XU Forum Quest Round 19 [Ended]

[Iifrit Tambuur-san]

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 19

Time limit for round: 28.05.2012 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 this ship?

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Question 3


What enigmas found by the ship 'Mercantile' did the Argon later deny knowing anything about?

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

- The X-Universe Forum Quest Group




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[Ketraar]

Hmm no cheeky comments on how easy the questions are? No doubts about the meanings? Very odd indeed.

Can it be that this round started unnoticed?

MFG

Ketraar

[Lwerewolf]

Ok.
Q1 - Easy sector hunt. Do something like the XUFQ11 sector hunt (Alpha Centauri) next time I guess... Certainly harder than this
Q2 - Easy to narrow down the search, otherwise nice.
Q3 - Standart lore question. The easiest of the bunch

Sent mine in a bit earlier than usual this time, being abroad and not trusting the availability of the internet in the hotels too much... ^_^.

Aaand there's nothing to doubt here... Very straightforward

[EmperorJon]

1. Easy.
2. Very easy.
3. Harder, but possible.

[Ravna]

Strange "Screenshot" at 2:
Maybe you should read that Photoshop manual again . .

[EmperorJon]

[Thunders]

A simple cut of the screenshot would have been less... disturbing.

I think that they were trying to hide some relevant details of that ship.

[Ketraar]

The pics are ingame shots. No disturbances anywhere.

MFG

Ketraar

[Lwerewolf]

[X2-Illuminatus]

Round 19 has ended and here are the correct answers:

Q1 - Rhonkar's Clouds
Q2 - Xenon Q
Q3 - Abandoned (alien) asteroid mining stations (with some similarity to Argon technology) found during Teladi exploration of Mines of Fortune.

Thanks for participation, everyone. The rankings will be updated during the day. The next round starts on Friday.

[Juggernaut93]

[EmperorJon]

And I forgot once again. Meant to do it on Sunday night.

Oh well, I knew them all anyway.

[Ketraar]

I hope you are not running for special mention...

Anyway, ranking list updated.

MFG

Ketraar

[Makoaman]

i remember the first time i saw ronkars clouds. while doing the treasure hunt plot for the first time and i had gone to it thinking it was the sector where you find the asteroid with the data storage device in it i counted wrong and in the wrong direction.

[Ketraar]

Hey, hey its Friday

Round 20 Just started, have fun solving it.

MFG

Ketraar