While I want to believe a nobody from Memphis TN found one of the biggest finds in Elite history it just doesn't add up for me. Both the reddit and forum account were created a day ago and while, if I were in his shoes I would also figure out a way to publish it if I hadn't done any posts before. It's just odd that Cly had not participated in any part of the forum, especially the explorers forum being that he's an explorer. Maybe it is a case of right place at the right time but "If it's too good to be true, then it probably is." Either way congrats Cly on your find if you really are who you say you are.
I have found Jaques Station!
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VampyreGTX
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There are tens of thousands of players that do not participate in the forums, Reddit, or other online communities...
But most at least sign up, or ask one or two basic questions, etc. If this account was created a year ago I would have no problem with it. It's just too good to be true I'm sorry.
Jaques had 749 people with him. Apparently some of them had ships.
Well we know that the population in that system is now 750, we just don't know what it's a population of.
There may be a reason that Jaques is feeling alone.
I'd say that some people are obsessively playing the game giving no time to anything else, I'm not like that with Elite, but certainly have been with other games.
Look at my post above, there's a link to an explanation for how he came across it. Judging by the fact he's in a Conda he's a long time player, and MB has said that Cly didn't find it using the method they were hoping for (ie.using the info in the Galnet articles with broken messages)
He came across it by accident and thought he'd share the find, seems simple enough
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That's a large assumption to make. I have a fair few friends who play and the majority of them have no interest in the forums beyond anonymous browsing, if that, I am also pretty sure that if any of them had found it they also would have created an account to post about it had they recognised the relevance.
VampyreGTX
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There are over 200-300k active players on Steam, tens of thousands more on XB1. We don't even have a FRACTION of that on these forums. Follow his method and you will see how he found it. It's believable, and doable.
To be honest, personally, I've not bothered following those 'games' at all where as this is station is something that i have read a lot about and find interesting, as do others it would seem. Besides, each group should have enough pilots to cope with winning on their own if they want the prise so much.
I was looking for outlier populated systems pre-launch. It was the first thing I did when FD added the early Galaxy Map to the client. And I was using exactly the described method. I spent hours (probably days) scouring space for those few bright dots way out in deep space.
The early galaxy had some systems WAY further than the "distant" populated systems the game eventually launched with.
Totally valid approach. I just takes lots of time, staring at scrolling "nothing", looking for a tiny bright, coloured pixel or three to zip by.
These guys are nothing more than jealous at someone else's cleverness and persistence. They want to sound as clever as he actually is by "figuring out" it's all a ruse.
Maybe some of the confusion is the assumption that he travelled to the system then found the station, which isn't the case.
On his images you will see he is on the Galaxy Map with maybe 300+ stars in view and spotted a bright yellow dot signifying Independent Allegiance.
Good spot, nonetheless [up]
And has already been mentioned by Michael Brookes on the UA Barnacle thread it happened much earlier than planned.
The actual plan was to find clues through local GalNet feeds at certain outposts where cyborg Jaques was transmitting messages to, it seems.
Now can the OP giving me the winning lottery numbers.
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I'll be honest, I am a little bit jealous and I'm sure we all are. But that doesn't influence the fact that everything about it seems setup if you know what I mean. I congratulated CMDR Cly but just put in a key note that I hope he was indeed just a inactive forum player instead of the possibility that it was pushed forward by Elite for some reason we don't understand yet.
*Edit* It could also be the fact that I'm fed up with the story in elite not really having meaning ie. the discussion between randomly finding it vs using deductive reasoning from galnet posts to find it.
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well such a lame method of discovery :-/
Actually, I would say that this was the exactly right and clever method. All "games" inside ED should be solvable solely by in-game methods, not by using huge spreadsheets, forum babbling and tinfoil hat theories
Exactly. An amazing find and a brilliant way of looking!
Quite the opposite- he was unknown artifact bombed before he left and that's what caused the problems. The galnet news feeds from the videos go into light detail about what he heard with the UA's and stuff.
The next tinfoil hat theory on why it did not make the jump. UA-related, not enough hydrogen fuel, over ambitious or did "The Hands of the Architects" saboteurs have some success back in May:Actually, I would say that this was the exactly right and clever method. All "games" inside ED should be solvable solely by in-game methods, not by using huge spreadsheets, forum babbling and tinfoil hat theories
Freelance Report: Attempt to Sabotage Jaques Station Thwarted
