The Formidine Rift - Part 2

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darkinnit

darkinnit
Alkibiades said:
2 days ago i returned to the bubble because i need jumponium. now something strange is happening. i sold my data to children of raxxla, i am now allied with them. afterwards i started to search for jumponium. now everytime i find rare materials like yttrium or niobium this happens: a npc appears and wants to talk to me, typical "hard to track down" thing, basically right after i leave the planet. now first of all the mission timer and payout in the message differ greatly from the actual ones, like 50% more payout and about 80% less time. and the other thing is i become allied with the sending and recieving faction immediatly. first i thought this is a strange coincidence but it simply does not happen when i find the usual stuff on surfaces. has anybody experienced anything alike?

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They're not that unusual. I think they were part of a recent update - the changelog said "allow receiving missions in space". I've not been to the rift (yet), and just flying around the bubble without any missions I noticed the "You're a hard one to track down, please follow my wake" message. I was curious because I didn't have any missions active, so I dropped down and got this mission:

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It sounded interesting at the time, but after I completed it, nothing out of the ordinary happened. I think they're just a new way to pick up missions.
 

Gypsy12

Gypsy12
I think that as it currently stands...

Any salvage wreckage points can be safely ignored. If you fly closer to the bubble you get tea factories. Its just "filler" There is no sense to it, simply because the systems frontier have in place are just that...Filler.

If I was to take a leap of faith here, id say that ---there is something in the formidine rift--- but it can only be solved by eye, or riddles. From Drew. Whose job is to distract us from the brutal lack of content until they create it. I strongly believe that this is a puzzle that will have to be worked out with "out of game information" And not something that can be worked out in game.
I also believe there wont be any in game warning. No notices like "Abnormal Signature Detected" etc. Simply because it doesn't exist in the code...yet.

I can see some pointers, such as the NGC cluster and 2MASS cluster. Along with the Heart and Soul Nebulas. These are designed to provoke our interest to further content. But are highly likely to be extremely difficult to solve.

You know what my biggest freak out is? Is if I find it and it does absolutely nothing. CMDR so and so found an Alien race! And yet - I cannot interact with them, they have no influence with the core systems and whatnot. And..im just sitting there.
That would be bad.

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Drew.

A direct question for you. Has this been fleshed out?
 

Pazmino

Pazmino
Kitty said:
I am around 16k from SOL now on my trip. I have seen any signal sources for quite a while now. However there was one system (thinking back about 20 jumps) where I was travelling 250k Ls between a couple of stars to pick up some more interesting bodies, when I kept getting Slow Down! Slow Down!

When I did slow down to investigate, there was nothing near me. In fact I was about 100k Ls from any planet. No contacts, no signal sources, no white lights, no green lights... just diddly squat. I considered it to be a bug and carried on. But now it makes me wonder. :S
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That's caused by a belt. Have this often in system with a belt, never in belt-less systems.

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Gypsy12 said:
I think that as it currently stands...

Any salvage wreckage points can be safely ignored. If you fly closer to the bubble you get tea factories. Its just "filler" There is no sense to it, simply because the systems frontier have in place are just that...Filler.

If I was to take a leap of faith here, id say that ---there is something in the formidine rift--- but it can only be solved by eye, or riddles. From Drew. Whose job is to distract us from the brutal lack of content until they create it. I strongly believe that this is a puzzle that will have to be worked out with "out of game information" And not something that can be worked out in game.
I also believe there wont be any in game warning. No notices like "Abnormal Signature Detected" etc. Simply because it doesn't exist in the code...yet.

I can see some pointers, such as the NGC cluster and 2MASS cluster. Along with the Heart and Soul Nebulas. These are designed to provoke our interest to further content. But are highly likely to be extremely difficult to solve.

You know what my biggest freak out is? Is if I find it and it does absolutely nothing. CMDR so and so found an Alien race! And yet - I cannot interact with them, they have no influence with the core systems and whatnot. And..im just sitting there.
That would be bad.

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Drew.

