lol go for it Kazza :)
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Krazy...taking your thoughts...and hoping I'm not on another wild goose chase...
I found this:
Leonardo DaVinci - (1500) discovered that sound travels in waves
Leonardo and the Russians SEEM to keep popping up.
A stab in the dark - communication, the ability to talk to someone (across space? to another world?) at the right frequency.
The numbers as colours seems a good one and yet Thalin has posted since with no comment. So if they are colours and it is the Russian Flag / French Flag how does that tie in?
What else could the numbers stand for?
1896 - Samuel Pierpont Langley attempted to make a working piloted heavier-than-air aircraft.
Langley is also a very important pioneer of flight and research into aerodynamics. Until his investigations, research on flight had been restricted to amateurs, with the possible exception of Leonardo da Vinci. Langley was the first person to explore aerodynamics employing the rigorous scientific method.
His first success came on May 6, 1896 when his Number 5 unpiloted model flew nearly 3/4 of a mile after a catapult launch from a boat on the Potomac River.
A keen astrologist he not only made a telescope but he became a professor at Allegheny Observatory and measured the radiant energy of the sun and moon and other stars resulting in the international unit of 'the langley', He also founded the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
the way im thinking is, of course evony are gonna throw in some hooks over and over and hope people get caught up on them to miss the actual meaning,
to me, it sounds like the Russians and Leonardo are their hook, could have absolutely nothing to do with them, but hey, its all guess work xD
im tending to lean towards the suggestion earlier, that it has to do with ip addressing but i dunno, ive tried to think of less obvious link,
and all i can think of is"some guys sitting in his office laughing his azz off at the utter mess he`s caused with these clues"
lol
OK, I think were going the wrong direction again. I know the French and Russian flags have the same colors, but the RGB code was in order of the French flag...not the order of the Russian flag colors....so I think that both being closely related as allies is a key of sorts...from clue #1, but with the colors being French flag order...we need to go back there and do some more looking as well.
I'm sure it's all related in clue 1, 2, 3 as we have to solve them all to figure this out...but just for kicks...I'm gonna go back and look at France some more and 1896.
Updated! You're doing great on this one.
Facing the Flag or For the Flag (French: Face au drapeau) is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages Extraordinaires (The Extraordinary Voyages) series.
Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally overcome through the force of French patriotism.
You guys think evony will just merge the age 2 other servers together?
the country ones: fr1,es1,pt1??
1896 is also when x-rays were discovered.......
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1896
get ya an eye full of the things that happened in 1896
although the year 1896 was not confirmed by thalin in the update France was.
so i put "France 1896 May 6" into Google and come up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation
with lots of drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci.
to date
clue 1, flight related=YES
clue 2, flight related=YES
clue 3, flight related=very possible
The first films seen in the Russian Empire were via the Lumière brothers, in Moscow and St. Petersburg in May 1896. In the same month, the first film was shot in Russia, by Lumière cameraman Camille Cerf, a record of the coronation of Nicholas II at the Kremlin in Moscow.
1896 is a year
Lumiere means light
Light Year?
EDIT: 1896 was the year relations improved with France and Russia with Nicholas visiting Paris
1896 was the first year the modern Olympics were held. A competition between the best of the best.
Another shot in the dark......Eyes turned skyward....is this referring to flight or navigation, before we had gps ships etc used the stars to navigate their way around the world, I keep thinking the space theme is a walk up the garden path, when I googled france circa 1896 it led me to the French Navy.... I have to stop reading Kazza's posts, every idea she has sends me off googling again and my head is spinning.
According to wikipedia Leonardo da Vinci died in France:
Clos Lucé is a mansion in Amboise, France, located 500 metres from the royal Château d'Amboise, to which it is connected by an underground passageway. Built by Hugues d'Amboise in the middle of the fifteenth century, it was acquired in 1490 by Charles VIII of France for his wife, Anne de Bretagne. Later, it was used by Francis I, as well as his sister Marguerite de Navarre, who began writing her book entitled L'Heptaméron while living there.
