The Free Anaconda at Hutton Orbital

[moorison]

I like the idea, a running gag made real. This remote but popular location could be improved with more installations.

Why not a literal free anaconda? Like a literal anaconda. A rare good that's free, described as a large snake, and once you get one you can never get another one. If you ever sell it you'd get a message about how sad it looked as you handed it over, and then later in space you'd get a message that your snake died shortly after you disembarked.
We could put a bunch of other rare pets throughout the bubble so you could always get a new thing, but never the snake again unless you stole one. Some people might make zoos, but you'd have to log these things around so it's kind of impractical.

Using recon-limpets on the cargo bays might spawn this new rare good, canisters full of Anacondas. Those are arguably free if you have the right equipment and can stomach the reaction...

 

[Screemonster]

Using recon-limpets on the cargo bays might spawn this new rare good, canisters full of Anacondas. Those are arguably free if you have the right equipment and can stomach the reaction...

Like those snake-in-a-can jokes

 

[moorison]

Like those snake-in-a-can jokes

A custom decay animation? that might be a bit more effort than can be expected, but would be funny, no question about it.

 

[OBYOZ]

So back on issue then.


Elite has never been a game about hand holding and it has always been a game that you have to account for your own actions in one way or another. Just trying to figure out to leave the landing the first time can prove to be quite challenging for new players. there is nothing right or wrong about that.




How do you hear about this meme while in game? How likely is it that you randomly will hear about this meme in game? I would expect it to be HIGHLY unlikely to hear this meme from in game, as that requires that you by chance get a chat message about this and seeing how we do not have a global chat, and it used to be instanced chat, very unlikely. So that leaves random ingame encounters with other players and text/voice chat.




Now if you hear this from OUTSIDE the game, that is a different thing, as you now clearly know how to use things OUTSIDE of the game, and thus already have access to the basic tools some basic fact checking on these kind of stuff, just like you probably are using the same kind of tools to find different things like material, cargo, ships, modules etc. How should we information about stuff that used to work but no longer work or had the mechanics changed? This is now obviously FALSE information. Should we remove the Cobra MK 4 from the game just because this is no longer obtainable by players who missed that opportunity? So telling anyone that this can be bought a specific station is a lie if you do not have access to this ship. Where do we draw the line?


And if you believe ANYTHING someone random stranger tells you, especially things regarding "money", then how do you survive in real life? This is not about right or wrong, it is about the basic life lessons that you should never trust what other people, especially strangers, are telling you, and today it is often very EASY to do a very basic internet search about this, and if it involves "money", you should probably spend more time checking the facts, instead of hoping for the best or expecting to be "saved" by others about this

I heard about it from this forum

 

[OBYOZ]

Look, if you lot enjoy SC for 40 mins in a straight line, then great.

But you and FD shouldn't trick people into doing it. Such poor taste and not funny.

I for one have limited time to play this game.

Why not ask for the anaconda bar or tourist spot near the nav beacon? Might have a chance of getting it then.

 

[CMDR Yates]

Yeah, let's at least have something cool at Hutton to sweeten the bitter pill of getting suckered.

 

[Raino]

Yeah, let's at least have something cool at Hutton to sweeten the bitter pill of getting suckered.

a Huttaconda nameplate??

 

[Misty_Dark]

I heard about it from this forum

So did you believe that everything you read in this forum about Elite Dangerous is the truth, and nothing but the truth?

 

[CMDR Yates]

a Huttaconda nameplate??

A decal of a snake with wings on it.

 

[Leadfoot]

I believe this might be in the Northern area of Florida but as I recall there were a number of billboards around stating you should turn off the interstate and head to some orange grove in some off-the-way location. Why?

To see the only, HUGE red bat in captivity.

People would drive for miles out of their way to end up at this orange grove. Once there, they'd stop at the gift shop, maybe have lunch there, find a bunch of oranges to bring home with them. And then head out into the orange grove to see this huge red bat that they have in a cage.

After about 10 minutes of wandering through the groves you arrive at a rather large table. On the table is a large box. As you look into the top of the box, through the chicken wire, you see the end of your magnificent quest inside this box.

It is a large baseball bat, painted red, inside a locked box.
It is, in fact, the only large RED bat in captivity.

Everyone groans as they realize they were conned, but they take the joke in stride. Then they tell their friends and relatives to make the same trip so THEY can also look at the only large red bat in captivity.

