I am still looking
I was never interested in killing thargoids, even though I built many ships for it and I did kill some. I didn't like it for many reasons.
I am very interested in them, just not in killing them. unless I have no choice.

I want to see whats in the center and I want to know what its all about.
I just suggested to one thread that maybe trying to steal some of the probes from the orthrus could be helpful in getting past the final wave..
Going to keep at it till I figure it out anyway.

that aside, @Jorki, I wanted to help a bit, but Louis Calvert DID,
I am curious, he has posted several times in here to you, is he blocked for you? you never seem to acknowledge his posts to you anyway....
sorry if its none of my business, but I like both his and your posts...
I gently pointed out, quite politely, that there was no evidence for his conspiracy theory (indeed there could be no such evidence since it would need access to the communications between NPC within game which clearly only FD have; it could not be a conspiracy by FD, since instead that would be a game design decision. FD Support responded to him along the lines that it was the latter, but the conspiracy was still being pushed). So he was effectively just disseminating misinformation. I got a very salty response. At that point I deemed him a troll and added him to my ignore list. It has grown quite large over 7 years of playing!
 
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While I was going to look for Guardians components, on the way back, I come across a gas giant with 8 moons.
Synuefe DN-H d11-8. Immediately I thought about Raxxla

As I approach the eighth moon, I discover colors that remind me of those of the Omphalos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos
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And on top of a small mountain, at 36.1/-88.1 some weird marks.
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I didn't have time to explore this moon, but one thing is sure, I will return.
 
Crikey. I never thought I'd see the day and have to admit to being slightly upset in reading your post. You Raxxla folk are a great inspiration, even if I do only lurk at this thread mainly due to having nothing to contribute. However, I completely understand and share your pain, if it helps (it doesn't).

They won't say anything and although I have no proof, believe it to be behind ultimate-goal unlock - all the Elites (what, now 6?) to max-level (currently IV, expecting it to increase to at least X in the next year) plus all the unlocks, plus... Who knows?

Starfield is something I am really looking forward to. I mean, A LOT. Would love to meet up in it but we'll have to wait if the modders can create a mod for that :D

Old duck is a big fan of X4. Might be worth heading over to the off-topic game forum and get some ideas.

Sad to see you feel defeated. However, I cannot believe we're this many years into the game with NOTHING to show. Not even a hint.

Give it some time and your mind will work in the background and you'll come back refreshed.

My biggest gripe is MB's "... make it a tiny bit obvious" comment. Tiny?! Just HOW tiny, exactly?

Quite frankly, I don't know how you folks keep going. Must be the Onionhead...

Carry on Raxxla'ing!
I wouldn’t say I’m defeated, just getting quite bored! Which I cannot imagine is FD’s intention!

In any endeavour there has to be some feedback to make it enjoyable...and there clearly isn't wrt Raxxla. No feedback, nothing, zilch, nada, nowt. The postulated Raxxla storyline is noticeable by its absence; we have found no clues to any such storyline, never mind the storyline itself. A storyline would have been enjoyable! Searching blindly for something (we know not what) has been fun, based on the fun element of the theories involved and the camaraderie of this thread. So I feel, at the moment, let down. Especially since the Thargoid war seems to be the be all and end all. I gather from recent YT that FD have said if the bubble falls then Colonia will fall. After spending quite some effort moving my fleet to “safety” out there, so that was nugatory effort. As I say, gameplay has to be enjoyable for a game to be worth playing.

It’s a shame because I still feel ED is the most visually beautiful game (well, it was originally and in Horizons, though Odyssey seems very much less). But it’s only a framework for the gameplay, which is the storylines FD implement. An improbably difficult Raxxla puzzle and an overwhelming thargoid menace are no longer appealing IMHO.

I enjoyed playing X2 Terran Conflict, before ai discovered ED. Maybe I’ll put X4 on my xmas present list....

I may well finish off this current line of searching, despite the distances still to go (yorkies are stubborn!) but my plan on its failure (which I was fully expecting 😉) was for both accounts to head to Colonia, perhaps after Tyko visited The Great Annihilator, which I havent seen yet. But if Colonia is endangered then ... what’s the point?
 
