Umm... if that's true, if plotting the R-R line in both ED and FFE, do you end up in (roughly) the same part of the galaxy?
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Umm... if that's true, if plotting the R-R line in both ED and FFE, do you end up in (roughly) the same part of the galaxy?
Legacy_LuckyLuke
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Nice work mate. I'm currently heading back to the bubble to buy an exploraconda before returning riftwards.
If you can, I suggest you hang onto your exploring data in case an exploration based CG pops up next week that you can turn it in for.
Ah, I've had enough for a while. Going back to the bubble for a minor refit to add a scarab.
Also going to survey Merope for the possibility of objects that may lie off the ecliptic plane. We never found what the UAs are reporting home to, unless it's the barnacles themselves.
Also going to survey Merope for the possibility of objects that may lie off the ecliptic plane. We never found what the UAs are reporting home to, unless it's the barnacles themselves.
I'm not sure about this, but I don't think Reorte was even included in FFE.
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Hi LuckyLuke
I don't take offense. I can understand people wishing to discuss things from the book.
As I pointed out in subsequent posts - if there's an in-game mystery to solve, every clue should be provided in-game, and not have to rely on external books to solve it, or to have to resort in becoming an expert in mythology either, for that.
Not having any figures to hand, but the proportion of players who purchase books must be very low. Surely it makes sense that in-game puzzles need to have sufficient in-game clues?
Regards.
I guess I can't be sure, since I never played the original (only the first Frontier - and Elite, of course!), but it certainly exists in JJFFE. It seems to be incorrectly marked as "Reorce" on that map I linked to.
That makes me want to head out as far as possible, but towards the void. I wonder if theres stars that dont show on the galmap?
In both cases you're going "south-west", but in FFE (or JJFFE at least) that takes you towards the core rather than away from it. What I was suggesting is that maybe there's a system south-west of R-R in FFE that CMDRs could find in Elite Dangerous by searching for it in the galaxy map. And in Elite Dangerous it's also (roughly) on the R-R line - so further out from the core rather than closer in.
Of course, I'm just guessing! As I said, no system name stood out as significant on that map I linked to. And I haven't the patience to type in the names of all those systems, working further and further out, hoping for a "hit". But compared to pretty much randomly scouring a vast portion of space (not that there's anything wrong with that in itself!) - in a game which didn't exist when Drew was writing the book - it might offer a greater chance of success. I'd hope that any approach would be better than just "scouring", actually - otherwise you're just kind of playing a galactic version of "spot the ball"!
Cannot check right now, but I have the maps somewhere and I thought it just takes you off the map.
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Saw that too. More amazing than anything we came up with in this thread. The galaxy equivalent of a crop circle.
I checked a bit. It was named Reorce in FE2, but it has the correct relative position compared to Riedquat and Lave. We can probably asume it's the same place.
I think it would be usefull to sort the clues into three "tiers" in order to improve the S/N Ratio.
Hypothesis should also be formed with the objective of testing them/disproving them and should try to fit most of the confirmed clues.
Untestable/Weak* conjectures do not help us at all and increase the S/N ratio a lot IMO.
*e.g. hypothesis based on/fitting only 1-2 clues.
- Tier 1 : clues that are confirmed to be clues (e.g. 'core' of the problem, Kahina's name ethymology)
- Tier 2 : unconfirmed clues from GalNet / Canon Books (e.g. Cambridge visit, Tour of outer gas giants in sol, "Watch your six", etc...)
- Tier 3 : tangential clues, as posts getting drew's rep (e.g. Prism system naming scheme)
Hypothesis should also be formed with the objective of testing them/disproving them and should try to fit most of the confirmed clues.
Untestable/Weak* conjectures do not help us at all and increase the S/N ratio a lot IMO.
*e.g. hypothesis based on/fitting only 1-2 clues.
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Some of the posts have been getting a bit heavy of late (MB- "a grind's a grind if you make it a grind"!). To lighten the mood I've just tried running Formidine rift through an anagram checker (http://www.oneacross.com).
I like ORIENT MIDRIFF
But MINOR FIT FRIED & MINE FOR TRIFID sound a bit threatening, while TRIFID FERMION sounds like a quantum disaster!
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I like ORIENT MIDRIFF
But MINOR FIT FRIED & MINE FOR TRIFID sound a bit threatening, while TRIFID FERMION sounds like a quantum disaster!
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Doctor Walden ...
Or one of his many clones...
That's good! When I saw your post yesterday it certainly got me thinking. I'll be reading that section quite a bit while I'm offline.
Legacy_LuckyLuke
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Interestingly he wanted her to stick around for something that wasn't disclosed. I always wondered about what that was. Then never heard of again so I disregarded it...
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Perhaps. For me this is one of the most enjoyable things in the game so far. Puzzling over it, trying to piece together the mystery. It's brought a veneer to the game that didn't exist before for me.
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Perhaps. For me this is one of the most enjoyable things in the game so far. Puzzling over it, trying to piece together the mystery. It's brought a veneer to the game that didn't exist before for me.
Just re-read the bit in Reclamation.
I noticed that Salome woke up with a sore head and the doctor claimed that she knocked her head on the machine when the treatment started.
Had she been given other treatment? Has her mind been altered in any way?
The doctor says he was called "John Graham". The names does not appear anywhere else in the book.
I noticed that Salome woke up with a sore head and the doctor claimed that she knocked her head on the machine when the treatment started.
Had she been given other treatment? Has her mind been altered in any way?
The doctor says he was called "John Graham". The names does not appear anywhere else in the book.
Legacy_LuckyLuke
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Agreed. In fact I took your lead previously and represented the clues in my journal in this way.
Can someone check Lave Revolution for that name? I'm at work at the moment so can't. It may also be an Oolite reference perhaps to one of Drew's (non-canon) novellas.
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