The Quest To Find Raxxla

Yuki Estelle

Yuki Estelle
Here are the Green Glow videos:
Sol, Green Glow in Sector 29 - 7:36

Weak Green Glow in Sector 9 - 9:26

Some Observations:
  • Entering the asteroid belt during SC causes a known bug to occur in the Orrery System Map, which will display your position incorrectly.
  • New signals will often be detected but won't show up on radar.
  • The green glow possesses these characteristics:
    • Source seems to come from above, behind or below ship, near asteroid belt.
    • Varies in strength, though causes are undetermined.
    • If it appears, it is always just after the Orrery System Map is closed. (@Jorki Rasalas clarified this has happened to them before using the Orrery System Map)
    • Seems to originate from a distant location in most instances, but fades quickly. One or two videos suggest it could be close to player's crafts.
    • Honking at it does not seem to have an effect.

Suggestions
Set up recording software before attempting tests (I recommend Shadowplay if you use NVIDIA if you can get it to work, ReLive if you use AMD). If possible, perform tests in a Wing with one or more other players. All tests are meant to be performing during or just after a Green Glow sighting.
  • Use external ship camera to quickly do a 360° flip around your craft, noting anything that might be the source.
  • Quickly flip ship around to see if the light reacts to various angles.
  • Test to see if other members of your Wing can see the green glow after or at the same time you do.
  • Have other Wing members honk at the green glow in sequence.
  • After encountering glow, remain in the same position long enough for the glow to do a full orbit.
  • Prove that the glow can appear before entering and then exiting Orrery System Map.
  • Identify positions of new signal sources during green glow, especially instances that are very close.
  • Enter FSS during green glow and look for anything scannable (credit to @Filthymick420)
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
simulacrae said:
Well I can finally say im a member of the green glow club. Nothing more to add but I caught a bit on video if it helps.. possibly related to a "new contact" appearing close ? or not...
Edit ... well ya the light from the sun seems to move independent of the green glow ... so ya not related.

Source: https://youtu.be/GJX3oSjZqmk
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Welcome to the club!
Your vid is interesting -you were in sector 21 I think & I would say below the light source and it might be in front of you. Can’t read the sol distance but you were near the middle of the belt width so I’d guess around 1380 ls. Can’t see from your vid your orientation -where were the Magellanic Clouds and where was the orbit line of Jupiter?
 

[PS4] Filthymick420

[PS4] Filthymick420
Sparklepaws said:
Here are the Green Glow videos:
Sol, Green Glow in Sector 29 - 7:36

Weak Green Glow in Sector 9 - 9:26

Some Observations:
  • Entering the asteroid belt during SC causes a known bug to occur in the Orrery System Map, which will display your position incorrectly.
  • New signals will often be detected but won't show up on radar.
  • The green glow possesses these characteristics:
    • Source seems to come from above, behind or below ship, near asteroid belt.
    • Varies in strength, though causes are undetermined.
    • If it appears, it is always just after the Orrery System Map is closed.
    • Seems to originate from a distant location in most instances, but fades quickly. One or two videos suggest it could be close to player's crafts.
    • Honking at it does not seem to have an effect.

Suggestions
Set up recording software before attempting tests (I recommend Shadowplay if you use NVIDIA if you can get it to work, ReLive if you use AMD). If possible, perform tests in a Wing with one or more other players. All tests are meant to be performing during or just after a Green Glow sighting.
  • Use external ship camera to quickly do a 360° flip around your craft, noting anything that might be the source.
  • Quickly flip ship around to see if the light reacts to various angles.
  • Test to see if other members of your Wing can see the green glow after or at the same time you do.
  • Have other Wing members honk at the green glow in sequence.
  • After encountering glow, remain in the same position long enough for the glow to do a full orbit.
  • Prove that the glow can appear before entering and then exiting Orrery System Map.
  • Identify positions of new signal sources during green glow, especially instances that are very close.
  • Enter FSS during green glow and look for anything scannable (credit to @Filthymick420)
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Can I get a link for these? The forum hates my phone 😔
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
RaNaketh said:
In the spirit of investigating TDW - I've been receiving a few random spawn missions from TDW as I've been hanging out in SD just exploring and digging here and there and was offered the latest from a Hidden Contact of TDW via a Mission Beacon.

As soon as I read the message (couldn't accept as the tick was greyed out? Had enough cargo space, and the pads are L at Neumann Camp), it disappeared from my inbox in-game? I captured screen shots of the invite, as I've been burned like this before without proof!

But because I couldn't accept it, I don't appear to have any mission locked in like I normally do, is this expected for this type of USS? Anyone else seen this before?

