 Mm-hmm Perfect Kind of excited for carriers. Yeah, let's we're gonna watch let's watch that I meant to watch that contacts Contacts contacts Contacts contacts Let's watch that little video As soon as I figure out what ship I'm gonna get something that can have a fighter They've won the crots the crates. I Kind of don't want to fly a big one though. So I might get one of the crates Hey lady, don't talk to me like that. What's the mark to is it here? Yeah, how do I build this? This it's not mining is it I collect a lump it No hard points. I don't know what I was doing. Oh Do I have cargo? Oh Muppets Destroy Crates is great mate. I rated eight out of eight It's a date Mark you come here. Come here. I imagine being able to park it outside of a war system and just farm CZs for rep and combat XP You can do that with a crate. Oh you farm seas I thought you meant park it in the CZ my bad. I misunderstood. I was thinking like Healy's for feely stuff What what the cutters you know just sit there and let your turrets do all the work Oh, you're talking about carriers, man. I already forgot All right, hold on Let's get this video Twitter.com slash elite Dangerous They got it on their Twitter. All right. Let's kill the music. I Mean that video just gets right to the point So in case you guys don't know this video this fleet carrier teaser was dropped at lave con Last week, I think this was a feature that was supposed to come the beginning of this year I'm not mistaken And it got postponed And we were all sad. Okay, I take that back. I was all sad because This was the feature I was looking forward to the most out of the entire update and they were like, oh that thing that fleet carrier thing Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna just gonna postpone that and I was like, no Okay, whatever and I got over it But I was pleasantly surprised to see that it's coming this year I wasn't expecting to see fleet carriers if at all until the end of 2020 So this was a surprise that it's actually coming this year because there's gonna be a big update at the end of 2020 I guess I could play it while I'm running my mouth That there's gonna be a big big update that we don't know half of what's gonna be in it They just tell us it's gonna be huge the end of 2020 If it's like the current Jump stuff, then I'm not gonna be as excited You know how you just you plot a course and then on the next reset it jumps. I Kind of hope it's not like that, you know Cuz that would be a letdown it'll be something it'll be something, you know, but if you're gonna jump once a week I Really hope is based on fuel and the more fuel you have the more you can jump and make the fuel stupid expensive, you know Cuz it should be stupid expensive. This is like how big this thing is So if you got fuel, we should be able to jump so that'll give people incentives to to actually Farm and to actually grind credits credits while meaning again Cuz once you rich once you well, let's be real credits haven't lost all their meaning So it's the inception of Void Opal's credits have pretty much lost all their meaning There used to be a little bit of a ramp up, but now it's like within a day you can be a millionaire So I'm hoping that there's a fuel requirement that requires a Lot of credits and I think you know it kind of is in line with what with what frontier is doing because The fact that they stopped closing up all of the credit faucets Plugging all the holes remember every time there was a Gold mine that they would plug the hole and then they just up and decided one day to say hey We ain't gonna do that no more go get rich. You know I think They may be purposely flooding the economy for this Which will make credits meaningful again, but then it could it could introduce a new set of problems if it's not balanced appropriately So so what you have 10 billion credits if it costs 2 billion to do one thing on the ship Credits are gonna be hard to come by You know on the on the carrier and that's okay for some people That's okay for some people especially like I think about my evil online background And every time I've mentioned evil online people grown But you can't help them make comparisons when it comes to space game economy I Think back to my evil online experience and it's like the top tier stuff You know you make a lot of money, but you also spend a lot of money So it kind of worked out so if the same is true in elite like if you're doing fleet carrier level stuff And you're rich you should be spending a whole lot of money, you know This is not an entry level thing Although people are probably gonna want it to be crying my immersion, you know, I want to be a solo player I don't want to have to grind credits to experience, you know the FOMO thing that plagued this game so bad this there's a big FOMO problem and elite dangerous and hopefully They won't cater to that attitude FOMO is fear of missing out. So I don't have time to play but I still want to do something that requires I Still want to do something huge even though I don't play the game a lot and At some point game developers have to put their foot down go Well, if you can't play then you just can't do this. Sorry If more developers said that we'd have