GAME NEWS
First things first, the big news of the day. Account Transfers! Following the painful news that Odyssey is not going to be coming to the consoles FDev said that they were looking into the possibility of making full account transfers from console to PC possible. As of earlier today, Fdev have confirmed that this will be made available. We don’t have an exact date for this yet, but there will be a specific window of time when this is available and once only.
There is also some other crucial information about this. Most importantly this is a **COPY **of your console account to PC, not a transfer. As a result, you get to keep your console CMDR with all the assets and progression etc, and get another CMDR the same on the PC. This includes:
- ships
- engineering
- navy ranks
- unlocks
- all your cosmetics
However, it does not include:
- a fleet carrier (fleet carriers are unique game assets and cannot be duplicated but you can just sell them and copy the credits).
- CMDR Name (since names are unique, and yours may have already been taken on PC)
- ARX balance (so just spend your remaining ARX on whatever cosmetics you want as these will transfer across).
In general my view is that this seems very reasonable, and while I know that this falls well short of what any of us would want (which would ideally be continued development of Odyssey for consoles) it does at least provide console players with the option to move across.
I would advise everyone to take advantage of this opportunity if you can, since there doesn’t appear to be a downside, and only provides you with an additional opportunity. Full details are available on the forum post here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/console-profile-transfers-and-2022-updates.603032/
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DISCORD NEWS
This is an early heads up that I will be changing how the guides and tips channels work in the server. We have been making a number of changes in the background of the server, including the bot commands that CMDR Vadergans has added, and with most of the guides now available on the website, in a more readable format, it makes sense to remove them from this server. We will instead have an index channel with essentially a list of quick-links to help folks get to the relevant website pages quickly and easily.
EVENTS
This month we will be hosting some exploration focused events.
Friday May 6th - ISO Terrion Exploration Expedition #3 will be departing Meliae, no sooner than 2000 UTC to explore the Vulcan Gate region about 23,400 light years away. Details are in the events-channel on discord.
26th May - the return of the amazing 5 Euro Tours. These trips are always amazing and produce incredible pictures from the most beautiful parts of the galaxy. We’ll have a dedicated channel up soon.