So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
I think it would be funny if we got to the edge of the galaxy and bumped into a wall of holographic emitters... and found out we were in a truman show like reality

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wolferr said:
So they can be ambushed by the slimy Xeno's?:eek:
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Well I explored a bunch of starts RIGHT ON the RR line that cross thru the sector at the correct Z coords as well and nothing interesting.

I did find a USS though just a large data cache.

Also an exploded ship with a few life pods on a moon.
 
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lorrad

lorrad
Dehzz said:
Hello fellas, got some new crazy s--t 4 u .
Want something to do? Find a star pattern which will resemble those connected lines, especially those two blue thrusters
http://i.imgur.com/3bwn90t.jpg

Also, I came back from my first journey, made those screenshots for further analysis and there's one more thing to be checked. Did anyone analyse solar flares ? Are they completely random/star type dependent ? Because down there, beyond the Rift I noticed something weird in two stars, and couldn't see it back here in the bubble.It was only happening when I unlocked freelook and watched by the side or upper window. There was this huge flare, like an opening tunnel in the star, made of smoke-like cloud, I even was trying to fly into it but was always too late. Spooky thing is ,that it was 2 times the length from star's surface to the safe flyby distance. I managed to make this screenshot :

http://i.imgur.com/TXuhYar.jpg

Now as I think of it, it seems like those things were pointing in a direction.
Going back there to give it a little more study.

Btw, anyone is there yet? Any discoveries? Are you finding those worlds I was talking about?
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I'm gonna bite. An area with even a cluster of 10's of ELW's out in the middle of nowhere is worth investigating.

What is your jump range?

It looks sparse out there so I headed back to the bubble first to reconfigure and am leisurely heading out there with a 52.96 jump range. Right now have 17,000 ly to go. I'm not pushing it, still being summer and all, but doing 1000 lyr in 20 minutes is nice.
 

ActualSpacePimp

ActualSpacePimp
lorrad said:
I'm gonna bite. An area with even a cluster of 10's of ELW's out in the middle of nowhere is worth investigating.

What is your jump range?

It looks sparse out there so I headed back to the bubble first to reconfigure and am leisurely heading out there with a 52.96 jump range. Right now have 17,000 ly to go. I'm not pushing it, still being summer and all, but doing 1000 lyr in 20 minutes is nice.
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Wondering if this "Metadrive" company is going to end up being a cg to provide more powerful frame shift drives.
 

Jpotter

Jpotter
Colonel Kenney said:
SO how do you think you'll know once you've "crossed" the rift? At what point can you consider yourself "across"?
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I have for sure crossed. I'm at -10,500 : -350 : -8.800. Stars starting getting thick at the 48 RR line so I dived as deep as I could go - which wasn't far gets really thin very quickly. But I figured going down would put the galaxy at a level where it appear to be 'hanging there'. I recall when I was close to the core I when about 2000 LY below the plane, when looking 'up' at the galaxy from that perspective I remember thinking the galaxy looked like it was 'hanging' up there above me. But out here you can get low enough before everything gets too thin without jumponium.

EDIT: One thing I did to judge when I was 'in' the rift, was to set my jump mode to Economical. Then I watch the jump range where in the rift pretty much everything (the way I crossed) was close to my max 42LY jump range. You get the occasional very short jump, and 20LY jump, but most will be 'dozens' of LYs as described by the Old Woman. Once you get out it quickly goes back to <20 ly range jumps for the economical setting.
 
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Captain Stable

Captain Stable
First up, hello everyone.
I've been reading this for a couple of days now.

I started my own investigation into the Rift and plotted a course that I thought should work.
I didn't even get close to the it as I got distracted by first discovery systems, then the CG appeared for exploration data. For some reason I didn't think i was getting the best out of my Asp X, so I decided to turn around, cash out, check the specs out.

Well that was a few weeks ago. I spent some time doing some research and calculations.

I missed the Ganet news article last week, but found this thread and read the last 50 or so pages, and now have a renewed vigour to get back out there.

The Asp is checked over (I forgot I put some rather heavy armour on it!) and I'm resuming my original heading.

I've enjoyed reading all the thoughts, developments and conclusions from different people involved, and personally I feel that there seems to be 4 schools of thought:

1) Whatever we're looking for is in EAFOTS system
2) Whatever we're looking for is near the edge of the Rift, but not in it, because no one has ever crossed and lived.
3) Whatever we're looking for is IN the Rift, because the old woman told us to plot a course.
4) Whatever we're looking for is on the otherside of the rift, because the old woman told us to plot a course across it.