better games today Am I right? But it looks good. I mean, that's that's not they're not showing us a whole lot in this Which is cool because it's a teaser what features could you see be included in With the carrier um Module storage is the biggest thing on my mind because we uh, I Think most players who've been playing since the beginning have full module storage Maybe the option to have a single type of engineer, so if you want to have a frameship drive engineer you want to have a And this will cost money basically a single engineer type If not that a material trader, I think material trader might be a better idea on your fleet carrier and Yeah, monks. It's like a guild house So if you think about like I'm playing Final Fantasy 14 right now in your Final Fantasy 14 house You can have an NPC that can do Repairs you can have vendors you can have Access to an auction house or whatever so All the amenities you would find in the world you can consolidate them into your house in Final Fantasy 14 So I'm thinking this carrier should have something similar Not one-to-one, but there should be some level of convenience that you can unlock And I honestly think there should be a tax on it There should be a weekly fee or something to encourage squadrons to You know fill up the guild bank with credits Yeah And maybe this could be the first level of space legs like this can be a This could be a social hub for your group to walk around and look at each other's glam One thing I don't think they're gonna do that players are gonna ask for Which I really believe players are gonna ask for this is Customization on your fleet carrier. I mean who doesn't want a purple fleet carrier, right? So That's probably gonna be really hard for frontier to do though These are big ships and to just just to reskin them might be a big undertaking Even if I don't think it's gonna be easy as it seems honestly, but I think players are gonna ask for it Like they want hey, I want to be able to put decals on my fleet carrier Yeah, about that About that. Oh, yeah, let's talk about arcs. I Feel a little I got mixed feelings about arcs guys The reason why I got mixed feelings about arcs is because of a I Think is No, let me just let me just say this arcs is a good idea, right? In game wait an in game currency to earn cosmetics has always been a good idea, but Year one players include myself Coffee others in the chat Can probably tell you this is something we've been begging for for a very long time and I have mixed feelings because I think it may be a little bit late I Think it might be a little bit late and I don't know if it's going to help that much It's a good idea, but if it would have been implemented a Long time ago it would have had a much more positive impact Did it will now? So, yeah, I'm glad to see it, but I wish we would have seen it 2015 you know like that could have been a great thing to add to Not even year one the year two that could have been a good thing to add, you know So that's my only thing with arcs. It's a great idea. I just fear it's a little too late That's it's not really a negative thing. It's just that's why I call it mixed feelings. I think it's It's a good idea. It's just really really really Really really really late Is anybody chat actually been doing the interstellar initiatives, I haven't even been keeping up with them I'm curious as to how they have been How they've been doing The last thing I remember reading is because it was on the front page of Reddit was like the thing about the forum posts how they did a poll on the forum for An interstellar initiative and you know a lot of people were laughing at that on Reddit. I Know they've had another one since and They actually introduced I think some items associated with one because I still get their newsletter I still get their newsletter. So I still see some of that stuff But I really haven't been keeping up with the news. Is that your new ship? No, this is a teaser video That was released last week by frontier a new feature That's coming called fleet carriers. This is a huge Carrier ship that we players will have some sort of control of So we're just I'm looping this teaser video because it's brand brand spanking new I do know a bunch of people that were excited about the new MC for a ex up. Yeah There were some new modules and new guns or some new stuff that was introduced, right? So and I think you had to Choose a side. I'm starting to come back to me. You had to choose a side in order to unlock a certain module Right. So they're slipping in new modules that way Slipping in new modules. I think that's a good idea. You had to choose a side to vote essentially. Yeah, yeah So I get what frontiers doing there They're giving us the quote-unquote power to shape the universe. So the things that are actually being implemented are Voted on on quote by players It's not a terrible idea, but you know, I'm always happy to see new modules Wait an ax Multicannon won over a missile launcher Don't we already have an ax on multi cannon? Am I am I wait? What year is it? Am I in the right universe? I could have swore. We already had an ax multi cannon It's not exclusively ax. Oh Okay, okay, I Gotta agree with coffee. I think I would have preferred a missile in that case I think I would have preferred a missile missiles, especially if I'm killing If I'm killing swarms and stuff Because you have to deal with swarms a lot. