Christmas Treasure Hunt.
- Thread starter Commander Tredwell
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There is a PP activity - hack ads near stations to put your Power's propaganda. It gives merits. There are a lot of holograms to hack near stations where you need to deliver presents. One needs limpets to do the hack.
The people who pay no attention to what is happening around them are really exposing themselves today 
Oh that, okay thanks. I thought it was something specific for the Christmas event.
that was fun got 5 no problem i think it was no.2 this clown didnt get the daddy joke at all.and im honest so i did use a spoiler.ho ho all.
and if im remembering right if you have spare or go and pick up a load more they become meta alloy after xmas,im sure thats what happend to mine last year,correct me if im wrong,but im pretty sure.
I am the exact opposite; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 were very easy for me, but I am looking at 6 with absolutely no idea what it is supposed to mean.
think star trek
I have never watched star trek; how does that clue point to star trek?
spock the actor anyhelp,name of the station all you need to find is the system ill wait for youre answer
There is a very specific character that resembles description from the letter completely.
Using only the original clue, though?
Unless there is a sensible search process one could have done using only that information, and at least obtained so much as hint that it has something to do with star trek without any foreknowledge, that seems to be an awful and unsatisfying clue. Big difference between something one could have found but did not, versus could never have found!
Long ears, logical, sleep-upon-touch and blue outfit had me wondering if it was supposed to be some sort of wizard character, and searching for those things just yielded various forms of blue outfit, including dresses.
Not your fault or theirs really, it's an outlier to say the least for anyone playing a sci fi game in space not to have at least a passing knowledge of Star Trek. But if you haven't then you haven't.
I guess that above all shows the danger of making assumptions.
I have watched Star Trek but frankly, number 6 left me totally clueless about what was meant, so either I don't know enough of it or just forgot. All the others I probably could have solved on my own, but I was being a bit dumb for number 2 and didn't realize it was a dad joke at all. (Would have helped if I knew "Low City" existed in game)
I suppose the designers of this puzzle did not anticipate a player of a space game to be unfamiliar with Star Trek.
I tried replicating the searches one might run with these keywords, and got one hit among a lot of chaff, so that is certainly easy to miss.
So, I'll give you a clue that you can use: the character in question often used the phrase "Captain, this is illogical".
With that you should be able to figure out the name of the character, and the actor who played it.
Oh, that hurt my anal retentive nature so much. It's the thought that counts, and so I am grateful for being thought of, but the thought that went into the composition of some of these clues I'm not so sure about... Gotta rant.
I can't go into my alt and face it again, not for 40 million, not even without needing to re-interpret the clues. If logic really were intelligence, would this be self deprecating humor? I don't get the angle. Even children anchored to Earth in our time, by the age of 9, know a planet from a moon. Did the author(s) take the time to notice that NONE of the "planets" referenced were planets? Did I just deliver a one-ton telescope and a one-ton orchestra? What? Why create a narrative framework you can't operate within? I shouldn't have followed it through to the end. My head hurts so much now. I tried too hard to read meaning into nonsense instead of just skimming from the surface. KID: "Why is our station's name only one word?" MOM: "Because [name of the station]." Really? What? Why? I would sooner have believed I were literally tracking Santa. End rant.
To be fair to those who were stumped by that one, those of us of a certain age are likelier to make the necessary actor/character association, and it helped me to have stumbled on that station during gameplay and known its significance beforehand.