Simple, binary question: is Raxxla in-game and findable currently?

FatFreddysCoat

FatFreddysCoat
Here's the scenario: I have all engineers unlocked and a pot of cash. I have as many permits as engineer / rank locks allow for currently.

Question: If I set out today, is Raxxla possible to find and identify?

I don't count Raxxla being in-game but not programmed in by Fdev or hidden behind a locked/hidden/yet-to-be-unlocked system as a 'yes' answer.

Could I set out now and, with no interaction or alterations from FDev, find it?
 

JesusRocks1988

JesusRocks1988
FatFreddysCoat said:
Here's the scenario: I have all engineers unlocked and a pot of cash. I have as many permits as engineer / rank locks allow for currently.

Question: If I set out today, is Raxxla possible to find and identify?

I don't count Raxxla being in-game but not programmed in by Fdev or hidden behind a locked/hidden/yet-to-be-unlocked system as a 'yes' answer.

Could I set out now and, with no interaction or alterations from FDev, find it?
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Well, as far as I remember, Michael Brookes said yes, and that they're not going to be giving any clues about it at all.
However, given the way the game currently functions, if you were to find it, you probably wouldn't be able to do anything with it other than just look at it and scan it.
If it's a planet with any type of atmosphere: no landing.
If there's anything supposed to be ON the planet: inaccessible.

The search for Raxxla should probably be a backburner project for now until Elite has more full fleshed out exploration mechanics and/or atmospheric landings.

It's like... I want to go to visit Cygnus X-1. I have the system bookmarked in my galaxy map, but if I went now, I'd only be disappointed because I already know what a black hole next to a star looks like in the game as it currently stands, and it's not impressive. I want to save that trip for when FD revamp black holes and give us stuff like accretion disks and hopefully interaction with the companion star.
 
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Tay1orTheSailor

Tay1orTheSailor
I heard from a off hand source, that a player has been through the system that contains Raxxla. However as I remember the player was said to hadn't pinged the system with a discovery scanner.

Soooo if only you could filter all visited systems and filter again for any with exploration data for.
 

Yure

Yure
It's an odd little conundrum. Raxxla has got to be close enough that we got to it relatively fast in early ship days. Yet as we have explored just about every system around sol, the only other possibility is that whoever found it warped there.

I didn't play previous games but I recall someone mentioning it has portals... So if true this could be a real possibility.

Perhaps try looking for wormholes.

We know Thargoid warp in and out through a sort of gravitational distortion field, so the in game "technology" is there.

I would reckon that it might even be by use of blackholes. I doubt everyone goes around trying to purposely bump into them more than once.
 

rootsrat

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rootsrat
FatFreddysCoat said:
Here's the scenario: I have all engineers unlocked and a pot of cash. I have as many permits as engineer / rank locks allow for currently.

Question: If I set out today, is Raxxla possible to find and identify?

I don't count Raxxla being in-game but not programmed in by Fdev or hidden behind a locked/hidden/yet-to-be-unlocked system as a 'yes' answer.

Could I set out now and, with no interaction or alterations from FDev, find it?
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Nobody but FDEV knows that. My bet is on a "no".
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
I am still convinced Thargoids snatched it away into Witchspace with their neutron star powered Dyson sphere homeworld.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Yure said:
It's an odd little conundrum. Raxxla has got to be close enough that we got to it relatively fast in early ship days. Yet as we have explored just about every system around sol, the only other possibility is that whoever found it warped there.
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There are plenty of places even within 1000 LY of Sol where you could hide something - to be reachable with capabilities available in the 1.0 release, nothing fancier - and yet have the chance of someone stumbling across it in normal gameplay be zero.

As an example, pick a binary system at least a few hundred LY from any interesting major landmarks:
- make it a wide one with 300kLs separation to the M-class secondary star
- put a few miscellaneous non-landable icy worlds around that star, and a rocky asteroid belt
- put Raxxla *inside* belt cluster 4.

Can't be detected from supercruise, even someone who takes the trouble to fly 300kLs just to scan the iceballs is highly unlikely to pay attention to the belt clusters ... and very unlikely to drop into each to do a full mineral survey.

