#307rd for 23st of October, 2025 or 3311! (33-Oh-Leven, not Oh-Eleven, OH-Leven)

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Squad Update:  (Updated by Bloom 10/16)

• BGS - Alec and our friends from Lave were reading the update notes for T-11 Patch 2 from last week. 

• Reviewing the issue tracker ID’s in the patch notes - BGS getting stuck is what FDev thinks is fixed and it looks fixed.

• What wasn’t fixed per the patch notes - Mission influence going to the right place still doesn’t seem to be fixed. 

• So now it’s half broke

• Our friends were discussing when BGS Broke, was it PP 2.0, was it Trailblazers, when did it break? (Cockney Accent) - Blimey - It all began with PP 2.0, bloke! Fifteen Quid For a Broken Game?!?!?!

• Colonization Update - The Loose Screws control IC 22602 Sector ZU-Y d103!Arai’s Inheritance. It is the official platinum mining hole of the Loose Screws Network. Thank you to Volt, Edward Skeele, Uraniborg, Borked

PowerPlay Update: - (unashamedly copied from KrugerFive’s post in our Discord, 10/23)

Cycle 51: Can you believe we are entering into 1 year of powerplay 2.0 this week?

• Winters with a strong week adding the most systems at +18 (all exploited)

• Yong-Rui again with the overall strongest week with +5 more strongholds and +8 fortifieds

• Patreus goes -1 system overall, but -3 fortifieds

• Delaine also kept flat with 0 systems gained

Kruger 5’s Power Rankings - https://k5elite.com/ 

Niceygy’s Power Points - https://elite.niceygy.net/powerpoints

Find out more in the LSN-powerplay-hub forum channel.

Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/ (updated 10/23)

• Megaship Movements Spark HIP 87621 Speculation

• Independent observers have reported unusual activity in systems surrounding HIP 87621, intensifying rumours of covert operations in the region.

• Multiple reports indicate that megaships have been spotted operating near the permit-locked system over the past week. Though no Power has formally acknowledged involvement, analysts believe this early mobilisation suggests a push for influence around HIP 87621.

CG NOTE “Merit-palooza”: 

• The large merit awards for mining within the CG system are no longer available, due to revoking the ‘God-Handed’ powerplay state. The only power within 20-30ly is Grom (as it always was), so the ‘normal’ mechanic for getting mining merits there doesn’t work now.

• Will it come back?...

Dev News: 

• New paint job - “ https://www.elitedangerous.com/store/catalog/promo

• Halloween paint jobs

• Spectrix for all the new ships - looks like monster teeth on the ships’ backs

• Malevolent Horror for Anaconda

• Various ‘wisps’ (haunt, poltergeist, shade, yurei, revenant, phantasm, horror)

• Basically pumpkin faces of various sizes for the old ships

• On-foot pumpkin outfits

• On-foot skeleton outfits

• On-foot ‘slimed’ outfits

• Pumpkin ship decal