Wing beacons are for your team wings to easier find you. You can also use it to easily stay with your friends once you start moving about.
You can share your account with your friend without issues. As long as he/she is in South Africa. I am unsure of whether region restrictions apply. Can't imagine they do, but still your address and things get recorded on your account. So keep that in mind.
*EDIT*
Have an update. It seems to me like missions still time out. Although I mostly play CG missions, so I can understand that in that specific scenario.
Other wise today is potentially the closed beta release for planetary landings. Has anyone seen the system specs? It's rather high. So maybe tonight or tomorrow I will upload some landing pics and such.
System specifications for Planetary landings are as follows:
Minimum:
OS: Windows 7, Windows 8
CPU: Quad Core CPU (4x 2GHz)
RAM: 4GB RAM
VIDEO: Nvidia GTX 260 / ATI 4870HD
HDD: 7GB Available Space
Recommended:
OS: Windows 7, Windows 8
CPU: Intel Core i7 - 3770K or better / AMD FX 4350 or better
RAM: 8GB RAM
VIDEO: Nvidia GTX 770 / ATI Radeon R9 280X
HDD: 7GB Available Space
Source: https://www.elitedangerous.com/#sys-req
In some articles it mentions that the minimum is actually 6GB. Though I would just stick to what the official website states. If you would like to see some nice short videos about in-game footage, then you can see that here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR6...ox-QANGCig4RcA
Here are some of the better videos in my opinion:




