 This is Witchspace news for Friday the 15th of November 2019 I'm CMDR Buur In this week's news, David Braben reveals a tantalising nugget of information at the Frontier AGM A new Guardian site has been discovered The lave system needs your help Speed Bowl 3 results are in And the Christmas Carriers Convoy 4 is getting ready to depart If you find this video useful hit like and subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon You can also join the Buur Pit community on our Discord server And if you want to help support the work of this channel You'll also find us on Patreon Links to everything you need are in the description below First of all my thanks this week to CMDR G Meister on our Discord server For pointing me to this story Frontier held their annual general meeting in October A requirement for a company whose shares are traded publicly on the stock exchange Twitter user atinvestedgeordie is a shareholder in Frontier And was in attendance and managed to grab a quick chat with Frontier's CEO David Braben There were a number of interesting comments in Geordie's recount of the conversation But the paragraph that particularly made me sit up and pay attention on the subject of elite was this David assured me that the code base will be renewed via a paid expansion This is great news as the QA team aren't picking up bugs it seems This may be a CIS slash CD pipeline issue But I feel after speaking to the board modern engineering practices are very well embedded And this is rather that the product code base needs to be rationalized And the paid update will fix current and future ills I'm not a developer but if that meant what I thought it meant then it had me rather excited So I ran it past primetime casual as well as being difficult He is a developer and he broke it down into slightly more digestible language for me In essence the implication here and this is something that primetime has been saying to me for the past year Is that the code that elite is built on at this point is now quite old It's had features tacked onto it that haven't been designed from the start to work well with each other Or have little or no joint commonality in their implementation For example SRVs, ship launched fighters, wings and multi-crew all work in various ways There are odds with each other, you can't multi-crew in a wing for example And SRVs are incompatible with multi-crew but they do work in a wing, things like that Where a code base has been growing organically like elite has There comes a point where it becomes too unwieldy or top heavy to easily add to Or further for that matter bug fix And it seems from the position of an outside observer at least that elite may have reached that point And assuming that is the case the only sensible thing to do is renew the code base Essentially start over with a fresh build of the engine that uses all the latest, best and freshest code That the company has developed since elite was written Code that is now in use in frontiers other titles Planet Coaster, Jurassic World and Planet Zoo This is an expensive and lengthy process but ultimately a necessary one We're guessing here but we think this means that the 2020 paid update will help to finance a ground up refresh of the existing code base As well as adding lots of new features for those that buy the expansion It's extremely likely that in such an event the refreshed code base will be in use by those that don't choose to buy the expansion as well There's no way that Frontier would wish to maintain two different code bases of the same game It would certainly help explain why features like carriers have been problematic for Frontier to implement And why promised features like ice planet refreshes have fallen off the roadmap for now at least It's likely their implementation would be much more feasible using a new code base It's worth noting as well that the implementation of a code base like those in use in Planet Zoo or Jurassic World Would certainly make atmospheric worlds much more achievable in the future Commander Vanilla Ice Toxaphilite of the fatherhood player group reported his discovery this week of a new previously unknown Guardian Ruins site While doing research missions for the famed Xeno scientist Ram Tarr If you want to visit what is possibly currently at least the last three of the Guardian sites Then visit the Coal 173 sector shown on screen now and head to body C3 Congratulations on a great find commander there are many like it but this one is yours What is possibly the most famous of the original star systems for Elite Lave is currently suffering a famine as a result of infection from the Scourge Crop Blight The Lave system is the only place in the galaxy where you can obtain the rare good Lavian Brandy Which is needed to unlock the engineer Diddy Vateman And whilst the system and his under blight that commodity is unavailable for purchase In an initiative being called save Lave a general call has been put out for all available pilots to deliver as much food as possible to the Lave system to end the famine Last weekend saw the Elite Media Sphere almost entirely dominated by the Speed Bowl 3 event Primetime Casual and Halo Jones once again convinced hordes of commanders to hurl themselves at a high G world in normal space An attempt to reach speeds in excess of 4,000 meters per second above an unfortunate star pool This time it was the turn of the 61 virginus systems Margulis Depot to call in the double glazing repair teams Our congratulations go to commanders Phobia, Verminus and Gur Yua who took podium slots 1-3 respectively For a full rundown of all the placings of what was the largest speed bowl event yet then head to the forum link below In typical generous Elite community fashion a number of the prizes given at the top end were donated to those further down the podium Just brilliant An amazing event for all involved really a sight to behold as well as long as you don't blink at the wrong moment Massive congratulations to Halo and Primetime for once again stepping up managing and hosting a fantastic weekend long community engaging event Roll on Speed Bowl 4 And finally the 4th annual Christmas Carriers Convoy will be leaving the bubble on the 1st of December With the intention of delivering a mix of food, commodities and rare goods to the Colonia region in time for Christmas Day To get involved see links to their Discord and the Expedition page on the Always Marvelous EDSM website That's it for now, thanks very much for watching We'll be back later this week with more videos until then, oh 7 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack We very much look forward to seeing you next time