Please stop. Thank you.
UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Please stop. Thank you.
Hi mate, it´s a vast, free galaxy in an even bigger universe - Ur free to do what ever U like.
seriously, I think CURRENTLY in Merope (and 5C for what its worth) nothing additional might be found - otherwise it would have been already.
As the Plejades were Thargoid contact area, I still believe UAs/UPs are scouts preparing some future developement which has this Region and/or Merope 5C
as it point of origin / bridgehead, whatever....
EDIT: that also would fit with the Military behaviour to establish a line of outposts (supply-chain - the major problem of all military conflict)
in dirction of Plejades, and since when the Roughnecks ever told what they know already ? Hence nothing on Galnet...
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Hmm, my dad did that every christmas, and swore blind that our presents were in the garden somewhere, and it was out fault for not finding them.
40 years later, I keep popping back to my parents home every now and then in hope of finding them
Quoting self to keep relevance. This is becoming more logically sound. The binary numbers are steps to a process.
Step 1, establish a line. We have two points, one from the UA and one from the UP.
Step 2, Align reference line's rotation with orbital lines
Step 3, Investigate area
Step 4, Emit signal (HONK)
I'm many hours away from testing this myself.
Edit, my binary translation was wrong i mixed up 3 and 4. Leaving as is because these are the steps I'm going to use to test. Probably not right, but I hope I'm closer.
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Honestly, I'm getting sick of people saying not to give hints, and I'm sick of people asking for hints. Michael knows what he's doing. If we aren't moving at the pace he needs he should be free to drop hints. Conversely, just because MB drops hints now and then doesn't mean people should be begging for hints.
tl;dr: Stop asking for hints and stop complaining to MB when hints are given.
Michael Brookes
Game Director
Only by association, for understanding the UP transmission there's no link.
Michael
The content of my last post just did let me rethink the whole in the bigger context - military tactics and galactic politics.
Feds knowledge that "something" will happen at Merope, together with some shortcut conclusions (Military Intelligence - a contradiction in itself)
led to the point (as observed) to guard as well control/destroy the Barnacles, as obvoiusly they had the idea they were pre-launched
supply bases (Meta-alloys).
The conflicht between Imperium and Federation is a logical consequence out of that for two reasons:
1. the current mil politics of blocking access to Barnacles keeps the Imperium from gathering their own (scientific? Military?) data, and
2. more importantly, if the Federations future action might be swift or rough in its results, it enhances the Federations knowledgebase
even more (salvaging, contacts etc.) so that the balance of power might be tipped. No superpower can politically allow such a thing.....
Feds knowledge that "something" will happen at Merope, together with some shortcut conclusions (Military Intelligence - a contradiction in itself)
led to the point (as observed) to guard as well control/destroy the Barnacles, as obvoiusly they had the idea they were pre-launched
supply bases (Meta-alloys).
The conflicht between Imperium and Federation is a logical consequence out of that for two reasons:
1. the current mil politics of blocking access to Barnacles keeps the Imperium from gathering their own (scientific? Military?) data, and
2. more importantly, if the Federations future action might be swift or rough in its results, it enhances the Federations knowledgebase
even more (salvaging, contacts etc.) so that the balance of power might be tipped. No superpower can politically allow such a thing.....
sure ok, just dont be surprised when game population starts to drop because of lack of interest in a storyline of sorts.
I think, if anything, Michael knows that best off all, its about balance. You don´t give enough, interest drops, You give to much it spoils.
Well from my point of view good job until now [up]
That makes no sense. You are suggesting that interest will drop if people stop asking for hints or complain when hints are given? I'm suggesting that the hints should continue, according to MB's timeline. Did you even read my post? My personal preference is the more hints the merry, as long as there are new things to investigate.
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Exactly!
Well considering gamecon is around the corner, i doubt that. its not nice to show off a game where your customer base is divided over storyline format, specially as it really hasnt taken a major turn since the original frontier series, unless you count jaques as something important.
As for MB's hints.. ive seen better in a telegraph cryptic competition crossword.
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OK, we have two COMPLETLY different points of view, so lets agree to disagree
My one is:
- history and development of future are based on random instances, therefore the latter not predictable
- the Galaxy is open (besides of some locked areas) for all kinds of development, aliens, Imp/Fed/Alliance? wars,
founding of Kingdoms or even a brexit (couldn´t leave that out).
So the whole fuzz on UA/UP´s was, beside beeing an excellent prep for Gamescom, yet also to get broader media attraction to FD - did work, didn´t it?
- even the good old BBC jumped the train, a quite nicely designed Intro into things to come - guess tomorrow we now.
I don´t think they will reveal the solution to the riddle there although information from Gamescom might help to solve it.
I'm pretty sure that nobody is forcing you to participate in this mystery or this thread. There's any number of things you could be doing in game that would yield more immediate satisfaction.
I'm enjoying it although I've been labeled as delusional at times, I still remain generally positive. Perhaps a break is in order, friend.
Now on to the UP. Does any one believe it's possible that the EMP could be used to power something on the surface? Perhaps a hidden message?
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Well sometimes the absence of something tells You more then its presence
Thanks MB - let's all stop asking him for hints though. This might simply be a puzzle we're not going to solve and history will be written one way or another. It would be just as spectacular should we not solve this before "Winter" arrives.
Personally I don't think we'll solve it soon. And then we will be too busy running from Thargoids and everyone will have forgotten about it.
---Fast forward, 2026, the last ED server closes, and Mike comes on here and says "oh yeah, that puzzle you were all trying to work out ten years ago, well.."
---Fast forward, 2026, the last ED server closes, and Mike comes on here and says "oh yeah, that puzzle you were all trying to work out ten years ago, well.."
In that case Michael has a problem - all with LIFETIME-passes might sue him in the US for Billions of compensation
(if the States survive the next President)
pfft, after Season 6 "The Janitors", they will announce the next 3D Holographic Elite, called... "Elite: Frightening" or something. ED wont' be around forever, cos technology will move on. It will be like playing Elite 2 on a Rift (which would actually be fun i recon).
Sorry mods, going off-topic now.
Sorry mods, going off-topic now.
I'm sure the legal blurb accompanying lifetime passes have something that says "lifetime means for the lifetime of the game, not the player"
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