Afaik, major testing with its sounds already went down before Brookes said anything. It was a mere confirmation for what already has been done, and more detailed testing followed.
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Afaik, major testing with its sounds already went down before Brookes said anything. It was a mere confirmation for what already has been done, and more detailed testing followed.
I'm inclined to agree, I got annoyed too a while back, but I do think it's time (it's been three months now) for a second official hint, no more specific than 'have you listened to it' but just to give a clear steer. If there are obvious clues in the game, they appear to only be obvious to the people who know they are there, and they are lost in the noise of stuff that isn't a clue and we're going round in circles again.
Props to the guys who discovered the Morse, and convinced us non-believers in the end, as that is the one sole thing we have discovered in three months of sciencing.
Custard Cream, anyone?
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Brookes original hint came near the start of the original thread, way before we ever set eyes on a UA.
I suddenly feel incompetent.
It's worth noting the hint was "Have you listened to them?" (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=141038&p=2160913&viewfull=1#post2160913). MB never said "the Unknown Artefact" & used a plural. I don't know that it means anything (who's "them"? Just the UA? In plural? Listening to someone/thing else? A movie/book reference?) but FDev is very insistent on this.
Tinman used the word "them" in context to the UA
Micheal may have just been using the same word to remain in context with the quoted post.
He's an official ambassador, and has visited the FD offices a few times and is on friendly terms with the devs. He says that he has been told things, and I have no particular reason to disbelieve him, but I do think we need to a bit careful about being led too far by anyone who isn't Michael Brookes, for example authors who want to sell books and streamers who want viewers. I really don't think it's malicious, but the lack of official input is a bit frustrating. Maybe Chatham House rules apply, but does anyone know who said we are close at lavecon?
Probably a bit off topic, but his puts me in mind of Douglas Adams' character Dirk Gently and his method of navigation:
Dirk Gently Navigation Method
Also known as "Zen Navigation".
From TheLongDarkTeatimeOfTheSoul, by DouglasAdams (page 153 of the Pocket Books paperback):
"... A few turnings later and I was thoroughly lost. There is a school of thought which says that you should consult a map on these occasions, but to such people I merely say, 'Ha! What if you have no map to consult? What if you have a map but it's of the Dordogne?' My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it is going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be. So what do you say to that?"
"Piffle."
"A robust response. I salute you."
He also had a theory if how to get out of Cambridge, involving achieving escape velocity...
The "Unknown Artifacts" were a sci-metal group popular in the 2930s and are enjoying a bit of a resurgence of interest along with other classical music.
(sorry!)
-Pops head out of the ground-
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
-goes back underground-
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Thanks! That's roughly what I thought but wasn't sure.
Ha! you know i totally missed that - I was basing my phage idea on the existence of plagues and shape of the UA.... well at least we have a possible tie in. Anyone know if this is a "Official" article - or player submitted?
Quote from article :
" While he denied that the team were calling the new disease the Cerberus Plague, one technician did confirm that the name was being used unofficially and came from an unusual three-pronged structure at the ‘head’ of the phage-like organism"
It's offical and that was put in because Karrash went out of his way to go to frontier to give us a hint and that is it! Also player submitted are limited in word count.
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The thing is - who says he does? Him?
Based on that logic, then I'm going to own up to being the undercover FDev at this party, and suggest that my job has been to ensure that this snowball kept rolling along, gathering mass, keeping the interest levels high after the Morse was discovered, because it was clear that if that was all there is, there'd be a lot of annoyed people...
I'm going to poke the bear and say I don't think he knows anything.
That previous quote about the Masquerade Puzzle is so worryingly close to the way we're all behaving, and the only rebuttal there is to it is that 'Kerrash says we're close'.
That's a lot of faith to place in someone that hasn't actually been involved... Look what happened with Drew, we all assumed his story was involved until he categorically said it wasn't. But it was so plausible that even today there were some of us (not criticising, it was perfectly reasonable, based on the evidence) still thought the events were connected.
We have no idea whether the Cerberus stuff is in any way connected to the UA, and we only have hope to rely upon, and the faith in Kerrash, that that Galnet is somehow the mythical 'clue' he was hoping to get us is in that post. For anybody to say 'it's definitely linked', they must have seen more evidence than I believe is available.
A cracking wheeze, if you ask me.
I'm not getting angry with you guys - and I'm still having a lot of fun - but I think this is the ultra-sceptic view of where we're at - and there is nothing to counter it...
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What is your evidence for such a claim?
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He did say that he would like to help us but that would be cheating.
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