In 1516, Francis I invited Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise and provided him with the Clos Lucé, then called Château de Cloux, as a place to stay and work.[1] Leonardo, a famous painter and inventor, arrived with three of his paintings, namely the Mona Lisa, Sainte Anne, and Saint Jean Baptiste. Leonardo lived at the Clos Lucé for the last three years of his life, and died there on 2 May 1519.
Part 1:
I don't know whether this is completely true or just my opinion, but France has always been a place for radical ideas to be formed.
In "Rise of Nations", you can "research" different types of Governments.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lafa...**m-france.htm
The Part you all care about:
"The elections of May, 1896, revealed the immense progress that so******m had made in all lands since the year 1893."
Perhaps a hint that we are getting another dimension added to the game?
Part 2:
Also has been said before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Russia
Important Part: " The flag was first used as an ensign for Russian merchant and war[citation needed] ships and only became official in 1896."
Part 3:
Some people have mentioned communication; I googled "Events in Russia in 1896"
Among the Results:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Russia_Exhibition_1896
Part you care about: "the world’s first radio receiver (thunderstorm register) designed by A. S. Popov"
Part 4:
Some people have mentioned the Kkodynka Tragedy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khodynka_Tragedy
Part you care about: "A festive ball was to be held that night at the French embassy to Russia." They are talking about the 26th of May.
Part 5:
More government related stuff but about Russia:
http://www.ourheritage.net/great_adv.../Timeline.html
Important Part: "1896: Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the Cathedral of the Assumption"
Part 6: Already mentioned but once again; Transportation and flight:
http://www.answers.com/topic/1896
"Astronomer Samuel P. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C., sends a steam-powered model airplane on a 3,000-foot flight along the Potomac May 6—the first flight of a mechanically propelled flying machine."
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/1896#ixzz1pLjvpTJ0
Part 6.1:
"The Dow Jones Industrial Average is published for the first time May 26"
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/1896#ixzz1pLkDpGG7
Another new facet of the game; more realistic commerce perhaps?
Sorry about posting several things that have been said before but just trying to gather all the accrued knowledge into 1 place while trying to add my own particle or two.
Hope I didn't just waste 30 minutes of my life finding all this ;)
OK,so the numbers are the French Flag, as pointed out several times and verified here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France).
So what is the significance of 1896 in France? And does May 6 tie into that at all?
1896 saw the launch of the Gaulois, a French battleship. Not sure how this ties into the name Aether though.......seems like they are hinting that the skies will be involved as well. Maybe a version that has aircraft and ships as part of the attack forces? Or a game that is evony like, based on real maps of France and Europe, like Diplomacy is?
evony dont even know what theyre doing theyll prob just throw something together the day before and we will end up with another ***** that we can moan about forever more :)
The clues suggest the Tricolour, France and 1896 which all indeed point to this novel.
a bit more (from wiki)...
Chemical ingredients are purchased at his specifications and paid for quite openly at US stores, as are mechanical parts ordered from American foundries completely unaware of their true purpose, and so construction of the Fulgurator moves ahead.
As is proven by practice, a few grams of Roch's explosive suffice to blow a passable tunnel through many metres of tough volcanic rock. Engineer Serko remarks in talking with Hart that several thousands tons might be enough to blow up the entire Earth and render it into a new Asteroid Belt - which seems to be the first time that such a suggestion was made in science fiction ..............The paranoid Roch does, however, keep to himself the secret of the detonator or "Deflagrator".............. five warships dispatched by the world's main five powers. Of these powers, three are certainly France, which is mentioned explicitly; Britain, which is the world's main naval power and in whose territory the secret pirate base is located; and the US, which is directly affected by Karraje's piracy. Germany, Italy and Russia might all be among the contributors of the other two ships. Presumably, the five powers were both cooperating against the common pirate threat and trying to keep an eye on each other and prevent any of their number from getting sole possession of the Fulgurator.........
Multiple parts which when assembled make something complete and awesome.
Over the years, the colors of the French National flag have come to represent liberty, equality, and fraternity - all ideals associated with the French Revolution. But the meaning behind the colors has come after the fact, and there are many theories.
Multiple parts that work together for freedom, liberty.
