I preferred Baltimora's version :/
I May Have Been The ACTUAL First to Discover Fungle Life
- Thread starter DefconX3
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Validity aside, what are you hoping to get out of this would be my question?
If you are looking for Frontier to alter their credit on the newsletter etc that won't happen, it's a bit late now.
If you are looking for forum praise and admiration it's kinda a bit late, as above yes you may have been first but Deggial said it best. For what it's worth congratulations
So what are you wanting to get out of this?
If I were in the same position I'd have just kept it to myself with the warm fuzzy that I found something about the same date/time as other people. Your first line is very much correct but since everyone barring 1 person didn't know anything about it you can hardly be expected to be given any form of credit.
If its a genuine question could you be the first then the answer is resolutely yes. BUT similarly to how you found out and told nobody there could easily be 10-50 other people, new players perhaps who didn't grasp the significance of what the were seeing or didn't pass the news to the community at large. So I expect we will never truly know as many people who play don't connect with the community.
I'm not looking for any type of praise.. I'm just sharing a scenario in which me, a beginner explorer, may have been the first to discover something among many Elite pilots.
You swine. I had that damned song in my head for about an hour after I typed "jungle life" in an earlier post. It finally went away, but now it's back with a vengeance.
Nice picture!
Unfortunately for you, the good habit in the scientific community is not about who saw it first, but about who described and published it first.
And for a reason, too! As you mentioned - you and your friend didn't even realize, that the structures were something special. The other guy did. I am sure, others have seen bacteria-free rings around fungal colonies, too, but only Alexander Fleming realized its spezial meaning and hence dug deeper and discovered penicillin.
So, even if I don't doubt that you guys saw it first, the "honor" (whatever its's worth) of the first discovery rigthfully goes to the other commander.
This - Had the OP not heard about it from the other player, he still would have been clueless.
Ah cool in that case I believe the forums and game follows the same principal. Just like those first discoverer bonus on systems/planets you need to be the first to report to be given the status as first discoverer
Congratulations though, I'm sure you were amongst the first few to find it...
+1. Even the first discovered Earthlikes fade from memory after a while. If we can't remember our own discoveries, I doubt we'll remember others'.