Loose Screws - The Dangerousest

Loose Screws
Loose Screws - The Dangerousest

The Elite Dangerous Podcast from America!! Our (sometimes) merry cast of "professional podcasters" play Elite: Dangerous and bring you news, tips, guides, opinions, and some crazy stuff now and then. All about the best space sim ever made. http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Or on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@LooseScrewsED

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Episode 267 - The Uninstall Heard 'round The World

    #267th for 9rd January, 2025 or 3311! (33-Oh-Leven, not Oh-Eleven, OH-Leven) http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Squad Update:  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.  All details in the #standing-orders and/or the #loose-screws-factions channels of the Discord. Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/  Empire Accused of Power Grab in Federation’s Heart Dev News:  Discussion: 33-Oh-Leven - Hopes and Dreams Community Corner: 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

    1h 27m
  2. JAN 3

    Episode 266 - Plays Mario Kart In Solo

    #266th for 2nd January, 2025 or 3311! (33-Oh-Leven) http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Squad Update:  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. All details in the #standing-orders and/or the #loose-screws-factions channels of the Discord. Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/  Sandra Delivered some presents for children with the help of commanders, from the outpost, Frost Dock. (it was fun and had good writing) Thargoid war update: https://dcoh.watch/ 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”  Dev News:  Happy New Year. Discussion: 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) Community Corner: 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 (?)

    1h 16m
  3. 12/20/2024

    Episode 265 - My Wife Called Me Audaxius

    #265thmas for 19st December, 2024 or 33-oh-10 (3310) http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Squad Update:  DOIN’ POWERPLAY All details in the #standing-orders and/or the #loose-screws-factions channels of the Discord. Powerpoint Update:  for Power Statistics: Powers | Elite:Dangerous | INARA Back to Business System Strongholds:  The Empire powers possess the most strongholds in total, with Arissa (55) and Aisling (47) leading, Denton (10) and Zemina (9) are just happy to be there. The dual Federal powers of Archer (29) and Winters (21)  fight each other as much as anyone else, and Archer has a lead of 9 strongholds against winters. Of the Independent powers, LYR (40) and Mahon(30) ,have the lead in stronghold systems followed closely by Antal (27) Kaine (27) and Grom (25) , with Delain (20) bringing up a still close last. Note: All of the “last place” powers amongst the Feds, and independents, still have more stronghold systems than Zemina Torval (9) , and Denton Patreus (10).  Almost all of the powers can be contacted directly to coordinate with their members by joining their discords (links on Inara), or looking up the respective power’s subreddit.  Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/  Titan Cocijo Destroyed, Sol Liberated (presumably from the Feds, thank you thargoids) - Galnet News | Elite Dangerous Community Site Thargoid war update: https://dcoh.watch/ 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 Dev News:  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 Discussion: Thargoid war really Over? What are your goals for the coming year of Elite If any?  Have you unlocked the new powerplay cannons yet? Community Corner: 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.

    1h 26m
  4. 12/13/2024

    Episode 264 - I put it in the slot where it doesn’t fit

    #264ingth for 12lve December, 2024 or 33-oh-10 (3310) http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Squad Update:  Oi!  Busy, bruv. All details in the #standing-orders and/or the #loose-screws-factions channels of the Discord. Powerpoint Update:  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 Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/ Rescue Megaships Decimated by Thargoid Fleet Titan Cocijo Vulnerable in Sol system Thargoid war update: https://dcoh.watch/ Cocijo controls  - 1 Titan (Sol) and that’s it. Spray some raid on it. Dev News:  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 Bug Fixes Fixed decals and ship IDs displaying with a border/background on some Mandalay paintjobs Fixed missing hitcheck on Python Mk II Spacehawk spoiler A fix has been implemented to resolve a number of issues related to carrier bartender transactions. However, transaction errors may still be encountered in some specific cases, please report any instances via the issue tracker and we will continue to investigate. There will be 30 min of downtime tomorrow to fix something Discussion: Cobra Mk 5…Good? Bad? First Impressions?  Community Corner: 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/

    43 min
  5. 12/06/2024

    Episode 263 - I was really into chat rooms in the 90’s

    #263 for 5nd December, 2024 or 33-oh-10 (3310) http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Squad Update:  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 f*****y won’t follow us where we go. All details in the #standing-orders and/or the #loose-screws-factions channels of the Discord. Powerpoint Update:  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. Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/ Titan Cocijo Moves Deeper into Core Systems Widespread Panic in Sol - Ole Bloomingwind saw Widespread Panic at the Riverfront Park in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Earth, Sol in the mid 90s.  Titan Cocijo Devastates Sol System Thargoid war update: https://dcoh.watch/ 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,  Dev News:  600 storage Sol and it’s neighbors are on fire.  Discussion: Get out there and kill some goids in Sol.  Community Corner: 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/

    39 min
  6. 11/28/2024

    Episode 262 - Planet Planet 2025

    #262 for 27rd November, 2024 or 33-oh-10 (3310) http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Squad Update:  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.  All details in the #standing-orders and/or the #loose-screws-factions channels of the Discord. Powerpoint Update:  Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/ Aegis Urges High Alert for Anti-Xeno Forces Thargoid war update: https://dcoh.watch/ Cocijo controls  - 1 Titan, 0 Alerts or Invasions, 25 control systems, 2 populated, 1 Odyssey settlement  Dev News:  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 Discussion: FU Community Corner: Buckyball - Race 8 TBD

