XU Forum Quest - Round 5

Fanchen · Post by **Fanchen** » Wed, 12. Oct 11, 17:36

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 [no more mails please] 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 Steam X-Superbox
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 5

Time limit for round: 24.10.2011 - 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 object in the foreground of this screenshot?
  
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Question 3
- How many times do inhabitants of Red Light have to jump in order to visit the sector once destroyed by a supernova, given they don't have access to the jump drive or the HUB?

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

- The X-Universe Forum Quest Group

Email Template

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StarTroll · Post by **StarTroll** » Sat, 15. Oct 11, 14:02

By object do you mean the object type (ship, station,...) or its name ?

TTD · Post by **TTD** » Sat, 15. Oct 11, 16:05

Nice screen shot.
Now on my desktop

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Sat, 15. Oct 11, 16:37

By object do you mean the object type (ship, station,...) or its name ?

Its name.

StarTroll · Post by **StarTroll** » Sat, 15. Oct 11, 18:11

X2-Illuminatus wrote:
By object do you mean the object type (ship, station,...) or its name ?
Its name.

okay thanks

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 15. Oct 11, 19:53

By object do you mean the object type

Is it an "entity"? I win.

Anyway, once again another easy-ish round. I think I'll go with my tradition of entering on the night it's due in again

StarTroll · Post by **StarTroll** » Sat, 15. Oct 11, 20:15

EmperorJon wrote:
By object do you mean the object type
Is it an "entity"? I win.

Anyway, once again another easy-ish round. I think I'll go with my tradition of entering on the night it's due in again

Maybe for you, not for me.
Flying blind since the 2nd round, and haven't played for a while before that (heresy I know).

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 15. Oct 11, 20:54

I don't look at them and go "Know that, know that, know that", don't get me wrong, it's more along the lines of "Know that, know how to find that, know how to find that"

StarTroll · Post by **StarTroll** » Sun, 16. Oct 11, 00:07

EmperorJon wrote:I don't look at them and go "Know that, know that, know that", don't get me wrong, it's more along the lines of "Know that, know how to find that, know how to find that"

Oh no its not what I meant, just that it is easier to find the answer when you can just fire up the X universe and scour the area.
Well, even being able to launch the game wouldn't help in a lot of cases though

Threesixtyci · Post by **Threesixtyci** » Sun, 16. Oct 11, 11:06

Man... no hud display for the sector question.
And I don't really understand question 3.
Oh well.

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Sun, 16. Oct 11, 12:15

I don't think that a HUD on the screenshots would help you finding the correct answers. In fact, it would probably complicate the search as details might be covered by the HUD.
What's the part in question 3 that you don't understand? Maybe we can rephrase or explain it to you without revealing the answer.

StarTroll · Post by **StarTroll** » Sun, 16. Oct 11, 14:22

Threesixtyci wrote:Man... no hud display for the sector question.
And I don't really understand question 3.
Oh well.

As I understand it there is a sector which was once destroyed by a supernova in the X-history and the question is about finding it and counting the conventionnal jumps needeed to get there from Red Light.

Threesixtyci · Post by **Threesixtyci** » Sun, 16. Oct 11, 18:23

Thanks for the replies.
Okay, got enough for a guess on number 3.

As for the Hud, I just like it when I can see how many gates a sector has for a bit of confirmation (helped me a lot for that last round). But then again, even that could be misleading, in that the screen-shot could be taken on a sector that hasn't gotten explored fully.

Eh, i missed the first 3 rounds, so I have no chance of coming in the top 3, so it really doesn't matter. The loser's lottery is all I can hope for. (well, only if there are 9 rounds or more, anyways) They are going to have to come up with some real hard questions sooner or later, there are just too many people with everything correct. I suspect the missing Hud is part of that plan.

Post by **Ketraar** » Sun, 16. Oct 11, 18:45

Threesixtyci wrote:As for the Hud, I just like it when I can see how many gates a sector has for a bit of confirmation (helped me a lot for that last round).

Yeah but its supposed to a bit difficult sometimes.

MFG

Ketraar

grieger · Post by **grieger** » Tue, 18. Oct 11, 11:05

Just a quick question about 3: You say "supernova" but did you mean "nova"? (There is a difference after all.)

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Tue, 18. Oct 11, 14:46

No, we mean supernova.

grieger · Post by **grieger** » Tue, 18. Oct 11, 19:38

I was afraid of that.

you_rebel_scum · Post by **you_rebel_scum** » Wed, 19. Oct 11, 14:58

The supernova changed everything!

grieger · Post by **grieger** » Wed, 19. Oct 11, 20:32

Yeah but not YET right? We're still living in the Terran Conflict universe here...

PabloRSA · Post by **PabloRSA** » Wed, 19. Oct 11, 21:55

Regarding question 3,
How many times do inhabitants of Red Light have to jump in order to visit the sector once destroyed by a supernova, given they don't have access to the jump drive or the HUB?

How can they jump if they dont have access to a jump drive?

I take it as how many jump gates they have to pass through to get to the X sector. If thats the case then is it the shortest route done in game via jump command?
Example jump from red light to kingdoms end is 50 energy cells, and each jump is 10 cells (hyperion). Does that mean you want the anwser which is 5.

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XU Forum Quest - Round 5

XU Forum Quest - Round 5