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking coffees. Hey reversing. You're welcome back Missiles are the only thing one thing missing for targets. Yeah, I would have I think if I would have voted If I would have voted I wouldn't went for missiles do It's not in Forms may never transform It doesn't count against the 4x module in it. Yeah, so that's good. So that makes the fight against the Thargo is better So that's a good addition. I can't really complain because I had a chance to vote and I didn't vote So I'm just gonna accept what the community voted for But I tell you I can tell you in retrospect if I was doing that community goal or I'm sorry The interstellar initiative if I was doing that I Definitely would have voted for missiles Either way Thargo is gonna perish I'm excited man. I'm glad that uh I'm glad we're getting something this year, you know, and that's that's kind of sad That I'm excited that we're getting the feature that we were supposed to get at the beginning of the year But we're getting it at the end of this year. I'm excited about but it just goes to show how much this game has on me, man I just This is sad though, man I remember a day with me and like 12 other people took a ray team of anacondas To kill a single Cyclops with eggs missile launchers well That's the teaser guys So let's take a look at this arcs Announcement don't they have a post on it. Yeah arcs back. So hmm So September is Three months away July Yeah, two months basically two months away Just don't scroll back to us New in ship starter experience. Okay, this one I got to think about because I could have I Guess they're extending the new player experience. They already added which is before you get into the ship as I talk this out I'll understand it because a lot of the new player experience stuff that they added um UI wise was Before you create your character had all that cool stuff and then after you create your character they put you in the starter system and I guess that they're gonna merge the Tutorials which was like a separate almost like a separate application They're gonna put that right into the game world at the start of the experience commanders Will be guided through essential pilot training by a flight instructor from the pilots federation During this training a number of lessons will be taught to commanders from space flight to combat. I Think it's safe to do this Because of the restricted system and you can't troll people while they're doing this you can try But I think the restricted system Makes this more feasible the lave con get stream it did but frontier Asked the lave con folks not to stream it The panel so lave con was streamed the frontier panel was not They have the reasons I guess I guess you know they have the reasons So you'll be able to do basic flight controls and scanning supercruise navigation a combat exercise and completing the hyperspace jump and a star and docking at a star port So that's a good for bullet point first lesson honestly Cuz this will teach you targeting and hard points Which I think you have to know for everything in the game, right? People say oh, why do I need to comment? Well, this will teach you how to Deploy hard points and target things Which is very important. I mean some of this is Gonna, you know, this is gonna introduce it. This is gonna reinforce it. So I think it's a good idea and You get the dock. Oh That's gonna be fun to watch all the training will include voiceover across our support languages, which is good You'll be able to access it in the training section via the right panel. Oh, I was wrong. So it is still going to be Segmented off it's not gonna be in the actual world. Oh Well, forget that point I made Cuz it's gonna be probably gonna launch the training application, but it's gonna be a new training application Okay. Yep. So it's gonna be like CQC, but training It's own separate thing Okay, that's not bad either Okay, the new library system one of the best things about this is that you'll be able to change your skin at the main menu. I Was excited when I read that. Where is that picture? Arcs is cool, but to be able to change your skin at The main menu and yes, that's pretty cool. You don't have to go in the game to do this stuff But arcs is the new Arcs is a new currency Bottom blue points. Yeah, there it is valid bullet point This is this is gonna be fun to watch because Whenever there is an in-game currency that you can earn Just think about what we go through today about credits Just just let's just get your mind in the right place think about what we go through today about earning credits and People want to earn credits and complain about the lack of earning credits during certain activities When you tie cosmetics to that activity Players senses become heightened Hey They go they go hypersensitive to arcs. They're going to be spreadsheets. They're going to be calculations They're going to be virtual robotic programs To tell you when to wake up and winter grind arcs and whatnot to People