Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "elite"
1st November 2014
I never got the DIY work done last week. Calum was out on Saturday until the small hours as they said in my day. That meant that he spent most of Sunday recovering in his bed. Maybe we may get his guitars onto his wall this week.
My garden is slowly becoming leaf strewn as they fall from my fruit trees. And the rhubarb has died back for the year. Sadly it is still to early to prune my trees. I'll need to leave that till the right cold weather comes in. Hopefully I will get a not so cold day over a weekend. I do have one thing in my favour, time. Yes as long as the pruning is done before next spring everything should be alright. One thing that will need done is to clear some of the leaves as they are covering the strawberries that grow around the base of my trees.
Beta 3 of Elite came out this week. I played it for the first time last night after it updated to 3.03. I should have expected it would need some quick updates but I didn't expect three within days. Just goes to show how complex and large the game is. With new feature being add I suppose it was inevitable that conflicts would arise within the code. These would in turn lead to unforeseeable consequences in game. With it also being a PC game everyone is experiencing differing problems as these bugs run on their unique systems. It does make it even harder for the developers to figure out where they need to look to repair the code. I don't envy them but I suppose that is why they get a better wage than me.
My garden is slowly becoming leaf strewn as they fall from my fruit trees. And the rhubarb has died back for the year. Sadly it is still to early to prune my trees. I'll need to leave that till the right cold weather comes in. Hopefully I will get a not so cold day over a weekend. I do have one thing in my favour, time. Yes as long as the pruning is done before next spring everything should be alright. One thing that will need done is to clear some of the leaves as they are covering the strawberries that grow around the base of my trees.
Beta 3 of Elite came out this week. I played it for the first time last night after it updated to 3.03. I should have expected it would need some quick updates but I didn't expect three within days. Just goes to show how complex and large the game is. With new feature being add I suppose it was inevitable that conflicts would arise within the code. These would in turn lead to unforeseeable consequences in game. With it also being a PC game everyone is experiencing differing problems as these bugs run on their unique systems. It does make it even harder for the developers to figure out where they need to look to repair the code. I don't envy them but I suppose that is why they get a better wage than me.
8th November 2014
Another week and still I haven't managed to get the job for my son done. Plus it doesn't seem likely that it will get done this weekend as he is going out tonight again. Oh to be young again when we stayed out all weekend spending money we never had. Or at least we held for a short bit till the landlord took it from us, hehehe.
The garden remains to be done as the leaves are still clinging to the trees. If it is dry tomorrow I will need to do some light cleaning up out there. Today the rugby was my excuse and then the rain gave me a bigger reason for staying indoors. Wales faced Australia this afternoon. It was a close game so much so that it first swung in favour of Wales then to the Aussies. In the end the Australians snatched the victory in the last ten minutes though Wales fought to the end. As you can tell it was a good game. Hopefully the Scottish game against Argentina is as good but with us coming away with the win. It starts at five, well at least the prematch dialogue does so not long to go.
Elite is now into the 3.04 beta trial and going well. I haven't had much time to play it this week. I've had few days of overtime at work caused by production issues which delayed the retorts. Mind I had the game on as soon as I could last night for a few hours which was good. I am working towards getting myself the Cobra MkIII in the game but I have some while to go. I just have to be patient and keep doing what I have been doing to get it. That just means sticking to trading in the safer systems for a bit more before heading off to explore.
The garden remains to be done as the leaves are still clinging to the trees. If it is dry tomorrow I will need to do some light cleaning up out there. Today the rugby was my excuse and then the rain gave me a bigger reason for staying indoors. Wales faced Australia this afternoon. It was a close game so much so that it first swung in favour of Wales then to the Aussies. In the end the Australians snatched the victory in the last ten minutes though Wales fought to the end. As you can tell it was a good game. Hopefully the Scottish game against Argentina is as good but with us coming away with the win. It starts at five, well at least the prematch dialogue does so not long to go.
Elite is now into the 3.04 beta trial and going well. I haven't had much time to play it this week. I've had few days of overtime at work caused by production issues which delayed the retorts. Mind I had the game on as soon as I could last night for a few hours which was good. I am working towards getting myself the Cobra MkIII in the game but I have some while to go. I just have to be patient and keep doing what I have been doing to get it. That just means sticking to trading in the safer systems for a bit more before heading off to explore.
15th November 2014
I was right about the job I still have to do for my son. He had a bit of a wild weekend with his friends. Though according to him it wasn't all that and he should have just stayed home. Yeah right, we really think that is true. I don't even think Calum really thinks that. I think he only said it in the hope it would make us feel good.
We had a surprise inspection this week. Usually we get a warning of when they are coming. Not this year though. As you might suspect the office staff were on tender hooks as we normally have a week or two to sort any issues around the factory. In the end though we passed. How well I don't know. The main thing though is that we are all still in a job thanks to getting the pass. But for two days things around the work were palpable as well as a little stressed. It was good to reach the weekend.
