My 2 cents (and what saved me of all that frustration) :
Remember the very 1st hint that got everyone crazy and started it all?
Did you listen to it?
Now like most other Players, I was intrigued. But also irritated. Something about that Forum Post fired up a few Red Lights in my head. Couldn't quite nail it, though, so I just thought "This must be fairly important stuff".
It wasn't until a few months later (wild goose chases already in full motion - I participated and found nothing but dud after dud, be it due to fake/misleading hints in GALnet or other Frontier-provided Sources) that I got "the missing link".
After realizing
who was in charge of (apparently) both Exploration and that entire Storyline, the dots connected.
Immediately I realized why I had Red Warning lights in my head when I read that original Statement about the UA.
It wasn't the Message itself - it was
who delivered it.
That moment, all Expectations and Hopes I once had for an immersive, interesting, challenging, credible and fascinating narrative created in-game literally vanished. Instantly. Because I understood what was wrong about it all, all along.
That very moment, I lost all Interest and Motivation to participate in any such events, chase hints or decypher anything - now knowing that at any given time
there was nothing significant there.
Just cheap Micro-Teasers, no big discoveries. No Scenarios. No dynamic Story. No effect of Players. A wild goose chase orchestrated only for one purpose : apply
minimal Dev efforts to gain
maximum time while actual asset design was in progress and far from anywhere usable, let alone finished.
And passively reading up once in a while on what became a small series of super-slow-motion riddles impossible to decypher in-game, spread out over what turned out to be
well over a year - looks like I was right all the time.
My then-found new Motto
"Nothing to see here - No Action Required" saved me from all that failure and endless frustration.
Gotta say, painful lesson. But at least one I learned before totally burning out.
Plus, I find it much easier ever since I dropped all expectations for such or similar events. Turns out I didn't miss anything, but at least I didn't expect to
PS.
Reading up on the latest "Minimal Asset" that replaced the Crashed DiamondBack Frontier was so proud of (mentioned several newsletters in a row), I still considered visiting it.
But then, realized it would be pointless to do so - as I know there's nothing to it. Sufficient Screenshots from others exist, so that's that.
Maybe V2.2 can surprise me, I guess we'll soon find out if it merely contains new Micro-Teasers or "the real thing".
But again - I have no expectations that go beyond an extremely basic "Space Invaders 3D" and more PewPew.
