Macros, what happens when you search HD 216655 ? or HIP 113151
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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This particular run is doomed to failure already lol. My DBx has used a quarter of its fuel in only 3 hours.
So back to an old theory and mystery that still stares us in the face. So, Thargoids, we feel, entered the picture for a reason. That reason could be one of a gateway. Till this day, Thargoid probes still point at the unusual planet - Merope 5C and it's more than just barnacles, otherwise? It would point at whatever sites are active at the time. If Lave 2 isn't Raxxla (the planet), then maybe 5C makes better sense. It is an unusual planet that we all explored back in the day. Early on, commanders who explored might experience module failures/ damage. FDev oddly stated it "might be a bug..."
The Thargoid probes are still calibrated to point to 5C, means they knew of it and how to find it this whole time, but for some reason can't access it's functions without something else. Something kept somewhere else perhaps?
The Thargoid probes are still calibrated to point to 5C, means they knew of it and how to find it this whole time, but for some reason can't access it's functions without something else. Something kept somewhere else perhaps?
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Damn...yeah when doing the Polaris run people had to fit multiple fuel tanks lol. Mandalay is really efficient. Throwan extra tank or two in that?
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On a slightly different, but related topic. A mention of the game in the Guardian online today.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/19/ministry-of-defence-enlists-sci-fi-writers-to-prepare-for-dystopian-futures
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/19/ministry-of-defence-enlists-sci-fi-writers-to-prepare-for-dystopian-futures
It would have been nice if EDSM was accessible on the MAC with something like EDMC as a method of porting the data across, then there would be a record. But I don't think anything like that was used.
There was always the option of uploading your journal files manually using the website interface, I am sure that would have worked on the MAC, at least then EDSM would have had a travel log.
Whatever system it was, the Capricorni sector is largely inhabited these days and ranges between about 150-260ly from Sol, with inhabited space continuing below Capricorni as well. So really still just the Bubble by today's definition of the Bubble. In 2017 it would have felt a little bit more suburban. So the system he would have found could have a population now.
I just wish I knew what was meant by "it had a normal system name..." Maybe he meant "common sector name."
It's hard to feel like he wasn't trying to grief/ troll. Especially since he's been gone now and even said he had created a new account (to do it?), by reason of he forgot his password, instead of doing a reset request like a normal person. Later, I'm pretty sure I also seen him say he has 4 accounts. So why create another new one? And what was his 2017 name? We would be able to potentially use that to confirm the find.
Thankfully? I don't mind a good exploration griefing, as re-exploration is my new jam in the past few months and in this journey I have mapped HIP systems with 26-46 bodies, including the usual Col 285/ Capricorni ones, and some rarer ones, like Ross, HD/ HR, Aquari... It's amazing what hasn't been mapped.
Currently though I'm over in Seagull. I wanted to take a vacation lol
I just wish I knew what was meant by "it had a normal system name..." Maybe he meant "common sector name."
It's hard to feel like he wasn't trying to grief/ troll. Especially since he's been gone now and even said he had created a new account (to do it?), by reason of he forgot his password, instead of doing a reset request like a normal person. Later, I'm pretty sure I also seen him say he has 4 accounts. So why create another new one? And what was his 2017 name? We would be able to potentially use that to confirm the find.
Thankfully? I don't mind a good exploration griefing, as re-exploration is my new jam in the past few months and in this journey I have mapped HIP systems with 26-46 bodies, including the usual Col 285/ Capricorni ones, and some rarer ones, like Ross, HD/ HR, Aquari... It's amazing what hasn't been mapped.
Currently though I'm over in Seagull. I wanted to take a vacation lol
That's certainly the case, there's a lot in the bubble that hasn't been mapped within 200ly of Sol, maybe something hiding on one them?
I wonder if Charles Stross was involved?
"Related topic" is intriguing. I hope the point of contact isn't this bit:
Long-time lurker here,
I used to play on the Mac, back in the day. There was an EDSM client available to us and I used it extensively to auto-upload all my discovered systems. It wasn't as well supported and certainly lacked features when compared to the PC client.
As Varonica says, there was also the manual upload option, but the Mac ED client hid the logs away in a strange location and I doubt many people actually bothered to do so.
Cheers,
V.
I know Charlie. He wasn't involved. I picked the SF writers for the team.
Doesn't information on which systems you've visited or scanned exist server-side, so that the game knows when it should provide you with the system map?
If the game trusted client-side data for that decision it would have been tricked into providing system maps for unvisited systems by now I think.
If that is the case then (with a lot of clicking on the galaxy map) would it be possible for a CMDR to determine which systems in a particular area they have and haven't visited?
Edit: Oh, wait, they'd have to sell off the data at UC too, I suppose.
Apologies to everyone for going dark on this situation.
I feel bad and I will explain some things.
I have spent a total of 5 hours in verbal Discord conversations with Drakkster. We believe his story and have managed to get a shortlist of systems together. We are actively searching them all but it will take maybe another week or so, possibly a bit longer. We're being incredibly thorough.
We know this is a tad selfish, but the search for glory has always required a nuance between open source exchange and individual search.
Our internal outcome is that we will either a) be able to tell you all the actual location that the events Drakkster reported takes place in or b) give you the pretty respectable list of systems it definitely didn't happened in
I have a video put together that is the entirety of Drakksters account. If we need to release it, that will become the source of truth for his account as he is pretty overwhelmed with the number of people reaching out to him on this topic.
