None. "Presumed to be".
On the Alien site:
Just got two data types from one scan, so I would say it is safe to rule out any correlation between alpha/gamma and activation order etc.
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn
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None. "Presumed to be".
On the Alien site:
Just got two data types from one scan, so I would say it is safe to rule out any correlation between alpha/gamma and activation order etc.
Omg this thread is so broken! Where can I get a refund!?
Seriously though, why put Gamma at the end. Also "Scane".
Maintaining this thread has to be a full time job. [big grin][up]
The thread is moving so fast, people are typing in front of their thinking... It's crazy. Love it. [yesnod]
Quick Question: Are people using Mobius or some sort of Cannon private group to visit the ruins?
I always play in open and went to the ruins last night.
Was enjoying chatting to all the other commanders until someone in a cutter blew up all our parked ships.
Fair enough, that's open, and I'm loathe to leave it for any reason but I'd actually quite like to have a look at the ruins.
I always play in open and went to the ruins last night.
Was enjoying chatting to all the other commanders until someone in a cutter blew up all our parked ships.
Fair enough, that's open, and I'm loathe to leave it for any reason but I'd actually quite like to have a look at the ruins.
Yeah - there's this anti-science group... blah... er... Hey. You were an easy target in a place where everyone was congregating... in open. You could have dismissed your ship and not had the pain...but... we all learn. That's what science is all about.
Sorry that happened to you.
Yeah you gotta be in the cool club to explore these ruins if you want to share secret handshakes and stuffs
Wading into the trailer clue/quick find discussion. 10/10 for the ingenuity and effort from Xdeath. And 10/10 for a wonderful location from the design team at Dev.
From my personal perspective, I do think this was too quickly found. For me, in future, I would much prefer most things to be breadcrumb and gated searches. i.e. follow the clues. get a permit follow more clues get another permit maybe do some other stuff and find the treasure. Gating a few sections with permits makes players work through the puzzle to some extent instead of jumping to the end page when some terribly clever fellow has worked it all out. It keeps the puzzle alive, just enough.
It is why I felt that this alien ruin would-be a gate way to maybe Polaris and another alien ruin there, with some clues to getting more info on another planet and opening up a Thargoid zone. Now that would be fun, and would drive people wild with enthusiasm to over come the challenges.
So Brooksey, chain puzzles and gated with your permit system! Have us traipsing around the galaxy for clues that can only be reached with permits and doing the right thing first. Up the ante. You have AWESOME assets in game, creative use of them is now imperative. Some of the Canonn are getting very crafty now, and those who are not quite so crafty(my self included) will throw weight of numbers at working it out. It is the best thing about Elite at the moment. Make a story line out of this that will last for weeks, not hours. THIS is the story of Elite
angerous. aliens. mystery of the galaxy. science. puzzles, these are the things that are keeping players interested. Yes the politics that is going on is interesting too, BUT, it is all informed by these discoveries and the impending arrival of conflict with aliens! Brooksey, unleash your inner Game Master!
From my personal perspective, I do think this was too quickly found. For me, in future, I would much prefer most things to be breadcrumb and gated searches. i.e. follow the clues. get a permit follow more clues get another permit maybe do some other stuff and find the treasure. Gating a few sections with permits makes players work through the puzzle to some extent instead of jumping to the end page when some terribly clever fellow has worked it all out. It keeps the puzzle alive, just enough.
It is why I felt that this alien ruin would-be a gate way to maybe Polaris and another alien ruin there, with some clues to getting more info on another planet and opening up a Thargoid zone. Now that would be fun, and would drive people wild with enthusiasm to over come the challenges.
So Brooksey, chain puzzles and gated with your permit system! Have us traipsing around the galaxy for clues that can only be reached with permits and doing the right thing first. Up the ante. You have AWESOME assets in game, creative use of them is now imperative. Some of the Canonn are getting very crafty now, and those who are not quite so crafty(my self included) will throw weight of numbers at working it out. It is the best thing about Elite at the moment. Make a story line out of this that will last for weeks, not hours. THIS is the story of Elite
angerous. aliens. mystery of the galaxy. science. puzzles, these are the things that are keeping players interested. Yes the politics that is going on is interesting too, BUT, it is all informed by these discoveries and the impending arrival of conflict with aliens! Brooksey, unleash your inner Game Master!
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Yes, but that all depends on the camera position, does it not?
If you were to guess at the most LIKELY place to try that superimposition of images over the sky, which system would that be in???
Could be the designation of a planet "blah sector a2-12 4 c" if the messages that haven't been decoded yet provide a system name.
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My theory is this is a very large landing pad of sorts.
