[Vip]

WILL SOMEONE TELL ME WTF IS GOING ON HERE!!! NAO!

QFT

[Androgeos Exeunt]

When you go in, you get my last attachment.

Between the three options (Upload Resource, Messages and Resources), only one of them is correct, and as per my previous post, it's not "Upload Resource" because we're downloading something.

The moment you hit the wrong option, YOU_ARE_BUSTED, so don't be a pillock and open every single option in tabs because that won't work!

[Mongoose]

Would have been nice for someone to tell us that before we all did it.

Edit:  Holy crap...I don't know what else we're looking for, but look what just popped up.

[Topgun]

it *might* (I really don't know, goober does) payoff to continue to figure out this thing.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Seems like the Holonet has been opened up again, so give it another try (still, don't cick the wrong thing or you'll be busted again. Trust me, I know ). Where can we find this readme?

[Vip]

Well, lucky you, the GTI's still blocking me...

[Black Wolf]

Why in the hell are people being mysterious about this readme file? Tell us where you found it and post it up so we can maybe help each other to move forward. Keeping it to yourself is annoying and counterproductive, as well as completely counter to the spirit of the game.

[Topgun]

We are under threat of ban.

[Snail]

We are under threat of ban.

Not anymore!

Not yet.  However, within 162 itself, it is no longer prohibited to talk about the readme file.

[Droid803]

You're looking for that which was taken. (By Andreas Rybak).
I got it once I saw Darius's post about 'who confiscated it'.

[Topgun]

Deneb III

[Vip]

Okey, I don't want to be rude people, but some of us are still locked out of the Holonet, and since you are allowed by Goober to talk about the readme, could somebody explain CLEARLY what's going on with this readme stuff ?

[blowfish]

Well, I'm on Airport WiFi now, so I finally evaded the IP blocking and got it ... too late though

Okey, I don't want to be rude people, but some of us are still locked out of the Holonet, and since you are allowed by Goober to talk about the readme, could somebody explain CLEARLY what's going on with this readme stuff ?

Spoiler:

You download a zip file which, using the password discovered in the vasudan message thread, which leads you to another sekret board, in which ST:R was released early.  Guess it doesn't really matter now.  179.  There

[chief1983]

Holonet banlist has been reset.

[Darius]

We are under threat of ban.

Not anymore!

Not yet.  However, within 162 itself, it is no longer prohibited to talk about the readme file.

Oh thank Christ. It was a royal pain trying to talk about it without giving anything away.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Here is the readme.txt that comes out of the Deneb III file, which in turn can be found in the Holonet under Resources -> Deneb III.

CONGRATULATION!  A WINNER IS YOU!

Eh, sorry everyone.  There's nothing here.  This is not a cop-out; there *is* actually supposed to be something here, and it's supposed to be awesome, but it's not finished yet. >.>

We do have something else that we might be able to offer as a consolation prize, though.  All you have to do is solve one more puzzle:

179

And, incidentally, if anyone lets slip the contents of this file, or this ZIP, or the solution to the puzzle, or how they happened to find it, you can expect a two-week ban from HLP.  Keep it secret, keep it safe, and don't be a spoilsport.

Cheerio!

The penultimate paragraph is now nullified as per Goober.

[Nuclear1]

I love it!

[Mongoose]

I finally figured out that Deneb III was probably the way to go from some of the posts on the last page, but I was still locked out at the time, and the proxies I was trying weren't getting any results, so I thought that maybe I was wrong.  I guess waiting around a bit would have saved me the trouble. At least I finally have the thing now, for what it's worth.

I originally figured that the end result of this whole affair would be us getting to play the final campaign some time before it was publicly released.  Goober mentioned in a PM to me a while back that we were close to "the big prize at the end," which really reinforced that idea.  That's why I was really surprised when ST:R was out promptly on Christmas Eve; the thought of the grand prize having so short a time frame, and of all of us who were locked out before we even realized what we should be doing to get it, would really sit sour with me.  I'm glad this isn't the case, though, and that we have at least one more goodie to look forward to when it's completed.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

A day before the release of ST:R, Goober said that it was down to the wire for the release of the campaign.

The good thing is that now everyone who knows how to come here is at the same point. The ones who've reached 179 on their own have done it before the rest, while the remainder have caught up because the ones who reached 179 on their own have told them how to do so.

All that really is left is that grand finale, and I'm looking forward to it.