A direct question for you. Has this been fleshed out?
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I'd only break for a SSS
 

frostypaw

frostypaw
Gypsy12 said:
I can see some pointers, such as the NGC cluster and 2MASS cluster. Along with the Heart and Soul Nebulas. These are designed to provoke our interest to further content. But are highly likely to be extremely difficult to solve.
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Read all about it! "God in scandal arranging real things in the night sky to hide Frontier's lack of content about something that's been doable in the game since Gamma revealed by the intense journalistic skills of keyboard warrior"
 

Muetdhiver

Muetdhiver
I must say I'm quite lost with the clues.
I did not found any star matching Tycho G (so far), and beyond that I got no good leads (so far).
For sure I will not go random/brute force on it, but I understand why it is the most reasonnable option.

and well done for Rho Cas. :)

Also, if it is some voyager style easter-egg, I would understand people going crazy.
 
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Arjin

Arjin
I have received a few PM's asking for me to clarify why I think the zone of focus should be the edge of the Outer Arm and beyond, so here it goes.

We start with this nugget of information,

"Edge of the Galactic Arm. Take a line from Reorte to Riedquat to the edge of the arm and ... keep going. 'Stars thin out, you can see the whole galaxy just hanging there."

We then isolate the keyword Galactic,
ga·lac·tic

(gə-lăk′tĭk)adj.1. Of or relating to a galaxy, especially the Milky Way.
2. Of enormous size; immense.


In every case the word galactic infers the entire galaxy as a whole. The galactic plane, The galactic center, The galactic rotation, The galactic poles. etc...

So in our case, unless Drew contextually mis-used the word galactic (which I highly doubt) we are left with the galactic edge being the edge of the Outer Arm and beyond. This ties into "you can see the whole galaxy just hanging there." "it's been possible since launch" meaning the system to get to is very hard but possible. And "The engineers may make it easier" Etc..

If he meant the edge of the Perseus Arm and keep going I would suspect he would have used a word other than galactic, such as inner, spiral, etc.. Which still leaves it in an envelope of mystery and nebulousness. This is of course pure speculation but it is rooted in the logic of it all.


As for Salvageable Wreckage POI's, discarded, as they were not in at launch. And don't forget to 3D search some systems randomly!

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turkwinif said:
For those of you wondering what Rho Cassiopeiae looks like...well, "the unreachable" has been reached [big grin]

http://i.imgur.com/ACl5Or3.jpg

Doesn't seem to be anything special there, so...yeah. It's probably not related to whatever's in the Formidine Rift. Other than that, Rho is a damn big and bright star!
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CONGRATS!!!! you have reached where many have failed!!!!! Please do tell the route!! lol ;)
 
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Qohen Leth

Qohen Leth
For those who took my mission patch and dirtied/used it a bit... I might have not agreed to that, I could have done it for you, but most of all I would have appreciated that you'd have asked before.
 

turkwinif

turkwinif
Haha, well, I'm flying a nearly fully stripped-down Anny, al-la Buckyball style. You'll want a ship with at least 40.5ly jump capability
http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/...---------3i--------2f2i.AwRj4yVLhqg=.Aw18ZlA=

And the route? Here it is:
Hypheeg AF-Y d1-1
Hypheeg IL-U c4-0
Hypheeg DA-Y d1-0
Hypheeg FV-X d1-1
Hypheeg HQ-X d1-1
Hypheeg HQ-X d1-0
Hypheeg JL-X d1-0
Hypheeg LG-X d1-0
Hypheeg KL-X d1-0
Hypheeg GF-Z d0
Hypheeg IA-Z d0
Hypheeg GP-A d0
Hypheeg FP-A d0
Hypheeg EU-A d0
Qiedaea MI-A d14-0
Qiedaea NI-A d14-0
Qiedaea IC-C d13-0
Qiedaea HH-C d13-0
Rho Cassiopeiae

And a visual representation: http://www.edsm.net/user/travel-map/id/6212/cmdr/turkwinif
You'll need, to get there and back: 18 J3 injections, 2 J2s, and 8 J1s. Have fun, and don't jump to an unscoopable ;)