Working to together for the common good to prevent an evil
Krazy you may be on to something...
Krazy check this out found here: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1952
Fulgurator
An 'autopropulsive projectile'.
The fulgurator was a sort of auto-propulsive engine, of peculiar construction, charged with an explosive composed of new substances and which only produced its effect under the action of a deflagrator that was also new.
When this engine, no matter in what way it was launched, exploded, not on striking the object aimed at, but several hundred yards from it, its action upon the atmospheric strata was so terrific that any construction, warship or floating battery, within a zone of twelve thousand square yards, would be blown to atoms. This was the principle of the shell launched by the Zalinski pneumatic gun with which experiments had already been made at that epoch, but its results were multiplied at least a hundred-fold...
It is analogous to that of the Zalinski shell, but is a hundred times more powerful, and requires no machine for firing it, as it flies through the air on its own wings, so to speak.”
I think the answer is "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU
rofl chupa
LOL Chupra
COALITION - was the word I was searching for...probably not the word needed but hey...
A list of events in 1896:
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1896
The Russian flag is white, blue, red
Flags that are blue, white, red are France, Czeck and Yugoslava.
Here is a list of flags :
http://www.eucs.cc/shop/eucs/pics/flags.gif
Aether was one of the primary creations in Greek legend. He was the pure air that the Gods breathed as compared to what mortals were stuck with.
On May 6th 1896 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75
I was thinking it would :
1) a release of a new class of techs which would allow new troops
2) new HHs based on the Gods so a higher level
3) said to the Muppets in Space theme .... Evony in Spppppppace
lol
Well by checking out the map and w the clues ...And i play the civilization games which i luv ...Just seems to b a diff version of it ...And i cant wait til May6th comes out !!!! Looks like a travel thru history of changes to advancement !!!
hope it's a age III so i can be the only one on the newer severs :P
coining and HH hunting will be way easier
i saw that :P
but im very curious about all this, how can you introduce a space concept into a medieval game
you are saying its not an age 3 but it doesnt sound like a completely new game because the ad says taking "evony" to a whole new level. so that leaves some kind of improvement or upgrade to age 1 or 2, more likely the latter
3D FPmmo ftw!
I freakin love Dawnseeker....so its not ageIII....whatever it is, im sure my eyeballs will splooge outa their eye sockets on may 6th....
Maybe its a whole new experience? Taking the concept of Evony and creating a whole new game...expanding on all the goods of Evony and fixing all the bads?
I'm thinking that some of the numbers may have a double meaning because he has confirmed that some of the the numbers are a date but has not confirmed 1896.
That means that either:
A) That is not the whole date date.
or
B) That is not the correct year(seems unlikely but is possible)
Also, I am assuming that there is something beyond the colors, date, and france to be found.
Hmm. Cords? maybe? Could be a series of Launch Codes lol
Alright, read every post i've seen so far. this is what i've found
1896 May 6
Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), American physicist and aviation pioneer, launched the first reasonably large, steam-powered model aircraft.
From all the posts I've read, and when he said "It isn't Age III," I think that it will probably a totally different game. It will be more progressive, like Civilization (which I often play), and will have either an industrial era style, or a futuristic era.
I'm thinking that the russian part, in addition to the scientific achievements in 1986 and in Russia, and the relationship with France, means that there will be a much bigger base on diplomacy.
In addition, I'm thinking that we will be able to have multiple worlds on individual servers, and that trade between these worlds will only be if you are in a certain Alliance (that's where the Russian merchant flag part comes in).
And, I'm thinking that like in Lords of Ultima, there will be oceans. However, you will be able to fight on these.
I finally have come to believe that troop movement, based on the flight theme, will be much more interactive. So you can see troops moving across the map, and attack these, etc.
Just trying to help :)
:flame::dizzy::attack:
Bringing Evony to a new level that means it still has something to do with Evony but at the same time all the clues so far have been pointing to something totally out of the box space,stars,coords + Evony yet trying to piece this together is very hard when the topics have nothing to do with each other so in the end we would have to find some sort of med point meaning in the time Evony is based in what having to do with space took place to give us an idea what what is next...