Fermi Paradox - Where are they?

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
As an explorer I don't want Frontier Developments to reveal what's out there until its been found. I hope they keep it in-house and never let on to the playerbase what they've got out there waiting for us. That adds so much more mystique to the gameworld you're part off.

Knowing that there IS stuff out there is enough. So hints, suggestions, rumours via ingame newsfeeds yes, but big neon arrows on the galactic map saying the people of zog are here, no thanks :D
 

Memnoch

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It could be quite fun for a player who has discovered something interesting to not just come out and tell everyone what it is and where to go but to drop hints and allude to its location. Perhaps an interesting places thread could be created?
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Memnoch said:
It could be quite fun for a player who has discovered something interesting to not just come out and tell everyone what it is and where to go but to drop hints and allude to its location. Perhaps an interesting places thread could be created?
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There's money to be made too. A few screen shots or a video of you making contact with something no one has seen before could earn you a few credits if you auction the co-ordinates.

People did that in early Eve when bistot and zydrine bearing asteroids where a rarity. Locate them and sell the info. Same principle with finding intelligent life forms that may be open to lucrative trade agreements.
 

Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
Memnoch said:
It could be quite fun for a player who has discovered something interesting to not just come out and tell everyone what it is and where to go but to drop hints and allude to its location. Perhaps an interesting places thread could be created?
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Expect ED to be datamined more like ;)

(Single player offline will have everything ready to be searched)
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Liqua said:
Expect ED to be datamined more like ;)

(Single player offline will have everything ready to be searched)
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This is sadly true. Maybe the offline game will have the physicality of the MP gameworld only but have its individual content be generated from a different PG seed.
 
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Yaffle

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Yaffle
Are you asking the right question?

Maybe "When is everyone?" makes more sense than "Where is everyone?"?
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
Cosmo Bozo said:
The paradox of course assumes that the galaxy hasn't been colonized.
How do we know that? When did we go and look?
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Because we aren't already welcoming our new alien overlords. Of course it's possible that they're nice enough to hang back and see if we'll blow ourselves up or reach for the stars before making contact.
 

Dante80

Dante80
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Dejay

Dejay
Liqua said:
IIRC FD have said other than Thargoids (who will be "somewhere" at release) there are no aliens, only humanoids.
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I think this is really sad. I somehow "forgot" that FE2 reconnected the elite universe and removed all those different aliens. And the excuse that they weren't intelligent in the first place is kind of lame.

Alien cultures is a very interesting thing in sci fi, they allow to explore philosophical and cultural concepts, and have "the bad guys" you don't have to feel bad about killing en masse.

I believe that if a planet can support live and if there is evolution (there might be live that has stopped evolving because it is stuck in a local maximum of sort) it follows that given enough time, intelligent life forms will emerge necessarily. It's a bit like murphy's law, if **** can happen, it will happen one day.

I understand that creating different species (ideally procedurally generating alien species!) is difficult, but I hope it will be done.
 

Juniper

Juniper
It's a very big galaxy. Most of it we will never see, as it will take too long to get there.

So for my money, there's every chance of them introducing new alien races in the future (possibly via an expansion) without breaking canon, and still be consistent with Fermi's Paradox.
 

Juniper

Juniper
Granite said:
Which one? The one where Wogan apologised to Icke?
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I remember one where Icke went on a rant about how we're all being ruled by aliens and that the royal family were actually lizards in human form, to howls of laughter from the studio audience, and Wogan told Icke that they're "not laughing with you, they're laughing at you".
 

Stachel

Banned
Stachel
New alien races would be cool.

IIRC the Elite galaxy teems with alien life, just not a lot of it is higher form. This excerpt from the FEII Gazetter hints at xenocidal occurences having been hushed up previously:

Henson oversaw the eradication of a reputedly sentient race on Achenar 6d and began to influence other systems, enraging the Federation.
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