Africa and South America were represented during the “Clibration” but still nothing in the listing.
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Chinese conversation goes something like this:
MSS Interrogator - “So, you’ve been receiving messages in code from a secretive Western organisation?”
Mr Wu - “Yes, but it’s just a game. An ARG.”
MSS Interrogator - “This organisation claims to have infiltrated the Guangzhou, Wuxi, and Tianjin supercomputers?”
Mr Wu - “Yes, but it’s part of a game - they’re just pretending.”
MSS Inrerrogator - “You participated in secret missions, taking photographs of scientific research facilities, that you transmitted back to your Western controllers.”
Mr Wu - “They were just observatories - nothing secret. It’s part of the game.”
MSS Interrogator - “And now they’ve sent you this secret identity number and password, that you’re not supposed to reveal to anyone?”
Mr Wu - “Yes, that’s all part of it.”
MSS Iterrogator - “And you expect me to believe this is a GAME???”
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Not to mention an AI system that it self aware! 
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Well, I read somewhere here that someone working at Alice&Smith said there were production issues. Everybody assumes they meant the Atlas passes, I think it’s development issues.
HG is/was reworking something that took more time. That’s what’s stalling the ARG.
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this makes a lot of sense especially if they are having trouble adding more co-op features, look at what happened with 1.30 and how many patches we had before the Artemis storyline, atlas path and portals worked correctly
lets hope they playtest it this time and have it working on release
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You are likely referring to ‘codex’ on the GD Discord, who said the following after the first Atlas passes had started to arrive. What was actually said is however quite different:
The ‘production issues’ you mention, were likely the result of speculation that followed. No details were mentioned at all, and when asked about why the wait was so long, the reply was as follows:
So it could have been a variety of reasons, not to say you are wrong, but we’re left guessing. As I said before, it is likely not easy to get everything planned and ready on both the ARG and the NMS update side of things, with the latter likely being the decisive factor.
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That’s actually what I meant 
NMS is in my opnion the driving factor on any delay.
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A pass arrived in South Africa today (nothing special on it)
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I think it is better to assume every update will start with a lot of bugs and they will be fixed within 1-2 months. It’s the only way to get the updates out in a reasonable ammount of time and this one’s production length has already got people tense.
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At this point with them talking about 1.5, not 1.4 my best guess is they had to decide to skip a major planned update because of inter dependency with features and content from the next major planned one so they decided to skip delivering 1.4 separately…that and they’d probably like to initially ship a more polished update.
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Hmm, I’m not tense at all. IMO this is better, they may be doing more testing before release and that will mean more time between patches after release. Which means more problem free game play and less time downloading patches and reporting new bugs etc…
Don’t take my statement personally, I wasn’t talking about you or necessarily anyone on this forum.
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So one question I haven’t been able to find an answer to… I can’t remember everything the survey asked us back in august last year so I have no clue if it asked us for our addresses. Are we supposed to get contacted for them to be sent or was that one of the questions in the survey?
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you were requested to give them your physical address of the place you live in the galaxy
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of course your cyber address for instant communications with Emily
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Were we requested in the survey before waking titan ended last year? Or did we have to contact them a different way? I got an email with my class designation on the 8th of august 2017. I’m sorry if I sound clueless I appreciate you helping me out.
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During the start of the ARG (Phase 1+) we were able to register our email on the Waking Titan website. With our email registered, we have been receiving emails for the ARG. You can check the summary of the End of Phase 1 on the Game Detectives wiki below. On July 9th, 2017, we received an email for a video, which linked to Twitch (Elizabeth Leighton messages). An hour or two after, we received another email (see below) containing a link to the Citizen Scientist Survey (see below). In the survey we were asked if we wanted to receive a physical Level 4 Atlas Pass. On July 30th, 2017, we received another email with info on the Level 4 Atlas Pass, including a link to provide mailing information (see below).
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Thanks! I definitely remember the survey there has just been a lot going on. Have a good day!
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Chain Mail - A (Very) Short Story
11 p.m. in a mail depot on the outskirts of Bucharest. Stanislaus is sorting boxes of mail for onward forwarding. He looks over to the supervisor’s office. Oleg, the night shift foreman, has been hitting the vodka again. Tonight, he won’t be paying much attention to anything except the bottle and the porn channel.
As usual, Stanislaus opens one of the boxes, and pockets a few of the letters. It’s the sort of thing you do when you’re only paid 10 Leu a day. The poor make their own luck.
At break time, Stanislaus goes outside for a cigarette. Under the yard floodlights he opens the letters. They all contain the same thing. Atlas Passes. He has no idea what an Atlas Pass may be, but they have ID codes and numbers. They look a little like bank cards. They could be worth money.
He takes out his phone and does a few internet checks. Somebody is advertising one of these things on Ebay for three hundred dollars. He checks the picture. Yes, definitely the same thing. Three. Hundred. Dollars. EACH.
He does a quick calculation. Six boxes, with a thousand letters in each. Three hundred dollars per pass. His heart skips. That’s one million eight hundred thousand dollars. It’s more money than he could earn in five lifetimes.
Back in the depot, Stanislaus checks the manifest. These letters are being sent by the cheapest mail route possible. That’s why they’re being sorted in Romania, rather than Germany. They’re not going by security mail, they’re not registered post, they’re not even recorded delivery. There’s no audit trail to say where they went. They’re being sent by the same process as advertising junk mail. And just like junk mail, nobody will ever know if they were delivered or not.
At 2.00 a.m. Stanislaus phones his cousin Dimitri, and asks him to come round with the van. Dimitri is not happy to be woken so early, but he and Stanislaus have made similar arrangements before. By 2.45 Dimitri has the van positioned, lights off, opposite the hole under the yard fence. At 2.50, Stanislaus starts passing the boxes through. There are only six boxes - it doesn’t take long, and by 3.00 a.m. Dimitri is driving back into Bucharest.
Stanislaus returns to the depot. Oleg has been asleep for the last hour and a half, the vodka bottle three-quarters empty. Oleg always keeps the last quarter of the bottle, to get himself moving again in the morning.
Stanislaus signs off the parcels as having been delivered. He checks the depot records - seventy three vehicles have left the place that night. Nobody will ever be able to trace the Atlas Passes.
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His initial calculations were skewed by some cosmic force.
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