Oh, if you really wanted to do that you could. Start with a homophonic frequency-smoothing algorithm (take PANCAKE as a real-world example), and if you're a maniac, you could adjust the symbol encoding to emit cyphertext with the artificial frequency distribution of English text or whatever. That would obviously be extremely niche by the standards of Frontier cryptogram puzzles, but it's hardly impossible.
Galnet Update 08.04.3307 - Adamastor Update
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I don't have the time for it unfortunately, but if someone is trying to decrypt content of the messages make sure to use potentially significant words (ie occurring in the plaintext message) such as Thargoid, Perseus, Adamastor, Azimuth, etc as crib or known plaintext...this might help put some of the ciphertext into context.
? Name or what ever Id rather a good story line then 2mil, like a lead to who this azimuth company is or some new xeno stuff, if i want 2mil i will go mine musgravite and make 300mil
Oh yeah, like, I could go into some really crazy ways to make it work... but you'd also end up with PANCAKE encrypting to hundreds or thousands of characters of ciphertext, using techniques which would be utterly absurd to use for a game puzzle.
Good point, don't okay with fire ants lol
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Or a host of other activities that relatively new pilots could do
Problem with rewards for activities like this is becoming the new relog-grind.
I just want to point that nobody complained about Canonn. The complain where toward the CM, who posted only in their discord, a 3rd party tool, and never in their own official media, like this forum. The purpose of a CM is to interact with the community, not a subset of it only.
^^ sounds like complaining about Canonn, or at least insinuating they get preferential treatment and are somehow bad for "withholding information". Other players have FD's ear when it comes to CGs and all sorts of other activities, but that never gets complained about
But nonetheless, forums, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, they're all a small (I'd argue <10%) subset of the playerbase. Were I a CM and looking to target the largest portion of the community who care about this sort of thing, I'd be trying to track down groups like Canonn as a first port of call. If it's favouritism to target people interested in a subset of your content, then I won't even go near the group-leaders registered to FD.
(as someone tracking multiple social media sources including here, the hive of activity around this was the Canonn discord, not the forums, twitter or anything like that. Canonn discord would've been the best way to reach the largest amount of people, and then whispers go out from there)
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It was salty, but mostly directed to the CM IMO.^^ sounds like complaining about Canonn, or at least insinuating they get preferential treatment and are somehow bad for "withholding information". Other players have FD's ear when it comes to CGs and all sorts of other activities, but that never gets complained about
But nonetheless, forums, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, they're all a small (I'd argue <10%) subset of the playerbase. Were I a CM and looking to target the largest portion of the community who care about this sort of thing, I'd be trying to track down groups like Canonn as a first port of call. If it's favouritism to target people interested in a subset of your content, then I won't even go near the group-leaders registered to FD.
As for the community, I think you vastly overestimate Canonn discord. They are about 800 right now in it. 3000 on reddit (granted they didn't discuss of the current news). Then there is a lot of people on steam and there. This forum is the logical place for everyone to get official news, outside of twitter/launcher.
And if they want to make canonn the official stuff, then make it official and take over. There is no point in having an official forum if you simply don't use it.
On top of that, if they had a proper discord, or used the forum, Canonn could always link the thread to the discord. Like everyone else do in every other game. They can even use a bot to do that. It sort of normal to expect official news from an official place.
Now I don't say the CM should never interacted with them. I just say for "critical" news, like how there was a typo, or moving the LP, that's official for me. Telling them "good job" and "basic" interaction, that's perfectly ok.
I don't see it primarily targeting the CM, but w/e.
I also don't claim to understand FD's internal comms process either, though consider it pretty reasonable that they'd target informal media like a large group chat, before targeting something like the forums, given how much of a hotfix this seemed like, and the forum's dubious track record for responses to low-detail announcements. Canonn may be only 800/3000, but a good deal of them were active participants in the search.
Activity on the forums seemed something like a dozen, if that? But anyway, I'm doubtful we're going anywhere particularly useful with this tangent.
I think there is plenty for newbies to do, might i remind that back in the day us vertan players didn't have the luxuries we have now like fleet carriers or a 80ly anaconda, yes the code was a little tough, even i had a hard time with some of it, not the word jumble but i was close aswel, cannon isnt the enemy here either they are just a dedicated group, and it took a while for them to even find this in my opinion, i was one of the few commanders there before a flood of them as the galnet seems to update in-game very late at night before its even on the net, even for someone who has played elite for some time, and by that i mean more than a couple months is slightly disappointed we or i was not the founder of the discovery but what i enjoy more is the community effort on this page and all those darn good people who love the thrill of the chase and being a collective of brilliant minds, who isnt proud to be apart of that? Now can we get back to playing elite, not having a windge as we say in Australia!
Was there a data pack off it?
Heh... think we both understand the pain of these sorts of things kicking off when we're meant to be asleep.
Luckily for me, my sleep patterns
gave up the ghost a long time ago!
Just woke up:
THE SPACE DREDGER IS BACK! ( this was removed from the beta files).
Did the cannibals on board eat the first people to discover the megaship?
THE SPACE DREDGER IS BACK! ( this was removed from the beta files).
Did the cannibals on board eat the first people to discover the megaship?
So it's currently not known who got the 100m, the message said it would be a delayed payment. I believe I might be in with a shout though as I was really close to the target system and when I dropped in there, there was only one other Cmdr. I got to the belt before most, scanned everything and got the T Tauri message and left way before a couple of mates who were also in there and no one had left before I did.
Obviously there's private group and solos to compete with but given my proximity...
Obviously there's private group and solos to compete with but given my proximity...
Assuming you mean the hackable data transmitter, no. It only transmitted some encoded engineering materials.
If you mean the Hesperus, or the dredger, themselves... Also, no.
There was 4 encoded ship logs from the dredger though, which were from the Hesperus
Correct - but none of them are the data packets you normally get off wrecks, or settlement cores, or anything that shows up in your transactions tabs.