are gonna be really really sensitive to this and Frontier better brace themselves Because I can I can guarantee no matter what system they put in place for how they earn arcs somebody out there or Some group of people are gonna think it's not enough or it's too much Well, if you think it's too much, I don't know what to tell you. I mean come on free skins So the the rate that you earn arcs is Going to be extremely Important so I don't know what they're gonna do Cuz when I read about this, I was thinking to myself, how does frontier make money? They two things come to mind when I think about how frontier makes money the first thing is They make money from all of us buying alternate accounts because we're addicted to the game So they have a sale and they make money from us buying three and four alternate accounts and we're like We're like obsidian and we got 40 accounts, right? So they make money that way just like Eve did The second way is cosmetics. They make money off us buying skins for everything and gifting skins other people Frankly this might cut into that revenue so I don't know how much they're going to offer on The store Because I think people are gonna make the assumption I think they're gonna wrongly make the assumption that everything on the shores on the store is gonna be available via arcs and I'm Don't think that's gonna be the case unless they stated in this post. I don't think they did. I read this once So I may have missed it. I don't think Everything on the shop is gonna be available Via arcs. So if you want that iridescent skin, I Gotta tell you it's probably gonna cost you money. Anyway I think this is gonna be a further extension of the decal system that we got from Community goals. They're gonna have a set of game extras that are gonna be built just for arcs I Don't think they're gonna be ship kits That you see on the on the on the shop now. I don't think they're gonna be paint jobs You see in the shop now. I don't think they're gonna be bobbleheads. That's just my Speculation like I said, they don't have anything on here to state the opposite But you gotta think how does frontier make money if they just put the whole shop as being earnable How are they gonna make money unless they know something I don't you know, um, oh You're right You're right sergeant cracker. I didn't see that Okay I'll stand down. I Didn't know it could be purchased. I Thought it was only earnable Everything I said just is moot forget everything. I just said, okay, bring a parody across all of our platforms As someone I gotta see it I Gotta see it. I Really hope they have cross platform, but that's that's just a big wish I got to see it though because I mean we already got parody on patches, right? But Microsoft and Sony man, they're really weird about the stores in general you could talk to Warframe about that I'm not I'm this is not a dig at frontier. This is a dig at Sony and Microsoft having parody across Okay, we'll see Allow commanders to earn customization items through gameplay because even X on Xbox and ps4 for Warframe We don't even have parody across those guys because there's some stuff on Xbox and ps4 that we can't get on PC This is weird like that When I see when I'd seen bobble heads first thing it popped into my head Warframe, I know right novels a lot commanders to earn customization items through gameplay as part of the update Are experiment be able to acquire cosmetics if I play the game wise commanders Change how they play simply being an active player and engaging the game is all that's required. Oh, no So that means we're getting are we gonna get logging rewards? Because this is skirting on that free-to-play model 2020 well, I Gotta say it chat Somebody's probably already said it But at the end of 2020 will elite dangerous be free to play Huh, I mean, this is this is setting the building blocks for it a number of arcs They did specifically say no free-to-play. Okay Okay, a number of arcs can be earned each week It will be instantly added to the player's arcs balance that can be spent there and then save for later We'll have more details on how they can be earned and I could earn close to the release of the September update previews I Didn't see this before I think I skimmed over this. This is big This is actually pretty big that you'll be able to preview skins Because I can't be the only one who bought a skin and then put it in game and be like, oh Well, okay, I guess that's okay There've been some skins that the the website preview wasn't Indicative of what it looked like in game, especially when it came to lighting and stuff Commanders to be able to purchase individual game of the previous on the velo entire packs White feral paint job, you know in person We'll be Okay, and yeah change your appearance at the menu is it's gonna be big I like that a lot That's that's really good So that looks like the preview window 620 arcs, huh? Why or equal signs the preview a or space so this is definitely on PC And this is the shop In game shop chat That's got me thinking how many other games out there other than this we're using a website for their shop I don't think there's a lot that I played that had a I Think they had a companion Like you'd have