Its a slippery slope.
Yes, but they also had walls (or at least fences) to prevent people violating their back passages
Well looky here, a stranger in town. And ee's com to violate ma back passage! Fetch ma gun Curly.
So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)
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Its a slippery slope.
Well looky here, a stranger in town. And ee's com to violate ma back passage! Fetch ma gun Curly.
Just a quick thought. All three of the known locations have been found within +/- 25 degrees of the equator. Its still a huge amount of ground to cover, but it at least restricts the search area to some extent... At least until another one is found near a pole or something, and I go to drink in the corner of my cockpit.
After the number of hours searching I've done so far I couldn't agree more!
I'd love to see more tools like probe launchers/probe controllers that we'd need to fit to scan stellar bodies. Capable of orbiting a planet a couple of times at sublight speeds before running out fuel/expiring but they'd download general 'areas of interest' data to the ship so we could narrow down the search. More probes launched - better data received etc etc.
RFID scanners. You'd want a gate like that between your warehouse and a designated landing site for logistics bookkeeping.
And forcing us to tinker with the configuration and lower the details to avoid chasing shadows...
I was checking PLAA AEC RY-B B41-1 2B last night, I think it was that one anyway, can't check at the moment because I'm in work.
From memory the planet has a radius of about 1,700km, so that's only about 36.3 million square kilometres we need to look at
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According to Drew (via Reclamation) there's robots that handle all that malarkey.
Also, has anyone seen anything that looks like a 'designated landing site'?
Somebody said that the wheeltracks peter out without going anywhere - rather than heading to somewhere specific (and flat, possibly with lights so that it can be seen from a distance).
Congratulations folks.
A little note on the Hawkin's Gap location. It is supposed to be labelled 'Alpha' in the text. i.e "Hawkin's Gap Alpha Mission x/4". Not sure why that didn't show up.
Cheers,
Drew.
I want to expand on your theories about the purposes of these bases. I propose that each region (Rift, Conflux, and Hawking's Gap) will have bases at each system where a Rally Point beacon was found. We must ask ourselves, what is the purpose of each location? How are they related? The Beta sites seem to be similar in that they both are agricultural bases. So, either for the purpose of food or maybe some type of biofuel. The Alpha site can be up to speculation, but my guess is mineral resources, likely used as a fuel component (that's why I belive it was meant to be a first stop). Another important clue is the fact that each system is referred to as a "Rally Point". Each system was meant to be visited in order for the resources that are available within each base. It seems to me that these bases were resupply and refuelling points for either a very large ship or a fleet of ships, for long-term travel.
I don't think it was circumstance that both beta sites were on planets that were tidally locked. This leads me to believe that certain properties of the Alpha site could be used to pinpoint the equivalent Alpha sites in the other areas. I propose that we perform a full "inventory" of all landable planets in each of the Rally Point systems, and look for similarities. Whether it is related to the minerals available, size, location, etc., this might help us narrow down the search further. And as for other potential sites, all we need to do is play a little game of "match the planetary bodies" and see if we can find other identical properties of the planets in the other Rally Point Systems.
In summary, I believe that each area was meant to be a "stop off point" (Rally Point) for either a large ship or convoy of ships, that were travelling from area to area. Each system that has a Rally Point beacon was chosen because certain planets/moons have resources or properties necessary to provide the needed materials for resupply. The third or fourth rally point may be for other materials, or possibly something more (waypoint system for Faraway Jump stations ,Faraway Orientation Systems Controllers) or perhaps further ingredients for the long-lost formula for Quirium fuel. It certainly seems that whoever or whatever they are, they used these rally points on their way to their intended destination, which is probably beyond the Formidine Rift. It can also be surmised that whoever set this up has ties to human factions, powers, or corporations. Though, that does not necessarily mean they are human. In fact, (insert tin foil hat here) I think that they may be AI that have infiltrated human communication systems in a way to manipulate markets and also use humans to set up these rally points for their own purposes!
Or Thargoids.
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I was checking PLAA AEC RY-B B41-1 2B last night, I think it was that one anyway, can't check at the moment because I'm in work.
From memory the planet has a radius of about 1,700km, so that's only about 36.3 million square kilometres we need to look at
Radius is just below 500km and I'm doing my best, hopefully there will be other pilots happy to help, I'm in the Open from 7pm UK
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Ut8kDGkrY2L_VxpxNEVkQlN94/edit#gid=1040172215
Areas marked in red are checked (South Pole is up, messed that one up, but it does not matter that much
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Also still in the rift on GL-Y E2.
Been thinking of trying to organise a multi-ship search of some specific areas maybe for this weekend?
Radius is just below 500km and I'm doing my best, hopefully there will be other pilots happy to help, I'm in the Open from 7pm UK
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Ut8kDGkrY2L_VxpxNEVkQlN94/edit#gid=1040172215
Areas marked in red are checked (South Pole is up, messed that one up, but it does not matter that much
Just tried updating your sheet, but Google is being dumb and saying something about exceeding my quota....!
I've done a complete orbit at -30, now starting on -27
I'm in GL-Y E2 too, yes I was thinking that it would be better for everyone to focus on a single planet, since some are of a high size, and so would avoid always looking at the same place in it
Can someone, who has the data, post screenshots with the detailed planet information of the known bases in conflux and gap?
EDIT: here is the one form the rift in case someone needs it: http://imgur.com/WcudQ72
EDIT: here is the one form the rift in case someone needs it: http://imgur.com/WcudQ72
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It should be at the primary star in this case (A). You have to be within 1000ls for it to show up. The rally point in this system is over 100,000ls away from the beacon.
No screenshots, but is this the info you're looking for?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ift-(Part-3)?p=5011199&viewfull=1#post5011199
Or did you mean planet information as in the mass, radius, etc?
I don't have a DSS, but can get the basics of both still missing in Conflux tonight maybe.
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If you're arriving from orbit, the 'Gate' looks like a short, thin line - not the traditional way of indicating a landing area.
Landing pads are standard across the galaxy, so I'd expect a 'visual indicator' of a landing pad to look a lot more like a landing pad
New method I'm trying out... Sitting just above the Drop zone (at about 43km), and doing short forward hops in supercruise - dropping out, looking, back to supercruise a tad, drop out etc...
Because you don't have to align with the escape vector at this height, and you don't need to glide down.
This is GL-Y E2 6 btw
Because you don't have to align with the escape vector at this height, and you don't need to glide down.
This is GL-Y E2 6 btw
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