Loose Screws - The Dangerousest

Oblivious doesn’t need no stinkn’ notes. 

Standings Update

Key conflicts

Grom and Archer

Ascella: Grom Wins. Currently being undermined

Changgu: Grom wins

Wolf 896: Archer wins, heavy reinforcement

Local PP

Acquire: Wolf 10

Reinforce: Ross 310

Undermine: Vagho

Updates

NLTT 2969 = Fort

FU on 2/26/25

Colonization update coming 2/26/25 under the name ‘Trailblazers.’

What we’ve been seeing out on DS3 without Audaxius.

DISTANT SCREWS 3 launched successfully

Purple stuff on sale ARX

The battle for Bumbur - A Post Mortem

PP Standings (if any movement)

Galactic Conflicts

Next time say: You can find out more in our PowerPlay Hub on  the Loose Screws Discord with order often posted early on in the cycle and look out for Baromir’s Broadcast that is published on the weekend!

TT 58343 is now back in our hands.  Maikoro and NLTT 1139 are next

Overheating remains a problem and we’re in perpetual expansion call it the new normal.

Operation New Horizons - Our expansion - Semakhmets is over 75% - Theoretically it may be randomly selected to expand one of these go arounds, but we just need to push it to the top. Colonization will begin before BGS Expansion issues are sorted out. 

Miola needs a boost

Titan Wreckage In Sol Draws Keen Interest

Brewer Corporation to Fund Survey Initiative

FU on 2/25/25

Colonization update coming 2/26/25 under the name ‘Trailblazers.’

Battle of Bumbur

Exploration Tips From Grover Kiwi

Exploration builds

Tools

EDMC: https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector/wiki

Its purpose is to facilitate supplying certain game data to, and in some cases retrieving it from, a number of websites and other tools.

EDMC-Canonn: https://github.com/canonn-science/EDMC-Canonn/wiki

The EDMC-Canonn plugin will help you keep up to date with Canonn News, direct you to things of interest in the game and will capture data that will enable us to catalogue the mysteries of the Galaxy.

EDDiscovery: https://github.com/EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery/wiki#eddiscovery---what-is-it

In short it's a 3rd party tool that can track your Elite Dangerous travels, combat, trading, rank etc.

Spanish: https://spansh.co.uk/plotter

Tool to help navigate the galaxy

Elite Observatory: Link? Not Sure https://github.com/Xjph/ObservatoryCore?tab=readme-ov-file#readme

Tool for reading/monitoring Elite Dangerous journals for interesting objects. Successor to the original Elite Observatory.

EDCopilot: https://www.razzafrag.com/ 

EDCoPilot is the ship panel you have been missing in -game.

DISTANT SCREWS 3! Coming February 2nd! confirmed! 2PM MST (-7 UTC) taking off from Ross 310 Planet 5D, if anyone asks it was always February 2nd.

The battle for Bumber

Still working on the things we’ve been working on

Retaking TT 58343, Maikoro and NLTT 1139 - home of Spanky, the official white dwarf of LSN;

Beating down our overheating systems and boosting our stragglers, 

Operation New Horizons - Our expansion -> colonization program taking us out of the Bubble.- we’re making progress in phase 1

winning strategic conflicts (we will let you know which ones we care about)

LYR is in the top 5 of powers!

Archer IS NOT! 😀

New Mamba Paints and Ship Kit

The shop: Wrap up PP modules and let’s do Shields, eh?

Prismatic, Biweave and Blue

Engineering Your Shield, Reinforced, Thermal Resistant or Enhanced Low Power

Experimentals - Low Draw, Hi Cap, Fast Charge, Multiweave, Force Block, Thermal Block

Shield Boosters - 0A, 0E, or 0D 

Engineering - Resistance Augmented, Heavy Duty, Thermal, Blast, Force Resistances

Experimentals - Super Capacitors, and the rest

Shield Banks - How long do you have

DISTANT SCREWS 3! Coming February 2nd! confirmed! 7PM MST (-7 UTC) taking off from Ross 310 Planet 5D, if anyone asks it was always February 2nd.

Elite Racers kick off a SRV rally cycle this Saturday, the 25thElite Racers Discord – https://discord.com/invite/cvZKNvvj2g 

What we really mean by “Antal can get stuffed”

Still working on the things we’ve been working on

Retaking TT 58343, Maikoro and NLTT 1139 - home of Spanky, the official white dwarf of LSN;

 Beating down our overheating systems and boosting our stragglers, 

Operation New Horizons - Our expansion -> colonization program taking us out of the Bubble.- we’re making progress in phase 1

winning strategic conflicts (we will let you know which ones we care about)

 Anti-Xeno Blockade Contains HIP 22460

 HIP 22460 Declared Free of Thargoids

First FU of the year, 26 Feb

Power Play Conflict Zones fixed!

