XU Forum Quest - Round 5

Post by **Ketraar** » Thu, 20. Oct 11, 00:20

It means jumps using the gates, as in fly through them. (which are jumps too you know).

MFG

Ketraar

Threesixtyci · Post by **Threesixtyci** » Thu, 20. Oct 11, 01:40

I'm pretty sure 5 jumps doesn't equal to 50 energy cells. I think it would say 55 energy cells, instead. A jump into the same sector, but to a different gate, cost 5 cells. Guess no one at Ego wanted to create a complicated formula to cancel out the 5 cells from a jump, when going further than 0 sectors away.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 20:59

Just as a question, is the answer to 3 available in the standard game? I can't see ANY sector descriptions mentioning that there was supernova or similar. And I can't remember anything from plotlines either.

EDIT: Indeed, after scouring for "sun", "star", "destroyed", "nova", "supernova" and similar... I've found nothing. No sectors previously destroyed by a supernova. Is there any way it can be rephrased? Am I missing something stupid? Has anyone else got an answer, or can nobody do it?

Lwerewolf · Post by **Lwerewolf** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 22:54

It's a hard one if you haven't, well... Check the german forums with google translator for better hints. You still have time

As for the things that they're hinting at there - no, you do not need them to find out what it is. Sorry, can't really give any more hints as anything more than that and it's down to a trivial task. There are pitfalls, though

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 23:06

If I haven't what!? I've scoured the wiki, the plotlines (mainly in my head), the universe maps and sector descriptions, the encyclopedia, nothing ANYWHERE about a supernova.

Lwerewolf · Post by **Lwerewolf** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 23:15

It's not in the game edit: I think. Check the german forum thread about the quest, translate it with google translate. I think my neck is close to hanging now

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 23:36

Already have done. Didn't help too much. Found one place where there was a supernova, no actual talk about destruction or anything, all I know was in this sector there was a supernova in the game's past. No idea if that's it, but I suppose I'll just have to use it.

EDIT: One quick google search seems to confirm I'm right (I think). Obviously relatively common knowledge from one of the books or similar?

Lwerewolf · Post by **Lwerewolf** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 23:47

15 more minutes and all shall be revealed

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 23:53

Yeah but I bet they won't post the answers immediately, right?

Plus, my connection keeps going wonky, I'm tired, and most of all I have a terrible feeling I put the wrong number of jumps after getting the right sector... Sent it anyway.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 08:59

No answers, AND spam!?

Well, the round is over, so I can presumably ask if the answer for question 3 was...

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Black Hole Sun (Therefore, 19 jumps?)

Lwerewolf · Post by **Lwerewolf** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 09:26

+1 on that

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Question 1 should be Bad Dept, made a vanilla install just to confirm (using XRM right now otherwise). Question 2 is Yaki Shipyard I think (the external docking spider crane thing gave it away, otherwise was comparing to TL). Almost wrote 20 or smt like that on q3 till I noticed the shortcut

Otherwise there was a german wiki where it was mentioned that the sector was destroyed by a supernova that was caused by some rogue jump singularity event at the core of the star or something like that. As for the wiki itself - search for supernova on X-Lexicon. Found it via seizewell.de.

Post by **Geek** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 09:39

I do not think so.

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Q2 is the Ryu (watch the launch bays)
Q3 should be Nopileos' Memorial (seven jumps). Read the sector description for NM and the neighbour system Hatikvah's Faith.

assemblerbot · Post by **assemblerbot** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 10:31

I don't agree with both of you:

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According to ingame description - Xenon Sector 472 - was once split colony and was destroyed by unknown event of great magnitude. Distress signal was received by Argons in Black Hole Sun. In X encyclopedia there is a chapter named 'Black Hole Sun' where is info that Xenons created supernova as a warning (but it is not said where - but it is connected somehow with Black Hole Sun sector). I've check that both sectors are 19 jumps away from Red Light .. so, I hope the correct answer is 19

Fanchen · Post by **Fanchen** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 11:44

Round 5 has ended, thank you for participation, everyone

The correct answers are as follows:

Q1: Bad Debt
Q2: Yaki Shipyard
Q3: 19

The Rankings will be updated soon.

forloren · Post by **forloren** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 23:17

I'd like to know why I had a question counted as wrong please. It has to be question 2 because I had question 1 and 3 exact. For question 2 I wrote down "Shipyard" not "Yaki Shipyard" and I assume that is the reason.

However, on page 1 of this thread, X2-Illuminatus stated the answer being sought was "Its name."

The name of the object, as pronounced by the system computer, as shown in the targeting window, the system map, and the in game encyclopedia, is "Shipyard". Yes, it does belong to the Yaki faction, but Yaki is not in it's "name".

I know I'm picking on technicalities, but isn't that the reason my answer was wrong? Up until this point, the race has never been required for a correct answer, if it is for this round, why the change?

Since no Egosoft employee or forum moderator posted the results, I'm not sure who to send this too and am just posting it here. If this isn't the proper method to question the results, I apologize.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 23:26

Ok, with the shipyard business I can understand you were asking for the specific object and indeed if I checked the shipyard I would see it lined up prefectly with the background,

However the fact that it is not at all distinguishable from a Ryu (I think even the docking exits in view are in the same place) is, in my opinion, ridiculous.

forloren · Post by **forloren** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 23:44

The shipyard did have a difference, on the lower left "gun pod", the one right above the asteroid, are docking clamps. They are not on the Ryu. I believe the shipyard docks m3-m5 ships internally, like an Argon trading station, that's why they could get the picture with the bays open.

As for the shipyard in my game, while the orientation matched the background, the asteroids were nowhere to be seen. Well, the asteroids were in the system, only they were about 20km off one side of the shipyard.

Fanchen · Post by **Fanchen** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 23:54

forloren wrote:Since no Egosoft employee or forum moderator posted the results, I'm not sure who to send this too and am just posting it here. If this isn't the proper method to question the results, I apologize.

You can post here, that's not a problem. We looked into it and you're right, we will correct your ranking.

If there are any other problems and you prefer writing a PM, you can contact the user who created the topic (in this case that's me) or posted the results (also me in this case). Those persons are always members of the team.

EmperorJon wrote:However the fact that it is not at all distinguishable from a Ryu

It's a bit tricky indeed, but the Shipyard has different textures.

Fanchen

forloren · Post by **forloren** » Wed, 26. Oct 11, 00:51

Fanchen wrote: If there are any other problems and you prefer writing a PM, you can contact the user who created the topic (in this case that's me) or posted the results (also me in this case). Those persons are always members of the team.

Thank you. I never noticed that each round was created by a different user, nor realized there was an actual team. Sorry I didn't realize it was your round.

Threesixtyci · Post by **Threesixtyci** » Wed, 26. Oct 11, 01:37

Hmm, I got them all wrong (even though I got the Xenon Sector correct.... I messed up on the jumps.)

But ranking isn't correct.
I should have a participation of 2 and a score of 11.

I don't really care about my score, there's no way I'm going to get in the top 3. But to qualify for the loser drawing I need the participation scoring to be tallied.

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