a shop in game and a shop on a website that you can use either or But this was one of the few games that I remembered that would have you would have to go to a website So what do you guys think is a good amount of time to earn a scan? How many hours of gameplay should you? Have to play to earn a scan I mean this is like a question that came up when League of Legends was was introduced It's like how many hours that you need to to earn enough currency to Earn a scan I genuinely don't know I can make a guess but I genuinely don't know you say about a week 24 hours One to two weeks You they better put that sentence there arc values are subject to change what? 32 54 great I don't know it's hard. It's really oh, it's gonna be a fickle thing man Like I don't know how to gauge it So I've been playing so long. It's like I don't I don't I forgot what it means like to actually earn something in this game Because I got 12 billion credits and I can get anything I want I think the only thing that gives me a sense of accomplishment is when I fully engineer a new ship and even then I'm so versed in the knowledge on where to get stuff that I do it so fast, you know compared to other people So what's our good measurement of effort is hard for me to visualize? Hard to really measure in time as elite activities are so weirdly varied exactly. That's a great point. That's a great point because Exploration versus combat, you know That's a good example of that It's like you ping 40 400 systems and you get 200 arcs, but if you if you killed 50 ships You get 700 arcs, you know is that balance? It's a weird weird thing. I feel bad for him I don't know how frontier is gonna balance that but no matter what they do players are going to rise up We couldn't end the presentation by a glimpse of what's coming at the end of the year fleet carriers So arcs is September, right? Just to be keeping in my head Yeah, so arcs is September with their starter experience and Fleet carries is December We got to make that delineation because some people might think this is coming in September So that's it that's it man, we're getting this guy At the end of the year And we're getting the arc system September it's as soon as you guys think September is gonna be here before you know it Because July is practically halfway over. We're almost halfway through July. I Think you're gonna be like, okay. Here's August. Wait a minute. September is next month, you know I don't have equipment for lots of combat. So I would rather do mining or something else most times Yeah, just takes practice. I wonder how much fleet carriers will cost. How they're expensive Given that they're allowing us to flood the economy or if you can call it an economy, I hope they're expensive Because I mean anybody who's done void opals is pretty much kind of rich, right? So Make credits credit make credits great again is my motto Make credit is great again would be to make it this a credit sink, you know This would be this could be the in game that people well a type of in game Economic in game that people can sink money into because here's another thought. What if you can earn money from a fleet carrier, huh? Just like Gosh, I never remember the name of him in Eve The player build structures in Eve like the basis you can build an Eve You can set up markets there and earn money off of tax You know, that'd be really cool if you could do that in this game like if you could set up a commodities market That you can stock, right? Through missions or whatever. I don't know what systems are gonna have in place with AI But if you could set up a market that other players could buy and sell from and earn money on the tax, you know So you could sell like I don't know Platinum at a discount But charge tax and then players could trade that platinum somewhere else for profit, you know I don't know business one-on-one. I'm not I'm not a I'm not a sales guy I don't know. I mean, that's why when people will ask me when I when I was going on and on This was a long time ago Probably last time I rented about elite. I was going on and on about how cool colonizing planets would be people like Well, what's so great about? Building something on the planet that they'll get boring fast. I'm like, no Not if you include economic benefits from doing that stuff Buying and selling for players setting up a market trade outposts, you know, that that that really Extends the life of a game and it encourages player interaction, you know, and if you want to make it make it really spicy This is how you can make it really spicy. You could have players attack give players the Permission to attack bases and anarchy systems But give it a benefit, you know, give it a risk reward. So if you if you establish a base on On a planet in an anarchy system You earn more money, but players can attack you if they want to so, yeah Now economic prestige, I don't know about you, but I love having my name attached to discovery for systems Imagine feeling I'm naming a planet or colonizing. That's true, man. It's sassively salty 36 months, man. How you doing? Thank you so much for coming by Thank you so much for the support, dude Yeah, Prestige is good too, I agree with you But I if it's a