Is there a way to sniff out clues for things within the game?

JustKneller

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I'm a newish player and trying to avoid spoilers (so no spoilers please), helper sites, and the like. I'll use coriolis to suss out a build, but that's pretty much it. There are things in the game where you need to do things or get things in order to get the other things. For example, you need to do something to get a permit for Sol. You need to get meta-alloys to unlock Felicity Farseer. Stuff like that. I haven't found anything in the game to indicate what is required for a permit to Sol. I'm guessing I need to gain rank in Federation and help out their systems. We'll see. I have no idea what meta-alloys even are, so I couldn't even hazard a guess of where to look for them. I'm planning to move around a lot and not have a home system so I'm hoping to find some along the way.

I did go through the codex to see if there were any "hints" there, but it wasn't super helpful. The game doesn't have the archetypal bar to pick up rumors on these things. Is there anywhere else to sniff around for clues? Thanks!
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
JustKneller said:
I'm a newish player and trying to avoid spoilers (so no spoilers please), helper sites, and the like. I'll use coriolis to suss out a build, but that's pretty much it. There are things in the game where you need to do things or get things in order to get the other things. For example, you need to do something to get a permit for Sol. You need to get meta-alloys to unlock Felicity Farseer. Stuff like that. I haven't found anything in the game to indicate what is required for a permit to Sol. I'm guessing I need to gain rank in Federation and help out their systems. We'll see. I have no idea what meta-alloys even are, so I couldn't even hazard a guess of where to look for them. I'm planning to move around a lot and not have a home system so I'm hoping to find some along the way.

I did go through the codex to see if there were any "hints" there, but it wasn't super helpful. The game doesn't have the archetypal bar to pick up rumors on these things. Is there anywhere else to sniff around for clues? Thanks!
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At the times the things to discover were put in the game, yes.

Today, mostly, no, other than dumpster diving on the internet. The relics of some things still exist, but many things depended on clues in local galnet articles in-system on particular stations, but they've disappeared.

Also, some other "things" such as the audio message played that you get from a Thargoid Structure are broken (last i checked at least) which means certain other things just dont work either.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Your archetypical bar are the interwebs - or rather, these forums and the various player generated sites around the game. This player-added content was part of the game (and it's design) from the start.
Point in case: the game exports data (in real time on your PC, delayed and aggregated through an API on Frontier's server) that is used in various player generated sites and tools.

Take meta-alloys. At the start, they could only be found by flying over a planet and looking for alien growths bye eyeball. As you can imagine, given the size of a planet, that was somewhat tedious and had to be solved by many players doing the searching and sharing their finds.
With the progression of the Thargoid storyline, things have changed through two or three stages and even if you know where Meta-Alloys were to be found at the beginning, a lot of those places don't work any more.

Like this, there are a lot of things in this game you could try to discover on your own. Just keep in mind that it took lots of players a lot of time to discover each of them in the past.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
JustKneller said:
I'm a newish player and trying to avoid spoilers (so no spoilers please), helper sites, and the like. I'll use coriolis to suss out a build, but that's pretty much it. There are things in the game where you need to do things or get things in order to get the other things. For example, you need to do something to get a permit for Sol. You need to get meta-alloys to unlock Felicity Farseer. Stuff like that. I haven't found anything in the game to indicate what is required for a permit to Sol. I'm guessing I need to gain rank in Federation and help out their systems. We'll see. I have no idea what meta-alloys even are, so I couldn't even hazard a guess of where to look for them. I'm planning to move around a lot and not have a home system so I'm hoping to find some along the way.

I did go through the codex to see if there were any "hints" there, but it wasn't super helpful. The game doesn't have the archetypal bar to pick up rumors on these things. Is there anywhere else to sniff around for clues? Thanks!
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For meta-alloys, the Codex does provide some hints (some of which may be more accurate than others) if you look through the right bits of it in enough detail. The market description screen is also marginally helpful. Ultimately, though, it's not straightforward to figure out in-game purely from in-game information. Galnet did have some useful articles on this but the in-game Galnet archive does not go back far enough to be helpful - there is a searchable archive of older Galnet posts maintained at https://elite.drinkybird.net/ if you don't consider "displaying previous in-game information verbatim" too much of a "helper site".

(Farseer is not absolutely required to unlock - you can get all the useful things she offers elsewhere from engineers with better-documented routes - so you can do that and come back to her later)


For the Sol permit, if you look at the System Description for Sol on the map, there's a little bit of description there as to who gives out the permit, and you might be able to figure out the rest from other things as you go along.
 
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