I like how they do these things during my work day...
well hoping it will keep till the weekend or atleast until the evening
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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well hoping it will keep till the weekend or atleast until the evening
What are your elite ranks?
I still don't believe it's a bug yet, by the time the external camera was lined up the glow likely would've faded as roughly 6-8 seconds had passed, and the glow was already fading before switching to camera. Would be interesting to get a wing out there to see if the source is visible from a second ship.
The only Elite I have is in Exploration.
Maybe one area lights up for each rank you have.
Mm, it’s a possible explanation of the green glows but I’m not convinced. Of the 8 videos that Clixer posted (nice going there guys!) on my iPad I can only see two that have another ship and one of those is not convincing wrt the light source direction. You’d expect other ships to be flying around so one or two dropping in/out is not surprising.
If this phenomenon was related to other ship’s in SC, then why does it only appear in Sol? It hasn’t been reported to my knowledge in 5 years of flying in ED.
This possibility should be borne in mind for further investigation, but I wouldn’t plump for this as an explanation.
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I could only see something useful in CMDR Falconscreech's vid, it said 924 kLs from Sol. Asteroid belt is 1.1 - 1.6 kLs (my calculations, not FD's). Could be the closest belt limit, don't know exactly where FD put it in-game.
When checking for the green-glow source, it might be useful to have Sol selected in order to get an accurate distance reading, so other cmdrs might use it to try to replicate.
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Yes, it does fade very quickly. Perhaps it’s something starting to instance, triggered by pilot proximity, but then we go beyond the distance threshold so it disappears. This would fit with what I’d expect of an Omphalos Rift. Still think of the alleged DB video where he was supposed to have said:
DB: "- It would be more likely to reveal itself to a group of players."
Interviewer: "- How so?"
DB: "- If you are at the right place and you scan it enough..."
Interviewer: "- Advanced scanner or the basic one?"
DB: "- Basic scanning is enough."
That was when Scanners existed in basic, intermediate and advanced versions with corresponding detection ranges. IFF this is true then it does seem that it’s related to the distance at which the ship scans it. But that assumes there’s only one “thing” to trigger the glow and at one location but various detections have been found at various places around the belt. I think there’s a clue in the Raxxla icon. Need to get that & the sector map aligned in various scaling to see if that highlights anything.
Maybe we need to hunt for vivid glows and try a concerted effort at crashing out of SC at its maximum to see if we get a close look/instance?
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The main asteroid belt has inner radius 1027 ls from Sol outer radius is 1631 ls, so middle is 1327 ls.
If you want to see the asteroid cluster symbol shown in the hud then you mustn’t have anything selected. It’s easy enough with a headtracker to keep glancing over at Sol to check the distance, or a quick look in the nav panel if Sol is at the top of the list.
Ok. Distances from sun. 1st vid - aprox 1071 kLs, 2nd vid - unclear, 3rd vid - unclear, 4th vid - 1501 kLs, 5th vid - 924 kLs, 6th vid - unclear, 7th vid - unclear, 8th - unclear, 9th - unclear, 10th - unclear.
Even with those numbers, on one instance the green glow appeared outside those numbers. We need to know if the glow can appear even outside belt limits, or if it's belt-only.
I’ve been checking a few asteroid belts, on my slow return to the bubble. One thing I have noticed, is that clusters are often way of the plane in the orrery map.
Only about 50 jumps to Sol. I might get there soon.
yelboc said he has seen it at Titan station and no one noticed his message
There’s a surprise!
Lost track of the number of stars I encountered that wouldn’t complete scanning!!
I pointed out about 10 posts ago that the first video taken by Spliffz is about the strongest I've seen the glow. he was only about 1100 ls from Sol, heading away from Sol towards Jupiter, & quite a way above the plane of the belt. So yes, outside the belt! (Unless it’s much thicker in-game than IRL?)
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May anyone check that green glow with the external camera with some angles? I remembered old bug with supergiant stars and large star systems when that star showing with dark circle at the center. At the some distance from the star. And also there was the special external camera angle that allow to view the star in fully glow (without the dark circle). Some special box of effect placed around the ship but this box causes that bug. May someone look at the Sun with external camera for example? The Sun should be near the screen edge for it.
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Has anyone tried dropping from supercruise when the glow is at its brightest?
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Heres a good one,
Has anyone put their head cam into free view on green glow experience, and tried to look INSIDE your cockpit, behind your chair?
Like in VR, you can see the enitre inside of the pit, ect....
What about with a multi-crew person watching for the glow inside and outside?
Im curious if somthing INSIDE our ships themselves is creating the glow.....
Has anyone put their head cam into free view on green glow experience, and tried to look INSIDE your cockpit, behind your chair?
Like in VR, you can see the enitre inside of the pit, ect....
What about with a multi-crew person watching for the glow inside and outside?
Im curious if somthing INSIDE our ships themselves is creating the glow.....
Ya i like this - honestly i think ive seen the green flash in the past but cant for the life of me remember the situation. I think later this eve or so I will go find a place in a different system where alot of signal sources pop up and see if i can recreate it there. I am thinking the flash is associated with a signal source popping up close to you ... or something like that. Or maybe its the coffee machine letting you know its ready...
Mmm, I’m not coming round to yours for coffee and biccies if your coffee glows green!