Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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bitstorm

bitstorm
Ozric said:
This may sound like the most ridiculous thing ever (and I doubt it's because of the fact) but, did you have your lights on? Lifeform or lights... ;)
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There are no silly questions!

Just checked, same behaviour with lights off, actually it seems better to do it with lights off. :)
 

Arguendo

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Arguendo
bitstorm said:
It also applies to the turquoise ground pattern near where you find the ancient items, back off, goes dark, <20m lights up, even if an item is not present at the ground pattern.

Might be worth doing some multi-CMDR testing on this?
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I had a similar idea yesterday evening. It would be cool to get enough cmdrs in an instance to place one in front of every thing that lights up, and start running things from there. It would take quite an effort though, as there are a lot of obelikses, artifacts and ground sites. I haven't counted yet, but I think it's doable :)
 

Alun T

Alun T
Siranui said:
In theory, they should have been limited to 0.3c due to the maximum exhaust velocity of fusion engines. Or 0.5c if they used anti-matter. But FD have apparently stated somewhere that they could travel at 0.6c somehow, although I don't know the source of this canon.
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A sustained 0.6c since 2100-2200 (with very short acceleration period, and no stops) would put them at most 720ly out for the first ships to depart, and 660 for the last.

Ships that stopped en-route, or travelled slower, or took time to accelerate would have covered less distance - unless they either invented an FTL drive themselves, or encountered a form of FTL (natural stargate, or aliens).

So, I wouldn't go too far from home to look for evidence of generation ships.
 

Ozric

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Nugstar said:
Have you had confirmation that there are things to be solved - instead of just found.

Finding locations is very nice, but if thats all they are, places to sight-see, then I'm disappointed.

Do you have definitive evidence from the devs that there is more to this than lore and sightseeing?
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Yeah cause that would really work wouldn't it. Maybe you were around for the UAs maybe you weren't, maybe you were around for the barnacles maybe you weren't, maybe you were around for the UPs maybe you weren't. Every single time as soon as a discovery is made there's always a couple of people who demand to know what's next, is there more to find, where should we look, why don't you give us a clue.

Do you expect the Devs to hand hold us all the way through? It couldn't possibly work. Say there's 3 stages to a mystery, as soon as we solve the first stage through badgering FD say no there's still more to solve, solve the second and the same thing, solve the third and then they say nope that's it now until the next patch. Everyone (casual) gives up and moves onto something else, only interested in the new things and missing out on potential links between the things we have discovered already.

Do the UAs serve a greater purpose or are they haphazardly scanning and transmitting our ship details?
Do the barnacles serve a greater purpose or are they just for harvesting materials and Meta-Alloys?
What purpose do the UPs serve?

Still plenty to answer and many more besides, though you only seem to be interested in new shiny things.

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DrFetid said:
Has anyone lighted up the small spots on the ground at the same time? Why can you also shoot the rocks on them?
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I imagine the answer to that is to make it easier to pick up the artifacts. I'd question why there's a seemingly random pile of rocks with an artifact placed on/in them
 

bitstorm

bitstorm
viceroy_blue said:
I can't post images right now, but there're reliefs or murals on each side of the wall sections (or pedestal supports..). Need to use debug cam to see the buried sections and look closely. On one side, it looks like an alien, other side, well.. an egyptian with no face (or astronaut helm..). On broad side, a relief resembles ancient egyptian burial ships (or sun boat of ra). I know how it sounds but we have pyramids, ancient urns, caskets and totems here. And uh.. we have pharaoh, horus and apollo skins for asp :) .
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What do you mean by wall sections?

FWIW Ancient Obelisk seems to become active at 14m.
 
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Ozric

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bitstorm said:
What do you mean by wall sections?
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viceroy_blue said:
Sorry, my native language is not english. I mean the pieces of black "supports" or structures. Three of them on the large circle and two of them in front of the "ramp". They appear like wall supports near the mounds circling the site.
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Like the ones in Rizal's landing pad picture on the front page. I did notice last night on the small isolated ones around where the walls had been destroyed that there appeared to be some markings (don't want to say drawings) in a slightly different colour tone to the rest of the object. There was enough of a difference for me to notice it, but I didn't see anything that really stood out, although I didn't spend too long looking.
 

Rubix

Rubix
I'm still puzzled by the rotating 'thing' below the ancient pillars. It only happens at the ancient pillars and nowhere else. Using the debug cam to go below the surface to see for myself after the reports earlier in this thread.

Anyone any ideas what it is? graphical glitch or something else?
 

Ozric

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Ozric
Rubix said:
I'm still puzzled by the rotating 'thing' below the ancient pillars. It only happens at the ancient pillars and nowhere else. Using the debug cam to go below the surface to see for myself after the reports earlier in this thread.

Anyone any ideas what it is? graphical glitch or something else?
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If you can only see it by using the debug camera to go underground then I wouldn't pay attention to it. It's like the "egg" that's in the barnacle. I could obviously be entirely wrong.
 

rizal72

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Rubix said:
I'm still puzzled by the rotating 'thing' below the ancient pillars. It only happens at the ancient pillars and nowhere else. Using the debug cam to go below the surface to see for myself after the reports earlier in this thread.

Anyone any ideas what it is? graphical glitch or something else?
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My take about it:
[video=youtube;LwbFwVf8yoE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwbFwVf8yoE[/video]
 

Rampant

Rampant
two quiet suns said:
I am here, what am I looking for?
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One thing did strike me when I got here.
Moon 3A is a potato shaped moon very similar to the moon over the Xenohenge.

It's fair to say I haven't seen one like them before. Never before. And I've been around a fair bit. Not a massive amount, but I've visited 4,000 systems and been 10kylies out from start, so I would've thought I'd maybe come across another potato shaped moon before. Possibly a case of making the clue fit the theory, rather than the other way around? (Making the ground fit the map, as they say in air navigation?)


Cheerz
 

CMDR Sheehy

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Phoenix_Dfire said:
Hi Folks,

Got a bit of question for you all to consider. How much game play did we loose because 'xenohendge' was discovered?

I mean I am *seriously* impressed about the way that the new mystery was discovered, talk about out of the box thinking but consider this for a moment;-

1) If it wasn't for the trailer, we wouldn't even know that there were these 2001 like monoliths in the game (just like we never knew about the barnacles in 2.0) and people wouldn't have been looking. (Kind of using knowledge from breaking the fourth wall)
2) Frontier would have planned and plotted out circumstances and game play events, which would have eventually led people to the 'Xenohendge. All that work will be shelved and all that content will be lost. :(

I bet that some people at Frontier are feeling like a DM when the players find an exploit which ruins the game. (If you've ever played tabletop D&D, you'll know what I mean).

Maybe thinking of making this a discussion point on Lave Radio next week.

What do you folks think?

P.S. Still seriously impressed how it was found though. ;)
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Michael Brookes said:
No you haven't :)

Michael
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Nice clarification on another thread...
 

Liquid

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Does anyone recognise this symbol/crest perhaps?
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two quiet suns

two quiet suns
Rampant said:
One thing did strike me when I got here.
Moon 3A is a potato shaped moon very similar to the moon over the Xenohenge.

It's fair to say I haven't seen one like them before. Never before. And I've been around a fair bit. Not a massive amount, but I've visited 4,000 systems and been 10kylies out from start, so I would've thought I'd maybe come across another potato shaped moon before. Possibly a case of making the clue fit the theory, rather than the other way around? (Making the ground fit the map, as they say in air navigation?)


Cheerz
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Yes it is VERY similar..
 
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