Beta 3.0

Well it looks like another wipe is coming for beta 3.0, not really surprising based on the fact a whole load of new content is up for testing...

Taken from the latest newsletter,

"We are delighted to confirm that the feature where you can own multiple ships, which we announced a few weeks ago when launching our pre-order Mercenary Pack, will be included in Beta 3 on October 28th.This will let you have any number of ships ‘parked’ at any number of shipyards, rather than having to part-exchange them.When coupled with the enhanced ship outfitting and mission systems from Beta 2, you can see how this will really expand your possibilities in Elite: Dangerous.

How you distribute your personal fleet is up to you; you could concentrate them all in one area, or have them strategically distributed around the galaxy.There are no restrictions on the number or type of ships you can have or how you outfit them other than the in-game money you need to buy them.If for example you are a die-hard Cobra fan, you can have multiple Cobras loaded out differently for different mission profiles, trading, exploration, piracy etc. as the situation or your mood demands.

Conversely if you want to experience the advantages a range of different ships bring you, you can keep every ship you buy in the game and mix and match the capability of an Anaconda, the combat agility of an Eagle, the range of an Asp Explorer and the profit from a Lakon Type 9. Or you can do any combination of these, owning multiple types of any or all ships."

Beta 3.0 due for release sometime today. Knowing Frontier it will be a late release so keep your eyes open for those interested.

It is available for download. Plenty of initial bugs, expect a patch sometime later on today

It's clearly been a busy day at Frontier today. I didn't have time to test the first version so came home to 3.02. Seems the programmers have been fixing early issues. Logged into the game and within 5mins an announcement comes over in global chat, can we please log out and update to 3.03. The elves are busy...

Anyone tried mining yet? Heard it's rather dull, doesn't mean of course it's not fun for those into this sort of thing. Not got enough cash atm to get the mining lasers, saving up for a Cobra

Patch numbers now up to 3.05 which include extra logging for crashes and network improvements

Version 3.9 is released, download and hopefully enjoy