I plan on getting the fish and dropping them off later anyway to see if anything crops up... but thought I'd poll collective wisdom as well to see if this is just RNG/Bugs.

Thought this was odd, so read the log!

$USS_Type_TradingBeacon - Hidden Contact was Charlotte Reynolds.

"event":"USSDrop", "USSType":"$USS_Type_TradingBeacon;", "USSType_Localised":"Trading beacon", "USSThreat"
"Faction":"The Dark Wheel"
"event":"ReceiveText", "From":"$npc_name_decorate:#name=GALACTIC COMESTIBLES;", "From_Localised":"GALACTIC COMESTIBLES", "Message":"$Mission_Collect_MessengerChat1:#CommodityName=$Fish_Name;:#CommodityQuantity=63:#destinationStationName=Neumann Camp:#destinationStationSystemName=Shinrarta Dezhra:#reward=444648.000000:#startStationSystemName=Shinrarta Dezhra:#altDestinationStationName=Neumann Camp:#altDestinationStationSystemName=Shinrarta Dezhra:#CommodityValue=40320.000000:#missionGiverFactionContact=Charlotte Reynolds:#missionGiverFactionContactTitle=$GovernmentRankContactDemocracy_6_Female;:#commanderName=RaNaketh;", "Message_Localised":"Goods required! Guaranteed to pay more than the going rate! It's an opportunity you'd be foolish to ignore!"

<snipped>

Seems funny you'd need to be Elite to deliver fish. :cool:

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Found reference to Trading Beacon here - Rare apparently, and no mission? So we'll see...
Guide / Tutorial Unidentified Signal Sources: A Complete Guide | Frontier Forums

Fly Dangerously,
/ Ra.
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I think the Elite requirement is a reflection of the quality of NPC assassins the mission incurs that will be trying to prevent your delivery. Is your pilot Elite? If not that would explain why it was greyed out.
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
clixer said:
One of our guys tried it with almost one of every artefact you can think of on board, no difference in experience.
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Thanks to him for trying this. As my original post mentioned I had considered the possible need for an Ancient Relic or Guardian Key from their wiki descriptions, but IFF it is Raxxla then I can’t see them being a requirement for access.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Sparklepaws said:
Here are the Green Glow videos:
Sol, Green Glow in Sector 29 - 7:36

Weak Green Glow in Sector 9 - 9:26

Some Observations:
  • Entering the asteroid belt during SC causes a known bug to occur in the Orrery System Map, which will display your position incorrectly.
  • New signals will often be detected but won't show up on radar.
  • The green glow possesses these characteristics:
    • Source seems to come from above, behind or below ship, near asteroid belt.
    • Varies in strength, though causes are undetermined.
    • If it appears, it is always just after the Orrery System Map is closed.
    • Seems to originate from a distant location in most instances, but fades quickly. One or two videos suggest it could be close to player's crafts.
    • Honking at it does not seem to have an effect.

Suggestions
Set up recording software before attempting tests (I recommend Shadowplay if you use NVIDIA if you can get it to work, ReLive if you use AMD). If possible, perform tests in a Wing with one or more other players. All tests are meant to be performing during or just after a Green Glow sighting.
  • Use external ship camera to quickly do a 360° flip around your craft, noting anything that might be the source.
  • Quickly flip ship around to see if the light reacts to various angles.
  • Test to see if other members of your Wing can see the green glow after or at the same time you do.
  • Have other Wing members honk at the green glow in sequence.
  • After encountering glow, remain in the same position long enough for the glow to do a full orbit.
  • Prove that the glow can appear before entering and then exiting Orrery System Map.
  • Identify positions of new signal sources during green glow, especially instances that are very close.
  • Enter FSS during green glow and look for anything scannable (credit to @Filthymick420)
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“If it appears, it is always just after the Orrery System Map is closed.” - I’m not convinced by this. It is true that in my videos the appearance closely follows use of the orrery view, but that’s because I’m continually using the orrery view to check my ship position, especially wrt the height/thickness, of the belt since there is no other way to do that. Last Sunday (no video recording) I saw the glow while pootling around in sector 16 but had not used the orrery view.
 

Stonn Mrogg

Stonn Mrogg
Hmm not seeing those green glow videos either.

Not getting any green glows in the belt ~1380ls from Sol.

Where are you seeing this sector 16 label? Not sure what the criteria are for getting this to happen. Just so many posts to sift through, but it doesn't matter...

I realized I did, am doing, and will do what happened when the Thargoid interdictions happened. I raced out to the scene, banged my head on the wall hoping for something green, then grabbed some popcorn and watched youtube instead of playing the game.