I'm seeing people arguing about which is the correct line of thought. But at the end of the day, if people all explore their own favourite, then surely we're covering all bases.
Yes we can do a "Told you so!" when it's all revealed, but for now, aren't we all in this together?

As for me, I'm going to head to the edge of the rift. What i do from there, I don't know yet. I'll just be happy to reach there - the furthest I've ever travelled so far is to the NGC 7822 nebula.

Anyway, I've sent friend requests to a couple of people in this thread. You don't have to friend me if you don't want to. If anyone does, I'm "T J Stable".


TL;DR version: I'm going to look at the rift.
 

Dehzz

D
Commander Mike said:
Forgive me for not reading through every page and link for this mammoth topic, but is there any coordination / list of target systems to be scanned by CMDRs? I'm prepping for an exploration jaunt, and Formidine is as good a destination as any for me.

I've seen the list of links and so on on Page 1, but which one is the main one I need to be looking at?
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Check my post https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ift-(Part-3)?p=4331123&viewfull=1#post4331123

I went back for a SRV, and now heading there again, almost there. Lone Wolf is with me, and couple of my group friends. Feel free to join, I'm CMDR Dehzz, playing in open.
The mission is to meet up in OOB PHLAI ZL-Y C0 , check the systems in 1000 ly radius and find a route to PHOOE EUHN YD-K D8-0 and surroundings, the furthest stars on my RR line. There may be something hidden out there, unmapped stars that will popup in the navigation or something, who knows.
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
Jpotter said:
I have for sure crossed. I'm at -10,500 : -350 : -8.800. Stars starting getting thick at the 48 RR line so I dived as deep as I could go - which wasn't far gets really thin very quickly. But I figured going down would put the galaxy at a level where it appear to be 'hanging there'. I recall when I was close to the core I when about 2000 LY below the plane, when looking 'up' at the galaxy from that perspective I remember thinking the galaxy looked like it was 'hanging' up there above me. But out here you can get low enough before everything gets too thin without jumponium.

EDIT: One thing I did to judge when I was 'in' the rift, was to set my jump mode to Economical. Then I watch the jump range where in the rift pretty much everything (the way I crossed) was close to my max 42LY jump range. You get the occasional very short jump, and 20LY jump, but most will be 'dozens' of LYs as described by the Old Woman. Once you get out it quickly goes back to <20 ly range jumps for the economical setting.
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This literally is a needle in a haystack.

Even the efots "clue" is 10's of thousands of systems to check.

We had a hard time finding barnacles in a few dozen planets with thousands of players searching. They are going to need to narrow it down!
 

Dehzz

D
Captain Stable said:
First up, hello everyone.
I've been reading this for a couple of days now.

I started my own investigation into the Rift and plotted a course that I thought should work.
I didn't even get close to the it as I got distracted by first discovery systems, then the CG appeared for exploration data. For some reason I didn't think i was getting the best out of my Asp X, so I decided to turn around, cash out, check the specs out.

Well that was a few weeks ago. I spent some time doing some research and calculations.

I missed the Ganet news article last week, but found this thread and read the last 50 or so pages, and now have a renewed vigour to get back out there.

The Asp is checked over (I forgot I put some rather heavy armour on it!) and I'm resuming my original heading.

I've enjoyed reading all the thoughts, developments and conclusions from different people involved, and personally I feel that there seems to be 4 schools of thought:

1) Whatever we're looking for is in EAFOTS system
2) Whatever we're looking for is near the edge of the Rift, but not in it, because no one has ever crossed and lived.
3) Whatever we're looking for is IN the Rift, because the old woman told us to plot a course.
4) Whatever we're looking for is on the otherside of the rift, because the old woman told us to plot a course across it.

I'm seeing people arguing about which is the correct line of thought. But at the end of the day, if people all explore their own favourite, then surely we're covering all bases.
Yes we can do a "Told you so!" when it's all revealed, but for now, aren't we all in this together?

As for me, I'm going to head to the edge of the rift. What i do from there, I don't know yet. I'll just be happy to reach there - the furthest I've ever travelled so far is to the NGC 7822 nebula.