material gathering thing And so be it I think material gathering should be part of it So each I think each construction of a fleet carrier should be like a mini CG for your squadron Yeah, yeah, three years man. Enjoy that badge. Congrats again We got a new emote, man. Lahi Buonahee and new emote I Think it should I think it should be like a mini community goal like for your squadron to build your fleet carrier You need so many tons of platinum so many tons of gold so many, you know, consumer electronics This mini credits You need to defend, you know with you know, just you defend it from pirates Don't make it too elaborate though. Make it like a little mini CG Just so the the most dedicated solo player can do it. Yeah squadron goal exactly Like a dedicated solo player can do it but it will be fun still for like a group of 10 or 20 people and Scale it with the size of your squadron, but don't get too crazy with the big squadrons warframe taught us That's a bad idea Yeah, so the smaller the squadron the lesser the requirements right but Now that think about that they probably should make multiple size carriers Because it wouldn't be that fair if one person could get a fleet carrier in a day and then it takes a Squadron of 200 people a week to do it, you know, and they have the same thing So I don't know that that's not a very thought-out idea. I'm just I'm brainstorming right now not too thought-out But something like that, you know something to to get players involved in squadrons because I think Giving squadrons a goal will keep people playing The game will only go free to play if the new arcs currency helps them earn enough extra dollars. I Honestly think the game is eventually gonna go free to play even though they said no I think their frontier is going to say at one point. Hey, we have hit our Was it ten year whatever vision? So now that we've hit our vision will go free to play. I think they're gonna do that at some point But like I said, you know, it's far-fetched. I don't know. Honestly, Musuko I don't know how they're staying afloat now how healthy is the player base and the and the People buying skins on this on the market. How how's that keeping the company float now? Because I don't I don't think The player count is that high right now Like I know they're making money off a Jurassic world licensing and all that stuff and just sales Planet coasters making them decent money Didn't they get a massive amount through Kickstarter in the beginning? Yeah, but they've burned through all that They're still profitable like they're there that Kickstarter money has been burned. I mean they've used that to make the game But they've been releasing their financials and they receive, you know revenue from us buying the game and skins So they've been profitable over the years Because their company's not that wasn't that big over the last few years, but they've grown. They've been hiring. They've got new building They've been expanding. They're doing more than multiple types of games. So I wonder if they're I Wonder if the game is funding all of that now because You know, we arrogant year one elite players myself included say that we funded the other games We claim that elite is their biggest game and that we funded Planet Coaster and we funded Jurassic World So it's like the other way around that we're funding these other games So if elites player count is not that big right now, I wonder how they're gonna sustain I know arcs is gonna be an injection of income I know arcs is gonna be an injection of income because initially there's gonna be a lot of purchase of arcs a lot of it But like you guys said up above scrolling up like arcs is probably not gonna be enough money to carry the company Stop Coco Chumbo I'm in pure speculation mode guys. Don't I'm not ranting or anything like that. It's just it's interesting to talk about this because The company's in the interesting position right now They're in an interesting position because we're in a maintenance Kind of like in a maintenance cycle right now Until we get to the 2020 update And these these two nuggets that they threw us should keep some players Held over But you gotta wonder how they're doing financially and they they released their their financials publicly So we'll know soon enough The peak amount of players in the past 24 hours just on steam is 5.9 K players So they may be they must be making a decent amount of money off the game okay player count is one thing but When I say population I usually mean like returning and I Guess enthusiasts Those players I talked about that buy multiple copies of the game that buy skins that gift skins It's kind of hard to to quantify that though Yeah, there's new players trying it out and the valve index is coming out right the valve index VR Cuz this game gets spikes in population when some new VR solution hits because it's like the poster child for VR games right So when the valve index hits critical mass, there's gonna be a new Surge of enthusiasts. I don't know how many because the valve index is pretty expensive They're gonna try elite because let's face it. It's one of the best VR games out there It's it's one of the best VR games out there. So it's Very interesting