RAXXLA: Official statement from FD ?
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And the waters closed over hi and he was never heard from again
Ha, well, wouldn't be a mystery if it didn't, now, would it?
My bet is that it's actually somewhere closer to the bubble, prolly around the Witch Head nebula, but it's permit-locked because oops.
That, or Raxxla is actually Founder's World in Shinra. It's been under our collective nose this whole time!
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This interstellar initiative is pretty great. Glad we're all working together to figure this out.
Since Raxxla was meant to be in game from before Horizons, the chance of it being some sort of POI on a planet is probably slim.
Its more likely either to be an object in space or a planet/moon.
I'm going to go with some sort of USS you find in space if you fly far enough out in the right system.
Its more likely either to be an object in space or a planet/moon.
I'm going to go with some sort of USS you find in space if you fly far enough out in the right system.
The Legend dates back 1000 years. So how would those people found USS at a random location in space, with that tech, and how would they addapt to use it? If it was some sort of anomally in space, it could have also dispersed over time.
So It must have been on a planet which they landed on, in a form of relic site, but easy enough to decipher and use it.
I am thinking we will need Space Legs to uncover Raxxla. Because it's a Stargate, with origines somewhere in Guardian Space. Probably surviving Guardians left through it to save them selves. Or i simply watched too much Stargate
.But i think it might have something to do with Guardians, as the only advanced civilization in this galaxy capable of doing something like that.
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I only mapped the two moons G & H (I landed on H, G was simply also in range), so others can have the money for the WW. I was surprised to get what I did tbh.
I went and had a look at Kwatis and that had me thinking something similar.
I noticed that, in Kwatis, you keep seeing TL2 "Distress Call" USSs which always turn out to be something like a Wanted FDS and a wing of Eagles - and, incidentally, no apparent target for them.
No biggie.
That got me thinking, though.
We're told that you have to be
All it'd take to successfully obfuscate any discovery of Raxxla would be to put it behind 2 or 3 "validation gates" and you'd massively reduce the likelihood of somebody just stumbling across it.
If a player has to be Elite and then has to become allied with some faction and then has to complete some action (possibly a trivial one, easily ignored) before, perhaps, a ship jumps in and sends you a message, inviting you to the Raxxla cabal, then it's hugely unlikely anybody's going to comply with ALL the required steps.
We end up with a situation where all the Elites in the game spend all their time doing random stuff just in case that's what triggers access to Raxxla.
Also, while I'm at it, what if FDev have programmed something into the game where everybody starts off with the chance of finding Raxxla but then, if you do anything dodgy, your access is permanently revoked?
I went and had a look at Kwatis and that had me thinking something similar.
I noticed that, in Kwatis, you keep seeing TL2 "Distress Call" USSs which always turn out to be something like a Wanted FDS and a wing of Eagles - and, incidentally, no apparent target for them.
No biggie.
That got me thinking, though.
We're told that you have to beElite"The best of the best" to gain access to Raxxla and, IIRC, there's also some waffle about there being a test of courage before you're granted access to Raxxla.
All it'd take to successfully obfuscate any discovery of Raxxla would be to put it behind 2 or 3 "validation gates" and you'd massively reduce the likelihood of somebody just stumbling across it.
If a player has to be Elite and then has to become allied with some faction and then has to complete some action (possibly a trivial one, easily ignored) before, perhaps, a ship jumps in and sends you a message, inviting you to the Raxxla cabal, then it's hugely unlikely anybody's going to comply with ALL the required steps.
We end up with a situation where all the Elites in the game spend all their time doing random stuff just in case that's what triggers access to Raxxla.
Also, while I'm at it, what if FDev have programmed something into the game where everybody starts off with the chance of finding Raxxla but then, if you do anything dodgy, your access is permanently revoked?
Heh, that's one hell of a theory.
I'm thinking simpler though. If it was in at 1.0, it was probably not something particularly complicated.
That's an interesting point, in itself, which might be useful to examine.
We definitely didn't have planets in 1.0, which means that we're not going to find Raxxla on a planet's surface - and probably should have alerted people to last night's silliness.
What else, though?
Were there, for example, assassination missions where a "contact" showed-up to redirect you to al alternate target location?
Were there USSs prior to Engineers?
If there were, it's possible those mechanics could be part of discovering Raxxla.
There were definitely missions so it is possible that an apparently mundane mission might, under the right circumstances, provide some progress.
I don't really have any idea what might be involved in "finding Raxxla" but I'm just saying that "gating" the content, in some way, would be a good way to ensure that somebody doesn't just stumble across it.
Seems like one of Michael Brookes' trademarks was setting things up so that one thing leads players to something else (often via extremely opaque activities) so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some of that going on here.
Yes, USSs have been part of the game since 1.0.
Mission "wrinkles" have been introduced to the game after 1.0.
The system in which Raxxla is is quite obviously in the game since 1.0. Therefore Raxxla is in the game since 1.0 - the real question is how obvious is it/was it to find it.
Example: random system XYZ is Raxxla - without anything in that system to identify it as Raxxla players have no way to really find it, but it is in the game
(Raxxla is the journey, not the destination {the biggest myth in ED should never be found})
P.S.: "Raxxla is in the game" doesn't have to mean that there is a location named Raxxla in the game, the lore, the mythos Raxxla is in the game
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It has been there since 1.0. It’s on the waterworld. You just need atmospheric landing, take a sub to an underwater cave and then swim through a network of passages. All this has been developed already FDev just won’t release it because it will end the storyline
Yes, USSs have been part of the game since 1.0.
Mission "wrinkles" have been introduced to the game after 1.0.
The system in which Raxxla is is quite obviously in the game since 1.0. Therefore Raxxla is in the game since 1.0 - the real question is how obvious is it/was it to find it.
Example: random system XYZ is Raxxla - without anything in that system to identify it as Raxxla players have no way to really find it, but it is in the game
(Raxxla is the journey, not the destination {the biggest myth in ED should never be found})
P.S.: "Raxxla is in the game" doesn't have to mean that there is a location named Raxxla in the game, the lore, the mythos Raxxla is in the game
Reading the other topic about it, players in 2016 were saying that Raxxla is moving through something called witch-space. So it's moving around the galaxy, maybe each update week? Probably why no one can find it ... and never will. Until they give a hint where to look for at specific time date.
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