Unknown Artefacts: if there is no puzzle to solve, should FD come clean and admit it?

[Derthek]

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[[HJ]-RedRaven]

If this was happening in real life, there'd be no 'clues' to be had or spoilers other than what you come up with yourselves. Its been interesting to see some of the more outlandish ideas being worked on seriously.

I think its been great to see you lot working on this together (or not), some of it organised, some of it very disjointed, but everyone involved in some way.

Fantastic efforts in finding the artifacts, making connections etc - even if it all proves to be coincidental/bugs etc then I think a fair bit of fun has been had by many, and that makes every ounce worthwhile.

I think Drew is the only one giving anything away at the moment.

 

[OrLoK]

If this was happening in real life, there'd be no 'clues' to be had or spoilers other than what you come up with yourselves.

Hello there

*Ahem* may I present Exhibit 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone



Rgds

LoK

 

[who?]

There's probably nothing as of yet. Look at some facts:

• ED is starved for content, and the Frontier knows it. They're not fools. You can only shoot ships for big money, dock ships for big money, scan balls for some money, or mine asteroids.
• If there is some playable feature-complete content out there, they would have announced it already.
• An actual alien race or whatever would take loads of time and effort.
• If they drip-feed news to the starving masses, it builds hype and keeps people from leaving.
• They can use this to buy time to develop 2spooky4me aliens or whatever it is they're planning, and they can even get ideas from what the community is speculating about.

I agree with all these points. I can't imagine they spent lots of time developing alien ships and technology, then hid them in a game with 400 billion systems (maybe 1 trillion planets?) and hoped someone would eventually find them.

I think this is the "hype" phase. Maybe the artefact is all there is for now; but I'd guess there are a few more steps/clues coming. At the end of which is likely some kind of warning, a shipwreck, a destroyed station (how cool would it be to explore a dead, darkened station from the inside?). A warning message. But no aliens, yet.

If Frontier are clever, they'll interweave their story with the player-generated theories. Someone comes up with a really clever theory? "Oh, that's good. Let's hide the next clue there, and we'll pretend it was there all along". Keep us all engaged.

The aliens will come in a future update - maybe soon. The Galnet hints and the introduction of a combat-explorer seem to point that way. That said, with Powerplay on the way -who cares about Galactic politics when aliens are banging on our door.

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

That said, with Powerplay on the way -who cares about Galactic politics when aliens are banging on our door.

The aliens might be a part of Powerplay. If not an actual Power then part of the storyline.

 

[Archvillain]

Hello there

*Ahem* may I present Exhibit 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone



Rgds

LoK

Ha, you imply that the Rosetta Stone shows that the real world does offer clues, yet dropped in these forums without prior knowledge the Rosetta Stone would be an even more complex decyphering problem than what (I suspect) any UA signal will be. If this was the real world, even the clues to the puzzle would be harder than this UA puzzle!

 

[DonJuan]

No, definitely. Like in real life some peoples will try to understand the nature of that sound and eventually decode it if is a coded message. Other peoples will continue to do othere researchs, on the surface for example. Maybe could happen some NPC scientist do some discover to give a little hint to players, but not more.

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The aliens might be a part of Powerplay. If not an actual Power then part of the storyline.

Agreed, and it will be also more interesting I suppose. In any case powerplay will have their importance.

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Additional content automerge ? This Forum is fantastic like this game.

 

[Yaffle]

Oooh, necro of the day!