Simple, binary question: is Raxxla in-game and findable currently?

I think its in the game design, but not in any accessible form in the game itself just now. I am wondering if based upon the descriptions in lore if it has something to do with guardians? One example would be a guardian AI terminal, not just a data terminal that spits out blueprint segments, but something that would let us utilise all the AI's power?
 
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!
 
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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

Fixed for you old chap :)
 
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.

Sounds like an Elite: Dangerous Atmo world to me. :D
 
I thought Raxxla was a popular fictional location in Dreamware Sim from 3125 "The Dark Wheel" where the dreamer follows the story of the newly qualified pilot Alex Ryder
 
When 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 ^
What a brilliant quote! Fart in a space suit made my morning:) do you believe we need to find the darkwheel first? I will keep tweeting fdev they need to continue these two stories and unlock locked system, expand the thargoid story and the origins of them, there's so much forgotten stuff!
 
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!
Hilarious! :p
 
So tonight, I'm about 26K Ly from the bubble, arcing around to the left of Sag A* and heading towards Beagle Point.

For the past four hours, every system I've been to so far has been unexplored.

As I'm surveying one system, I see a blue globe in the distance (reminiscent of the bubble nebula). I take a look at the galaxy map and determine that it's most likely a nebula in the far distance, even though the closest nebula in that area is not a blue globe.

I carry on and for the next number of jumps, it begins to really bother me that I didn't investigate that object more closely.

Who knows what it may have been after all.
 
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If Raxxly was there 500,000 players a month would have found it by now. In previous Elite DOS games modified by 3rd parties getting to Raxxly required certain requirements to be fulfilled including defeating the 'Dark Ship'. We'll see if Frontier ever gives us the opportunity. Meanwhile here is some hardware long ago devolved by 3rd party programmers to get there. The ED Kickstarter was't even invented until many years later.

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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.
 
Me: puts on tin foil hat. :-

Raxxla is the name of the map seed code, used for the galaxy procedural creation.
The devs can say its always been in the game because without it there would be no galaxy.

I think if it can be found ingame, that when it is, one of two things will happen.
1. The galaxy resets.
or
2. A new galaxy is created, that we can get to via {handwavium}.

Yes, I have played NMS :)
 
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.
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.

The best example is Frontier: First Encounters (c1995) regarded by many as the most bugged game ever released. Why? Because GameTek released it too soon, their stocks dropped and they went out of business. Then Elite nerds like me were on modem connections helping other players on text sites playing the game to completion. We were the tech support for a company that no longer existed. Are you enjoying my history of the Elite games development?

2021 and players in ED are still looking for Raxxla. It won't happen until the Devs put it into the game making it very hard to get there. But ED payers are very resourceful so the Devs will have to work on it making it very hard and for a few impossible to to accomplish. Until then go figure.

Regards

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I don't do this often, but let me quote myself:
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.
 
I think it is in game, since chewwie(michael brooks) said once thats it was "honked" once but not scanned, apart of that, no other clues was ever given.... Note that some areas near bubble was not permit locked at 1.0, for few months after relase.

Seems almost sure (for me atleast) that since it was "once" honked, but never again until today, my bet is that raxxla is either within col 70 sector, regor sector or Col 121 Sector, maybe at Horsehead Dark Region.... since all those sectors was not permit locked for alteast few months after intial relase. That "honk" was done by one of random early explorers, when we could visit those regions.

All regions I mention are within possible distance, since I doubt that raxxla could be anywhere farther than that, as, correct me if I am wrong, according to lore, first report was at 2296. Humanity at that time aint had means to travel anywhere too far, so I doubt that it would be like 5000+ly or more.

All that makes me belive that raxxla is actually very close but not currently reachable due of permits, otherwise it would be found out long time ago already.


P.S good old necro, but my 2 cents anyway ;)
 
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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.
LOL that was probably me when I first went to SAG A with a basic discovery scanner.. sorry.
 
Sorry. Haven’t read any of the responses. The answer is 1. Again, sorry but it had to be said. If it was already said, disregard. Have a nice day.
 
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