Sometimes I wish I wouldn't read the forums so I wouldn't know what I'm missing. FOMO is raging lol

Git that green glow. The popcorn is great btw.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
It strikes me that I and Macros have seen this glow in sector 16, Simulacrae saw it when he was in sector 21, & from what has been said others seem to have seen it in other sectors. So either this is “a journey everyone has to travel for themselves” & it spawns in different places for different pilots, or we are seeing one thing but from different directions. To be able to cross-triangulate that position we need to know the orientation of each ship, so a really useful thing to do when you see it (hopefully have video recording on!) is to select minimum throttle & pitch down through 360 degrees so we can see the orientation of the ship wrt Magellanic Clouds, and also go into the orrery view with Sol selected then zoom in and rotate the view through pitch so we can see the relationship of the ship’s positional dot to the thickness of the asteroid belt. In the orrery view it is shown as a thin flat segmented disc, but in reality it does have some thickness. You can prove this yourself by finding one of the “asteroid clusters” with no body selected, then fly down towards the Magellanic and note when it disappears, then reverse direction and repeat the test.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Stonn Mrogg said:
Hmm not seeing those green glow videos either.

Not getting any green glows in the belt ~1380ls from Sol.

Where are you seeing this sector 16 label? Not sure what the criteria are for getting this to happen. Just so many posts to sift through, but it doesn't matter...

I realized I did, am doing, and will do what happened when the Thargoid interdictions happened. I raced out to the scene, banged my head on the wall hoping for something green, then grabbed some popcorn and watched youtube instead of playing the game.

Sometimes I wish I wouldn't read the forums so I wouldn't know what I'm missing. FOMO is raging lol

Git that green glow. The popcorn is great btw.
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Watch my videos (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-8911441) for the position. I arbitrarily started counting sectors clockwise from the top. I’ll mark up a photo and link it here so others can see my counting scheme. The glow is very rare, which makes me think there is something RNG about its apparition and it isn’t a lighting/graphics bug. Several reports have come in suggesting that it is being seen in different sectors. So maybe keep flying around the whole belt. I first saw it ~1327 ls from Sol (in the middle of the belt) and have only seen it at the “South” of the belt in sector 16/15 (depending on how you count them). But it would be good to have people flying around the belt and checking out all possibilities.

One other thing to note is how fast you’re flying when you see it. I seem to remember someone ages ago saying you stand maximum chance of observing something instancing if you fly with the throttle marker at the first black bar. So I’ve been flying at that or minimum throttle to try & get maximum time to explore it, and maybe turn/use external camera to see it’s source (have failed there so far!)

Edit: these green glows were proven to be a graphics bug related to the colour pallette slowly decaying afterswitching from Orrery view to normal in-cockpit or camera view!
 
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Stonn Mrogg

Stonn Mrogg
Mmm... Yeah flying around the belt staring at my A-pillar got boring quick.

I'll send endless likes when you guys figure it out! Thank god some people have the time and tenacity for these sorts of puzzles. Obviously.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Oh yes, this hunt is extremely boring!!!!!
I flew into Sol on 20th December and started to check out the “asteroid clusters” reported by Koben. Saw my first glow during that investigation a few days later. Finally managed to capture some video of the glow on 31st December. In total about 14 sightings and 4 videos in over a month!!! Best day was two glows seen (31 December).
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Jorki Rasalas said:
It strikes me that I and Macros have seen this glow in sector 16, Simulacrae saw it when he was in sector 21, & from what has been said others seem to have seen it in other sectors. So either this is “a journey everyone has to travel for themselves” & it spawns in different places for different pilots, or we are seeing one thing but from different directions. To be able to cross-triangulate that position we need to know the orientation of each ship, so a really useful thing to do when you see it (hopefully have video recording on!) is to select minimum throttle & pitch down through 360 degrees so we can see the orientation of the ship wrt Magellanic Clouds, and also go into the orrery view with Sol selected then zoom in and rotate the view through pitch so we can see the relationship of the ship’s positional dot to the thickness of the asteroid belt. In the orrery view it is shown as a thin flat segmented disc, but in reality it does have some thickness. You can prove this yourself by finding one of the “asteroid clusters” with no body selected, then fly down towards the Magellanic and note when it disappears, then reverse direction and repeat the test.
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That's why I was wondering about different locations in the belt.

If this is kind of a map and the three arcs are the belt, there could be three 'open lanes' for the green light?
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Just some speculation. The 'map' could represent something completely different. 🤷‍♂️
 
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