Frontier Developments studio keeps tweaking the live state of Elite Dangerous. Since launch they rolled out a patch to correct rewards and tidy up the interface, then ran maintenance to calm down network lag — yet some players still hit network errors, especially at busy times (e.g., trading hubs and community events).
At the same time, the team teased a silhouette of a new ship set against a planet. The community’s already speculating: a mining craft, roughly Nomad-sized. FDev promises the full reveal on August 6.
Will a fresh ship be enough to rekindle interest while connectivity problems linger? I’m not convinced—new hardware can excite people briefly, but persistent network trouble tends to sour the mood.