Still a metaphor.That's not the entire quote though,
Still a metaphor.That's not the entire quote though,
I wouldn't bother. It will be found "mysteriously" coinciding with a major release version by one of the usual suspects in the circle of trust when frontier have decided that they are ready to move the glacial pace story onto the next sentence and add more content for their preferred player groups
Interesting. I doubt there is any validity to that or it would be huge news, but if it is true then it only reinforces the notion that Raxxla in ED is something very normal and mundane that will not stick out at all.
What a brilliant quote! Fart in a space suit made my morningWhen I did actually explore and found a system I liked, I scanned everything in it...and Ive spent enough time in SC to make the Hutton run look like a fart in a spacesuit. Id spend days in some systems just tagging and exploring each and every place the game allowed me to land on...hours on end in orbital cruise looking fer geysers, wrecks anything.
The sheer amount of ground ye need to cover is simply staggering with the tools we currently have. A squad of explorers could spend a whole day just eyeballing every square inch of a system, and still miss some small thing.
The possibility has crossed me mind that even frontier dont know where they are...perhaps they just threw the numbers into the big machine, pulled the handle and let rng take a few surprises to corners of the universe even they wouldnt know. Maybe even Braben himself doesnt know where they are...which would certainly explain the complete lack of clues as they wouldnt have any clues themselves.
Its actually scary how much that makes sense actually. A slim possibility, but still...bad choice of words perhaps? Moving swiftly onwards lets not dwell on that one too long...
If...and its a fairly above average sized ¨if¨ theres something out there, then I truly hope someone does know where they are otherwise the reality is that we upto 0.1% or 0.2 something tiny anyway of the number of systems explored in total since day one. I say explored when in reality thats more like tagged and mapped.
Reality being that at this rate, it could take centuries to start making a dent on it. Just to give that some perspective, how many of those systems ye think were explored in great detail? Every square inch eyeballed and not just scanned from a distance where the planet is a dot on the screen?
Roll on Q4...cos the words utterly and futile spring immediatly to mind with the tools we currently have, organised or otherwise ^
Hilarious!I am at Raxxla now, but as Brexit happens and Donnie Trumpet built a wall around it it’s no longer available. Ivana Trumps Cockatoo bit me, true story.
still searching for Raxxla, don’t care if it’s there or not really, exploring is great in VR, so many beautiful sights!
In Frontier: Elite II (c1993) Braben was asked if there were Thargoids in the game but was always evasive. Being a DOS game easily edited I and others found them as scenery on a planet and a Thargoid ship which could be flown but only after hacking the game. It wasn't very good going backwards a lot faster the forwards per the pic below but Braben was slow to get it right and distributors wanting to make money.Considering the thousands of hours players have spent trying to find Raxxla, can you imagine Frontier telling us that Raxxla is not in-game to be found yet, despite the codex tease?
This is why I think their silence is actually trying to prevent the PR nightmare from that. Because if the answer was yes, it would be very simple to admit it and legitimize all the effort spent so far (and potentially trigger an even greater effort).
Keep in mind this thread is from almost 3 years ago, and the question remains unanswered.
There is no way that developers would leave Raxxla open to random discovery. If it is in the game, and this is a big if, it must be a placeholder hidden either inside an unobtainable permit system or inside the game code itself. And the reason why developers are quiet about all Raxxla related things and why it is easy for them to keep it a secret all these years despite commanders endlessly poking every corner of the galaxy and searching for smallest bits and pieces of information/clues, is actually quite simple: there is nothing to talk about. Yet.
For me, it's unthinkable to have a content of this magnitude hidden and left alone all of these years, waiting for us to find it.
I wouldn't mind to be proven wrong though.
LOL that was probably me when I first went to SAG A with a basic discovery scanner.. sorry.I heard from a off hand source, that a player has been through the system that contains Raxxla. However as I remember the player was said to hadn't pinged the system with a discovery scanner.
Soooo if only you could filter all visited systems and filter again for any with exploration data for.