Talking of stress I really felt it last weekend when playing the game. I am still working to earn the cash for the Cobra Mk III but found it harder to earn the credits to do so. I just kept getting attacked in every system I visited making me late with deliveries. This led to fines and not getting paid plus my cargo hold being filled with a cargo I had difficulties in getting rid of. I would either jettison it or if I had access to the black-market sell it there. Not every station has one though hence why sometime I would just fire the cargo out the airlock. All of this did see my balance slowly decline till I finally just switched the computer off. I suppose I will need to do some personal trading which I haven't done to any great extent as yet to earn the cash for the Cobra. I just have to find a good trade route to exploit for a bit.
We had a surprise inspection this week. Usually we get a warning of when they are coming. Not this year though. As you might suspect the office staff were on tender hooks as we normally have a week or two to sort any issues around the factory. In the end though we passed. How well I don't know. The main thing though is that we are all still in a job thanks to getting the pass. But for two days things around the work were palpable as well as a little stressed. It was good to reach the weekend.
Talking of stress I really felt it last weekend when playing the game. I am still working to earn the cash for the Cobra Mk III but found it harder to earn the credits to do so. I just kept getting attacked in every system I visited making me late with deliveries. This led to fines and not getting paid plus my cargo hold being filled with a cargo I had difficulties in getting rid of. I would either jettison it or if I had access to the black-market sell it there. Not every station has one though hence why sometime I would just fire the cargo out the airlock. All of this did see my balance slowly decline till I finally just switched the computer off. I suppose I will need to do some personal trading which I haven't done to any great extent as yet to earn the cash for the Cobra. I just have to find a good trade route to exploit for a bit.
22nd November 2014
I finally got the work for my son out of the way. Though he was out with friends again last weekend it wasn't all night. I was surprised to see him coming home just after midnight but it did mean he wasn't catching up on sleep the next day. It wasn't a big job so I had his guitars hanging from his walls in no time. Well it is often the case the small jobs seem to be put off for ages then you wonder why when it took so little of your time in the end.
Elite has reached the Gamma stage of development today. I look forward to see how it plays after the failure, for me, of the last beta. I found beta 3.91 was unplayable due to not being able to leave Super Cruise which you need to traverse the large distances in a star system. That meant I had to quit and re-enter the game but had the adverse effect of leaving me up to half an hour of travelling before I reached the station I was heading to. That was half an hour of sitting doing nothing other than watching numbers on the screen descending as the distance closed. Not much fun. Hopefully I won't have that problem tonight.
Reading the paper at work this week I saw that the Westminster government is already preparing the way on going back on the pledge they made. That was where they promised more powers for the Scottish government if people voted no in the referendum on independence. It hasn't taken them to long to begin to set the ground work for breaking "the pledge." Well we can't say that we who supported independence did expect it. Sadly when we said that this would happen the media drowned us out. That was one of the sad parts of the whole debate that the media was almost completely for the status quo. It was so bad that I felt angered by some of the lies that were told in the tabloids of what would happen if the "yes" camp won. If I had believed the rubbish that was spouted I would have had visions of Scotland being thrown into a dark age. Our lights would have went out and we'd be left eating grass because we wouldn't have any money in the whole country. Yeah madness but many fell for this type of scare story that the "no" camp spread.
Strangely when we told people not to believe Westminster it was us that weren't believed. Well now we see who the real liars are.
Elite has reached the Gamma stage of development today. I look forward to see how it plays after the failure, for me, of the last beta. I found beta 3.91 was unplayable due to not being able to leave Super Cruise which you need to traverse the large distances in a star system. That meant I had to quit and re-enter the game but had the adverse effect of leaving me up to half an hour of travelling before I reached the station I was heading to. That was half an hour of sitting doing nothing other than watching numbers on the screen descending as the distance closed. Not much fun. Hopefully I won't have that problem tonight.
Reading the paper at work this week I saw that the Westminster government is already preparing the way on going back on the pledge they made. That was where they promised more powers for the Scottish government if people voted no in the referendum on independence. It hasn't taken them to long to begin to set the ground work for breaking "the pledge." Well we can't say that we who supported independence did expect it. Sadly when we said that this would happen the media drowned us out. That was one of the sad parts of the whole debate that the media was almost completely for the status quo. It was so bad that I felt angered by some of the lies that were told in the tabloids of what would happen if the "yes" camp won. If I had believed the rubbish that was spouted I would have had visions of Scotland being thrown into a dark age. Our lights would have went out and we'd be left eating grass because we wouldn't have any money in the whole country. Yeah madness but many fell for this type of scare story that the "no" camp spread.
Strangely when we told people not to believe Westminster it was us that weren't believed. Well now we see who the real liars are.
