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Headlines for this episode:  

A small patch for Odyssey missions

Elite events calendar

Harassment of the CMs and Devs

State of the game videos seem to be going around...

APOC_V introduction, and bio, guest of the night, and all around cool dude. https://anchor.fm/elitecommscheck/

 

Squad Update: 

Expansion underway from V740...currently headed to Ruchbah as the only open slot

Working to set up conflicts for control in V640 (war) and Unktomi (election)

We have been asked by LYR PP to expand to and take over 6 Andromedae (currently non-favorable government)...next expansion goal

Earlier this week the faction briefly topped 6B total population for the first time. Currently 5.89B, 99th most populous faction...we’re in the Galactic top 100!

Galnet Recap:

https://community.elitedangerous.com/

Cg: independent break away from fed in 4-0 win

Dev news:

Tuesday A small patch: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-odyssey-server-update.584938/

Contains a number of mission fixes and some faction INF balancing (Rebalanced the faction influence effects from repeatedly winning & losing various scenarios at Installations & Megaships.)

Supercruise News - 

Demo of the upcoming event calendar

No plans for it to be integrated into game, but they’d like to.

Still on track for autumn release to console

Thursday: 

State of the game videos are going around:

Particularly these 

Obsidian Ant: https://youtu.be/9ZAWzWjuP34

Hawkes Gaming: https://youtu.be/RsovOlGl70I

Drew Wagar: https://youtu.be/bHe3CYN4520

And the CMs post in response to vitriol and harassment. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/statement-on-harassment.585175/

Chig chat: 

Community Comms:

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