    1h 10m
  7. 11/22/2024

    Episode 261 - Salon Duet

    #261 for 21rd November, 2024 or 33-oh-10 (3310) http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Squad Update:  Wars in Uchagan, LTT 16910 and Yen Ti, not too worried about them.  Bumbur and 5A need some boosting of influence. Yong-Rui Screwspace aka ‘The Old Worlds of Screwspace’ are overheating with no end in sight. Hopefully things will level off, but it may take FDev’s finger on the BGS/PP interaction. Theoretically after enough cycles of expansion, there will be nowhere to expand to as long as there aren’t retreats from minor factions creating openings. Given an expansion is 10-13 days, that could be a very long time.  The overheating has resulted in Operation New Horizons being on hold because we would have to push and maintain Semakhmets as the highest influence system (sort of) to trigger expansion from there. All details in the #standing-orders and/or the #loose-screws-factions channels of the Discord. Powerpoint Update:  Insert Daxi Speech here Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/ PP Rankings were announced - Player Driven Galnet News Thargoid war update: https://dcoh.watch/ Cocijo controls  - 1 Titan, 0 Alerts or Invasions, 41 control systems, 5 populated, 3 starports, 3 odyssey settlements and 2 ground ports under attack Dev News:  Midnight Black and Black Friday Discounts - Some ship kits are among the sale items, there were no Void Black, nor are there Midnight Black paintjobs for the Mandalay this year.  19.1 Update Crime pays and doesn’t pay, but we all wear a crown of bones Update Notes: Fixed an exploit where Powerplay Data could be downloaded multiple times from the same Data Port (Issue ID: 67329) Aisling Duval's Powerplay systems now correctly flag Imperial Slaves & Narcotics as illegal. Crime does not pay. Archon Delain Powerplay systems now correctly open Black Markets if they are not already present. OK...here crime might pay. Pranav Antal now closes Black Markets in Fortified/Stronghold systems. Merit awards for destroying Ship Launched Fighters have been reduced. Adjustments made to Flight Tutorial combat drones reducing their damage output. Type-8's collision has been adjusted so that the "arms" now have correct collision. Resolved a crash when using VR Power Play strategic view on Galaxy map Filters on the Galaxy Map are no longer auto selected when you hover your mouse over them Thank you for all your continued feedback and reports! Discussion: PP 2.0 - Iterative process or the stagnation of humanity Leto II warned us about? Community Corner: Happy 6th-versary to the Burr Pit Buckyball - Race 8 still TBD

    1h 23m
  8. 11/15/2024

    Episode 260 - Workin’ Mahon’s PP

    #260 for 14nd November, 2024 or 33-oh-10 (3310) http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Squad Update:  Election in Cempsigi, Wars in BD+67 1409, FF Andromedae and MCC 858 PP2.0 has set Yong Rui Screwspace ablaze. We’re going to need to cool it off. Fortunately Yong Rui pilots get merits for running missions in Yong Rui space, so merits for beating down our influence in systems.  Cooling off our overheating systems is important because of Operation New Horizons.  In light of the new upcoming colonization, we’re trying to expand out of Semakhmets to the edge of the bubble, 70 LY. It’s not terribly far, but Canonn and StellaNebula Project are sitting smack dab in the middle of our way. I’ve charted a route and it is a complex series of ‘filling holes’ and staging retreats along the way. It will be slow but we have no timeline or mechanics for colonization, so fortune favors the prepared.  All details in the #standing-orders and/or the #loose-screws-factions channels of the Discord. Powerpoint Update:  Daxi is the Quarterback A diverse portfolio of Delane, Yong Rui, and Mahon pilots will probably serve us well as pushing out Archer seems to be our unifying theme JNTracks with an open letter to FDev Galnet Update: https://community.elitedangerous.com/ No GalNews is Good GalNews with Gary GalNews Thargoid war update: https://dcoh.watch/ Cocijo controls  - 1 Titan, 1 Invasion, 61 control systems, 5 populated, 6 with ground ports! Dev News:  Stellar screenshots featuring the Mandalay Mandalay Quest Ship Kit pack released Void Black Paintjobs are around for one more week! 10K Arx for the T8 & Python II, 6500 for all other ships! Discussion: PP 2.0 - Screwspace is a center of activity Community Corner: BUCKY BALL RACE: Race 8 of the Triple 8 is being run by Polar Brewski - A reimagining of one of the original Buckyaball races, more next week Friend of the Screws (until Daxi crosses a line) Alec Turner posted a video farewell to the Last Thargoid Spire. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats. The spire will be gone by the time you hear this, but the video lives on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diaQ-KMyqR4&feature=youtu.be Galnet Digest discuss the community managers recent ask regarding the ship and module transfer times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzEECCSydI Proj3kt676 of the Morpheus Mining Corporation posted a rocking video on the You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE6TI83KLT8 Our own JN Tracks posted a Mandalay ANti-Xeno video on the 8th https://youtu.be/go1HrJmJ-nU

    1h 46m
4.9
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The Elite Dangerous Podcast from America!! Our (sometimes) merry cast of "professional podcasters" play Elite: Dangerous and bring you news, tips, guides, opinions, and some crazy stuff now and then. All about the best space sim ever made. http://loosescrewsed.com Join us on discord! And check out the merch store! PROMO CODES https://discord.gg/3Vfap47Rea Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LooseScrewsED Or on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@LooseScrewsED

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