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FEQ - Frequently
Encountered Questions
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It might seem a little early
for creating FAQs, but you might be surprised at the number of
common questions. As an unofficial site dedicated to the club, I hate to
imagine the level of mail to the official FDL site.
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What is a FEQ?
WTF is a FEQ you
well might ask. It is actually a FAQ but I wanted to
keep the encounter theme running while making the FAQ for the site
that little bit different.
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What is the Elite
Club?
Very
basically the Elite Club is an idea from Frontier Development Ltd to
both improve and distribute the two sequels to Elite; Frontier :
Elite 2 and Frontier : First Encounters. Hopefully Elite will also
be available to the club but legal issues prevent this at the
moment.
The club will have two levels. One level (possibly named Squadrons)
will consist of a group of people who are going to take on the
source code for Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters,
fix the outstanding problems (bugs) and upgrade the games to work on
todays hardware and operating systems. The other level (possibly
named Cadets) allows the members to download the released games and
subsequent Elite Club productions.
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How do I join the
Elite Club?
At the moment
the Elite Club is awaiting formation. Once it is ready you will be
able to join at the official
site run by Frontier Developments. Information will be posted
here once the Club begins operation but you will not be able to join
from this site.
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How much will it
cost to join the Elite Club?
This is not
decided yet. The latest figure seems to be around £10 (although
£40 has been quoted at times) for Squadron (source code access) members
and free for Cadets (download access).
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When will the
Elite Club start?
This is not
decided yet. The best estimate is sometime this month. There have
been a number of unfortunate delys so far so unfortunately you just
have to be patient. It will happen, and it will be soon. Watch this
site for details.
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How do I get source
code?
You will be
required to join as a Squadron level member of the club. This will
be subject to a fee and the signing of an NDA (Non-Disclosure
Agreement). Since it involves signing of a contract you must be 18
or over to apply for a Squadron membership.
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How do you know all
this?
Frontier
Developments Ltd have allocated one of their staff, Andrew Gillett,
to oversee the Club. He is a regular on alt.fan.elite
and tends to respond as accurately as he can to questions asked on
the group. At the moment most information is subject to change but
the FEQ attempts to show the last known news on each question.
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I sent you an email
and you didn't reply?
I will reply
to any email you send me but it might sometimes take a while. If you
sent a bug list contribution it usually gets implemented and replied
to the same day as I maintain the site. Other queries might take a
little longer if I do not have the information immediately to hand.
Please forgive the delay and rest assured I will respond to you as
soon as I can.
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My question isn't
answered here!
Well, feel
free to ask. This page is more to answer common queries than to
respond to every question. You should check out the newsgroup if you
have Usenet access alt.fan.elite.
If you do not have Usenet access then there are a number of web
interfaces to Usenet though places such as Deja
News. Many people on the group can answer a question very
quickly and you will find both Andrew Gillett ( future Elite Club
"manager "), and David Braben (co-creator of Elite and
creator of the sequels) post quite often to the group. You can also
check my site news pages for the
latest developments and the links
section contains a number of links to sites that cover each game in
the series in depth as well as links to related resources..
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