At the moment, i'm not feeling that we are (players and the community ) are making any progress in any direction.
We are jumping at the slightest "maybe discovery" just to realize it is either a dead end, cannot be proved, cannot be accomplished by a reasonable amount of players involved and/or within a (at least) reasonable amount of time.
Somewhere at the FDev Offices, is somebody sitting at his desk, and is either crying or laughing. Not saying it is MB. I don't know.
We do not have any leads or are on a track of some kind. At least none of what we know of.
I don't want to be presented with a solution ! Absolutly not. But i would like to be guided (or the community as it is) by ingame hints. However those may look like. Dropping a single sentence/statment in a Forum is not what i mean. (or would even expect!)
Currently, everything is over-analyzed. If somebody from Fdev would drop something like "Not feeling well, i got a cold" - this would be good for another 20 Pages in this thread, and probably all possible (and impossible) connections to in-game things would be made. Of course the now famous "winter is coming" would add another 20 pages. In the end, just somebody got a Cold. Period. As easy as it is. (just as an example of how almost desperatly we are jumping on everything served to us)
Today then i learned that "Pen & Paper" is not good enough anymore ? (or maybe it is, who knows ? )
To that "somebody who is either laughing or crying at FDev" :
If this community, your community of Elite Dangerous, is unable by now, to make progress, any progress with the tiniest steps forward, than it is definetely not the fault of this community. Because it already proved how capable and dedicated they are.
In the end this will lead to people who are:
experts for the earth barnacles and their mating behaviour on earth
experts for whale sounds, and can probably communicate with dolphins in the local aquarium
experts for trajectory of stars and planets
experts in figuring out how tight a searching grid for a large scale search mission would have to be
experts in mathematics of all kind
well educated signalman
knowing every singel pixel and any stone on merope5C
.... and so on and so on ..
However - they will at the moment, most likely not succeed in discovering whatever there is, or making any progress in the right direction. (let alone knowing what the right direction might be)
And after the next few month, somebody will tell us "well it was actually meant like this, however 'you' did not discover it, though we diverted the plot to something, somewhere else.
Or even worse: we will eventually be presented with a clue, and realize that hundreds of pages of theories are completly worhtless, because we just made the wrong assumption, walked of to thousand different directions, with a million ideas, all backed by just a few bread crumbs in a galaxy of 400Billion objects. In your face, community.... it was just as easy, you just did not understand where we pointed you.
(or the next "steps" are not really there, contratry to what was communicated, i don't know really, everything seems possible)
Again - not asking for "the solution", but something ingame, which is usable, and detectable, without the need of whatever external and maybe sophistcated tool or software, that would be helpfull, and would advance the gameplay.
It should not be effortless, it should not be "in your face"-obvious, but it should be recognizable by a community like this. Which is probably one of the finest, if not the finest, in the whole gaming industry.
If this community right now is so much stumped, clinching to every possible and even impossible clue, even to non existing clues, than it is not, and by far,not their fault.
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