Soontill Relics, the Regor Permit Sector and DB's cryptic hints....

SteveLaw · May 4, 2015

Sped up 3x it sounds like an insect playing a tuba.

Raf von Thorn · May 4, 2015

Zenith said:
I agree that the first thing that came to mind with the audio was Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
At 3x-4x speed it sounds like a trombone or trumpet playing 2 tones. Down-up Down-up Up-down.
There is more to the audio but that's the first thing that immediately jumps out.

I think its 3 tones. Hmm, how do we locate an object (system) in 3 d space? Dont we use 3 NUMBERS?

Vingtetun · May 4, 2015

GlyphGryph said:
So it's got the same effect we saw in the original Elite Mystery Solver video and came from the same place he claimed it came from?

Looks like we got double trolled, and he was telling the truth about finding one all along.

Now, of course, we need to figure out what, if anything, they actually mean - I have a feeling this part isn't going to be as fun as the original SSTV/Voyager Plaque hoax was, sadly.

Gives the devs ideas on the kind of level of complexity we ARE looking for in the future. Bring it on, guys.... we're up for tricky puzzles, deciphering signals and long hunts like this. Tie it in with CG and long branching missions and we have everything we dreamed of. Generation ships, anyone?

nicomak · May 4, 2015

GlyphGryph said:
Now, of course, we need to figure out what, if anything, they actually mean - I have a feeling this part isn't going to be as fun as the original SSTV/Voyager Plaque hoax was, sadly.

Assuming it says anything indeed, i feel like it's not.

TomR · May 4, 2015

GlyphGryph said:
So it's got the same effect we saw in the original Elite Mystery Solver video and came from the same place he claimed it came from?

Looks like we got double trolled, and he was telling the truth about finding one all along.

Now, of course, we need to figure out what, if anything, they actually mean - I have a feeling this part isn't going to be as fun as the original SSTV/Voyager Plaque hoax was, sadly.

Seriously look at this: https://youtu.be/8bAKBADBzC8

It's the same thing! How did they do that?

King Sancho · May 4, 2015

Through a bug in the game, not by design.

digitalscream · May 4, 2015

Zenith said:
I agree that the first thing that came to mind with the audio was Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
At 3x-4x speed it sounds like a trombone or trumpet playing 2 tones. Down-up Down-up Up-down.
There is more to the audio but that's the first thing that immediately jumps out.

Yes - I don't think I got the whole cycle now. If you take the two tones as zeros and ones, you get:

0101101 = -
001011 = <vertical tab - out of place?>
1001101 = M
0110011 = 3
0101101 = -

That second one looks very odd to me - there are definitely only six tones in it. Also odd that there are only seven bits - although if you take it as ASCII, the eighth bit isn't necessary.

I'm going to get out and spend some more time recording it tonight to see if I can discern a repeating pattern to be sure I've got the whole thing.

Edited with ASCII translations, just in case

Patau82 · May 4, 2015

nice the saga continues

King Sancho · May 4, 2015

Can i be the first to speculate that this thing looks like an egg/seeding pod? This the first comings of an invasion?

Privata · May 4, 2015

Vingtetun said:
Gives the devs ideas on the kind of level of complexity we ARE looking for in the future. Bring it on, guys.... we're up for tricky puzzles, deciphering signals and long hunts like this. Tie it in with CG and long branching missions and we have everything we dreamed of. Generation ships, anyone?

I agree ! we need real complex things in there , like imagine if there a thargoid relic out there and once we find it thats when they come back. as much as its ''nice'' thats there is the option for everyone to join in , I would prefere it to be more of a first once there gets all the rewards , even in exploring.

TheSpaceTexan · May 4, 2015

And in comes the second bit. Have fuuuunnnn

Wishblend · May 4, 2015

Galvinar · May 4, 2015

Not the first to speculate that. But Certainly looks the part.

Vingtetun · May 4, 2015

Would love to see whether the discovery of these affects in game happenings... increase in plague, using player events to determine the next stage of the storyline etc...

So. Are there other objects out there? Did we get this just in time for 1.3?

SteveLaw · May 4, 2015

I think it's entirely unhelpful, but highly amusing. Anyone recognise the tune?

x3 speed

Patau82 · May 4, 2015

Wishblend said:
http://i.imgur.com/hik7nQJ.png

great job wishblend, can I have one

Raf von Thorn · May 4, 2015

digitalscream said:
Yes - I don't think I got the whole cycle now. If you take the two tones as zeros and ones, you get:

0101101 = -
001011 = <vertical tab - out of place?>
1001101 = M
0110011 = 3
0101101 = -

That second one looks very odd to me - there are definitely only six tones in it. Also odd that there are only seven bits - although if you take it as ASCII, the eighth bit isn't necessary.

I'm going to get out and spend some more time recording it tonight to see if I can discern a repeating pattern to be sure I've got the whole thing.

Edited with ASCII translations, just in case

M3 looks awfuly like a kind of a star...

khaitom · May 4, 2015

TomR said:
Seriously look at this: https://youtu.be/8bAKBADBzC8

It's the same thing! How did they do that?

With a little twisting of the game files. Frontier should encrypt those files and only download a key when one is located. It'd make it more difficult.

King Sancho · May 4, 2015

SteveLaw said:
I think it's entirely unhelpful, but highly amusing. Anyone recognise the tune?

x3 speed

hmmm.. is this a gassy alien? That would explain the fumes and toxicity.

Wishblend · May 4, 2015

Patau82 said:
great job wishblend, can I have one

We have one each.