF FUN AND FRESH AIR. It's amazing. <3 You will never want to go back. I still chafe at having to use flight assist due to my lack of more than one controller.

IronDuke wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2018 11:00 am

I still chafe at having to use flight assist due to my lack of more than one controller.

use your keyboard scrub?

rip Mac CMDRs :c
If only the game had an offline mode, it wouldn't become unplayable with abandonment.

If ED had an offline mode, I'd probably still be pottering around in my long-range Cobra Mk III - ho-hum!

The premature death (was it ever even alive?) of offline mode saddens me greatly.

Philip Coutts wrote: ↑

Wed May 02, 2018 12:18 pm

... was it ever even alive?

No, probably not. <spits>

Apologies for the self promotion (pardon the pun) but I finally made my first Elite in Exploration!

Nice job!

Eyyyyy well done

I made Elite in Combat a little over two years ago, but have yet to make Elite in Trading or in Exploration. I think Trading is at Tycoon right now though :3

Wish they had another rank for Xeno Combat... I'd be climbing up there pretty quick c:

I don't like to say I told ya so, but... I guess X4 becomes the new hope for offline gripers now.

So Chapter 4 is almost upon us, it's the biggest (and some might say the most important) free update to date. Frontier are doing livestreams every week to go into the details, the first was last Thursday and dealt with exploration, the codex, UI improvements and lighting improvements. Well worth a watch if you have the time (it's almost 1 & 1/2 hours!). Highlights for me are the new exploration and probe system, new UI, the codex, rumours and of course the Orerry! From first look, Elite Dangerous is about to get a whole lot of depth added.

https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmmmP_waf4

Edit: There is also a re-cap thread on the main forums: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost7088359

Next up for Elite Dangerous is a stream on the background simulation and the reveal of what the heck scenarios are? It's on this Thursday at 7pm British time.

https://youtu.be/VCy1ZYjLvdQ