And there's tens of thousands of systems which fit that description, so even a systematic multiplayer search for just that sort of hiding place would be unlikely to find anything.
 

verminstar

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verminstar
Well heres the thing...frontier claim theres lots of stuff in the game that simply hasnt been found yet. Of course, nobody can prove that claim as being either accurate or just sales fluff designed to get players chasing their own tails whiloe attempting to find a needle in a giant haystack of needles with nothing but a mark 1 eyeball...

Im gonna have to go with no...frontier will flip the magic switch when they are good and ready to have us discover something new, and then claim its always been there. Nobody can prove otherwise and because of that, I just gave up looking or even believing them some time ago after hitting elite in exploration on two accounts and finding naff all in all that time, just different variations of the system templates.

If players wanna believe theres something there, then fair play to them...but I dont ^
 
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Mengy

Mengy
verminstar said:
Well heres the thing...frontier claim theres lots of stuff in the game that simply hasnt been found yet. Of course, nobody can prove that claim as being either accurate or just sales fluff designed to get players chasing their own tails whiloe attempting to find a needle in a giant haystack of needles with nothing but a mark 1 eyeball...

Im gonna have to go with no...frontier will flip the magic switch when they are good and ready to have us discover something new, and then claim its always been there. Nobody can prove otherwise ^
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Raxxla could indeed be in the game like Frontier says, but it might be something terribly underwhelming too. Like an ELW out in the deep of space that has city lights on it’s dark side of the planet. It might have even been discovered already, but if the pilot didn’t bother to look at the dark side they would have completely missed that it was anything other than a normal ELW like the billions of other ELW’s out there.

Without a clear definition of what we are actually looking for, finding the Raxxla Frontier says they have implemented becomes extremely unlikely, especially in a galaxy of billions of star systems. Players could search hundreds of millions of star systems and still never come anywhere close to finding that one special system.

Good hunting? :S
 

JesusRocks1988

JesusRocks1988
It's a bit of a conundrum really. FD are probably right to give us no clues - after all, so many things in the game have been found within hours or days, simply through FD accidentally putting a clue out there in a single frame of a trailer, or through an errant word or two. On the other hand, we Rifters had Drew actually giving us clues on a regular basis and it took us years to find the Zurara.

Then again, Drew's Clues were proper cryptic mind bending puzzles, FD's clues are not so sophisticated.
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
Mengy said:
Raxxla could indeed be in the game like Frontier says, but it might be something terribly underwhelming too. Like an ELW out in the deep of space that has city lights on it’s dark side of the planet. It might have even been discovered already, but if the pilot didn’t bother to look at the dark side they would have completely missed that it was anything other than a normal ELW like the billions of other ELW’s out there.

Without a clear definition of what we are actually looking for, finding the Raxxla Frontier says they have implemented becomes extremely unlikely, especially in a galaxy of billions of star systems. Players could search hundreds of millions of star systems and still never come anywhere close to finding that one special system.

Good hunting? :S
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M8, frontier could tell everyone that Santa Claus and the tooth fairy eloped into a region of space and can be found sipping eggnog in a log cabin somewhere in the milky way...and nobody could prove or disprove it. It might even genuinely be there, but would take players decades to find them, if ever.

Ive found binary elw, one of which was ringed...black holes with dual orbiting neutrons, hell I even found tiny little nebula which have never been tagged...until I found them that is. There is nothing new out there and even if there was, apart from blind luck and a pair of eyeballs, how exactly do we find any of them?

Im all burnt out until Q4 arrives...I just dont have the motivation I used to have when it comes to exploration because Ive seen everything there is to see and put my name on already very rare finds. Gonna need more than a few cryptic clues and CIA level codes that need a super computer to figure out to get me motivated again.

07 btw ^
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Thinking about it, they said it was in game, but they never said it was anything good or actually worth finding, they never said it was particularly well hidden, and they never said it would be obvious when you'd found it.

So...
Raxxla

Ra X(XL) a

"Ra" is a system name.
"X" is the roman numeral 10
"XL" clearly means that object 10 is very large
"A" would then conventionally be its first moon.

And ...
- the Ra system exists (and has done since the original Elite),
- Ra 10 is its largest gas giant (bigger than Jupiter), and it has some moons.

So, there we go. Ra 10 A is "Raxxla". It was there all along.
 
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