[ANNOUNCEMENT] Win an Nvidia Geforce Titan Black in our in-game Scavenger Hunt
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i tried a couple of theories (and then gave up because i realized there are hundreds of possibilities that could be derived from the galnet news text), but the one that got my heart really pumping was when it occured to me that the system where the nostromo from ‘alien’ landed is actually real and hence also in elite. in the movie it’s zeta reticuli, in the game it’s “zeta-1 reticuli”. in the movie it’s the moon acheron orbiting the planet calpamos (says the alien wiki), which doesn’t exist in the game, but there’s an outpost in elite dangerous close to one or two of the planets there (don’t remember the name/s).
so why did i get so excited? well after all the more text-based, historical-literal and mathematical theories i thought: the competiton is close to easter, it basically is an “easter egg hunt”, so what would make more sense than the devs picking a planet where really famous, really dangerous eggs came from?
so why did i get so excited? well after all the more text-based, historical-literal and mathematical theories i thought: the competiton is close to easter, it basically is an “easter egg hunt”, so what would make more sense than the devs picking a planet where really famous, really dangerous eggs came from?
i know. but they have to get the eggs from somewhere
If you read the decription on that rare item it says they're a movie prop
Tenuous indeed....sticking with my crap theory anyway, Anthony city is a dud
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And i'm in open in an unarmed ship and STILL not deed!
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And i'm in open in an unarmed ship and STILL not deed!
Brilliant!
Question: Are you one of the Gamers With Jobs podcast hosts? You sure sound like one!
Yes I am still hunting
Ah, no... Not one of them. I mean I'm a gamer and I have a job... But no... I don't have a podcast ☺
scratch hip 8830 off the list and cassini named after the probe that visited titan saturns moon.
Vakex
Banned
I've had so many genius theories regarding this. I've no joke visited HUNDREDS of places at this point just based on what I could gather based on thinking it was a riddle. The fact that the day they "accidentally" leaked this contest early also happened to be the exact day Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, so I went to every single Huygens named ANYTHING in the galaxy, and zilch. And that was just the simplest Huygens solution I could think of. I'd post the other thousand clever theories I've come up with that went right out the window, but it would take me longer to write them all down that I've spent looking for them...
I'm going to be furious after all this clever theorycrafting on believing this contest to be a riddle of some sort turns out to be a system that was chosen by RNG. Like, possibly defecting to an unmentionable future space sim game furious...
I'm going to be furious after all this clever theorycrafting on believing this contest to be a riddle of some sort turns out to be a system that was chosen by RNG. Like, possibly defecting to an unmentionable future space sim game furious...
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It's highly unlikely that Ededleen was chosen by RNG, so I very much doubt that the pick-up system was either.
Vakex
Banned
That is the one thing I've yet to come to any conclusion with. I've searched dozens of stations relating to Kurt Godel. Ededleen itself I can find absolutely nothing. What it means, where the name came from, what the relation has to this contest. Nothing. So do you have a theory on why it was chosen besides Kurt Godel to back up you thinking it ISN'T RNG? Personally I thought they just chose that particular station because it's a very central location between where most players usually are.
If nothing else, this competition is getting a huge chunk of the galaxy explored! On a last-ditch wild stab I, and a couple of mates, made the 2 hour, 1800ly journey to Kepler-110, where we found 3...
...planets... plus some other stuff, but no Titans
But hey, on the up side, we earned another mill each towards our exploration profits!
...planets... plus some other stuff, but no Titans
But hey, on the up side, we earned another mill each towards our exploration profits!
Eh only inhabited space, which I think was mostly, well, mostly explored fully.If nothing else, this competition is getting a huge chunk of the galaxy explored! On a last-ditch wild stab I, and a couple of mates, made the 2 hour, 1800ly journey to Kepler-110, where we found 3...
...planets... plus some other stuff, but no Titans
But hey, on the up side, we earned another mill each towards our exploration profits!
I think it is a scavenger hunt with a touch of a shell game that is what my gut intuition is telling me Just hope my intuition give me a clue but I don't wait until I hear from it am already on it.
I was thinking about this angle and the competition moves quickly thing nvidea gpus were used to do some testing with huygens and a few articles were posted about it one called called huygens on speed.