Curious statement on the Frameshift Live today…
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Ehh, they've been saying that for years. We don't know what we don't know. More clues maybe?
If everyone is missing it, then maybe it’s very very hard to find. I say this because, over the course of this game, commanders have found many many things that I would never have found in a million years. Some of which required flying upside down and literally scanning planets (by eye) by the hundreds, which I would never have the patience or motivation to do.
So what I’m saying is, given all the things that have been discovered to date using painstakingly long and methodical searches, if there’s something out there right in front of us, maybe it’s easy for FD to say we are missing it because they didn’t have to conduct detailed searches as I described above.
I have to say I find such a statement somewhat insulting.
So what I’m saying is, given all the things that have been discovered to date using painstakingly long and methodical searches, if there’s something out there right in front of us, maybe it’s easy for FD to say we are missing it because they didn’t have to conduct detailed searches as I described above.
I have to say I find such a statement somewhat insulting.
Yeah, there's like.. 400 billion stars in this game. If they plonked something down that's "really obvious" for us to stumble across then it could still take years before someone saw it.
Anybody try Discovery Scanner Honking at a Maelstrom?
Or shoving an Unclassified Relic into an SLF Guardian site?
Brb going to think of more dumb obvious ideas.
Edit: More dumb ideas:
- Bring an Unclassified Relic to a Guardian Beacon and shove the Relic into the Beacon... somehow.
- Continue throwing Unclassified Relics at Ram Tah in the hopes that he actually does something useful in the current arc.
- Do Exobiology in the Maelstrom systems in the hopes that some jpg of a bacteria colony yields a breakthrough in... I don't really know where my brain was going on this one.
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So anyone remember that "rumors" thing in the Codex? Anyone? 
Also, that "triangle" looks a lot like a diamond. C'mon try harder ancient astronauts.
Also, that "triangle" looks a lot like a diamond. C'mon try harder ancient astronauts.
Maybe he's just advertising Frontier's globalist aspirations.
Tinfoil hat time: my guess is on something to be found through exo-bio, on low-atmo planetary surfaces. Reasoning here is that exo-bio payouts got bumped to hilariously high amounts for that reason - they put something into the game a while ago and players just didn't find it, so they want to nudge more players into exo-bio. FDev has never before intentionally introduced a gold rush like that, and went to great lenghts to remove accidental cash-cow metas.
Probably added something new to the guardian structure out in Trapezium Sector and nobody has "found" it because the game now crashes whenever someone tries to land there...
Ok, we're definitely shoving an Unclassified Relic in that one then
Maybe. Exobiology pay is very high now but it's not the highest Cr/hr in the game by a fair margin: AX combat, massacre stacking, wing mining stacking all pay out more and have done for years, and exobiology only really pays well on first discovery which makes it harder to discover the good stuff reliably. It's an effective way for new players to get excessive money quickly as it doesn't require much up-front investment or practice, but it doesn't seem like it's into the "gold rush" territory where thousands of players drop everything else to grind out billions of credits a week either.
I agree that there might well be some exobiology thing being missed - there was a hint in Galnet that exobiology data could help the war - but if so it's hard to see how: the Galnet article (29 November) doesn't give any hints beyond "hand in samples to stations" which people will have been doing anyway ... exobiologists are generally going to be working well away from Thargoid areas ... and if someone found something unusual (and new to U14) rather than "another Tussock" they'd be announcing that discovery without needing the payout buff.
I guess in terms of possibilities: exobio scans specifically of Thargoid or Guardian stuff? Surely that's been done plenty already, though.
Might be worth doing a recheck of the space around the 8 Maelstrom origins (well, Taranis was permit-locked, maybe the other 7) to see if there's any new exobio there now? It'd seem a bit unfair if that was added in U14 rather than when people had already looked around those areas in U13, though.
I would be very surprised if the thing that we're missing turned out to be anything like "oh, none of you thought to check Syneufe AB-C d1-23" or something like that. Even when things have been found in the past by exhaustive searches of regions, there's always been some fairly obvious clue to narrow the search area down below "the galaxy" to the point where a few hundred players flying about has found it relatively quickly.
I'd guess it was more of the "I'm surprised no-one's tried combining the U-bend pipe with the toy boat to make a submarine yet" sort of thing we're missing - all the bits might be reasonably common knowledge but no-one's tried a particular combination of them that (they hope!) will seem entirely logical in hindsight.
Perhaps Frontier have krafted a certain product, stashed it on the moon and forgotten to give everyone access
This seemed to be in relation to environmental storytelling stuff and stuff like people not always realizing there arere un-occupied escape pods mixed in with the rest in signal sources and how random traffic and NPC callouts change during different invasion states not some big galaxy shattering mystery.
And judging from how people are reacting by missing the forest for the trees here it's an on-point comment.
There's some of that detailed, hand crafted stuff out there and it's easy to completely miss if you only engage with the game by obsessively trying to find an obscure hint to locate raxxla or the most optimal way to fight the thargoid invasion.
And judging from how people are reacting by missing the forest for the trees here it's an on-point comment.
There's some of that detailed, hand crafted stuff out there and it's easy to completely miss if you only engage with the game by obsessively trying to find an obscure hint to locate raxxla or the most optimal way to fight the thargoid invasion.
If you watch every episode, you'll realize that Arthur says something like this in almost every episode.
As things stand now, there's no way of knowing whether he's right. It's possible that we've seen those things a hundred times, just didn't go through the effort of posting a screenshot of it to Twitter or seen it as anything special.
They also reworked their community philosophy a bit and left a few big discords, afaik, so they wouldn't know what gets posted in some of the more active Elite communities.
Maybe there's a few little details we didn't find yet, but honestly, after 2 years of picking little details to no avail or effect on the game or its story, I don't feel like it, so godspeed to whoever hasn't given up yet.
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Did all of these things. Except throw more relics at ram tah.
What I haven't tried is giving one of them to one of those guardian space structures.
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Has anyone tried pointing the exobio scanner at a grelic? It looks crystalline (and Guardian stuff generally looks very non organic) but could relics perhaps actually become semi-organic once they've been altered by the Thargoid machine?
They also mentioned new ships, they didnt promise or state new ships were coming, but in an around about way they basically did. I didn't see a lot of people mentioning it or bringing it up, so they seemed to make a point of stating it. It was also cool to see Thomas Kewell go through some of the situations and scenarios they put in place for people to come across, that its not just about shooting Thargoids in a specific area, that was new to me and a great bit of info.