EGOSOFT wishes everyone a happy easter!

[Ogerboss]

EGOSOFT and the forums' crew wish you Happy Easter!

As every year, we put the Easter Bunny into a space suit, stored some insider information in his cargobay and abandoned him somewhere in the forums to hide this information. This year there is further information about 2.1, and according to some rumours it could contain a new mission developed by community members. We were able to convince Ketraar to design a couple of astonishing wallpapers to give you a glance what you might expect for the update 2.1.

Friendly as the Easter bunny (one of his aliases is Carlo the Curious, I heard) is, he has left us a few hints. However, he enciphered them. If you can decode them, you might find something really surprising.

1: Even the most venerable warrior sometimes needs the advice from other comrades. Don't be afraid of listening to their hints, and be brave enough to look down into the abyss' heart.

2: Search the wide Universe Hex quadrant 6B3. You shall see the one referring to a game with Kings, Knights and Pawns.

3: The easter bunny told me, that these last words from the Boron Bala Gi in addition with those strange bunch of numbers and the great emptiness of space could help you to find an easter egg.

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I just bought a load of spaceweed from a teladi dealer. This peace is just fantastic, I can't imagine how I lived without it in the past. It just feels like being in heaven... Oh, what a nice fluffy asteroid, it looks like it wants to hug me.

167 -48 -89 +4 +8 +135 -1 +31 /207 +24 +2 -19 +9 +15 +2 +42 -0 +131 +24 +5 -2 -119


4: Some say an easter egg search is like a small treasure hunt. True enough, both may have their rewards if you look in the right part of the universe.

5: And finally, he told me that this log entry also could help you...

One day, long after I first entered the X-Universe, I encountered many new ships. But to my surprise, they didn't have cockpits, and even after searching for an age there was still no sign of them. But, finally, a vision from the godfather enlightened me.

And now, have fun with the Easter Egg hunt and Happy Easter!
Your Easter...err Ogerboss

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Ok, I think you had enough time to look for the easter eggs. For all those, who didn't find them all, here are the solutions for the riddles.

1: The warrior is a X-veteran and the collected advices from his comrades are the collected guides and tutorials stickied here.

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2: The hexadecimal number was the forum page (X-universe) and the rest of the hint a reference to the topic title "chess".

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3: This was a count all characters (including spaces, dots etc) quest. The bunch of numbers told you which of them were interesting. The result was the topic title.

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4: Here you had to find the words "treasure", "hunt" and "rewards" as the key words, giving you the topic title and then you had to look for a table listing those rewards.

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5: The Keyword was "no cockpits" and the fact that he was in the XU for a long time, therefore leading you to the cockpits-thread for X3:R, to page 51 (see flight log note in the quote header). And the hint with the Godfather means that you had to look for a post from Bernd.

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[PlatinumTech]

A hunt eh? Well, easter should be about bringing us together, so I'm willing to help out. Here's my analysis of the post.

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1: Even the most venerable warrior(Split Warrior?) sometimes needs the advice from other comrades. Don't be afraid of listening to their hints(troubleshooting area?), and be brave enough to look down into the abyss' (Thyn's Abyss? Split Sector) heart.(What about the Member here, The_Abyss?)

2: Search the wide Universe Hex quadrant 6B1(Hexidecimal=1713. Sector at 17,13 is Sancity of Corruption, Teladi sector). You shall see the one reffering to a game with Kings, Knights and Pawns (Boron?).

3: The easter bunny told me, that these last words from the Boron Bala Gi in addition with those strange bunch of numbers and the great emptiness of space could help you to find an easter egg.

I just bought a load of spaceweed from a teladi dealer. This peace is just fantastic, I can't imagine how I lived without it in the past. It just feels like being in heaven... Oh, what a nice fluffy asteroid, it looks like it wants to hug me.

167 -48 -89 +4 +8 +135 -1 +31 /207 +24 +2 -19 +9 +15 +2 +42 -0 +131 +24 +5 -2 -119
Using the operands in order (not using Order of Operations): 115 (01, 15 = Empty Coordinate)

4: Some say an easter egg search is like a small treasure hunt(Treasure Chest (14, 06)?). True enough, both may have their rewards if you look in the right part of the universe.

5: And finally he told me, that this logentry also could help you...

One day, long after I first entered the X-Universe, I encountered many new ships(Xenon? Kha'ak? Or just lack of cockpits in general?). But to my surprise, they didn't have cockpits, and even after searching for an age there was still no sign (billboard?) of them. But, finally, a vision(Duke's Vision? Coordinate: 1,9 Paranid) from the godfather(Godfather = ?(Duke? Yaki maybe?) enlightened me.
Aron Danna (Who?) - Flight log 51(Important?)

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[eladan]

Nice try, but mostly along the wrong track.

Can I ask that anyone who does find these not spoil the fun for everyone else please. That probably extends to keeping speculations spoilerised as well.

[Zypherg]

I just hope they remember to add:

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<ware typename="SS_FAC_TR_PROTEIN_PL_1" exact="1"/>

someplace

[Lord Hayden]

Arg! I don't get it! But here is my try:

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EGOSOFT and the forums' crew wish you Happy Easter!

