Technically yes - the game gives you enough usable length for an unsent comms message that you could use it as a makeshift notepad to decode these particular ones. I would still recommend using an actual notepad, though.
(Unfortunately, any description of why I think it's so good would give away too much of the solution)
Well , i had already finished the "hunt" ( with help of course ) at the time of my post you quoted. Reading back, i probably didn't make it clear enough that i completed it and so maybe it seemed like i was still "stuck" when i posted my question. But anyways....
You can certainly do it with pen and paper and pretend you’re solving it in your cockpit.
yep that ^ is exactly what i did , until i got stuck on 3rd phase ( which is when i asked a pilot buddy ingame for hints/help , particularly since i had to logout soon lol ) .
It’s usually a shift cipher with these things so it’s a good place to start. Try some letter offsets on the first encrypted word until it spells out a word you know and then you know the offset.
While i was certainly familiar with
jarbled words being unscrambled , i had no clue of the actual technical terms "shift cipher" and "letter offset" . And i def. didn't know about specific "Caesar" cypher term either. Now, because of playing a video game called
Elite Dangerous, i've just learned something new which is apparently, well,
universal.
There’s no shame in using the internet tool to quickly check different offsets as it just makes that process faster, I don’t consider that spoiling it.
imo , it's def. spoiler'ing it a bit . However, i don't fault nor shame anyone for doing so. Personally, my own personal preference, i typically try ( and enjoy ) staying IN-GAME for as long as possible to solve quests & missions & such. Just from a sheer immersion standpoint.
But hey we all have busy lives and limited time , so yeah sometimes,
when all else fails, ya just gotta do what ya gotta do to get the task done.
After all, I’d imagine living in the 34th century your ship’s computer would definitely have all that. All comms would automatically be encrypted with methods far beyond our current ones. Such a simple cipher probably wouldn’t even be displayed to you in encrypted form, the computer would automatically recognize it for what it was.
See now THAT ^ is really what i was hoping to experience last nite when i embarked upon what was, for me as 6-month newb, a fresh 1st-time "hunt" content. As i was sitting there in my trusty DBX , reading the mails & messages at the 'listening beacon' , i kept wishing for
Celeste my onboard computer to pop-in and be useful with some suggestions. ( like ohhh i dunno something like
"CMDR, i suspect this could require a Shift Cypher to solve" ) -- But no, she just stayed silent as my clueless brain tried with futility to unscramble the jarbled words, whilst searching GalMap for systems with those ending numbers. Then she finally chimed in with...
"FSD charging" .