I saw someone say that they tried jumping to it from above in only a 78-79ly jump range, and that they thought it wouldn't be possible until the Engineers Update. So, what I did was I just looked in the GalMap at Rho Cassiopeiae and started working my way backwards from it going down and then back up, being confident that there was a route there, and calculating distances with the ol' a^2+b^2=c^2 to estimate distances using the grid. I'm estatic to know that my route worked! ^_^

So, thank you to whoever thought it wasn't probable to reach Rho Cassiopeiae until the next update, THAT MOTIVATED ME. :p
 
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CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
turkwinif said:
Haha, well, I'm flying a nearly fully stripped-down Anny, al-la Buckyball style. You'll want a ship with at least 40.5ly jump capability
http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/...---------3i--------2f2i.AwRj4yVLhqg=.Aw18ZlA=

And the route? Here it is:
Hypheeg AF-Y d1-1
Hypheeg IL-U c4-0
Hypheeg DA-Y d1-0
Hypheeg DA-Y d1-1
Hypheeg FV-X d1-1
Hypheeg HQ-X d1-1
Hypheeg HQ-X d1-0
Hypheeg JL-X d1-0
Hypheeg LG-X d1-0
Hypheeg KL-X d1-0
Hypheeg GF-Z d0
Hypheeg IA-Z d0
Hypheeg GP-A d0
Hypheeg FP-A d0
Hypheeg EU-A d0
Qiedaea MI-A d14-0
Qiedaea NI-A d14-0
Qiedaea IC-C d13-0
Qiedaea HH-C d13-0
Rho Cassiopeiae

And a visual representation: http://www.edsm.net/user/travel-map/id/6212/cmdr/turkwinif
You'll need, to get there and back: 18 J3 injections, 2 J2s, and 8 J1s. Have fun, and don't jump to an unscoopable ;)


I saw someone say that they tried jumping to it from above in only a 78-79ly jump range, and that they thought it wouldn't be possible until the Engineers Update. So, what I did was I just looked in the GalMap at Rho Cassiopeiae and started working my way backwards from it going down and then back up, being confident that there was a route there, and calculating distances with the ol' a^2+b^2=c^2 to estimate distances using the grid. I'm estatic to know that my route worked! ^_^

So, thank you to whoever thought it wasn't probable to reach Rho Cassiopeiae until the next update, THAT MOTIVATED ME. :p
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Nicely done and thank you for sharing the route!

I might try to make it there with an SRV to have a search of the landable planet there..
 
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SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
Arjin said:
In every case the word galactic infers the entire galaxy as a whole. The galactic plane, The galactic center, The galactic rotation, The galactic poles. etc...

So in our case, unless Drew contextually mis-used the word galactic (which I highly doubt) we are left with the galactic edge being the edge of the Outer Arm and beyond. This ties into "you can see the whole galaxy just hanging there." "it's been possible since launch" meaning the system to get to is very hard but possible. And "The engineers may make it easier" Etc..

If he meant the edge of the Perseus Arm and keep going I would suspect he would have used a word other than galactic, such as inner, spiral, etc.. Which still leaves it in an envelope of mystery and nebulousness. This is of course pure speculation but it is rooted in the logic of it all.
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Whilst I agree that if this was Drew, or one of us describing it, it would be clearer. However, the wording is that of the Old Lady. When dialogue is taken into account, you have to consider the possibility of whose point of view it is being told from. In other words, the old lady could be innacurate, if truthful.
 

frostypaw

frostypaw
Qohen Leth said:
For those who took my mission patch and dirtied/used it a bit... I might have not agreed to that, I could have done it for you, but most of all I would have appreciated that you'd have asked before.
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It's hard as a designer when you've put the hours in, but even the worst copies and imitations are a complement albeit sometimes a cack-handed one. It's just a sign that people like it a lot
 

turkwinif

turkwinif
CHOPP3R said:
Nicely done and thank you for sharing the route!

I might try to make it there with an SRV to have a search of the landable planet there..
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Yeah, didn't bring an SRV, so I just hovered over the surface to avoid hull damage. It's a metal-rich world, so you'll probably find some good stuff down there!
 
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