Pretty sure this will be it - and the "winning" cg may have some small effect on wht happens next..... or not
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Pretty sure this will be it - and the "winning" cg may have some small effect on wht happens next..... or not
In that case I vote the Latvian Brandy. More profitable and and marginally better for you than Narcotics and Tobacco (well, at least there's SOMETHING healthy in it...)
UK comprises England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, believe it says so on the passport.
So the 'truth' they want to reveal turns out to be a bucket of rubbish. Spent all day wasting my time.
Unless an alien ship passes in front of my windshield I no longer care chasing after stupid cllues that lead to nothing.
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Unless an alien ship passes in front of my windshield I no longer care chasing after stupid cllues that lead to nothing.
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Guys do u think FD hired "karl pilkington" to do the cryptic clues XD ?
Hype around this is not FD generated, really: they embedded clues in videos which we have decoded and, from there, we've chased our own tails.
Meanwhile, the messages say it leads to something 'the whole galaxy will want to see' - and I bet it will have been worth it.
Unlike some of the other prominent space games I'll avoid mentioning, and discounting the early DDF threads when what was flying around there was essentially items on a massive shopping list, when FD stick a feature on a release schedule, they tend to under promise and over deliver. I think in this case it will be worth it, but only the most committed will see it through.
I'm gonna go get some Lavian Brandy and deliver it to Scott and see what comes out in the wash.
As for these clues - I'm not convinced they cross-over quite in the way we're thinking. I agree with the possibility that the 34 Lat could be 34 Long, and an icy body instead of a rocky one, but if Dillon is a liar, then he/she never even went there anyway right!?
Meanwhile, the messages say it leads to something 'the whole galaxy will want to see' - and I bet it will have been worth it.
Unlike some of the other prominent space games I'll avoid mentioning, and discounting the early DDF threads when what was flying around there was essentially items on a massive shopping list, when FD stick a feature on a release schedule, they tend to under promise and over deliver. I think in this case it will be worth it, but only the most committed will see it through.
I'm gonna go get some Lavian Brandy and deliver it to Scott and see what comes out in the wash.
As for these clues - I'm not convinced they cross-over quite in the way we're thinking. I agree with the possibility that the 34 Lat could be 34 Long, and an icy body instead of a rocky one, but if Dillon is a liar, then he/she never even went there anyway right!?
And as I mentioned at the start it's not a bank holiday in the UK tomorrow, very very few Bank holidays are - most are stated as such by the BBC and the like but N ireland and Scotland seldom take the same days (or indeed number of days - am I bitter ? ... yes
)https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays#england-and-wales
And I don't know anyone who gets St Andrews day of or ever has, although in fairness English employers always get amazed by our refusal to go back to work on 2nd January
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Uk according to WESTMINSTER
I.e. the Goivernment that gives no ducks about anything beyond their next paycheck....
Indeed. However, there may also have been a certain lack of fizz in today's events.
Is This the thing where some novel will be written about?
Yep. I know the event was set up as only "starting on the 28th", but inevitably everyone was expecting some sort of payoff on the 28th. Now a good chunk of the engaged playerbase is disappointed. This thing needs to wrap up pretty quickly.
And I'm not a fan of this "meet the pseudo-NPC" mechanic. Between the limitations of ED's instancing system, the large proportion of players who don't want to play in Open, and timezone considerations, this mechanic is very exclusionary. There were (I estimate) somewhere between 500 and 1000 players trying to find these guys, how many actually got to see them? 20? Less? There are already too many lotteries in this game without this sort of thing. I like the idea of this sort of interaction but I just don't think it's practical. Persistent POIs would probably be a better mechanic.
Probably need all 3 clues to narrow it down to a less than impossibly large search area.
Actually I believe everyone could have seen them if they hung out in the specified systems. I kept flying around and Granger appeared for me as well. I threatened him and things didn't go well I also believe it's not all scripted. I said something like "please no lavian brandy bull " and they responded "oh, you heard this already?" or something like that. It happend 50 minutes after 21 or so. Also, I love this kind of FDEV-NPC interaction and personally hope there's going to be a lot more of them in the future.
I also believe it's not all scripted. I said something like "please no lavian brandy bull " and they responded "oh, you heard this already?" or something like that. It happend 50 minutes after 21 or so. Also, I love this kind of FDEV-NPC interaction and personally hope there's going to be a lot more of them in the future.
As soon as the clue dropped this should have started the next phase, such as a CG. Instead another cryptic hint was dropped and that as *some unspecified point in time in the future* there will be a CG. That isn't good story telling.
Reminds me a lot of the GM guide events in early Everquest- nice idea originally that descended into farce before long - real life quest givers instead of npc's - ended up a real mess mostly
so im back! im glad i didn't get involved today im going to take the cobra out tomorrow and see how things go. well done to everyone who cracked the codes met the bounty hunters and worked it all out. don't let the actions of some players get you down and to all the new people on this thread keep tinfoil.
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Biscuits and bed for me.
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Yeah, I suspect that if we can get another clue from Dillon, it will be along the lines of "it isn't at 42 latitude"...
In which case, we'll know it is whatever were are told it isn't.
I think most agree that CG's are going to be the way further clues will be revealed, but that doesn't mean we can't solve it now. I know the consensus is that Dillon ( Binary Pulsars ) is lying and that may be true, but right now, when it comes to sheer brute force exploration, Dillon's clue is the most attempt-able. While there are a lot of binary neutrons out there, is it too much of a leap to suggest this system may be in the direction/vicinity of col 70? as this would narrow the search down further. ( front page for those who don't know the significance of col 70 ) we already know of one binary system that is near col 70: HIP 37544, surely there's going to be more to find aswell.
I've not the power to do it, as I'm not a moderator.
I've asked if I could be one of them, but they explained to me that other people should "endorse" me, I did not understand how, however.
That said, there's no need to start another thread: the only reason we did it in the past was just the 10K posts limit, that now is no more.
Even if we start a new thread, nothing will change the fact that there are almost 100k posts overall:
what I'll do is just copy and paste the FP in place (very tricky cause I'm not a mod so I have to reserve the first posts with the help of a mod, so if I can avoid it again please...) and everything will start again unchanged, with the new thread reaching 1000 pages in a few days again.
I maintain other threads in other forums too, and a couple of them have thousands of pages (Game of Thrones anyone?). No problem.
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