I feel bad and I will explain some things.
I have spent a total of 5 hours in verbal Discord conversations with Drakkster. We believe his story and have managed to get a shortlist of systems together. We are actively searching them all but it will take maybe another week or so, possibly a bit longer. We're being incredibly thorough.
We know this is a tad selfish, but the search for glory has always required a nuance between open source exchange and individual search.
Our internal outcome is that we will either a) be able to tell you all the actual location that the events Drakkster reported takes place in or b) give you the pretty respectable list of systems it definitely didn't happened in
I have a video put together that is the entirety of Drakksters account. If we need to release it, that will become the source of truth for his account as he is pretty overwhelmed with the number of people reaching out to him on this topic.
*Unrelated but cool
I recall watching something where Dr Kay Ross was talking about ED, and they mentioned how it was theoretically possible to visually see the content of another system, now I found that odd because, yes we can in so much as viewing them in Galmap, but I don’t presume that’s what they meant, as the good doctor is very accurate in their statements and there was the indication it was ‘turned off’ but the impression was that we could visually see unscanned systems without visiting them… I do wonder if that’s an undeveloped aspect of the original exploration feature from launch, as it did involve visual heat mapping of systems before a jump to assess if they were viable…
I recall watching something where Dr Kay Ross was talking about ED, and they mentioned how it was theoretically possible to visually see the content of another system, now I found that odd because, yes we can in so much as viewing them in Galmap, but I don’t presume that’s what they meant, as the good doctor is very accurate in their statements and there was the indication it was ‘turned off’ but the impression was that we could visually see unscanned systems without visiting them… I do wonder if that’s an undeveloped aspect of the original exploration feature from launch, as it did involve visual heat mapping of systems before a jump to assess if they were viable…
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Well yes, technically FDEV know everything you have done, probably scattered among a half dozen databases or so, not all nicely bundled together like the game journals, however try getting that data from FDEV, the answer is nada. They don't store data in a way that's easily accessible to the player, it would probably require some work to hunt out my 65k+ visited systems and FSS'd and mapped planets and bio scans and POI discoveries etc scattered amongst a number of databases. And if they do it for one person as a special once off, guess what, there will be a literal stream of demands from players who have also lost their data, and if they started to do them all they would probably have to employ extra staff just to handle the workload.
So no FDEV do not supply data from their database store, the players are given the data while exploring in the form of player journals and visted star cache, if you lose them you lose them.
If you have access to the procedural algorithms used to generate the data I am sure you could just feed in a system ID and out would pop all the system data without anyone visiting the system, this is how procedural generation works and why it produces the same data for every player. You would need access to those algorithms however, and I expect they are propriety property of FDEV. I suppose you could reverse engineer them by looking at what procedural systems contain and work backwards from their to reproduce said algorithms, a lot of work I suspect and not my area of expertise.
Did he say why he created a new 2025 account when he said he had 4? Why didn't he just request a PW reset of his OG account? Seemed awfully fishy. Especially since he didn't mention basic details, like populated or unpopulated system, which he'd know if he saw the installation in the nav panel (or by the radar contacts flying around), or whether the gas giant has several moons (also seen along the nav panel), or even what color the gas giant was? We're visual creatures, so if something ominous or strange happens to us we tend to be imprinted with a lasting image of things. More so than the numbers he provided (jump ranges, gas giant distance).
What his old account name? I might have seen one of the mapped giants with it on there. It sounds like he got in proximity of it with the old detail scanner, so if the name changed? It's highly possible that it was mapped.
What did he mean by "normal system name?" Elite has anything but. Most of them seem like they are acronyms or anagrams for something else...or sector names.
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I think it's clear by now he's not going to answer those questions. It's up to you to decide whether to believe him or not, or if you want to try and follow those steps. I personally didn't care if he was saying the truth or not, because there is no way I can know that unless he came clean and confessed it was all a ruse. But I decide that it was plausible enough and most importantly, it gave me enough information to start a limited search which I could do in a considerably short time. Which I did and didn't find anything, so decided I had spent enough time on that theory. Now I will wait for more information before resuming that search, or I'll try different theories.
But the point is, don't focus on why he did some things or not, you're not going to get the answers you want, none of us are. Even if he was being completely honest he could just not remember things straight, been a few years since it happened and he could have easily made a mistake and think he saw something different. Even if he made it all up, doesn't mean Raxxla isn't around the area he claims. At least he limited the search to a smaller area of space, I would say much smaller than the Great Raxxla Hunt for example. So might be worth doing, not much different than brute forcing a 200ly bubble around Sol.
Just decide if this is enough for you to actually waste some of your time on it, or otherwise you rather focus on other theories. Both options are totally fair. The time I spent looking wasn't wasted, I had a clear section of the map I wanted to focus on and during that time I found multiple unmapped gas giants and made some nice credits, and in the end I could scratch another theory from my list, at least until more information is provided.
P.S: I also tried contacting Drakkster to get some answers, but it's clear he is overwhelmed by all the people trying to get answers from him (regardless if he was telling the truth or not).
So very, very glad you believe him! Very understandable he's overwhelmed and avoiding attention. Thanks for letting us know
