What do you think DB meant by this?

Eloy

Eloy
Kayweg said:
Yeah, too much interpreting, too little reading.
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Absolutely. They planted something somewhere in the galaxy and someday one of our brave explorers will encounter it, hopefully survive and be able to spread the news on Galnet.
Or maybe he is wise enough to keep it to himself if it deserves to be saved from men as long as possible. Who knows.

I once found a USS in uncivilised space during my journey to Barnard´s Loop. It was an ASP, ripped apart, probably a fellow explorer. But that´s for sure not what Mr.Braben meant. Or maybe it´s a trace of things to discover.

Explorers, spread out !
 
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Galten75

Galten75
Even if he is yanking our chains (which I don't think he is) the possibility of something out there in the blackness of space makes one sporting a explorer partial. :eek:

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TheSPunk3d

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Nothing to get too hyped about people.

He probably just meant signal sources and crap like that.

If there are some super mega ultra special things drifting around in space at the present time, I highly doubt anyone will ever find anything.
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
CookieJarviz said:
Made me want to quit my job as a bounty hunter. My goal is to find anything out there... ANYTHING! of what FD has said about other things being out there my goal.... isView attachment 31519 to get to the other side of the galaxy... wish me luck gentlemen... may the war with the feds and the empire go smoothly... as i may not make it back in time ;)
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Between the Fed and Empire tensions and the Th...ings-Whose-Name-We-Dare-Not-Mention, there might not even be anything to return home to by the time some of us are done. ;) But anyway, good luck and may the Galaxy be with you. :)
 

jcrg99

Banned
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TheSPunk3d said:
Nothing to get too hyped about people.

He probably just meant signal sources and crap like that.

If there are some super mega ultra special things drifting around in space at the present time, I highly doubt anyone will ever find anything.
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No sir... He said more in the AMA thread later... answered that was not talking about the probes in Sol and that what was in his mind was added during the Wings update. "Signal sources and crap like that" exist since before wings.

I bet that they added something (or even more than one thing) very very far, in order to motivate those who are out there very very far searching things for a long time now, because it's the kind of that situation where, even that you end not been the one who find it, you will fell that your try/sacrifice of going deep had more meaning.
 
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Archvillain

Archvillain
RosaMaus said:
Most explorers wouldn't go near a WSS/USS/SSS even if they saw one out there , no shields, no guns, and definitely no cargo scoop...:)
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I've been starting to investigate signal sources in uncharted space. One of my self-made "challenges" is trying to find the best undiscovered system I can that is also as close to human space as possible. If I first-discover a nice system and it has a USS in it, that means more to me than finding a planet with life - it means the system is "alive" in a gameplay sense, so I'm starting to check out those USS's.

Since I'm within 1000LY of human space, a LY jump-range in the low-twenties is fine, so I'm exploring with a fully armed and operational Cobra. When a USS is a pirate, I can easily outrun it, or happily destroy it. :)
 
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Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
Archvillain said:
I've been starting to do investigate signal sources. One of my self-made "challenges" is trying to find the best undiscovered system I can that is also as close to human space as possible. If I first-discover a nice system and it has a USS in it, that means more to me than finding a planet with life - it means the system is "alive" in a gameplay sense, so I'm starting to check out those USS's.

Since I'm within 1000LY of human space, a LY jump-range in the low-twenties is fine, so I'm exploring with a fully armed and operational Cobra. When a USS is a pirate, I can easily outrun it, or happily destroy it. :)
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A good philosophy to have, in my opinion: less exploring and more adventuring. :) I'm having second thoughts about defanging my Cobra now, and in the spirit of adventure, and in the light of discussion, I will probably go back to fully arming her again. If not for the protection, then for the spare parts if a critical system breaks down and needs rebooting. ;)
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
Zion Ravescene said:
A good philosophy to have, in my opinion: less exploring and more adventuring. :) I'm having second thoughts about defanging my Cobra now, and in the spirit of adventure, and in the light of discussion, I will probably go back to fully arming her again. If not for the protection, then for the spare parts if a critical system breaks down and needs rebooting. ;)
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Same here with my Asp... I wish I'd kept my weapons (well, four of them anyway). I'm making my way back now to rectify the situation (and replace my power plant, or whatever it is I mistakenly replaced that removed my boost capability :D ).
 

