If we talk about those hairless cats... ewww... I'd close a couple of eyes on the extermination of those abnormalities!
96 hours to locate a base...? SHENANIGANS!!!!
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If we talk about those hairless cats... ewww... I'd close a couple of eyes on the extermination of those abnormalities!
It is kind of strange that these super-explorers claim to be able to find stuff by looking at the sky and yet haven't managed to do that, here, but have managed to find a completely different thing instead.
It's kind of like saying you were able to find the location of the only petrol-station in rural Kentucky by looking at a map of Spain.
OP: Yes, its like FD are saying, Mission successful - somebody found it!
But from our (the players) point of view, the chances of being that somebody are astronomical.
I appreciate not everybody can "rescue the princess" but while FD may love it, reading about somebody else's success in Galnet doesn't really do it for me - it needs to be more personal - for me at least.
But from our (the players) point of view, the chances of being that somebody are astronomical.
I appreciate not everybody can "rescue the princess" but while FD may love it, reading about somebody else's success in Galnet doesn't really do it for me - it needs to be more personal - for me at least.
No unfortunately the sky box cop out is just that.
You need 6 fixed points in space in order to find something in three dimensions. You also have to know the distances involved or the relative position of the origin. None of that was provided.
The only way it could be represented in ED is if you fly way outside of the system to get the clearest view with no light interference. Then they would have to give the players a 360 degree field of view in order to find those 6 points. You would also need to know how bright their points of references should be based upon distances. of which I know FDEV has said is not accurate. Since that is the case, then in that 360 degree view the person would have to select a star and get the distance to said star for each of the 6 points. Otherwise it doesnt work.
Using the stars to navigate the ocean works because the earth is a known point in space. The origin and destination is always on the same relative plane. That is not the case with astro navigation. Hence why its not a viable or believable way to find anything in space using a 2D flat video of stars. So as soon as you hear someone say that to you, then you can pretty much guarantee they are trying to deceive you.
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I vote shenanigans as well for all the reasons stated and ALSO because I think cookiejarviz has been dead silent since the discovery, in effect fanning the flames of suspicion. I'd be interested to hear from him on this, otherwise all we have from him is a load of suspicious posts leading up to the discovery of the base.
To be fair, it's not a complete cop-out.
There are times when, for example, I've seen screenies of things and noticed stuff like Nebula, the type of star or a pattern of stars in the sky and then, in the course of playing, I've noticed the same things in the sky and been able to think "Hey! I'm in the same place I saw in those screenies!"
In that case, though, I'm using other methods to get to places and then I'm just confirming my location by looking at the sky.
To actually locate something, for the first time, by that method seems incredibly tenuous to me.
It might be possible in conjunction with a process of elimination, where you dismiss systems with the wrong type of star, the wrong types of planet or the wrong population/state but it'd be a long-shot by itself.
Yes you could indeed get into a general area with an image. But that general area would 1000 sqaure light years in size and many millions if not billions of land able planets to check.
You found the planet named "Raxxla" not the system you think that Raxxla exists in?
Has your inbox been over flowing with pm's from all that want to know?
About finding things. As I recall, someone found something that was in a video that was released by Fdev a good while back. They found it by matching up the star pattern in the background and then had an Idea of where it was and then searched until it was found. I dont know who done that but they are a lot smarter than I and a lot of other people in the ways of astronomy. That was nothing short of amazing. As I recall. the next released video teaser had the star background removed. lol Someone will have to refresh my memory on what that was. Might have been the ruins or maybe it was a Thargoid crash site. Not to mention, when there is a LOT of people out looking for things, someone is bound to come across it sooner or later.
I am pretty sure the Astronomers they employ and Braben saw right through that one right away. But it made for a cool story so they rolled with it. I dont blame them, it was getting stale at that time.
I dont think anyone is saying that its likely that it was leaked. I am pretty sure most of us are suspecting EULA breaking code scraping or some other such nefarious method was employed. I dont think FDEV would leak anything on purpose.
And, of course, the whole thing with redacting parts of video's which give away "clues" just creates even more intrigue... which is handy for the purposes of generating publicity and distracting people from more questionable possibilities.
Community needs something to debate about now, along with the new year of content revealed.
I said debate, but I really wanted to say complain.
Parsing through game files or scraping the network data wouldn't be unheard of. It's happened before, even to this game, so certainly possible.
However it's being done, I had my doubts before when guys were lining up stars from cutscenes. Given how this one was found cements it for me. At least, until CJ pops in and says, "Oh! I found this code on a newsfeed at this station. And it pointed to this planet." Then what else are we supposed to think.
It wasn't a hunch. He didn't line up stars. Frankly, I don't think any of the other secrets were found that way either. Some guys have a method to finding these and like the engineer exploits, are keeping it quiet.
However it's being done, I had my doubts before when guys were lining up stars from cutscenes. Given how this one was found cements it for me. At least, until CJ pops in and says, "Oh! I found this code on a newsfeed at this station. And it pointed to this planet." Then what else are we supposed to think.
It wasn't a hunch. He didn't line up stars. Frankly, I don't think any of the other secrets were found that way either. Some guys have a method to finding these and like the engineer exploits, are keeping it quiet.
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My inner projectionist has unfortunately already loaded that reel.
And now I can't unsee Ed and Braben in some dank basement with wire cages, blood on the walls, hammers in their hands and the air full of pathetic whimpering.