XUFQ - Round 15

[Fanchen]

Hello, Community!

Welcome to the X-Universe Forum Quest, let us introduce this little project.

We would like to offer you a competition while you wait for X Rebirth to be released and thus play X3: Terran Conflict probably for the 1000th time. We're quite sure that you know the universe you're playing in by now and so we have come up with some riddles for you to solve. Your knowledge of the sectors, ships, stations as well as the history of X will be put to the test in this competition.

This competition is not just to pass the time until X Rebirth is released. We have great prizes for the winners and for one "Lucky Loser". So be sure to take part. Even if you don't win, you might be the lucky one that gets the special prize. Ensure that you read the rules below. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. We look forward to seeing how much you know about the X universe.

Rules:

• All registered users of the EGOSOFT forums are permitted to participate with the exception of EGOSOFT staff members, administrators and members of the XU Forum Quest group.
  
• Answers are only considered valid if submitted via email to xuforumquest@egosoft.com including your forum nick. Note that you should inform us if you change your nick, otherwise you risk losing your score.
  
• Please use XU Forum Quest Round x (where x is the number of the current round) as the subject for your email entry.
  
• If multiple entries are submitted by the same user then only the first one received will be considered valid.
  
• If multiple users share the same score, those who have participated in more rounds will be ranked higher. Should both scores be the same, then the users will share the same rank.
  
• If any user posts a solution to a question (right or wrong) in the forum, they may be excluded from that round and the answer will be removed.
  
• A 'Lucky Loser' is to be randomly selected from the users that have participated in at least 42% of the rounds and who is not ranked among the top three users.

Prizes:

• The winner receives a signed copy of X Rebirth, a Steam X-Superbox and a poster
  
• 2nd place gets a steam copy of both X Rebirth and X-Superbox
  
• 3rd place gets a Steam copy of X Rebirth
  
• The Lucky Loser will also receive a steam copy of X Rebirth

Standings:

Standings can be looked up on the special off-site XU Forum Quest Standings

XU Forum Quest Round 15

Time limit for round: 02.04.2012 - 24:00 CET
Note: Participation will earn you 1 point and each correct answered question is worth 3 points.

Question 1

Which sector is this?

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Question 2

What is the name of the station that you can see in the foreground of this screenshot?

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Question 3

What happened to the sector formerly known as "Light of Hope"?

We wish you all the best of luck and hope for wide participation.

- The X-Universe Forum Quest Group




Email Template

Email to: xuforumquest@egosoft.com
Subject: XU Forum Quest Round x

Nickname: {insert here your forum user name}
Answer to Question 1: {insert your answer here}
Answer to Question 2: {insert your answer here}
Answer to Question 3: {insert your answer here}

[Ravna]

[EmperorJon]

There is a sector which used to be known as Light of Hope, and now has a new name for a reason which is stated somewhere in the game information... they want the reason the name changed.

[Lwerewolf]

[Ravna]

I didn't rant, I was merely asking.
The question as such is unclear.
I know which sector is meant, but what happened to it ?
If they wanted to know why it was renamed, they'd have said so.
Since it is "formerly known as" the obvious answer is: "It got a new name."
But I'm pretty sure that doesn't qualify as a valid answer.
Of course, one could just copy-paste the "info stated somewhere."
Maybe I'm over cautious but the non-female queens are still in my mind.

. . and thx for the good advice

[Lwerewolf]

[Alan Phipps]

Official Response: Go with EJ's interpretation.

[EmperorJon]

Heheh, forgot to enter AGAIN! Oh well, don't care as long as I've entered more than 42% of them.

[Ketraar]

Round 15 over and here are the solutions

Q1: Great Reef
Q2: Wheat Farm L alpha in Antigone Memorial
Q3: Formerly Boron colony that was attacked by Xenon and is now called Wastelands

Rankings updated at the usual site, thanks all for partecipating (that excludes you EJ ), new round next Friday.

MFG

Ketraar

[EmperorJon]

I participate!

[NeverSnake]

Was there any way to tell whether it was the L or M wheat farm without identifying the individual station?

[EmperorJon]

It doesn't matter, you were asked for the name of the station, not the type of station.

[Thunders]

All my answers were considered wrong since I only got the point for participation although I answered wrong only to the first question. Nice.

[X2-Illuminatus]

You've got 4 points this round. 1 for participation and 3 for the correct answer to the third question. Your answers to the first and the second question were wrong.

We also just checked your overall score and you're correctly listed with 5 participations and 38 points.

[Thunders]