Concourse
The Concourse is a public area within a Station, Surface Port, Megaship, or Fleet Carrier. Commanders can meetup, take on missions, acquire personal equipment (e.g. weapons and suits), exchange or sellComponents and Goods, or simply relax at the bar and watch arriving and departing ships.[1] The Concourse can be reached directly from a hangar via the nearest express lift.
Types
There are three distinct types of Concourses, each corresponding to the type of port in which they are located. For example, in the system Ross 263, Doi City and Volta Gateway will have Spaceport Concourses; Buffett Hub, Coats Terminal, and Fulton Station will have Outpost Concourses; and Neumann Survey and Vardeman Observatory will have Planetports. Not all facilities in the galaxy are large enough to support a Concourse, however. Concourse layouts are broadly similar, but will vary in some details, including lighting, depending on the type of port and the local economy; a prison colony will have a different overall feel from an agricultural hub.
Spaceport
Outpost
Outposts are found in Asteroid Bases and orbital Outposts.
Planetport
Planetports are found in Planetary Ports.
Fleet Carrier Concourses
Fleet Carrier Concourses are found in Fleet Carriers. When a Fleet Carrier undertakes a hyperspace jump, pilots who are aboard and have disembarked are able to watch the jump from a viewing area in the Concourse. Note that you will be escorted to a seat in the command deck shortly before a hyperspace jump, and will not be able to leave your seat until after the hyperspace jump has been completed.
Vendors and Services
Concourses provide access to the following vendors and services. Available services on Fleet Carrier Concourses may vary depending on which service modules the owner has installed.[2]
Apex Interstellar Transport
Apex Interstellar Transport is a shuttle service that commanders can use to travel to other locations without needing to use a personal ship. Commanders simply pay to book a flight to the destination of their choice, either local or in another system, then take a lift to Apex's shuttle hangar, board the Apex Adder shuttle, and settle in for the ride. Apex shuttles can be booked both at a Concourse and at settlements.
Apex Interstellar Transport is not available in Fleet Carrier Concourses.
Frontline Solutions
Frontline Solutions is a non-aligned mercenary company that offers a broad selection of large-scale ground combat missions in systems that are experiencing active conflicts. These missions do not influence a commander's standing with specific factions.
Frontline Solutions is not available in Fleet Carrier Concourses.
Inter Astra
Inter Astra is an interactive shipyard service where commanders can preview, purchase, transfer, and sell ships.
Pioneer Supplies
Pioneer Supplies is a general store that offers a wide selection personal weapons, suits, and consumable items for purchase. Vendors will also buy any extra items from commanders, but for less than they sell them. Pioneer Supplies locations have a chance of stocking pre-Engineered items when they refresh their inventories each week.
All Concourses include Suit Recharge Sockets for public use. People wear magnetic boots due to low or no gravity in the Concourse.[3]
The Lounge / Concourse Bar
The Lounge, also called the Concourse Bar, is a bar area where commanders can meet, socialize, and take in the views of the local port. The Bartender can exchange Components and pay Credits for Goods, and also acts as a black market fence.
Music
Concourse bars feature a selection of over 800 music tracks that can play in the background.[4]
Vista Genomics
Vista Genomics is an exobiology company that will buy the genetic information of alien life forms discovered by commanders and collected with the Genetic Sampler.
Mission Providers
Mission Providers are minor faction representatives who are seeking to hire commanders for lucrative off-the-books missions. In contrast with accepting a mission through a Mission Board, commanders can negotiate with Mission Providers to try and coax greater rewards from them for successfully completing a mission based on their Mercenary rank. If a negotiation fails, the commander will have no choice but to accept the default reward if they agree to the mission's terms.
Mission Providers are not available in Fleet Carrier Concourses.
Terminals
Terminals are interactive kiosks that provide access to the local Mission Board, a record of completed missions, the commander's Loadout menu, local Contacts, Holo-Me, the Store, and Local News. They also display the commander's current Credit and ARX balances, and their reputation with the port's controlling minor faction.
Escape Pods
Escape Pods are exclusive to Concourses located aboard Flight Operations Carrier Megaships, and Fleet Carriers[5]. In the event that a player becomes trapped aboard a Megaship or Carrier because it jumped to a new location, their personal ship was docked elsewhere and is out of range of Apex Interstellar Transport shuttles, and they cannot purchase a new personal ship due to insufficent funds or the absence of an Inter Astra vendor, then they can use an Escape Pod to directly enter Redeployment.
Persistence
Concourses are generated as part of normal instances in the game. Players flying ships in a starport docking bay or outside an outpost can view players and NPCs inside a Concourse through its windows, and vice-versa.
Players without Odyssey cannot see through windows into a Concourse. They merely see a bright light.
Development
Concourses were introduced as a core feature in ED: Odyssey.[6] Concourses were added to all Flight Operations Carrier Megaships, excluding Rescue Vessels, in Odyssey Update 8.[7][8] Concourses were added to Fleet Carriers in Odyssey Update 11.[2]
Videos
Gallery
- The exterior of a Concourse within a starport's docking hub
- Vendors
- A Terminal
- Weapon rack in Pioneer Supplies
- The Lounge
- The Lounge bar
- View of the planetary outpost Tsiolkovksy Installation from inside its Concourse
- A Concourse in an Industrial station
- A Concourse in a High Tech station
- A Concourse in a Tourism station
- A Concourse in a Wealthy station
- A Concourse on a Megaship
- Concourse on a Fleet Carrier
- Pioneer Supplies store
References
- ↑ Polygon: New expansion for Elite Dangerous will add tens of thousands of locations to the game
- 1 2 Frontier Forums: Update 11 Patch Notes
- ↑ reddit: oDySsey LITeraLLy UNplayABLE
- ↑ Frontier Forums: Starport Tour - Q&A Quick Notes
- ↑ YouTube: Elite Dangerous Fleet Carrier Interiors
- ↑ Frontier Forums: Elite Dangerous: Odyssey | The Road To Odyssey Part 2 - Forging Your Path
- ↑ Frontier Forums: Development Update 4 - September
- ↑ Frontier Forums: Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 8 Notes