Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn
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A daisy-chain of many thousands of Cmdrs. At one end is a Cmdr by the generation ship, and at the other end a 'static' point of comparison such as the main star. In between, every Cmdr in the chain see their neighbours on either side on their scanners. If the generation ship isn't static, the Cmdrs will notice it as the 'chain' would have to compress/stretch to maintain distance with both the ship and the static point.
A daisy-chain of many thousands of Cmdrs. At one end is a Cmdr by the generation ship, and at the other end a 'static' point of comparison such as the main star. In between, every Cmdr in the chain see their neighbours on either side on their scanners. If the generation ship isn't static, the Cmdrs will notice it as the 'chain' would have to compress/stretch to maintain distance with both the ship and the static point.
And would violate the first law of ED instancing.: D
In 2.2 it wasn't locked, I had my ship parked up on a planet in HIP 22460 when the 2.3 update went live. I was 'moved' to a nearby system's Asteroid base!
Oh really haha, that's silly.
I could of sworn before 2.3.01 that it had 'unknown permit' though.. maybe i'm wrong.
do we have any reason to think the game has that feature?
Note: That would be rad, and honestly wouldn't be that hard to do! The game could just really quickly grab the skybox that was computed when you highwaked in, apply one or two simple distortions to warp and color the starfield, and throw it back to the gpu before you got out of supercruise. Probably not something you could do every frame but totally something you could do during the exit animation.
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A daisy-chain of many thousands of Cmdrs. At one end is a Cmdr by the generation ship, and at the other end a 'static' point of comparison such as the main star. In between, every Cmdr in the chain see their neighbours on either side on their scanners. If the generation ship isn't static, the Cmdrs will notice it as the 'chain' would have to compress/stretch to maintain distance with both the ship and the static point.
You could use multicrew, too- if one guy was flying and one was MCing, when you talk to him all he would be able to say is ffffiiiiirrrreeee ttthhhheee pppphhhaaassseeeerrrssss
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New generation ship found (by someone else): https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/347497-Generation-Ship-quot-Venusian-quot
Nice, 63 ly from Sol, ppl really need to be publishing the listening posts so we can follow them ourselves
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Nice, 63 ly from Sol, ppl really need to be publishing the listening posts so we can follow them ourselves
Agreed. I enjoy following the intended trail with these things if possible.
Semi-related; Does anyone know if there is a limit on how many inbox messages we can have at one time?
This thread gets really confusing.
Generation-ships, one mega-ship in the formidine-rift, the alien-story.....which systems are involved now? What about the Ram-Tah mission?
I lost the overview.
Generation-ships, one mega-ship in the formidine-rift, the alien-story.....which systems are involved now? What about the Ram-Tah mission?
I lost the overview.
As far as I can tell it's not too far north of 100. Plus, things seem to get deleted after a time limit as well. I was trying to keep my Elite promotion messages around, and they seemed to spontaneously disappear around the two month mark.
Isn't that "you do NOT talk about instancing"? Oops!
Part of the message is usually plain text. It probably contains the key word.
Then you use somthing like this:http://www.hanginghyena.com/solvers_a/substitution-cipher-workbench
Test different keys until words start poping out.
Alternatively post it up here, stand back & watch the genii at work!
(that doesn't include me, I'm useless at cryptograms)
Should this be reported as a possible bug?
Been reported, FD looking into it
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