Wormholes

They just had their missing digit added in. They were renamed a year ago. J1340+6 -> J134096, J1259+0 -> J125990 I believe but I could be wrong.

All wspace systems have coordinates already, its in the database dump.

Clearly this is a HL3 teaser. CCP and Valve are one and the same! Gabe Himlar Newell Petursson is feeding us hints!

It has been renamed. Dotlan just never updated their database. It doesn't matter because the API uses a solar system ID that never changes instead of the name.

Hmm. Ok thanks for the info Messoroz. I'll update the wiki page once they let allow editing again.

Given that you've been tracking the locus "name changes" what do you think this is all about?

I on the other hand have been tracking the lore, and I suspect it's a case of left hand (content team) not knowing what right hand (lore team) is doing. This type of thing is not unheard of with CCP, for example "marketing" made the Eve Universe trailer that was riddled with lore inconsistencies... That or CCP is being either purposefully or accidentally obtuse about how quasars loci work (and 9s and 7s where only a 0-5 should be supports this). RA without Dec is basically useless, meaning that no one can actually use the wormhole names to make a sky map of their true locations.

Faulx, I think you are correct in that it is probably a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing (or has done). The wormhole locus system originated back in the days of CCP Dropbear and I'm speculating that the dev team at that time had plans for wormhole space that were never implemented and then key people (including Dropbear) left the company, so some sense of direction was lost. I remember reading forum comments by CCP Dropbear that a lot of the details in wormhole space were not just fluff but that the in-game lore actually "meant something" and these were clues for us to follow. Given the direction of the current teams, I believe whatever was intended by Dropbear and his contemporaries was abandoned, at least for a time. Maybe this latest locus name change is a signal of something going on behind the scenes. Otherwise, why change it?

Your comments regarding the RA and dec are spot on and I think that might be exactly the point. The locus signatures aren't meant to be used in the way we would use them in "the real world" but they do represent something meaningful... otherwise why not just have random numbers? They may not represent spatial coordinates, but something else. At least I hope they do, otherwise I am wasting my time. And that's a pretty good possibility too.

What keeps me interested is this: Even though the loci are unusable as a traditional navigation system, they do fit a pattern with a few exceptions. What is it about the exceptions that we are supposed to understand? Are these renamed loci some place special to which we are supposed to travel or are they keys to unlocking a pattern for all of the loci?