PotatoOverdose

PotatoOverdose
The wording is very vague. What is deep space? Is 200,000 LS from Lave deep space? Or is 15,000 LY from Sol deep space?

We know that new goods (Artifacts, AI cores, etc.) were introduced with wings. Is that "something" just an npc with these goods in it's cargohold?

If you're a developer putting in content, you're not gonna put it in where no one would ever look. There are probably 50 billion brown dwarf systems out there, most of them between -20 and -40 of the galactic axis. If you placed "something" in one of those absolutely worthless systems, it's probable no one would ever find it - which is cool and all, except that's wasted man hours that serve no purpose, really.

Given that, if something has been placed, it's probably been placed near a landmark of some kind (Sag A*, Annihilator, Thor's Eye, Nebula, Forbidden Permit System).
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
Kancro Vantas said:
If indeed there are "other" things out there, they most likely are alien. The only easter egg that we have confirmed is the Voyagers...but those are the farthest man made objects. Anything other than that, is alien made.

Unless they come up with things that do not exist right now but will exist in say, 2,634.
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Don't forget Generation Ships.
In Elite lore (previous games), humans started colonizing the galaxy before the invention of faster-than-light drives. They did this with generation ships - giant colonies that would travel to another star system at sub-relativistic speeds, but were built to last that long journey between the stars. Called "generation ships" because the crew that arrived at the star would be the descendants of the original crew that launched; the journey was so long it would span generations.

That was centuries ago, but of course, many of those ships are still on their journey, travelling silently in the deep black, their crew unaware that the distant star system that has been their destination and salvation since before they were born, has already been visited - if not colonized - centuries ago.

Or their crew may be centuries-dead, their giant ghost-ships drifting forever.

(relativistic effects also mean that a hundred years on the generation ship could be thousands of years outside that frame, but generally it's best to not try to bring relativity into Elite, because FTL drives don't mix well with that :) )
 
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PotatoOverdose

PotatoOverdose
Archvillain said:
Don't forget Generation Ships.
In Elite lore (previous games), humans started colonizing the galaxy before the invention of faster-than-light drives. They did this with generation ships - giant colonies that would travel to another star system at sub-relativistic speeds, but were built to last the long journey between the stars. Called generation ships because the crew that arrived at the star would be the descendants of the original crew that launched; the journey was so long it would span generations.

Of course, many of those ships are still on their journey, travelling silently in the deep black, their crew unaware that the star system that has been their destination and salvation since before they were born, has already been visited - if not colonized - centuries ago.

(relativistic effects also meant that a hundred years on the generation ship could be a thousand years outside that frame, but generaly it's best to not try to bring relativity into Elite, because FTL drives don't mix well with that :) )
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With Generation Ships, you're pretty much limited to a 1300 LY radius of Sol, assuming the generation ships had a maximum speed of 0.999c. Also, I'd find it kinda difficult to believe that generation ships are in game already, mostly because if they were - someone would have found their art assets by now.
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
PotatoOverdose said:
If you're a developer putting in content, you're not gonna put it in where no one would ever look.
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Yes and no. There are hundreds of thousands of people playing this game. You kind of need to put it somewhere that (almost) no-one would ever look just to make sure it isn't discovered before breakfast the next day. :)
 
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PotatoOverdose

PotatoOverdose
Archvillain said:
Yes and no. There are hundreds of thousands of people playing this game. You kind of need to put it somewhere that (almost) no-one would ever look just to make sure it isn't discovered before breakfast the next day. :)
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Yeah, but 50 billion brown dwarfs off the galactic axis, you put it in one of those - well, good luck. :D

If something special was put in, I'd wager it would be within a couple hundred LY of one of the landmarks I mentioned.
 
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