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While I was going to look for Guardians components, on the way back, I come across a gas giant with 8 moons.
Synuefe DN-H d11-8. Immediately I thought about Raxxla

As I approach the eighth moon, I discover colors that remind me of those of the Omphalos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos
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And on top of a small mountain, at 36.1/-88.1 some weird marks.
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I didn't have time to explore this moon, but one thing is sure, I will return.
This is why we quest O7.
 
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Does anyone have a list - or know anything about - the numbers on Stations?

I know there's the famous old DBOBE quote about making a note of the numbers, is there anywhere that has done that?

I ask because I'm still thinking that the Raxxla logo itself is heavy on the 6's, as discussed (6, 6 sided shapes around a 6th 6 sided shape with 6 gaps between it) I wondered if there's a numbered station that might somehow be called 666 or 66666 maybe... it's a long shot :)

I doubt there will be one, but if someone knows of a list somewhere then I can just have a look and debunk this one pretty easily :)

thx
 
I gently pointed out, quite politely, that there was no evidence for his conspiracy theory (indeed there could be no such evidence since it would need access to the communications between NPC within game which clearly only FD have; it could not be a conspiracy by FD, since instead that would be a game design decision. FD Support responded to him along the lines that it was the latter, but the conspiracy was still being pushed). So he was effectively just disseminating misinformation. I got a very salty response. At that point I deemed him a troll and added him to my ignore list. It has grown quite large over 7 years of playing!
Interesting that you managed to reply to me quite a few posts after that regarding the comet galmap hacking matter. It seems like it was actually after that that you blocked me because I disagreed with your 'hacking galmap is the way to do it' approach, eh?

Interesting.. hmmm.... not so clean cut eh?? 😜

TBF, I am totally annoying :)
 
Does anyone have a list - or know anything about - the numbers on Stations?

I know there's the famous old DBOBE quote about making a note of the numbers, is there anywhere that has done that?

I ask because I'm still thinking that the Raxxla logo itself is heavy on the 6's, as discussed (6, 6 sided shapes around a 6th 6 sided shape with 6 gaps between it) I wondered if there's a numbered station that might somehow be called 666 or 66666 maybe... it's a long shot

I doubt there will be one, but if someone knows of a list somewhere then I can just have a look and debunk this one pretty easily

thx

Regarding the numbered stations; Michael Brookes resolved this one himself; it was ‘number stations’ David said it wrong, he was discussing those fixed probes which emit code that point to various mysteries eg Gen Ships etc.

The numbers in the space ports were confirmed much later by FD to be not related, there is a basic seed that generates them, but only for Feds, it’s just ‘flavour’ according to FD.
 
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Regarding the number stations; Michael Brookes revolved this one himself; it was ‘number stations’ David said it wrong, he was discussing those fixed probes which emit code that point to various mysteries eg Gen Ships etc.

The numbers in the space ports were confirmed by FD to be not related, there is a basic seed that generates them, but only for Feds, it’s just ‘flavour’ according to FD.
Ahaaa... well another idea down in flames :)
Thanks muchly :)
 
Years and years ago I encountered a planet while transitioning between systems. Quite the sort of thing to make an old tale spacers pass on.
Did you? that's really interesting! Was it the same sort of brown planet, like the one above and this one from 4 years ago:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVhArLVrlQ



Disclaimer: Yes, I know it could be a bug. Don't at me. Just investigating and asking questions.
 
Crikey. I never thought I'd see the day and have to admit to being slightly upset in reading your post. You Raxxla folk are a great inspiration, even if I do only lurk at this thread mainly due to having nothing to contribute. However, I completely understand and share your pain, if it helps (it doesn't).

They won't say anything and although I have no proof, believe it to be behind ultimate-goal unlock - all the Elites (what, now 6?) to max-level (currently IV, expecting it to increase to at least X in the next year) plus all the unlocks, plus... Who knows?

Starfield is something I am really looking forward to. I mean, A LOT. Would love to meet up in it but we'll have to wait if the modders can create a mod for that :D

Old duck is a big fan of X4. Might be worth heading over to the off-topic game forum and get some ideas.

Sad to see you feel defeated. However, I cannot believe we're this many years into the game with NOTHING to show. Not even a hint.

