[ANNOUNCEMENT] Win an Nvidia Geforce Titan Black in our in-game Scavenger Hunt

ianw

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It's certainly taken attention away from some of threadnaughts for a short while.

I was expecting more of a bunfight at Godel though - went yesterday and earlier today - all very serene.
 

ianw

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TBH I think trying to pirate one would be pointless - really can't see anyone giving one up voluntarily rather than just self-destructing and going back for another try...
 

{SAS}Stalker

{SAS}Stalker
I no longer care, its ace just exposing possible leads about it and reminds of the 7 flat beds from GTA3 years ago on the PS2 and the volume of posts on GTAWarehouse about what they did (which was actually nothing)
 

fantodant

fantodant
ColaZero said:
For me this contest is a little bit like: "apes, on one palm in the jungle you will find a banana"

My opinion about Frontier is that they are smart and intelligent people and I really like the choice of the product, that's why the contest should be more interesting and inspiring.

Rgds.
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I agree that this should have been a bit more interesting - more clues, five cards at different stations, etc. But inspiring? How exactly do you make trying to find a graphics card inspiring? Play "Fanfare for the Common Man" in the background and intersperse the announcement with Gandhi quotes?

I really do like the theory of this contest, and I suspect that the final "answer" is going to make a lot of us smack ourselves in the foreheads. But yeah, just one more little clue would have made it all a lot more entertaining.
 

ianw

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Well it certainly worked publicity wise for FD - Googled "Elite Dangerous" on Saturday and the top result was about the Titan comp.

I do think they could have milked it a lot more though and done better by the playerbase.

If for example it had been announced on Friday to start at a later date they'd still have got the initial impact - plus a lot more in the build up.
 

Forrix Ironclaw

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Gargoyle said:
However, if I was going to tackle this competition with a bit of reasoning and logic instead of just the possibility of a chance encounter with the correct outlet, I would definitely be starting by cross referencing things related to Christiaan Huygens - The discoverer of Titan and a "pioneer of games of chance"... thats gotta be a good starting point!
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Nothing in Huygens city. :(

fantodant said:
I agree that this should have been a bit more interesting - more clues, five cards at different stations, etc. But inspiring? How exactly do you make trying to find a graphics card inspiring? Play "Fanfare for the Common Man" in the background and intersperse the announcement with Gandhi quotes?
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You an Enter Shikari fan? :p
 
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Sgt.Glory

Sgt.Glory
Well, back at it. Working on an interesting theory myself, sadly (or perhaps thrillingly) there are several
stations with the name I'm thinking of. I'll report back if it's a dud at least to save others the hassle ; )
 

ColaZero

ColaZero
gia251 said:
See if you can spot all the starports ive been to in this timelapse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Rr3sHodPI
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yeah, it seems this contest is "the horror". thanks for the illustration.

And ... did a monkey found the banana on the palm in the jungle?

My opinion about Frontier is that they are smart and intelligent people and I really like the choice of the product, that's why the contest should be more interesting and inspiring.
Do it better next time Frontier.

Rgds.
CMDR ColaZero
 

CMDR Charybdis

CMDR Charybdis
Well I tried some lateral thinking as well and tried to act on it:

Nico Godel is an nVidia CUDA specialist (LinkedIn) who has probably helped Frontier fix some issues in the game. The end point is Godel ring (as we all know :) )

Nicobarese is the only system that responds to the search for "Nico".

Nicobarese has a Kepler Platform in it.

No dice.

And no titan black either in any of the stations in the system (well named for mathematicians though).
 
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Dash

Dash
Hilarious video - and entirely spot on.

I've given up on being clever, I'm just flying around randomly and landing at stations. Think I've done about 50, only another 19,950 systems to go.
 

Evang

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Mobius said:
have to say that this is a real pig of a competition, you have players doing the hard work of getting a titan back to the station, but when you have all these All group players waiting to steal it, then it just shows how awful and low some of the all group crowd can be. I mean promoting players to steal from another player for their hard work is a little low, ill be waiting to see that post that says someone stole £900 worth of real world goodies of me.
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personally the competition should have been done as missions, find a mission to transport a titan card to a popular location, this would have then removed the bottleneck and given players a fighting chance of actually winning a titan card.
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suppose someone from the Mobius group finds one. make a call to other Mobius cmbrs. they go first to station and start a battle to thin pirate ranks. when all clear. the carrier just waltz in. throws private party afterwards to Mobius friends
 
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