Discovery Scanner - 22/08/2022

22 August 2022

Greetings Commanders.

Hoping you had a great weekend just passes and are ready to make new discoveries this week in the Galaxy of Elite Dangerous o7

Game News

We’re aware than many of you are patiently awaiting follow up responses to your questions regarding the future of Elite Dangerous “versioning”, Console Transfers and updates on known issues.

We’re getting close with these now, so thank you for continuing to bear with us.

We received a huge response with some very valid and discussion worthy concerns and queries we want to address as accurately as possible.

Active Community Goals

Sirius Requests Deliveries For Alliance | Ends in 2 Days.
Supplies have been requested in the Leesti system to help improve the infrastructure of the Alliance Defence Force.
To read more on the goal from this past week, you can read the entry in full at the official Elite Dangerous Community Goals page.

Frameshift Live #15

This week’s livestream brings us back to our regular format with all of your community news to kick off the show with, followed by a well-known developer guest, much loved. Begins with a ‘D’ and ends in…’erin’, taking Bruce and Sally through a little Guardian history class and some insight into the peculiar happenings as a result of the HIP 22460 aftemath.

PLEASE NOTE: This week’s Frameshift Live will be at the same time, 16:00 BST, but on WEDNESDAY THE 24TH as oppose to the usual Thursday slot.

Guardian Investigators, We Need You!
Have you braved a Beacon? Observed an Obelisk? Realised a Relic? We want to see it and feature you on this week’s livestream!
Video and imagery welcome - tag us on social, @EliteDangerous on Twitter for example, or share on the official Forums in our dedicated Discovery Scanner link to this post at: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/discovery-scanner-22-08-2022.607165/

Community Events.

Event: THE BUCKYBALL RACING CLUB PRESENTS - THE MISCHIEF MILE (RELOADED)
Dates: 27 Aug 2022 > 04 Sept 2022
Start Time: 12:00:00 PM (GMT+1)
End Time: 11:59:00 PM (GMT+1)
Location: Tepech or Mirataje
Summary: Race number #7 in the Buckyball Magic 8-Ball championship!
This race (first run in 33301) is a Fuel Rat inspired test of your ability to make every last drop of fuel count. How fast can you get between Tepech and Kirateje (via Fuelum, LHS 3719 and NLTT 48288) without using a fuel scoop and without fitting additional fuel tanks?
As usual this is a time trial event open to all commanders, which can be run on any platform and in either Horizons or Odyssey. See the linked thread here in the Elite Dangerous Forum for full details.

Absolutely anyone can partake. No previous experience necessary.

Hutton Orbital Radio presents '2HOT2MESSY' Progress Report.

Amidst the impact The Hutton Orbital Truckers are continuing to find themselves in a 'Hot Mess' with their solid goal of delivering one Hutton Mug to every single station in the Galaxy well underway.

As a reminder, for your efforts with the mammoth task at hand, Hutton Orbital Radio will be giving away one official, literal Hutton Mug a week from August the 4th until this mission is complete.

For all information on how to get involved, head to this post on the official Elite Dangerous Forums.
To view ongoing efforts on the official leaderboards or to create an account to get your name shining in lights there too, head to https://hot.forthemug.com/hot_mess_2.

This event is all inclusive, so welcomes both PC and Console players.

Don’t forget - if you have any special events you’d like to submit to the Community Calendar you can do so on the events page too.

Featured Commanders.

It's getting more and more difficult to select winners of our weekly Stellar Screenshots competition, so here's a little feature of some incredible runners up from the last week.

[Commander Senner]

[Ozric]

[Rosefine]

[Fred89210]

[Borderreiver]

As always, Commanders, take care out there and thank you for all you do in the Galaxy,

We'll see you in the black

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