We really don't have a lot of faith in Frontier do we
Well, they did apparently forget to turn the formadine bases on....
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn
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Well, they did apparently forget to turn the formadine bases on....
Frontier Style) Forgot to turn on the ruins
Wasn't there some contributors a few days ago saying that they had solved the mystery? Would be nice if they came back and explained it as it could help pin-point the location of the new sites within the systems we've been given.
Also I'm hoping that the coordinates are somehow obtainable from what we have access to already and its just a case of doing the math / science?
Off to look at the frontpage to see if we captured any of the original theories...
Also I'm hoping that the coordinates are somehow obtainable from what we have access to already and its just a case of doing the math / science?
Off to look at the frontpage to see if we captured any of the original theories...
I'd say stop scanning, park up for now, and resume after restart.
Everywhere that has been checked out so far will need re-checking anyway, just in case it really was a case of "oops, we forgot to switch the ruins on!" over at FD
I'd say stop scanning, park up for now, and resume after restart.
Everywhere that has been checked out so far will need re-checking anyway, just in case it really was a case of "oops, we forgot to switch the ruins on!" over at FD
I'm travelling to original coords on current body. I'll log off there and see if ruins miraculously appear!
Excellent work.
I think this is the one:
Synuefe xo-p c22-17 D1.
Reason:
- Orbital period = 4.9 days
- Rotational Period = - 4.9 days
Same setup as on the current ruin planet (except it has +- 6.9 days).
Everywhere that has been checked out so far will need re-checking anyway, just in case it really was a case of "oops, we forgot to switch the ruins on!" over at FD
That is a depressingly good point
The imminent server downtime would be an ideal opportunity for folks who are not at work right now to go over the old info in light of the new with an eye to finding out.
Not much point in continuing to search the new systems until after the restart, in case it really was a case of forgetting to turn the ruins on.
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And I'm at work
And then football training for youngest
And then food
And then bedtime story
And then socialise with the other half (no appropriate smiley)
And THEN... if you guys haven't found them all by then... THEN I can get my little Aspy bum over to one of the systems.
(Still think [hope] there's a clue at the original ruins though...)
I feel your pain. This is me, to a tee.
I wish these reveals would happen at 9-10pm GMT instead of 7am.. but of course I realise that commanders in all other timezones/lifestyles would be just as bummed as I am by all this.
there was a guy a few pages back that was on about the ruins aligning with spacial bodies once the 6.9 day came to its end and started a new rotation, however he provided no proof and was dismissed as a troll, he may have been on the right lines though, i went back through his previous theory post, the 6.9 day passed yesterday at 19:00 in game time give or take i think and nobody (that i saw could have gotten lost in mega-thread) i did make a post at 20:00 asking if anyone was still at the site and had they noticed anything aligning but that also got lost in the thread.
So if you want to check it out you will need to wait another 6.8 ish days.
I believe that the alien ruins are a "temporary mechanism" or that FD wants to keep control of the timing of the discoveries. This is because probably FD has developed a plot around the mysterious events of the last patch. A sort of chronological sequence. If is so i don't have any objection. As for the CG, I think it is the only alternative to a new patch to fix any bugs. Perhaps FD wanted to direct us through the CG, indicating a long timeframe for the solution of the enigma, inviting us to not frustrate too mutch our minds with more or less complex physical principles. FD surely underestimates the tenacity of those who play to ED. Perhaps the CG is concluded too soon and so continues a strange race of mutual pursuit, between us players and developers, with us that run ahead and they trying to keep up, anticipate and then see them again upset chronological plans . I expect that the mysteries of the only site discover are not yet discovered and that, given the similarity between the alien ruins and ancient "observatory" of our terrestrial prehistoric civilizations, we must wait that the celestial bodies line up in a certain way to activate more tips. In this case knowledge "historic" would be useful as a "mathematical" to approach the understanding of the site. Ram Tah beginning gave us three weeks to examine the ruins. Perhaps within these three weeks we will have an answer. Once again I apologize for my English
Servers going down - someone has flown over the ruins location, and FD realised they forgot to switch them on
Sadly that is exactly what I thought ;o)
I doubt there was anyone at the site. Most people had headed back to the bubble to collect their rewards the day before.
Agreed, been following the thread for a while and it's obvious that astronomy has something to do in here.
We should focus first on finding bodies with similarities with the one we know.
A perfect correlation between Orbital and Rotational period is easy to spot, hopefully we can isolate one in each system and start looking more carefully into them.
EDIT: Wait a minute! Orbital period is positive, Rotational negative. Does that mean from a galactic point of view, the ruins are always facing the same direction? (excluding the star's movement).
That could be a pretty serious hint!
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Sorry, didn't look at this properly first time. Some of it looks like morse code. But the longer I look at it the more similarities I see with our own Arecibo message...
Synuefe xo-p c22-17 AB3 has the same setup, but +-88.5 days seems to long to me.
I think this means that the planet axial tilt is below the plane of it's orbit (using right-handed coords) so it's rotating backwards on it's axis to stay tidally locked (again, +ve rotation as defined in RHS)
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