 

[BinakAlgo]

Maybe a planetary outpost named that way? Just to acknowledge the joke.

 

[dayrth]

Suggest a CG to build it. I'd take part

 

[varonica]

Look, if you lot enjoy SC for 40 mins in a straight line, then great.

But you and FD shouldn't trick people into doing it. Such poor taste and not funny.

I for one have limited time to play this game.

Why not ask for the anaconda bar or tourist spot near the nav beacon? Might have a chance of getting it then.

I know, I drove for hours the other day because some car yard was giving away brand new cars for free, I saw it on the internet so it must be true.

But back to real life, I live in Australia, used to live in Perth, and one used car yard once put an advert on TV advertising a particular second hand car, obviously to attract buyers to have a look at his other cars but the ad went something along the lines, "just this one car for 2,000, we don't care what it is just 2,000." They of course expected a rush of people to get the bargain, what they didn't expect was the first person who turned up had a trailer full of banana's, 2,000 in fact. When they tried to renege on the deal he called up consumer affairs and they told him they had to sell the car to the guy with the banana's because of the wording of the ad!

The moral of the story is, if it's free it's probably not worth having, and if you haven't learned that lessons buy the time you are old enough to play Elite dangerous you are never going to learn it, and there's no harm in a good joke now and then, even if it's on you.

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

Look, if you lot enjoy SC for 40 mins in a straight line, then great.

But you and FD shouldn't trick people into doing it. Such poor taste and not funny.

I for one have limited time to play this game.

Why not ask for the anaconda bar or tourist spot near the nav beacon? Might have a chance of getting it then.

huh?

FDEV already tricked me with silly transport missions to Hutton Orbital when i was still a noob and missions didn't really consider the distance.
poor me not being able to read the system map at that time...

 

[OBYOZ]

huh?

FDEV already tricked me with silly transport missions to Hutton Orbital when i was still a noob and missions didn't really consider the distance.
poor me not being able to read the system map at that time...

In game missions are different.

Knowingly tricking new cmdrs just for a giggle is what a bunch of school kids would do. There is a vunerable victim, prayed upon by people who should know better.

FD will not tolerate such bullying, it's not even worthy of a reply from them.

 

[Misty_Dark]

In game missions are different.

Knowingly tricking new cmdrs just for a giggle is what a bunch of school kids would do. There is a vunerable victim, prayed upon by people who should know better.

FD will not tolerate such bullying, it's not even worthy of a reply from them.

How long does it to actually do some actual fact check for something like this? 1 minute? 5 minutes? 10 minutes?


What else should we ban from these forums when we are at it? There is plenty of information on this forums that is false and have lead players on fruitless trips to find it was not true.


I am still waiting for you response on where I said anything like this:

Who are you to decide what a player should or shouldn't do, especially as it's their valuble time you are wasting.

If anyone is doing this, it is you, you are trying to decide what player should or should not do.

 

[moorison]

In game missions are different.

Knowingly tricking new cmdrs just for a giggle is what a bunch of school kids would do. There is a vunerable victim, prayed upon by people who should know better.

FD will not tolerate such bullying, it's not even worthy of a reply from them.

Part of the joke is that Hutton Orbital is an outpost, no chance to land or lift off with a large ship. This can be checked immediately after entering the system. There has been no exception from this rule, although I admit that new players might not know this yet.
I think it reveals the intent of players to get one of the most powerful ships for relatively little effort, expecting to access "end game content" early. It is not like sending friend requests to new players to track their movement and intercept them multiple times. This is all on the player deciding that the reward is worth a most certainly uneventful journey, skipping the fun part to be able to buy it.

 

[Siobhan]

In the end, is it any different to a left handed hammer, or a tin of elbow grease?

 

[BinakAlgo]

In the end, is it any different to a left handed hammer, or a tin of elbow grease?

I was thinking exactly of the elbow grease. About construction, I remember being sent for the roof-ceiling nail, the double-strike hammer, and the three gorge leveler. In the '60s my dad was an accountant and he was to look for the matrix differential tax calculator that was "on the other bank across the street".

 

[Micha]

what they didn't expect was the first person who turned up had a trailer full of banana's, 2,000 in fact.

Classic!! But damn, that guy sure drove for a bit all the way from QLD to Perth just for a manky second-hand car!!

Anyway, they should've considered themselves lucky - I would've turned up with 2000 empties!