Billionaire's Treasure Hunt Discussion
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Hahaha, good thing i was too late, i was thinking someting in the lines of the king, the king star, Regulus in leo constellation. entrusted to a queen, aisling duval... dont know if she has a spring in her steps in some way though, maybe shes a happy gal, and the final resting place didnt quite fit in there maybe
Damn, this was over before i noticed it, could log in, fly back 60,000LY, and start participating! Damn you Frontier!
+1 from me
I discarded the CG after I saw it was complete without realizing the local news portion of the clues remains active even after someone has finished it?
Shame, never got to test out my idea for the 3rd clue!
Shame, never got to test out my idea for the 3rd clue!
Hahaha, good thing i was too late, i was thinking someting in the lines of the king, the king star, Regulus in leo constellation. entrusted to a queen, aisling duval... dont know if she has a spring in her steps in some way though, maybe shes a happy gal, and the final resting place didnt quite fit in there maybe
I was thinking the constellation King Cepheus and his Queen Cassiopeia, and the spring would have been the star Zeta Cassiopeia since the Greek letter Zeta looks a bit like a spring. That would have been about 650 ly from my current location. I would have expected to find something floating in a WSS. Man, was I way off!
It was the third clue I got stuck on, the second was related to a game I'm backing called Bards Tale.
Oh, sorry, no it wasn't, but that was another clue.
I was looking at the whole thing as Cepheus and Cassiopeia as well. As the Cepheus constellation is shaped like a house or tomb. Couldn't decide on the star so I was thinking Cepheus dark sector maybe. As for the queen, Cassiopeia, the star Rukbah is in her leg, spring in her step etc. Made sense to me, my friend insisted on Avalon tho, but arthur was not burried in avalon.
I went to the Flesk system where there's a planet called Gaia Mai and a Lambada station (Queen spring in her step) and right next to it is a world called Manod which is some Welsh Mountain (Kings resting place)
Boy was I way off the mark haha
Boy was I way off the mark haha
Yes please. Only a few people in the first hours got to enjoy your work, although some do not care about the reward.
Maybe you can get inspiration from The Secret World which has enigmas at its core. A couple of suggestions:
- Either increase difficulty, or add many more steps. Having something that prevents solving it in less than a few days would be a boon for casual players. Such as a proper search, an episodic event (planet alignment, etc.), or other mechanism that prevents resolution in a matter of a few hours.
- Provide significant rewards for the first to solve it, but also substantial rewards for all those that complete it. Even if people share information, a reward of 1-10 MCr for those that complete it within a week is not that much (or a decreasing scale as time passes). It makes people log on and interested in the game.
- Alternatively, to counter information sharing, mix things up between players, have portions of the sequence to be discovered semi-randomly generated (e.g. which system to search). That way players have some work to do in any case to get the reward.
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Ah missed it. If only I'd been here when I wasn't then I could've solved it before I found out the answers to the clues I haven't seen
Riddle me this. What's infectious without contact and travels at the speed of light?
p.s. Ed's almost always got one to share
Riddle me this. What's infectious without contact and travels at the speed of light?
p.s. Ed's almost always got one to share
Ah missed it. If only I'd been here when I wasn't then I could've solved it before I found out the answers to the clues I haven't seen
Riddle me this. What's infectious without contact and travels at the speed of light?
p.s. Ed's almost always got one to share
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Yes to each of the above please.
Finally, the walkthrough of the treasure hunt and the explanation of the various stages have been published in the annual popular science periodical "Theta Region Articles on Popular Science" available here: http://elitedangerous.hu/billionaires-treasure-hunt/ . Apparently this annual is published yearly in the ancient "Earth Day", a celebration of the coexistence of natural and terraformed ecosystems and humankind.
It is an interview with the winner, CMDR Oriza and his colleague, CMDR Imrus76, both of them senior researchers at TRIS, an independent research institute. The article focuses on the format and the difficulty of the treasure hunt and provides a fairly in depth explanation of the course solving the various stages and riddles.
It is an interview with the winner, CMDR Oriza and his colleague, CMDR Imrus76, both of them senior researchers at TRIS, an independent research institute. The article focuses on the format and the difficulty of the treasure hunt and provides a fairly in depth explanation of the course solving the various stages and riddles.
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