Ua: Solved it! :)

scorpyon

scorpyon
SteveLaw said:
A cold fusion powered engine is waiting to bring the terrifying queen to a planet with water and a station to demand an apology from the enemy, mankind, for their mistake. Once they are in range we should pray.

;)
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I prefer the Queen Of Terror is Waiting...! :D
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
TruffleSnout said:
Because Aliens didn't write the game. Frontier did. And they wanted players to have a chance of actually figuring it out with out the use of spectrum analyzers and PHd's in Computer Science.
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Binary data formats may sound geeky and complicated to you, presumably because you haven't bothered to try it, but binary is actually simpler than morse code, which you apparently believe to be sufficiently simple and accessible. If there is a signal encoded in binary, then chances are fair that CHILDREN can figure it out. When you say things like "phd's in Computer Science", what you convey to people around you is that you don't understand what people are doing or why and you're not interested in knowing because you think it's over your head and if it's over your head then clearly FDev wouldn't do that because you think Elite is a simple game for kids.

Give yourself more credit than that and dial back the ignorance. Binary is a simple concept that you can learn in a few minutes (much quicker than you could learn morse code), and maybe it opens up new ways for you to think about the UA tones. If you're not interested in putting in a few minutes to learn something, it's fine if that kind of puzzle doesn't appeal to you, but you should at least be aware that your assumptions are poorly grounded, and that your limits are self-imposed.
 
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Pendra

P
digitalscream said:
OK, I think the OP's wrong, because while "TO WIN A" does appear, the word "ENTER" isn't near it (it's at the beginning of the same sequence, though). This is what comes between "ENTER" and "TO WIN A":

-.-..-.-.-.-.--.

Anyone fancy a crack at translating that?
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I wrote a little program to see all the possible translations. It threw me over 17.000 different results. If it is a morse code, the result is among those. I just can't seem to spot it.
How about "kink eye"?
 

Jaeger

Jaeger
Archvillain said:
Binary is a simple concept that you can learn in a few minutes.... your limits are self-imposed.
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Hang on a second, twos compliment takes at least half an hour. Also using bits for sign, parity, representing decimals, overflows ....

Some things are not meant for mere mortals ;)
 

Pendra

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Binary is simple. But I like complex solutions, so I convert to decimal first, do the operation and then convert back to binary.
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
Jaeger said:
Hang on a second, twos compliment takes at least half an hour. Also using bits for sign, parity, representing decimals, overflows ....

Some things are not meant for mere mortals ;)
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I haven't seen anyone doing any complex operations (so far), just basic stuff, checking patterns, etc.
 

Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
Archvillain said:
Binary data formats may sound geeky and complicated to you, presumably because you haven't bothered to try it, but binary is actually simpler than morse code, which you apparently believe to be sufficiently simple and accessible. If there is a signal encoded in binary, then chances are fair that CHILDREN can figure it out. When you say things like "phd's in Computer Science", what you convey to people around you is that you don't understand what people are doing or why and you're not interested in knowing because you think it's over your head and if it's over your head then clearly FDev wouldn't do that because you think Elite is a simple game for kids.

Give yourself more credit than that and dial back the ignorance. Binary is a simple concept that you can learn in a few minutes (much quicker than you could learn morse code), and maybe it opens up new ways for you to think about the UA tones. If you're not interested in putting in a few minutes to learn something, it's fine if that kind of puzzle doesn't appeal to you, but you should at least be aware that your assumptions are poorly grounded, and that your limits are self-imposed.
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Chill out mate. It may surprise that, in fact, a minority of people understand binary. Well it's over 50%, so if you round that it's a 1.
 

Pendra

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The more I look at it, it doesn't seem like morse at all. In morse, you can have extensive numbers of uninterrupted shorts or longs.
For example, Ship would like this .........--. . Here, the longest streak is 4.

This thing reminds me to Barcodes a lot. Something fixed width like Code 39. Or maybe a 2D barcode. Thou I did not notice anything QR code like.

Also the we have ~77 chars length and 24 lines. Old old computers usually had a resolution of 80x25 chars/screen.
 

Ronaan

R
Pendra said:
The more I look at it, it doesn't seem like morse at all. In morse, you can have extensive numbers of uninterrupted shorts or longs.
For example, Ship would like this .........--. . Here, the longest streak is 4.

This thing reminds me to Barcodes a lot. Something fixed width like Code 39. Or maybe a 2D barcode. Thou I did not notice anything QR code like.

Also the we have ~77 chars length and 24 lines. Old old computers usually had a resolution of 80x25 chars/screen.
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Uhhh Morse code stops at 5 signs per letter/numer iirc (6 for special chars).

Anyway I agree it's not morse code.
 

lonewarrior

lonewarrior
So here's a theory:
what if it says something along the lines of:
ENTER TO WIN A SHIP: WWW.(rest of untranslated message).co.uk

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-Maybe by getting the website address you will win something......
 
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