Give it some time and your mind will work in the background and you'll come back refreshed.

My biggest gripe is MB's "... make it a tiny bit obvious" comment. Tiny?! Just HOW tiny, exactly?

Quite frankly, I don't know how you folks keep going. Must be the Onionhead...

Carry on Raxxla'ing!
Well, you can’t get tinier than a black hole- a singularity in spacetime. That is at the heart of my current theory, and several previous.

I’m strongly beginning to feel that Raxxla is indeed the end-game, & not just a pure Easter Egg; the lack of a visible storyline to it and FD’s total silence on the matter prods me in that direction of thought! I suspect the old E/F missions were part of that storyline but FD decided in 2016 to make it the end game instead...Since Raxxla is alien-related the end game might not be until the Guardian AI (or rogue human AI or...) turn up. Since we are currently 7 years into IIRC a 10-year game plan, then as a 70 year old I fully expect to be dead by then!

(RIP Kirsty Alley and Christine McVie!).
 
Did you? that's really interesting! Was it the same sort of brown planet, like the one above and this one from 4 years ago:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVhArLVrlQ



Disclaimer: Yes, I know it could be a bug. Don't at me. Just investigating and asking questions.
I've often had a planet for a second or so as hyperspace is entered but it's only a distorted image, at the wrong angle, of the one I've just jumped away from.
 
Did you? that's really interesting! Was it the same sort of brown planet, like the one above and this one from 4 years ago:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVhArLVrlQ



Disclaimer: Yes, I know it could be a bug. Don't at me. Just investigating and asking questions.


Whoah, this one frame is something else... full blown jumpscare.
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Although that video does highlight how Elite has every other game out there beat for "Prettiest server desynch animation"


To answer your question, in my case the details are hazy as it was well back around the time of the great beigification. But if I recall correctly, my ghost planet looked somewhat like this end of the metallic range.

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In my case I had just dropped into the system at the star, honked, didn't see any particularly interesting planetary arrangements like nested binaries and the like, so was jumping right out to the next one on the way to my destination. I do wonder if this is a bug they left untouched precisely because it leads to these kinds of old spacers' tales.
Would also not put it past them to mean this glitch any time they say "Raxxla is ingame".

Still not the most shocking thing I've seen when jumping though, that was probably the time I dropped out of a jump and nearly flew straight into the planet that was suddenly directly in front of me between me and the star filling most of my screen, inside the fuel scooping range. That image was immediately screenshotted and made its way onto my Distant Worlds 2 commemorative mug.
 

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Whoah, this one frame is something else... full blown jumpscare.
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Although that video does highlight how Elite has every other game out there beat for "Prettiest server desynch animation"


To answer your question, in my case the details are hazy as it was well back around the time of the great beigification. But if I recall correctly, my ghost planet looked somewhat like this end of the metallic range.

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In my case I had just dropped into the system at the star, honked, didn't see any particularly interesting planetary arrangements like nested binaries and the like, so was jumping right out to the next one on the way to my destination. I do wonder if this is a bug they left untouched precisely because it leads to these kinds of old spacers' tales.
Would also not put it past them to mean this glitch any time they say "Raxxla is ingame".

Still not the most shocking thing I've seen when jumping though, that was probably the time I dropped out of a jump and nearly flew straight into the planet that was suddenly directly in front of me between me and the star filling most of my screen, inside the fuel scooping range. That image was immediately screenshotted and made its way onto my Distant Worlds 2 commemorative mug.
That's really cool! thanks for sharing :)

hmmm... in the game since the beginning eh?* In the Milky Way... hmmm... would increase chances of seeing it by exploration and doing mission since that's a lot of jumping around...hmmm, a journey everyone has to take for themselves... hmmm*

I have been wondering how long this has been happening for. From what I can tell, people have very, very, very occasionally seen planets in witch space and while they are probably bugs*, it's interesting that it never gets addressed by Fdev in any bug tracker or patch notes that I can see - and it's been happening, as you say, since the beginification. Maybe no-one reports it (can't find anything on the bug trackers) but maybe they do and I just can't find it, would love to know either way.

It does seem to be incredibly rare either way and I can find no common link between accounts, only that it's been happening for many years. Yours is the oldest account I've come across. If it's happened to me I've never noticed it.

