So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)

Cpt.Bilsn

Cpt.Bilsn
MAUXUS said:
Not sure I am following your thought but in my mind, since the sentence reads "a giraffe", this excludes the first and most obvious choice (Camelopardalis Constellation) in favor of an alternative choice: "a giraffe THAT remembers her daughter's hero". Perhaps another member of the giraffidae family? The Okapi. So EAFOTS (the other clue from her ship) OK-A PI? None of the EAFOTS OK-A systems end in PI but maybe those last two letters indicate something else. Either Pi as in 3.14... or Pi as the 16th letter of the Greek Alphabet? There are indeed 16 EAFOTS OK-A systems but I am not sure which would be considered the 16th one. You don't have to feel bad for me. I am OK with embarrassing myself if there is a chance that it might help in some way ;)
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Oh, it was just a random thought your observation gave me. Like is "a" instead of "the" cause to point for giraffe (or CameltoePandaRisk or whatever) alpha ie brightest star as observed from earth. Just a random thought as I've said, pay it no closer attention if it doesn't make sense.

Also I was playing with an idea (after a pint of strong ale) that it might be actually three separate statements expected to stand on their own: The way queen rides//a giraffe that remembers//her daughters hero. Ok I realize it help nothing but it was fun to think about that :D .
 

lorrad

lorrad
MAUXUS said:
But wouldn't that be "a giraffe whose daughter remembers her hero" then? Never mind. I am not an English grammar professor and English is not my mother language, so I apologize if this sounds pretentious, that's not my intention. I am just trying to point out that this detail has been nagging me, while at the same time attempting to read between the lines.
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I think you're right and the whole sentence points to the hero. The fact that no one reads it as the giraffe's daughter means our minds favor bad grammar that makes sense over good grammar that doesn't; this is a common one of a pronoun form not referring to the preceding noun but one further back and switching the two is a common joke form. Imagine this WW2 movie where the resistance, gathered by the radio waiting to hear the coded message to activate their mission to liberate France. The radio operator on the other side of the channel conscripted into the signals service from being a Oxford English don, decides to correct the simply dreadful grammar in all these bloody messages he has to send. [was that a black adder plot?] For similar reasons we don't get to fix it either.
 
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Ouberos

Ouberos
Im not conversant with all of the actual theories on these threads but as a newcomer to the Rift (Still in the Wayfairers gaveyard, just past Allessias Pearls) the Giraffe clue strikes me as a simple crossword puzzle. 11 letters, vain queens and giraffes, daughters hero.

Tutankhamun.

Let me explain.
Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen well know for having a long neck and also being quite hot if 3000 yr old busts are anything to go by. One of her daughters went by the name of Ankhesenamen and she was notable for having a short marriage to a kid who sadly became rather famous for having a nice looking death mask.

Then there's the whole camel thing. Anyway, how does that fit into the current analysis? Im going to make a few more jumps.

Edit: forgot about 2.2, looks like I won't be jumping for a day or two...
 
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Spenceuk99

Spenceuk99
This may be nothing more than a brain far, but bear with me a bit.

1. The old lady said she got as far as the rift, nothing about crossing it.
2. Could there be a crossover between the daughter's hero and either Hassan or Dalk? Salome is a daughter after all, so is there a ship hanging in space somewhere?
 

hammerreborn

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DrewCarnegie said:
More clues are definitely required - but equally a clue (or clues) which guarantees that we solve the mystery in a particular timescale is going to need to be particularly obvious.
Look at EAFOTS - we've had that information for a couple of months, large numbers of Cmdrs have invested huge amounts of time and effort in searching that sector and yet, when I stopped by a couple of weeks ago 90% of systems were still untagged. Now sure, there are probably a lot of systems that have been scanned and the Cmdr has not yet sold the information, but we've still barely scratched the surface of just one sector.

Anything less than a set of coordinates (to within a couple of hundred LY) and details of what we're looking for isn't going to get to a solution in the timescales of the book.

Personally, I'd be happy if we DON'T solve in time for the book - or at least, if we do, it's based on the information we have now, not some new 'treasure hunt' clue.
I like that fact this has been in game since the beginning and nobody has found it yet.
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I've hit around 1k systems in the rift and just don't have the interest in either going all the way back to the bubble and selling, or continuing the search

Which sucks, because I found a system with 5 terraformable water worlds and another water world and I really wanted to see how much that would sell for.
 

FuriousMeow

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You get a 50% bonus on top of the value of the planet - which is only about 65 thousand credits plus another 30 thousand. ELWs should be worth way more, but that is what they are right now. The more value is your handle on them, everyone that gets there thinking they found something has to shake their fist in the air that you got it first.
 

dynamicbob

Banned
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For elite ranking up to start with, go the neutron fields, once u have that elite ranking you can then go on relaxed exploration trips looking for more interesting content like the rift / jaques / beagle point
 

hammerreborn

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FuriousMeow said:
You get a 50% bonus on top of the value of the planet - which is only about 65 thousand credits plus another 30 thousand. ELWs should be worth way more, but that is what they are right now. The more value is your handle on them, everyone that gets there thinking they found something has to shake their fist in the air that you got it first.
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There was a lot of other stuff there, a bunch of metal rich, couple stars, etc.

I just...bleh, I don't want to fly all the way back with hopefully something interesting coming around the corner.

I rather die to aliens that might appear and one shot me then trek there and back again, because I'd be probably doing it in a beluga
 

FuriousMeow

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I guess, I dunno. I don't mind the jaunt back and forth between the Bubble and the Rift. I prefer the long game rather than the end game, especially since we're playing this in the Milky Way Galaxy (of sorts) - the fact someone found it and then lost it in a memory wipe with the best details they have are take a line lining up Riedquat to Reorte (spelling on both?) to the edge of the galaxy and then you'll find something? and we're expecting to find it "quickly" (not sure when this all began but even if it was there from Gamma, when did the search really begin - a year ago?)? The Old Woman herself can't even recall it, so it should be quite difficult to find it. ED is supposed to have at last a decade long run, and I'm fine with going back and forth trying to hunt this down for at least a few more months - or a bit longer. I understand some only want the end game, but I've played games that had no end game and played them for a decade with no end in sight just because it was designed to be an ongoing war... and this is an ongoing adventure.

Sure, there's something to find but I don't believe it is anything more than the tip of the iceberg.

But, everyone has different expectations from their past times which really puts game developers that are in a constant game development flux like EVE, or ED, or WWII combat sims with constant evolution in a very unique corner since it isn't a set game with a defined end point as it is ongoing and evolving itself. Of course this leads down a path of what do some expect and should they even expect it from a game of that nature? However, that is a different topic.

I'm just happy to have an opportunity to play this and work with others to see what we can come up with if nothing more than the challenge, and if I need a break I jump into CQC or just head back to the Bubble and try out new things I haven't before. I just spent the past few weeks in the Bubble engineering a Viper MkIII and having fun with that, then went back to my Vulture and re-engineered it a bit more that provided some incredibly impressive results. The stock Vulture seems like a turd after what I had done. Pretty awesome stuff I think.
 
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CMDR Poet Starwind

CMDR Poet Starwind
The thargoid queen remembers her vague
father's thought feather said uni.

I hate hidden alien poetry.

Thargoids are quiet evening dears after that hummer's beef here, eh.

I hate alien beef, too.
 
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