Server response times acknowledged; investigating

The shop: should we start with powerplay modules?

DISTANT SCREWS 3! Coming January 31st – POSSIBLY postponed to a later date, pending Braeben tunnels getting fixed. – If it is postponed we will be doing a Piranha night in its place for Bloomingwind’s Birthday.

Buckyball –kicks off in a few months. Alec T is running the events this year.   In the meantime The Elite Racers have a series in the works to race SRVs around thargoid sites. Dates TBD soon.  Elite Racers Discord – https://discord.com/invite/cvZKNvvj2g 

We’ve come to a meeting of the minds with our neighbor, the After Dark Initiative, and we’re harmonizing our Power Play and BGS activities as best we can. 

BGS has basically 3 4 themes currently - 

Retaking to control of lost systems like TT 58343, Maikoro and NLTT 1139 - home of Spanky, the official white dwarf of LSN;

 Beating down our overheating systems and boosting our stragglers, 

winning strategic conflicts (we will let you know which ones we care about)

Operation New Horizons - Our expansion -> colonization program taking us out of the Bubble.Two BGS bugs of note. The system expansion/retreat bug has been corrected. However a new bug discovery is being tested. Oblivious has the details. 

 Empire Accused of Power Grab in Federation’s Heart

33-Oh-Leven - Hopes and Dreams

DISTANT SCREWS 3! The Mass Jump together so far is scheduled for Friday, January 31st, Bloomingwind’s Birthday, at 7PM ‘Murica Time, right Lark?,, time of jump still being worked on, as are meet up events and shenanigans to have while out there. Prizes for events to include Mugs, Clothing, or other Screws merch! WE STILL NEED ART WORK

Buckyball –kicks off in a few months. Alec T is running the events this year.   In the meantime The Elite Racers have a series in the works to race SRVs around thargoid sites. Dates TBD soon.  Elite Racers Discord – https://discord.com/invite/cvZKNvvj2g

AXI-XSF Blockade of HIP 22460 - Sun Jun 12th 2:30PM EST HIP 22460 Blockade: Checklist - Google Docs

Also, the Buur pit is a treasure

DOIN’ POWERPLAY

We have powerplay orders now, not really orders but suggestions. 

Be on the look out for Piranha Nights and other events when we need to dump bounties somewheres.

 Sandra Delivered some presents for children with the help of commanders, from the outpost, Frost Dock. (it was fun and had good writing)

War Won, therefore the Archer folks are complaining that their power lost control of Sol and several other systems while the thargoids occupied it…literally they put in a bug report about it. Lol. Quote: “I don’t see how the thargoid war should affect powerplay at all” 

Happy New Year.

Powerplay Shenanigans. 

Suggestions Box for Distant Screws 3 for Events to do while we are all in the black (channel to open after this podcast)

DISTANT SCREWS 3! The Mass Jump together so far is scheduled for Saturday, January 25th, time of jump still being worked on, as are meet up events and shenanigans to have while out there. Prizes for events to include Mugs, Clothing, or other Screws merch!

Buckyball – In the off season (?)

DOIN’ POWERPLAY

Back to Business

 Titan Cocijo Destroyed, Sol Liberated (presumably from the Feds, thank you thargoids) - Galnet News | Elite Dangerous Community Site

Cocijo controls a single corpse, in low Earth orbit.

6 systems (Including Sol) in recovery, you can haul to help those systems recover, or coordinate with Operation Ida: Operation Ida

FU - Frontier Unwrapped - Questions about Colonization

Cash outlay is meaningful but not fleet carrier levels

The real cost is construction cargo

Claims can’t be locked - you have 2 attempts to fulfil a claim before you are paused

Only one claim at a time

No system upkeep

Architect is named and permanent

The controlling faction in the source system is the one that colonizes

You can’t permit lock the system.

You must start from the bubble

System Maps will have an ‘architect view.’

Colonization is not a PVP feature - You won’t be able to sabotage another architect’s project - No way to destroy constructions in a system

Thargoid war really Over?

What are your goals for the coming year of Elite If any? 

Have you unlocked the new powerplay cannons yet?