Anyway, I've sent friend requests to a couple of people in this thread. You don't have to friend me if you don't want to. If anyone does, I'm "T J Stable".


TL;DR version: I'm going to look at the rift.
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Yeah, let's team up and do it together. Request sent.
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
Captain Stable said:
First up, hello everyone.
I've been reading this for a couple of days now.

I started my own investigation into the Rift and plotted a course that I thought should work.
I didn't even get close to the it as I got distracted by first discovery systems, then the CG appeared for exploration data. For some reason I didn't think i was getting the best out of my Asp X, so I decided to turn around, cash out, check the specs out.

Well that was a few weeks ago. I spent some time doing some research and calculations.

I missed the Ganet news article last week, but found this thread and read the last 50 or so pages, and now have a renewed vigour to get back out there.

The Asp is checked over (I forgot I put some rather heavy armour on it!) and I'm resuming my original heading.

I've enjoyed reading all the thoughts, developments and conclusions from different people involved, and personally I feel that there seems to be 4 schools of thought:

1) Whatever we're looking for is in EAFOTS system
2) Whatever we're looking for is near the edge of the Rift, but not in it, because no one has ever crossed and lived.
3) Whatever we're looking for is IN the Rift, because the old woman told us to plot a course.
4) Whatever we're looking for is on the otherside of the rift, because the old woman told us to plot a course across it.

I'm seeing people arguing about which is the correct line of thought. But at the end of the day, if people all explore their own favourite, then surely we're covering all bases.
Yes we can do a "Told you so!" when it's all revealed, but for now, aren't we all in this together?

As for me, I'm going to head to the edge of the rift. What i do from there, I don't know yet. I'll just be happy to reach there - the furthest I've ever travelled so far is to the NGC 7822 nebula.

Anyway, I've sent friend requests to a couple of people in this thread. You don't have to friend me if you don't want to. If anyone does, I'm "T J Stable".


TL;DR version: I'm going to look at the rift.
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I just wished there were better clues as to which of the 4 is correct.

Plotting the course ACROSS probably starts at the EAFOTS and follows the RR line.

The whole "Hanging in there" thing is a stretch. Drew did say there is a good restaurant on the other side. So that is a hint that I'm leaning toward it being on the other side of the rift. How far? I dunno.

If you want to track my travels it can be seen here https://www.edsm.net/user/profile/id/11081/cmdr/Kenney

I merged with the RR line and now I'm crossing.
 
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Rudolphus

Rudolphus
for the rifters towards Heart & Soul, you can find Cadmium on IC 1848 Sector IS-T D3-29 A 3 A

And found a data point before scan it was active after scan it became inactive

Rm7OaSw.jpg
 
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Captain Stable

Captain Stable
Dehzz said:
Yeah, let's team up and do it together. Request sent.
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I've just been reading your discovery of the (is it) AICONG system. That's on my list.
Having said that, I don't travel very fast. I get ADHA when travelling (as in making good progress, then getting distracted by an unnamed system filled with rocky ice planets that are totally worthless, but just crying out to have my name plastered on them for all eternity)
 

Atrox Lux

Atrox Lux
Colonel Kenney said:
I just wished there were better clues as to which of the 4 is correct.

Plotting the course ACROSS probably starts at the EAFOTS and follows the RR line.

The whole "Hanging in there" thing is a stretch. Drew did say there is a good restaurant on the other side. So that is a hint that I'm leaning toward it being on the other side of the rift. How far? I dunno.

If you want to track my travels it can be seen here https://www.edsm.net/user/profile/id/11081/cmdr/Kenney

I merged with the RR line and now I'm crossing.
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After travelling quite a bit round here, I have noticed a huge number of systems where nobody has been at all. Vast stretches of space past the Heart and Soul. These are in areas that have supposedly been searched already.

While it's nice to get first discoverer, when I get back, it shows how big a task this really is! :eek:
 

[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
Atrox Lux said:
After travelling quite a bit round here, I have noticed a huge number of systems where nobody has been at all. Vast stretches of space past the Heart and Soul. These are in areas that have supposedly been searched already.

While it's nice to get first discoverer, when I get back, it shows how big a task this really is! :eek:
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Strictly speaking, they may already have been visited, but whoever was/were there before you hasn't turned the data in yet.
This just adds to the fun, I'm sure :D
 
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