Christmas Treasure Hunt.

aardappelianen

aardappelianen
goodstuff, was really happy to get some festive launchers and the skins are nice too.
it's ok if the clues were not obvious to all im sure the community was supposed to come together and solve this.
i could figure out a couple easily because half of the names we're there but i didn't even bother, i was more than happy to steal kzaks answers :p
 

Kayvan

Kayvan
mearmortal said:
If you deliver more than 10 prezies there is an additional message you may have overlooked, thinking its the one from #6.
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Nah it has nothing to do with "more than 10", I solved 6th puzzle with the 8th unit and got the message for it, then sold my remaining 4 gifts I had in the hold (I took 12) and there was nothing extra.
 

Arioch

Arioch
Didn’t like #3 (if you have to brute force the solution, it’s not much of a puzzle imo) or #5 (I blame the wording of the letter - if it’d said something like “a local planet” instead of “our local planet” I wouldn’t have been chuntering about the classical composer Lawrence’s Hole 😁👍).
 

varonica

varonica
M4RTH4 said:
Number 5 don't make no sense, either.

There are 3 planets that share the dude's name, each planet has a staiton orbiting them. It ain't none of them.
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Yeah it's the one called Strauss in Formalhaut but there's a bug and it doesn't give you your confirmation message, however when you complete the other 5 it does complete all the missions with the global reward and thank you message, it's just an annoying bug.

Edit: curious I got the final message and 20m reward so I tried the other station in Fomalhaut as suggested and yes got another reward, so even though it appeared I had finished, I hadn't!
 
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Kayvan

Kayvan
I confirm, there is no bug. If you didn't get the message you got the wrong station.
Note that after 5 deliveries you get a pretty substantial reward, and another big reward after the 6th!
 

Zador

Z
Kayvan said:
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.
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The problem I had with this one is that "the starport is named after... he had very long ears...etc.". The actor does not have those attributes, the character does. And there's nothing with the character's name. I guess I'm thinking too logically ;p
 
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Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Arioch said:
I’ll retract my reason for disliking that puzzle and replace it with my dislike of the child not being taught capitalisation correctly!
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I did think the hint was related to the music in the text. But me being me - aka an idiot - I failed to look more than three lines down the galaxy map search list when I entered the planet name (even though it's actually a moon in the target system)) where I would have probably been led to the solution of it.

Also... while I am aware these are meant to be riddles for the event, some, if not all, of these messages, really do not feel like something even a kid would write.
 

oblivionmanman 2476

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funny thing a bout puzzles,what one thnks is good clue doesnt mean a thing , to others IE daddy jokes didnt mean a thing to me,others hadnt seen star trek or even knew who spock was let alone his actor, the others needed bit of thought for some and not for others,but overall i thought it went well and made a pleasant change of play .
 

Happy Daze

Happy Daze
I love the instructions: Go here, get the letters.

But first... get the presents!

My favorite is Bomb Disposal:
Remove the pin from the bomb.

But first, defuse it.

Happy Holidays Commanders, enjoy your paintjobs! I'm on my way out to be confused by the messages ;)

Edit: Aaaaand stumped by the first one. There's no New Turkey System in the Galaxy Map or EDMC (I even double-checked the spelling), altho the Galaxy Map says there is a New Turkey in LHS 1387... I guess I need to drink more Eggnog! Off to LHS 1387!
 
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Kayvan

Kayvan
Got a question: where do I find this "Festive Jumper Elite"? I thought it was a piece of suit cosmetics, but I can't find it in the list.
 

Happy Daze

Happy Daze
Kayvan said:
Got a question: where do I find this "Festive Jumper Elite"? I thought it was a piece of suit cosmetics, but I can't find it in the list.
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I came here to ask the exact same question. what is it and where do I find it? I checked all the suit / head / pieces and nothing.
I like how one of my presents is the same as last year. Lazy programmers! I already have the festive gift decoration.

On my other commander (pictured left with the snowball head) can't change sweaters... get an error. Only changing the sweater mind.
 
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