As every year, we put the Easter Bunny into a space suit, stored some insider information in his cargobay and abandoned him somewhere in the forums to hide this information. This year there is further information about 2.1, and according to some rumours it could contain a new mission developed by community members. We were able to convince Ketraar Maybe we should as Ketraar...? to design a couple of astonishing wallpapers to give you a glance what you might expect for the update 2.1.

Friendly as the Easter bunny (one of his alias is Carlo the Curious Ask Carlo too...? I heard) is, he has left us a few hints. However, he enciphered them. If you can decode them, you might find something really surprising.

1: Even the most venerable warrior sometimes needs the advice from other comrades Split. Don't be afraid of listening to their hints, and be brave enough to look down into the abyss' heart.

2: Search the wide Universe Hex quadrant 6B1. You shall see the one reffering to a game with Kings, Knights and Pawns.Boron, but where is 6B1?

3: The easter bunny told me, that these last words from the Boron Bala Gi in addition with those strange bunch of numbers and the great emptiness of space could help you to find an easter egg.

I just bought a load of spaceweed from a teladi dealer. This peace is just fantastic, I can't imagine how I lived without it in the past. It just feels like being in heaven... Oh, what a nice fluffy asteroid, it looks like it wants to hug me. Bala Gi is on drugs?!

167 -48 -89 +4 +8 +135 -1 +31 /207 +24 +2 -19 +9 +15 +2 +42 -0 +131 +24 +5 -2 -119WTF?!


4: Some say an easter egg search is like a small treasure hunt. True enough, both may have their rewards if you look in the right part of the universe.I always hated treasure hunts, just tell me where it is...

5: And finally he told me, that this logentry also could help you...

One day, long after I first entered the X-Universe, I encountered many new ships. But to my surprise, they didn't have cockpits, and even after searching for an age there was still no sign of them. But, finally, a vision from the godfather enlightened me.
Aron Danna - Flight log 51 Does that mean we are going to get cockpits in the new update?!



And now, have fun with the Easter Egg hunt and Happy Easter!
Your Easter...err Ogerboss

I believe that this has been the treasure hunt, looking through it for infomation on the 2.1 update, am I right...?

Well...?

[Lancefighter]

Epic! i founds number 3...

Nice stuffs there

the /207 confused me a bit

edit. your all looking at it wrong xD

tis not clues...

and 1 those are some nice wallpapers.

However...

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it would appear that there is more than one community mission? confirm/deny?

ok i give up... i suppose thast what i get for trying this at 4 in the morning. 2 out of 5 aint bad, eh?
now, back to somzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZ

[ThommoHawk]

this is now giving me a headache.......

[Ogerboss]

Just to make it clear again: Every hint leads you to a specific topic in the english forums (every hint is independent from the other ones). So think about, which topics could be meant, at least some of them should be well-known to you, other ones could be from the crypt.

And have a nice hunting.

[eladan]

Epic! i founds number 3...

The only one I haven't found... it's got me stumped at the moment.

[mad_axeman]

Yay!!! For the first time - I've found four.

#1. (I think). Not sure I like the wallpapers though they are informative.
#2. Just got this too.
#3. Eventually found this one.
#5. Doesn't really show much though. As per #1.

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just 1 more to go!!

[Magnabyte]

yay, found number 1

on a side note, will we get a list of the locations after the hunt, so no one misses out on the eggs?

[ThommoHawk]

Yay. I have found all of them.
I found #1
I found #2
I found #3
I found #4
I found #5
I found #6
I found #7
I found #8
I found #9
I found #10 beat you all to it, nyha,nyha,ny-hyaha

[Fated]

Great now I got a headache

stil it's real fun every year

[Carlo the Curious]

Friendly as the Easter bunny (one of his aliases is Carlo the Curious, I heard) is, he has left us a few hints.

I think that's just a translation artifact - you actually heard I ate the Easter Bunny. And very tasty he was too!

(and no, that's not a clue).

on a side note, will we get a list of the locations after the hunt, so no one misses out on the eggs?

I imagine so. iirc, last year all the eggs were posted in the OP once the search was over.

[Demolisher 2]

I found 4, and 5.

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1. I think 1 might be something to do with the NUKLEAR SLUG stories?

2. I tried typing the 6B1 hexidecimal (1713) into the topic= part at the top, but no luck
ETA: IT CHANGED TO 6B2! WTF?

3. Not a clue where to start!

[Ogerboss]

@Demolisher 2

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yeah, it's correct, that #2 changed, the forum changes from time to time too *g*

[Sp@c3Ch!mp]

thank you very much.

[Demolisher 2]

Heh, that gave me 2.

Two left... 1 and 3. I expect 3 to be difficult judging by the posts here...

[brucewarren]

I just found 2 and 3. Completely at sea with the others.

[Lancefighter]

Epic! i founds number 3...

The only one I haven't found... it's got me stumped at the moment.

If your still looking for it....

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start counting characters

Heh, that gave me 2.

Two left... 1 and 3. I expect 3 to be difficult judging by the posts here...

what?! 3 was the easiest...
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You changed the OP!
It used to be hex 6b1, now its 6b2!
No wonder i couldnt find it.