I suspect though that MB wants us to use our brains to find the target, not use a brute force approach as many of us are doing.
My guess is his hints were not intended to send us all scurrying to the region to start scanning madly, but instead apply those hints to the things like analyzing the videos or in-game info (little that it is) to it.
I could of course be totally off base.
Agreed, but we seem to have a lack of real in-game info to go on at the moment.
In the absence of more hints, brute force seems like the only way.
I'm not sure I like a reliance of out-of-game resources for things like this.
If the trailer clip is an actual clue - i.e. a real location in the game and not just custom resources for the video, then it would be better to reveal it via a news item with some additional info in the text.
What do we actually know from in the game:
- UAs orient to the main star in Merope
- UAs transmit morse representations of ships
- the meta-alloy commodity description - "associated with barnacles ... common in certain regions of space"
- the meta-alloy mission - ~6 days to find it on a 'Planet'
We already have a better clue than the information that MB gave us - UAs pointing to Merope, and specifically to Merope.
But then the linkage between barnacles and UAs is speculation at this point.
Not much more than that to go on that I can see - everything else that people are chasing seems like speculation to me - gravity, dark-sides, fog, tidally locked, etc.
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