The outer wall buttresses have an internal latch / locking mechanism very similar to a clamp that something would slide in and be locked down
The triangles dotted around with the metal roadways are a sort of Scart style 'male' input that when whatever it is lands connects and uploads 'whatever'.
Hey it's a wild theory but the buttresses dotted about both on the wall and internally look like large clamps with a hinged internal part.
I also doubt the site will yield anything further other than being a link to something else. What we have physically found is it!
The outer wall buttresses have an internal latch / locking mechanism very similar to a clamp that something would slide in and be locked down
The triangles dotted around with the metal roadways are a sort of Scart style 'male' input that when whatever it is lands connects and uploads 'whatever'.
Hey it's a wild theory but the buttresses dotted about both on the wall and internally look like large clamps with a hinged internal part.
I also doubt the site will yield anything further other than being a link to something else. What we have physically found is it!
dynamicbob
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evidence right there ancient civilisation ( its the missing human settlements) not the aliens just yet ......
Such an outstanding revelation will blow the community wide open
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where it is is about the right distance for the missing generation ships, i think the real thargoids might be found in really deep space, so im and many others are making our way to the far side of sag A to take a better lookie
Such an outstanding revelation will blow the community wide open
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where it is is about the right distance for the missing generation ships, i think the real thargoids might be found in really deep space, so im and many others are making our way to the far side of sag A to take a better lookie
It's pure nonsense. As far as I know the LMC has never been mentioned once in Elite lore. It has never figured on Galnet either.
The LMC is just a view.
Having experienced dirty low-down no-good griefing bell-ends at the Barnacle sites when they were first discovered I approached the new site this morning with a lot of caution. I made sure to dock at a starport as near to the site as possible (so if I did get killed I wouldn't get transported all the way back to where I first started from). I also landed some way away from the main area, landed quickly and dismissed my ship ASAP. Unfortunately a cutter did then come to investigate. Not quite sure what happened next, didn't detect any weapons fire or ramming but seconds later my SRV was gone. Unfortunately I was only carrying one so I had to go and get another (fitted a 2nd SRV bay while I was at it) and then came back to the site in Solo mode (shame). Explored the site for a bit and then switched back into Open (just in my SRV, ship dismissed). Bumped into Stupid Hippy, Tiger and one other (apologies, can't remember your commanders name now) and had a nice time exploring the site, chatting and taking screenshots. Every time a new signal appeared on the radar (or I heard the warning sound of a ship jumping out of SC) I would immediately target the ship and watch carefully to see what they were going to do.
Basically, plan for the worst but try to expect the best. SRV loss is cheap but ship loss not so much so be wary of not dismissing your ship and, if you do want to fly around, only recall it when you're reasonably confident that you trust the others in your instance.
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It's a repeated statement in several places, based on "FDev hints" however I didn't locate the source so yes, might be a rumor that just got repeated too often.
dynamicbob
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It was suggested that frontier add barnacles / meta alloys to jaques and other nebula in deep space, as of yet it hasnt happened, some opportunity lost on that one
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I always play in Open too, with one exception, taking hi-res photos which have to be done in a PG or Solo. So last night when I turned up I went into a PG so I could get some 6k pictures of the site and then went into Open. As Anthony said, and as I'm sure you know, Open teaches you things and as annoying as it is, always dismissing your ship when you're at a widely publicised scientific site is one of those things
There could also be the distinct possibility that FD knew the trailers would be scoured and wanted us to find the first part of the continuation of the puzzle fairly quickly (though obviously not 1 1/2 days quickly
). There are many odd things coming out of these ruins that make me think this goes far deeper than most of the things we've been working through so far. The fact that the scan data can be used by engineers, but we have none that can use it at the moment, also the scans aren't really that rare which would infer that there are rarer ones out there.Maybe they wanted to give us a kick up the backside to start this one off
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Maybe it doesn't fit the storyline instead of being a lost opportunity?
For Thargoids' sake, man. Get out of Open to do these things. What is it that makes you desperately cling to the notion that Open is where you need to be???
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This is a very good observation, i think you might be on to something, the landed ships could also be supplying materials if this is a large reactor of some type.
I visited the Ruins in Mobius, which was great since there were many, but not too many Commanders and they were very helpful ... for example when my SRV toppled over in a trench, I felt really really stupid and couldn't get up again on my own, turtle-style. They nudged me properly and I got on my wheels at 16% hull. Should have that on Shadowplay somewhere ...
So yes, I can recommend Mobius for that for those who feel like it. Was also great to see the Exploration Division in terms of ship classes (only Annies, some Asps, many Clippers).
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