As you say, spacer's tales, nice little thing. Maybe it was a bug* and they can't squash it, but who knows. :)

Anyway, I wonder how many times this happens and isn't reported anywhere? would be nice to collect together some stories of "weird things I saw in Witchspace" and find ways of debunking or getting those bug reports to Fdev so we can remove them for the investigations :)

@Frankymole that's interesting! I saw a youtube vid of something maybe similar, jumped into witchspace horizontally near a planet surface and it sort of dragged it along with the ship. Clearly a bug that time though :)



*Disclaimer: I know it's probably a bug, don't at me. I'm just asking questions and investigating ideas, and having thoughts, don't get mad at me.
 
Did you? that's really interesting! Was it the same sort of brown planet, like the one above and this one from 4 years ago:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVhArLVrlQ



Disclaimer: Yes, I know it could be a bug. Don't at me. Just investigating and asking questions.
Am I crazy or doesn't that look exactly like the other video a few days ago whit the FC Jump? Is there maybe something to it, a planet in witchspace? Are there more records of this? What was done before, what was the current goal? What was in the hold? Certainly the long loading time rather suggests a bug. From my point of view, however, there are no reasons that a bug would render a planet in witchspace
I need my keybinds back.
 
I totally agree. Below is everything I have, I'd love if it we can go Mythbusters on this one :)


Note: these are not all planets, I've been trying to collect evidence of anything weird in witchspace. Again, the goal here is prove/disprove. I've only collected two confirmed planets, plus now the anecdotal evidence of three more (two you've seen here in this thread).

The below from my notepad, I've not got any real thoughts other than cataloguing them so far, make of them what you will. I'd love ideas and help on this. @Yuki Estelle (Ithink that's right?) and @MrShinyTorterra and @Chaparral was also interested in Witchspace ideas.



Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IhV27I23GM

Hypersapce jump tunnels goes weird...long-green

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v8_12P_im4

Same as above, different person.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtCAlyPAQc0

Same as above

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWcuXPPs744

Same as above

Note: Can't find any of these bug reported?? Doesn't look the same as a braben tunnel or other jump issue? something new? bug??
Note: contacted Bro Jamgles from 1st vid to see what he was doing at the time, no reply.
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greenglow discussion - green witchspace tunnel connection??!
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-8923795

Note: investigation fizzled out, but they focused only on the sol connection? bug?
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVhArLVrlQ

Really long weird jump - PLANET!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkhwmH1GY-k

FC sees PLANET in Witchspace and ends up off course (Debunked Misjump, the destination name is weird, the system has 2 names in Galmap)
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/cg-predictions.556536/post-9925261
Report of "hyperspace anomaly" bug?

Repeatable? note: Tried jumping into high-carrier system areas, couldn't replicate the bug.
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Martha's Pulsar - 2 stars occupying almost the same place, jumps betweem them are weird
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe2W1DBQLzo


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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...eries-thread-9-the-canonn.300054/post-4987591
Changes in Witchspace tunnels?

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-formidine-rift-mystery-part-4.324796/post-5078256
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWXrbDZxT0Y

UFO-light in witchspace?

Note: Reflection? graphics bug? can't find any other reports, can't find a way to replicate?
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"Green tunnels" are not a known bug (not in the bug reports system, nothing in Fdev patch notes)
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What does an actual witchspace bug look like???

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajytHoaK_o8

This is a typical lag/dc/network error

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy1aH_WRa04

Braben blue tunnel

jump disconnect, this is what happens:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-8993366

Note: have experienced many witchspace connection bugs myself. long tunnels are not significant. CTD results from a hard disconnect, not significant. Can't replicate green tunnel??
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"could it be in hyperspace"
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9920307

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9297146
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connections:
Jaques?? Antares? Halsey? - all misjumps/jumps gone bad. Are there others?
Were these clues to consider witchspace?

How did Jaques jump 20k ly?? He was an explorer and came back to the bubble before making his last jump, heavily modified his station, how??... Jaques station randomly placed? why would it be there specifically? signficant?
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Older Witchspace version for comparison:
Beta 3 demo
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDzWswfDnE


Alpha 4 witchspace
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIPVegyKksI
 
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