DISTANT SCREWS 3! (now officially being planned)

Buckyball - Race 8 x2 Marks The Dash

​​https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/buckyball-racing-club-presents-x-2-marks-the-dash-triple-eight-championship-race-8.631210/  – Race Ends 12/19, extended because of the Titan.

Oi!  Busy, bruv.

Titan Consuela Is Completely Vulnerable. 

As of this podcast, has 7 of 8 hearts left and may not last past Saturday

Go shoot it in the booty

Rescue Megaships Decimated by Thargoid Fleet

Titan Cocijo Vulnerable in Sol system

Cocijo controls  - 1 Titan (Sol) and that’s it. Spray some raid on it.

600 storage IN GAME

COBRA Mk V AVAILABLE FOR EARLY BIRDS

Battle for the Sol System

Elite Dangerous: Cobra Mk V – Available Now - Elite Dangerous

Cobra Mk 5…Good? Bad? First Impressions? 

Buckyball - Race 8 x2 Marks The Dash

​​https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/buckyball-racing-club-presents-x-2-marks-the-dash-triple-eight-championship-race-8.631210/ 

Someone out there has a bone to pick with us. We’re being pushed into wars and our influence is dropping in multiple systems. Who? Why? No idea. 

We’re a little busy with PP 2.0 and saving the earth to deal with it. 

Say whatever you think is appropriate kids. 

Once we know more about colonization, we’ll go from there and hopefully the fuckery won’t follow us where we go.

Most people are doing jack because Titan Conquistador is hovering above Earth. 

Someone asked about scavenging missions in the discord earlier and Daxi yelled at them about thargoids.

Cocijo controls  - 1 Titan (Sol), 0 Alerts, 12 Invasions, 4 control systems, all populated, lotsa ground CZs, starports under attack, reboot missions, odyssey ports under attack, 

600 storage

Sol and it’s neighbors are on fire. 

Get out there and kill some goids in Sol. 

Buckyball - Race 8 x2 Marks The Dash

​​https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/buckyball-racing-club-presents-x-2-marks-the-dash-triple-eight-championship-race-8.631210/ 

LYR Screwspace is overheating still

War in Howard we care about, election in BD+67 1409 we care about

We expanded from Maikoro - Welcome to Anu! 

Soma - We have the highest influence but are not in control. We may push to 60% and trigger a control war via an arcane mechanism. 

Aegis Urges High Alert for Anti-Xeno Forces

Cocijo controls  - 1 Titan, 0 Alerts or Invasions, 25 control systems, 2 populated, 1 Odyssey settlement 

FU - https://www.youtube.com/live/nABFElVQ8CQ?si=Pgazw8KD-caSNB6J&t=3309

Cobra MKV  Small ship (correction)

So that means 3 seats in a small

Cockpit down view, SCO, best small multi-role

Best small multi-role (duh)

SCO (duh)

Hardpoints 3m 2s 4u

Optionals = 1x5, 3x4, 3x3, 1x2, 2x1 (thanks to psykit)

Core = All size 4 but life and sensor is 3

Due to release 10 December: Cobra MKV update

Mandalay gets midnight (and void?)

Gold, Golden, Chrome, Chromed - coming soon

Type-8 Runner Ship kit - Smoother look

Piers Jackson - game director

Year recap, plans and feelings, just go watch it

Colonization or, we heard you like grinding…

Making the bubble bigger, or shoot off to colonia 2 - keys to the galaxy

Purchase a claim from a claim contact - looking at 10LY

24h to deploy to claim beacon or it reverts - one at a time

Select primary star port, it’s pre-positioned, so I think you’re just picking the type of station

Construction ship, receive materials to build your selected station - largest thing

Any players can deliver - fill the list - starport goes in limited, on the thursday it will go fully active - Limited time on primary star port and has some infrastructure cost.

Claim beacon becomes nav beacon and claim contact appears in the new port

Large undertaking

You are the system architect, you can’t lose this control of constructions

Systems vary in what they can do after colonizing them, which can be researched ahead of time

Systems start with the faction you bought the claim from

Space stations: system map shows potential locations, choose an appropriate installation that can go there, buy it and summon a construction platform.

Smaller facilities will need to be built to have enough infrastructure to support building larger ones

On surface, you can pick the location of the construction, place and orient the future facility

Ground base construction facility, complete as normal.

Interconnected system economy, population, 

Planning a beta, early next year

Apparently the ground construction facilities will stay forever if their stock for building the base isn’t complete.

One more pre-recorded show for December

If you think thargoids are coming to an end, watch the socials

Tactical core chips aren’t needed anymore

The black paints for Mandalay

FU

Buckyball - Race 8 TBD