Predictions: that's what science is all about
Good job CMDR!
Now we need the ruins...............
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn
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Predictions: that's what science is all about
Good job CMDR!
Now we need the ruins...............
Ah yes, I had understood. The point I was making (which I might not have expressed particularly clearly) is that I think there's grounds for the possibility of there being much more than just 2 or 3 more sites. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there definitely are more sites I'm just saying there's reasons I've seen, other than the scan numbers, to indicate there might be.
I'm also not saying you're wrong about all the scans being accessible in solo! - I'm actually still actively trying to unlock the extra scans in the current site in solo.
Just discussing possibilities really. Hope it didn't come over in a negative way.
No, no problem friend. It seems we are of similar minds & just words are getting in the way.
Intellectually I would like to see the proper solution to this in solo mode, but pragmatically I am thinking we now have all 36 messages possible from this site & maybe we should concentrate energies on finding the other two sites. I am also tired since I woke at 4 am, had to walk the dog twice, attend my granddaughter's birthday party, read through I don't know how many posts in this & the FR thread, and we don't seem to get any further. So no in-game time for me today.
I am also torn since I've spent the last two weeks grinding skimmer missions with the intention of (a) getting to a billionaire and (b)getting an Imp Cutter. I've done the first & am now an Earl with Empire so only this and another rank to grind through to buy a Cutter, but having second thoughts that an explorer anaconda might be more suited to my tastes. Think I probably need a break, but too interested in the mysteries to do that.
Need sleep....
Anyone else getting a huge amount of Adjudication Server discos at the ruins site? I feel like I'm spending more time loading back in then scanning.
Yeah, kept getting them in Mobius PG, so went into another PG & with only 4 of us at the ruins I still got a couple. So Iv knocked it on the head until tomoro
dynamicbob
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Predicting here and now there are up to 10 ruin sites scattered around, and only ram tah will give clues out on progressive CGs. Successive CGs
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Confirming Doc mobius is very jumpy even from statue of liberty nebula
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Confirming Doc mobius is very jumpy even from statue of liberty nebula
Hopefully we will just get another hint from Ram Tah to help us locate the other sites.
We have advanced surface scanners that can detect metal through solid rock, but we still cannot find large structures like the ruins, at least FD, give us a surface scanner that will highlight an area on the planet surface.
dynamicbob
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it would be the quickest way forward.
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great idea, or even the ability to bookmark POIs
Yep, I think that's all we really need, like the discovery scanner, except it picks up surface structures,
it's range dependent on what grade it is. 3A 4A, 5A e.c.t
5A surface scanner could ping to a range of something like 10 000 square meters.
tbh.. I'm surprised there isn't something like it in the game already.
idk.. maybe FD are concerned it would make things too easy,
but not having some kind of surface scanner available for your ship at all, isn't very realistic.
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I would argue that we already have a piece of equipment that should fill this role in the Detailed Surface Scanner, which considering the amount of detail we get out of a planet's surface map is a fairly ironic name.
No, I'm not really inferring anything from the icosahedron as yet. It could be a football for all I know!
It would be 12 vertices. When I'm searching for comms network candidate systems I'm looking for shapes that tesselate in 2D at the moment.Ouch. That's a painfully early start on a Saturday!
Yeah, it would be a lot of sites. It would actually make the search I've been doing easier though. I've been looking for 2 systems which would form key shapes (parts of 2d tessellating shapes). The obvious thing to look for is two systems that form an equilateral triangle with the ruins. But there is just waaaaay too many. If on the other hand it's a geometric pattern that needs to be found, the data search is a bit more complicated, but it would cut down the list of candidate system to something manageable.
In a way though, both versions are completely compatible. If there is a wider set of sites/nodes than just 3, there's nothing to say that any of the other sites would have scannable obelisks.
QUOTE=QorbeQ;5045209]I don't care if it's related to the ruins or not, that stuff is cool - nice find [/QUOTE]
I looked at the ruins map again... if you focus on the marker like structures that line the walls that make the hexagonal shape I counted 26 of them... that matches up with the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet... that are used in that Pentagon shape diagram to form a visual glyph of a word. The overall shape of the ruins looks like a Pentagon. I really think I could be on to something here.
[/QUOTE]I looked at the ruins map again... if you focus on the marker like structures that line the walls that make the hexagonal shape I counted 26 of them... that matches up with the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet... that are used in that Pentagon shape diagram to form a visual glyph of a word. The overall shape of the ruins looks like a Pentagon. I really think I could be on to something here.
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Yeah, that's a fair point, but then it probably would be too easy, to just scan the entire planet in one go and it picks out the poi for you.
I think we need a scanner that specifically works with the radar when we're close to the ground.
Near the surface, blast out a honk of the surface radar scanner and it picks out anything within a certain radius.
What they really need to do is have another tool that is used to check the surface of planets for anomalies while in super cruise. It would required orbiting a planet while you scan to look for objects of interest. This would also require you to be able to place land markers/beacons on the planet. It would need to be able to discern any odd energy sources or anomaly in surface materials and or shapes. That way it could tell you if there is a structure of some kind on the planet.
The problem is the sites are so tiny and that rendering detail of ground structures from over 50km away.
The problem is the sites are so tiny and that rendering detail of ground structures from over 50km away.
dynamicbob
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perhaps something with a 5-10km above the surface deployability like a second blue POI scanner level but as something else
Yeah, that's a good shout. I hope it goes down this route rather than the exact locations just being handed to us on a platter.
dynamicbob
Banned
It could do with some reworking. Make ground structure give off a slight but inaccurate ping from orbit
Im going to use no mans sky as an example, and this would fit with a more diverse procedural system as frontier maintain but also move away from hand placed content. Filling the content gap im not saying go as far as NMS but somewhere reasonable in between a ping scanner could put up search areas of a few hundred km across which could then be searched by the player
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it allows frontier to spread the timing of progress out to so we dont solve it to soon
While I love your ideas, it would be much more constructive to post them in the suggestions forum
Thanks , but I did that quite a while ago and it's been long buried now.
dynamicbob
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ah thats a nice little gem of a tool thanks
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