UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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No value added here, but as someone who's been playing this game since the 80s, on a BBC, then a C64, then a 386, etc.; I'm not sure how I feel about the overly complicated process required to get through some of the puzzles. To be honest, I was basically washed out when horizons came out, and I actually stumbled on the fact that there is any plot at all when I ended up here. I do think it's cool that there are folks out there with the time, inclination, and equipment to figure these out, and I certainly plan on lurking some more; but as an Xbox player, I'm not 100% sold that I shouldn't be able to solve the puzzles and progress the game, which I paid for without resorting to outside sources. That being said, it's just an opinion and certainly not enough to make me stop playing any time soon, so smart away smart people so I may reap the benefits of your research. Rant over.

I got to Elite on my BBC "B" in 1985, though I didn't play after that due to family & other RL stuff. I'm of the opposite opinion-I like the fact that this is such a free-form game that we can use 3rd party tools to help us solve in-game puzzles, that Devs are guided by a long-term storyline that may take years to unfold, but that the players can also affect how that story unfolds. In between storyline events there is plenty of stuff to do with exploration/trading/bounty hunting/missions to keep players busy. If Frontier had to program everything (sonic analysers, piano keyboards, web browsers, Google, etc, etc) into the game then they'd have no time to develop the game which is what I'm paying for, and there are plenty of excellent free third party tools to do those jobs. Galnet is external to the game, but also part of it.

I do agree that the storyline is slow, but that's because it's not being compressed so players get instant gratification; it's more like RL: politics, military & industrial bases lobbying for power & their own agendas, etc. Things will speedup a bit I think when the current UP mystery is solved, because I think that's FD's equivalent of Pandora's box. But don't get hung up on PC versus Xbox, because there are plenty of aspects of the game where this makes no difference whatever. And anyone can get involved with this & the other forum threads, which are just as much an out-of-game but related tool than Audacity etc.
 
I think you over think. :)

A very dense, small body will have a small radius to have the barycenter within.

Ah! makes sense. I've learnt something rather awesome! ;)


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Here's my issue with this: If the numbers are the first four digits of pi, shouldn't it read: 3 1 4 1 instead? And if it is pi to three decimal places, rounding up the last digit to 2, where is the decimal? Is the double arc adjacent to the 3 supposed to represent it?

There's a giant circle in the middle... maybe that's the decimal ;-)

I dunno either, I'm not quite convinced by the ∏ idea ... but I'm going to keep turning the pieces, and trying to fit them any damned way into the holes.

My main issue is that all of my theories are that this is the "first part" of a message, that explains how to decode/understand the "second part"... and we don't have a second part. Unless it's that image on the left, and I have no clue what that could be.
 
My main issue is that all of my theories are that this is the "first part" of a message, that explains how to decode/understand the "second part"... and we don't have a second part. Unless it's that image on the left, and I have no clue what that could be.
If you rotate it 90 degrees to the right, it looks like a small surface installation next to an arch, and it makes me wonder if someone was a fan of Defiance or Stargate. :)
 

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Hi CMDRs,
I'm actually in Elephant's Trunk Sector.
I know I've already check every systems that CMDR Merdicriley but I'm going to check again near every landable planets.

Do I have to do something, any idea?
Yes, you have to stock up on patience. Lots and lots of patience...and some coffee.
 
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