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[truegent]

[Dorkmaster]

The META context is obviously to involve every human being they can, since it's an advert, and they need to drag in all places they can. (I mean they've gotten so much free publicity (sort of) already, that dragging it out, and going into rural or semi-sparcely populated areas and stuff gets even the local papers involved...) Anyway, that's fine enough I think, META wise...

As far as in-game, she's testing our worthiness to hear her entire "transmission"... without hitting 777 (her arbitrary or not goal) we are not worthy of the information she wants/needs to transmit. We've got bits and pieces now, yes, but honestly, what have we gained other than some great voice acting and a cool couple of unconnected storylines? Nothing. There's more coming, but if something was going to happen just by "unlocking" the 30 voice clips, it would have happened by now. I think we're only looking at Dana/SP updates on a regular basis now, and the rest of the game is at our wits' pace. So In-game, I say that the motivation is to severely test us as far as our "legitimacy as crew" And when we get these axons lit, hopefully we'll branch to others, like websites, and then the game will really get cooking! But that part is spec, so I apologize for going so far...

[truegent]

META = Publicity
I do not disagree so much as feel that it is very poor design/implementation. How long are we going to wait for the last phone in front of the Wal-Mart in Podunk, ID to be answered? A day? A Week? Two? How many times can they move the endpoints around without seeming 'silly'? "Hmmm.. I week has gone by and still no answer lets try the Bait and Tackle in BFE".
IMO, A 'puzzle' with 2+5 redundancy is good design. A 'puzzle' with zero redundancy is poor design.

[MNPundit]

I'm going to repost this from another thread:

Many people have speculated that if all 7 in a group are activated, something will happen. I personally don't think so. However, whoever suggested that the empty spot that says "fun stuff" on each group of coordinates becomes a link when all are activated is worth looking into. Maybe we only need to do it for 1 or 2? Mods, if you find this is useful maybe it should be its own thread? Anyhow.... here is a list of the points we have 5-6 axons for. If we can make 1 of these go hot, we can see if anything special occurs. The best shot is walkaway_girl or escape we have SIX Axons Hot for these already. The reamining points are as folows:

walkaway_girl
12:20 PDT
40.762670 -073.956729

escape
15:19 PDT
35.305783 -080.734667

The Five Axon Files

our_hoodlums
09:05 PDT
45.479025 -122.617324

09:14 PDT
38.910133 -077.032550

guilty
10:41 PDT
48.795015 -122.493547

10:59 PDT
47.729664 -116.789477

much_lifting
13:08 PDT
41.077988 -081.510519

13:20 PDT
39.329133 -076.621000

beer
15:03 PDT
39.346129 -091.204489

15:11 PDT
42.714250 -089.000977

hi_aiden
17:11 PDT
37.775000 -122.418330

17:23 PDT
45.455094 -122.578925

[krystyn]

[sherpa]

[SYFer]

[johnny5]

[META]
1. Those who have activated Axons know where they are. I know I do. Coordinates are no longer needed.
2. The number of Axons is for redundancy. They help overcome the inherent errors with this communication channel.
3. Remember the message received when told to "continue": Problems with your hardware prevent me from continuing.

[In Game]
Melissa has delivered her message to her "crew". The next step is ours.

--john--

[DeathDefi]

Well... One thing is for sure, someone go here if u live around Boise, Idaho. Look around that area for payphones, then answer the phone, and say "operator, eyes". That is the last non-hot axon left on the eyes message at ilovebees.

[Slothboy]

There's also the possibility that the website won't update until Tuesday no matter what we do. That does seem to be the big day for updates.

If that isn't the simple answer then I would have to agree that the ball is in our court. I know that some have emailed the hotmail account with the order of the audio files, has anybody tried to ftp the combined files to the ILB site?

[Macavity]

[Zanzibar]

Somehow I don't think we'll need to send the actual .wav files to the 777 hotmail account. Since the server has access to the .wav files, and indeed, the AI has made the files accessible for us to decipher (order), I think all we need to do is put the sequences in the correct order and email that list to the 777 account.

I did so earlier today. I know the individual order is correct for each of the 3 stories, but the main question is what order the stories come in. I put Dating Game first, then Jersey, then Jan. And yes, I put 'emergency' at the end of Jan.

[the man]

Perhaps another reason the axons might still be needed to be activated:

Don't know when it happened exactly, but the first axon in hi_aiden has been cancelled due to an axon error. Maybe all seven of one topic would unlock something.

[sherpa]

[AngriBuddhist]

sherpa wrote: